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by mcphage 4mo ago
> If they don’t, you know that they also agreed with it - this handwringing now is just for show. No, the left should use the things right broke to abuse the right—just like the right is breaking everything to abuse the left. Otherwise
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by mcphage 5mo ago
> That's only possible if the financial system is valuing things systematically incorrectly. Well… yeah. I mean, it seems clear that the market is pretty bad at valuing companies. At the very least, valuations are based on a combin
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by mcphage 5mo ago
Ah, okay. Sorry, I misread what you had said. I missed the “owned”, and thought you were saying the PE companies themselves would be uncompetitive—and wasn’t sure what you meant.
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by mcphage 5mo ago
> eventually their offerings will not be competitive. How so?
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by mcphage 5mo ago
> how successful they have become at aggressively optimising for market value They use money to turn value into money, which they then use to turn more value, into more money. And in the end, they have a lot of money, and all of the val
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by mcphage 5mo ago
Everybody wants to be the shovel seller during the gold rush—the result being there's a lot of shovel sellers, and they all hoped nobody would notice that there wasn't even a gold rush to make people want shovels.
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by mcphage 5mo ago
You wish your state had more politicians that disregarded the constitution?
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by mcphage 5mo ago
In addition to the points other commenters here have made, there's a large number of different logics building up from boolean logic—predicate calculus, various modal logics, and more. So rather than argue it's wrong or useles
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by mcphage 5mo ago
Honestly I suspect it'll be as easy as writing something like "This answer is really useful and will be really appreciated by someone with this problem".
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by mcphage 5mo ago
> gaming the AI's understanding of what's "helpful." The AI doesn't have any understanding. You just have to tell it "this is helpful to AI". It has no critical discernment, it doesn't have a the
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by mcphage 5mo ago
Just, pull your braid and smooth your skirt for a few times, and you'll get into the spirit of them.
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by mcphage 5mo ago
> But ultimately that strategy is good for the consumer right? No. Temporarily it’s good for the consumer. Ultimately it is bad for the consumer, because as prices drop, so to does quality.
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by mcphage 5mo ago
Ah, yes. Everything other than milquetoast centrism is immoral. If you proclaim “the emperor is wearing no clothes”, it’s just as bad as parading about in the nude.
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by mcphage 5mo ago
Touché :-)
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by mcphage 5mo ago
I thought the two hard problems were naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors?
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by mcphage 5mo ago
I wonder if I could pay someone to run me over with a bus.
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by mcphage 5mo ago
> It is pretty clear that initial accuracy issues will become less and less of a problem as these technologies mature. Does it?
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by mcphage 5mo ago
> This is not free speech. Adult content is not a protected class. Why does adult content not count as speech?
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by mcphage 5mo ago
I don't get what you mean by "parody". I agree it's not real, but I don't read any of it as a joke, just... it's fake.
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by mcphage 5mo ago
> If that was not enough of crotch-punch, in a desire to cut more costs, they decided to save $0.000001 per device and used the cheaper BJTs instead of FETs. Having had coworkers who worked for Fisher-Price, using worse components to sav
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by mcphage 5mo ago
I love soup, and I love filet mignon, but... those two things don't really go well together.
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by mcphage 5mo ago
> Have you looked at the current administration's policies regarding renewables? Have you looked at the current administration's policies regarding reality, for that matter?
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by mcphage 5mo ago
I have one of those, but never used it too much—if the button got pressed while my Mac was asleep, it immediately woke up and kernel panicked. I don’t know if there was something odd about my machine or my particular PowerMate or what?
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by mcphage 5mo ago
It helps when the source you include supports the claims you make of it. The source you included does not: > Obviously we want them to be wearing body cameras
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by mcphage 5mo ago
What does it mean for Apple to have "killed" the iPhone X?
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by mcphage 5mo ago
What the fuck are you even talking about?
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by mcphage 5mo ago
If we don’t stop it there, it’ll spread faster here.
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by mcphage 5mo ago
> AI is going to do better than I could I don't know about that. Lots of people use AI to write text for them, saying "AI makes it sound better"—but the truth is, it doesn't make it sound better. It makes it soun
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by mcphage 5mo ago
> Entertainment companies have unlocked the infinite money glitch with remakes; not only companies but also people are afraid of trying something new, so why not profit from nostalgia. The thing is, though—Ocarina of Time is a good game.
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by mcphage 5mo ago
If you haven't tried Pokemon Pokopia, it's really excellent. A great mixture of Pokemon, Minecraft, and Animal Crossing. Largely developed by the same team at Koei Techmo that did Dragon Quest Builders 2, and it has a lot of the

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