mempko

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by mempko 3y ago
What? He literally built systems that did things differently. Look at smalltalk.
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by mempko 3y ago
Exactly, it's not that good technology gets funding, it's that technology that gets funding gets good. People often get this the wrong way around. They believe you just need a good idea. No, you need social circles that can invest
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by mempko 3y ago
Because economists would have to acknowledge that protected and restricted markets are better for developing local industry than open markets. Which of course is true. But then they would have to acknowledge the whole neo-liberal experiment
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by mempko 3y ago
People in the US just want Healthcare. When can we have a unanimous vote on that?
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by mempko 3y ago
You know what's wild? Global Warming will create more extreme cold events in places that don't have them! Why? Because global warming is causing the jet streams to weaken and cold air in the arctic escapes more to the south. Isn&#
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by mempko 3y ago
The majority of people in all country groups are concerned. Maybe you are just in the minority. https://www.undp.org/publications/peoples-climate-vote
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by mempko 3y ago
It's not that complex. We found a cheap source of carbon based energy. Growth based economics pushed us to use and exploit the source. This created a lot of pollution. And now the planet is getting a lot warmer. I think people say &#x2
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Judge mocks X for "vapid" argument in Musk's hate speech lawsuit(arstechnica.com)
12 points by mempko 3y ago|4 comments
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by mempko 3y ago
And yet Microsoft Windows won the desktop. Maybe it doesn't push the best stuff as you would like to think.
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by mempko 3y ago
The cynic in me believes this is motivated by not Musk's love for the "mission", but by xAI, his attempt to build OpenAI's competitor. I'm guessing this is just a way to weaken a competitor.
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by mempko 3y ago
Once it is outside your mind and in a physical form, is it still just a thought sir?
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by mempko 3y ago
I think this AI safety thing is great. These models will be used by people to make boring art. The exciting art will be left for people to make. This idea of AI doing the boring stuff is good. Nothing prevents you from making exciting, dang
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by mempko 3y ago
We need more Chaz in our lives.
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by mempko 3y ago
People reading these kinds of articles need to ask themselves, does NFL run out of points to give to players during games? Our federal government is the NFL of the game called the economy. Remember, all money is debt. The money in your bank
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by mempko 3y ago
That would not work because that's now how people work. People watch/play media to connect to others. How can you talk about anything to anyone or have any shared culture when other people will never see what you see? Movies, book
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by mempko 3y ago
Thanks for the positive feedback! Identity is a public key. You have a contact list that you add keys too. When two people exchange keys and add them to their lists, they automatically connect and can have conversations. Exchanging keys you
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by mempko 3y ago
Love to see P2P coming back. Back in 2013 I built a P2P application platform called Firestr ( https://www.firestr.com ) that was targeted as an all in one platform to build and share graphical P2P apps. The apps were built using
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by mempko 3y ago
We arrest journalists all the time in the USA. You just don't hear about it much. https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/reporter-arrest... This is under Biden. Why shut such a conversation down?
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by mempko 3y ago
The primary benefit imo is * Way of thinking and discipline. Instead of adhock assertions, you deliberately state in code "These are the preconditions, invariants, and postconditions" of this function/module * Better error me
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by mempko 3y ago
In my career I learned two powerful tools to get bug free code. Design by Contract and Randomized testing. I had to roll this by myself for each project I did. Antithesis seems to systematize it and created great tooling around it. That&#x2
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by mempko 3y ago
Yeah, but DHH really went off the deep end. https://world.hey.com/dhh/where-next-for-dei-0dc866b4 I used to use their HEY email service until HEY decided to ban all societal and political discussions for employees. Whi
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by mempko 3y ago
You honestly don't remember when people were being snatched off the street in unmarked vans during the BLM protests under Trump? It was caught on video several times. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277
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by mempko 3y ago
You have it backwards. GDP growth is a function of government spending. Observe when they accelerated spending as covid stimulus, we had a large amount of GDP growth. As soon as spending growth slows down, so will the GDP.
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by mempko 3y ago
You are absolutely right. My guess is older high volume chips are harder to control.
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by mempko 3y ago
People fail to see the campus disruptions are speech. Students protesting on campus is good and a form of free speech.
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by mempko 3y ago
Except it's not the kids complaining!
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by mempko 3y ago
I agree with you about borders and customs. However, I don't find war a laughing matter. Lots of people are dying. War is about supply chain and scale. Higher tech, but lower yield chips would not be good for a war machine. You want si
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by mempko 3y ago
Russia does build it's own chips but their fab tech is about 15 years behind the state of the art. The Asianometry YouTube channel has some details on Russia's own chips. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_4R4X7AWtU
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by mempko 3y ago
>I have served happily as a professor at Yale for most of my adult life, but in my four-plus decades at the mast, I have never seen campuses roiled as they’re roiling today. Really? Not even during Vietnam war? Not even during Occupy? I
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by mempko 3y ago
Yes, read Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

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