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by metacritic12 2y ago
What about scenario 0: Windows 10 is discontinued, but unofficially supported for years afterwards with security patches all the while keepings its users anxious that "full support will really stop any day now", a la Real ID.
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by metacritic12 2y ago
The obvious fix is to not step up basis on death. The estate tax already means that the estate of a person who dies may need to sell / divide / split stuff to pay the government. There already is no fundamental protection for an
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Exactly, the $300/year is imputed value for the amount of food they grew and housing services from the houses they build. They rarely received $300 as e.g. gold that they declared.
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by metacritic12 2y ago
The main finding is that happiness correlates with log wealth, and what people were missing from the $75,000 ceiling before was that they weren't taking the log. In fact, it takes only $300 (real 2000 USD) /year to survive, and
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Good point. His story is valid, but just-so happens to equal AI maximalism that most CEOs would want for their own industry too.
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by metacritic12 2y ago
That's exactly a statement that's both true and unsympathetic. I mean it's just an empirically verifiable fact through surveys that if a person self vocalizes in public, the average person (in the US) would be afraid to appro
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by metacritic12 2y ago
The rules are indeed stated in a robotic, and somewhat patronizing way, as if written by a mild aspie to teach a stronger aspie the rules. As you note, most of them are generally true though, and some just kind of obvious to a high empathy
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Seriously, this headline is the quantum equivalent of "super expensive catapult observe tallest free fall yet." Or verifying Galileo's free fall experiment with more and more items. It's nice that Newton's laws s
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by metacritic12 2y ago
20ab?
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by metacritic12 2y ago
That's a good way of framing the project. Especially if what the article author says is true: which is that most of the energy comes from brainstorming and fantasizing about what the project could be . The flip side is that you have
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Isn't it true that if there are finite atoms in the world with finite states, Turning-Complete machines can't ever exist physically? It's just that Turning machines are a useful model for some actual computers.
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Disagree. There is a question of what is even a bubble. John Cochrane did a study that showed that the value of Amazon alone justified tech stock index valuation even in 1999. What is a "bubble" even? For me it would be self-dri
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by metacritic12 2y ago
At a certain point it's just cope. If we take it as an axiom that America is #1, and then we see another country seeming build better, then it's logical to deduce that it's all veneer.
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Agreed, I mean "incredible" and not in the good way. Someone needs to take this to Twitter / X or another platform that isn't insider controlled.
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Is something going on with the HN ratings for this submission? It was ranked #1 a few minutes ago, and now below 20. It's 190 points posted < 60 minutes ago; other articles with this many points even 4 hours ago are top 5. You can
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by metacritic12 2y ago
That Google is a monopoly that should be a broken up is a whataboutism. It's intrinsic in capitalism that firms often increase in value as they fire works. Your values determine whether that's a feature of a flaw though.
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by metacritic12 2y ago
According to Paul Graham, successful startups (weighted by eventual market cap) are ideas that: 1) Sound bad 2) But are actually good. So by selecting on ideas that sound good on first glance, you're already selecting for startups that
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by metacritic12 2y ago
Not a surprise. Allred was basically a marketing shill with no educational background before lambda / bloomtech. Not a surprise then, the claims they make will be borderline fraud.
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by metacritic12 3y ago
Yeah agreed the paper title itself isn't sensationalistic, but the submission title is.
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by metacritic12 3y ago
The paper just shows the correlation between socioeconomics status (SES) and brain function -- there's no real causality study at all showing these are the results of lower SES. In fact, the reverse path could be true: that differenc
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by metacritic12 3y ago
Agreed -- if they changed the experiment so it was verifiably trustworthy, I think most people who could do math would switch. Basically, it would be a repeated game where the subject would be told by the experimenter. 1. I will put a black
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by metacritic12 3y ago
Grievous is absolutely the right word -- stocks, flows, and dimensions are cherry picked to have maximum verbal impact without looking at whether the underlying measure even makes sense. One of my favorites is something like "the riche
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by metacritic12 3y ago
Case in point: the UN Committee to eradicate smallpox was successful and then self-disbanded. They were not a company.
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by metacritic12 3y ago
And the genie is already out of the bottle. As we've seen with LLMs, soon there will be open sourced versions of this essentially trained on everything. And with transfer learning the training will probably promiscuously propagate to
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by metacritic12 3y ago
Fair -- to get to a billion dollar founder valuation, you need a VC, and even with a VC, the chances are less than 1 in 100.
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by metacritic12 3y ago
Yup, VCs are desperate for founders to create VC-backable businesses. This video argues that if you want to be a trillion dollar company, you need VC funding. But they don't emphasize aiming to be a trillion dollar company has a tiny
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by metacritic12 3y ago
Kudos to Michael and Dalton for admitting a lot of truths that aren't VC / incubator friendly, like that most businesses should not be raising VC funding, or that lots of founders have amazing lives and get rich without VC funding
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by metacritic12 3y ago
What if they provide an NFT as compensation for those who burned their eyes? I bet more than half would accept it.
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by metacritic12 3y ago
Seems like this is a topic where there are high stakes riding on both sides of the story. The Polish nationalists want to rid themselves of this atrocity and so want to downplay it (at certain points if you deny certain facts, it becomes d
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by metacritic12 3y ago
Funny enough, Europe has indeed banned various degrees of the top items on your list. Generally Europe more paternalistic and Europeans like it that way. Americans are less so, and like it that way.

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