mihaic

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by mihaic 2y ago
I echo the parent comment. It's not the fact that predictions are made, it's the fact that no certainty interval is ever given, and everything is pronounced with complete confidence.
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by mihaic 2y ago
> This take is too far removed from reality. I wasn't trying to argue for or against UBI here. Rather, I was trying to make a case that it's rational to have some emotional judgement, if we can try to use it as a proxy for how
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by mihaic 2y ago
I think it's even rational to not keep emotion completely out of something like this, since UBI is not meant to maximize economic output, it's meant to improve the quality of life for most people. In order to asses how that qualit
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by mihaic 2y ago
Honestly, out of all the human activities that are being lost by the overextension of smartphones in all the corners of our lives, typewriters are not the ones I'll miss. I know a lot of people like their feel (I do as well), but it mu
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by mihaic 2y ago
I'm still rocking a Pixel 5 simply because I haven't been able to find light, reasonably sized phone, that I can carry relaxed without a case. Honestly, I don't like the squareish shape, it feels like an imitation Iphone. Jus
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by mihaic 2y ago
I keep reading praise about uv, and every single time I never really understand what problems it addresses. I've got a couple quite big Django projects for which I've used venv for years, and not once have I had any significant is
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by mihaic 2y ago
This is a strong argument that habits formed during covid stuck around until today, as it was long enough to reshape the baseline. Unfortunately these habits seem to affect the sociability of everyone, and I think we still underestimate wha
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by mihaic 2y ago
There are two non-moral reasons I can think of: - By forcing the Chinese to fix their air quality, this indirectly makes then economically less competitive, since they need to tighten their processes. - Polution travels all over the globe,
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by mihaic 2y ago
> Rich people born into nobility using their military influence and public dissent to overthrow a government and establish themselves as new rulers. Just to be clear, are you saying that the French Revolution was done by the rich born in
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by mihaic 2y ago
I can see almost the same argument being made in 1780 in a French salon, after the cost of fielding armies had exploded in the seven year war.
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by mihaic 2y ago
It's not about the fact that you don't have an edge against your peers with financial literacy, you'll always have that. It's the fact that you won't have an edge against your median efficiency elders, who are simpl
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by mihaic 2y ago
My most terrible conclusion is that if everyone had perfect financial literacy, the world would be even worse for the younger generation, who's never get any change without some systemic reset to catch up. So, personally I give everyon
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by mihaic 2y ago
Food doesn't have to taste good, but the people that consume it generally like it that way.
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by mihaic 2y ago
Well, in this case I think the subject also is corporations v. people, as people can't lobby to Congress to get tax breaks. In this particular issue, the problem is both that corporations aren't taxed enough AND that they can evad
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by mihaic 2y ago
You've said something true that misses the point. Taxation disproportionately comes from wages, and most in the middle class can't avoid them, even though they are a pillar of the economy.
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by mihaic 2y ago
I feel the need to paraphrase the Ikea scene in Fight Club: "sentences with tiny errors and imperfections, proof that they were made by the honest, simple, hardworking people of... whereever"
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by mihaic 2y ago
> So did Socrates. Ironically, being jaded about contemporary culture is older than the hills. Well, Socrates did have some good points. Even in the Golden Age of Pericles, there was some breakdown of trust between citizens, and professi
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by mihaic 2y ago
> Personally, I've never encountered any human residue while watching a movie or reading a book. In that case, I think we're simply debating if we like vanilla or chocolate. I find modern culture to be crap. Whatever arguments
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by mihaic 2y ago
While I think that you're mostly correct in everything you're saying, I don't think it's the best kind of correct. > You're applying normative criteria to evaluate something I'm explicitly not trying to be o
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by mihaic 2y ago
You're asking it as a moral question, when I honestly care about the end result. And the end result seems to be going in the same direction as movies, as the range gets narrower in terms of what's produced, and everything is a seq
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by mihaic 2y ago
LLMs are not people, and some organized way are worse than others, yes. In the same way we defined "fair use" for those reviewing a movie for instance to be ok, but we don't find it acceptable to put 99% of the movie with a s
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by mihaic 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. I do believe this is essentially a value judgement, but one which I think is essential for any well functioning society, at least based on my personal interpretation.
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by mihaic 2y ago
> Or is your point that the money somehow flows to companies that make things that people neither need nor want? It's this second one.
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You're making a strong implication that the companies that make money are the things that people need. The correlation seems to be growing weaker every year as far as I've seen.
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> Human needs purpose in life Not sure if I agree with it in this form, as I think people can get by quite well without an explicit purpose. My grandparents were farmers, and I've never pictured them to feel any specific purpose. Th
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by mihaic 2y ago
I think that a lot of people with money need to be reminded that having wealth is a social responsibility in itself. If you can live just from passive income maybe you should just gift interesting people the excess money and have them accom
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by mihaic 2y ago
I keep hearing about this rare and extremely difficult to make pasta, but one thing I always wondered is how good it actually is. My feeling is that it's just an ok dish with a cultural legacy attached to it.
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For many people, especially from some terrible cultures I've personally met, the odds of being punished are really the only deterrent.
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by mihaic 2y ago
> For that issue, I think that as any medium ages, it transforms from "explore" to "exploit", which is also why films have a lot more sequels and reboots. I've never agreed with this argument, it just felt like a
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by mihaic 2y ago
I don't mean in broad genres, but more in terms of the range of emotions and thoughts that the top movies of the year evoke. The Martian is great movie, and does thankfully hit a different spot than the generic dystopian Sci-Fi, but th

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