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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Interesting article, but I wish they would give some numbers. I couldn't find good sources, but it sounds like the total volume of Liberian imports peaked at less than 0.1% of total coffee imports. So the Liberian coffee was an interes
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
I'm not personally being persecuted or harassed by any companies.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
No, but the phrase "gangstalk" refers to a specific kind of persecutory delusion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Interesting, I guess most people are unaware that running these scripts does not stop the data from being collected, because Facebook is not the one collecting most of it.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
And you are using the term "gangstalk", which refers to a specific symptom of mental illness, ironically?
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
What is the motivation to prefer untargeted ads over targeted ones?
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
These are self reported numbers, and contradict the numbers from the federal reserve, individual banks, and credit card companies. My main problem with the claim is this. If credit were required by the majority of people, how can it be the
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
The definitions of "paycheck-to-paycheck" are different in different surveys. For example, in the second one you linked the question asked was something like "How difficult would it be for you if your paycheck was delayed by
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Most of your specific points are false. In fact, the majority of Americans self-report that they have at least 3 months of emergency savings, and this is backed by savings account data. Credit is necessary for some people, but the actual nu
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
It's not an assumption, it's an expected value computation. You have to choose a distribution of expected outcomes in terms of future capabilities. Nearly all outcomes that are plausible to me come out with Nvidia worth at least 5
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
One huge oversight in this analysis is the assumption that LLMs will not get better. Imagine there is a 10% chance that LLM capabilities increase so significantly in the next 5 years that a significant portion (say 1%) of the economy will b
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
The DAN thing is a completely fake cargo cult. You can just ask chatgpt to behave this way and it will. The complexity and specifics of the DAN prompt and mechanism do not do anything.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
All the servers can store a copy or a bloom filter because the number of revoked tokens is small and doesn't change often
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
You can do what Google and everyone else does, which is store the revoked tokens. At scale this is easy to do efficiently and rarely requires a network request since the number of revoked unexpired tokens is small.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
This is definitely fake
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
I would rather have a phone that lasts 1 year though, I don't want to pay extra for one that lasts 5 years. Why should it be illegal to build phones for people like me who upgrade more frequently than every 5 years (and most Americans,
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
That depends on your definition of decentralization. Because of the way most people set up their apps, almost all Matrix users and ~all Signal users are using a centralized app under this definition.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Facebook cannot read your messages, so it is more decentralized than a system that stores messages in plaintext (or stores the decryption keys).
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
It's an example of somebody replacing a centralized protocol with a more decentralized one. It's also one of the biggest direct messaging platforms in the world with E2E encryption.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Facebook messenger is not completely decentralized, but it is E2E encrypted now after years of struggle with governments and UX. It's definitely possible to move centralized systems to be more decentralized.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Looks like the output is significantly darker than the input. This can happen if you don't unbias the noise near the black level. You may want to experiment with adjusting the noise estimate taking into account the black level
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
This is not true, for example the entire mobile test infrastructure is written in python.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
Yeah that's was just the first public C++ library with this pattern that popped into my head. I just make all my classes final out of habit and don't think about it. I remove final if I want to subclass, but that almost never happ
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
The main case where I use final and where I would expect benefits (not covered well by the article) is when you are using an external library with pure virtual interfaces that you implement. For example, the AWS C++ SDK uses virtual functio
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
The cities near me that have planned municipal broadband are spending more than $5000 per resident. I pay more taxes than the average person, so I end up spending more than I would spend on private service.
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by mgraczyk 2y ago
What if the broadband companies are right though? I would prefer having a voice in government that isn't just a politician. Obviously an unpopular opinion but municipal broadband would likely not be good for me personally.
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by mgraczyk 3y ago
Facebook does not lease hardware like that because (what I was told during bootcamp) "the best return on Capital we can get from our hardware is adding more compute to facebook.com"
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by mgraczyk 3y ago
The most striking thing is how incredibly flat the line for nuclear is.
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by mgraczyk 3y ago
I didn't actually work on the format, just happened to be on the same team. My guess would be that it's related to compatibility with the places the format need to render (android, chrome, photos) or possibly necessary to preserve
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by mgraczyk 3y ago
Thanks, I was on the team that did Ultra HDR at Google so I was curious if it was being used here. Didn't see anything in the code though so that makes sense.

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