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by moduspol 2y ago
Even worse: AFAIK there's no reason to believe that the $20k/mo or $10k/mo pricing will actually make them money. Those numbers are just thought balloons being floated. Of course $10k/mo sounds like a lot of inference, b
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by moduspol 2y ago
I lost ~55 pounds on a similar drug over about 10 months during 2023-2024. The drug avoids the need for any kind of willpower. You don't have to go out of your way or make lifestyle changes to lose weight. You don't even have to e
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by moduspol 2y ago
How much waste do you think is acceptable? Would you like to make a guess now on how much will ultimately be saved by DOGE?
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by moduspol 2y ago
It's also possible that some contracts and contractors are more wasteful than others. Perhaps Palantir delivers a lot of value, and insiders know there are much more effective places to make cuts.
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by moduspol 2y ago
We're not willing to try that.
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by moduspol 2y ago
They didn't start doing it in 2024. Also, at least in the US, it's the side that spent a lot less money that won. Just like in 2016. Besides, having money is only one form of influence. One might also have influence from a massive
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by moduspol 2y ago
Yep. It boggles my mind that we still do aircraft flyovers at big football games. Those should be drones doing coordinated light shows--even in heavy winds, rain, and unfavorable conditions. Just to show that we've mastered it, and tha
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by moduspol 2y ago
I was hoping the article would clarify how it was determined that he had this specific abnormality. I've given blood before. Is this the kind of thing they check for and would have informed me if I had? Or do doctors have to go out of
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by moduspol 2y ago
Just FYI: They did roll out Deep Research to those of us on the $20/mo tier at (I think) about the same time you made this comment.
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by moduspol 2y ago
Or you're working, despite opposition, against the largest bureaucracy the world has ever known, on a very tight timeframe with limited resources, and staffed by humans that are not perfect.
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by moduspol 2y ago
The clearances have already been granted [1]. There is no "damned if you do, damned if you don't." The President and agency directory have authorized and ordered it. Career bureaucrats are not legally required to resist their
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by moduspol 2y ago
That's the case being made, yes. It's not supported by the mistakes reported, at least yet.
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by moduspol 2y ago
This talking point keeps blowing my mind. They occasionally make minor mistakes! If only voters had known that occasionally minor mistakes (in reporting of all places) might be made, they'd have insisted we stick with the bureaucracy t
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by moduspol 2y ago
Trump renamed USDS to DOGE via executive order. It's true that it's not an agency, but it was created during the Obama administration. I'm not sure it'd be better as an agency because there are strict rules and hierarchi
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by moduspol 2y ago
Somehow Musk has surpassed Trump as a target. Cynically: I think it's because polls show Trump's approval rating at record highs, but Musk's isn't. As a result, opponents are hyper-focused on Musk's involvement inst
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by moduspol 2y ago
They were hired to, and authorized explicitly by the President to access that data. In writing. That's as valid of a reason as you can get in the executive branch.
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by moduspol 2y ago
Apparently not. Apparently xAI can catch up in a year. And we already saw what happened with DeepSeek. What does the scenario look like where everyone else gets eaten alive?
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by moduspol 2y ago
IMO that's not really a business model. That's a hope that you can come up with one by being at (or near) the front of the pack if one materializes.
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by moduspol 2y ago
I suppose we can all speculate, but the thesis is unfalsifiable with arguments like that.
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by moduspol 2y ago
Do they want tariffs to be placed on them?
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by moduspol 2y ago
We question the leadership and judgment of someone who would take such a position, and refuse to walk it back. It is not the case that we expect our lives to change materially as a result of taxpayer-funded illegal immigrant sex change oper
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by moduspol 2y ago
Welcome to the club of "right wing extremists."
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by moduspol 2y ago
Maybe "dethrone" isn't the right word, but if a startup on the other side of the world, without the best hardware, can create something comparable and cheaper to build/run just four months after the release of the top co
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by moduspol 2y ago
Employee headcount is also evaluated less favorably when potential investors evaluate the company's health. They're implicitly seen as a promise to continue paying them in the future, whether that's materially different from
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by moduspol 2y ago
Can't we just use literal prisoners? That's what I always thought about the kind of research RFK Jr is always talking about. Normally it's not ethical to do food / medicine trials with prisoners, but these would be trial
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by moduspol 2y ago
It wouldn't have been at a bargain basement price if they started trying to sell it when the law passed. It could have been the highest market price they could get from the US's largest buyers. Obviously they don't have the s
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by moduspol 2y ago
Perhaps the ban / tariff / regulation should be applied to companies making networking hardware that's riddled with flaws and exploitable vulnerabilities, rather than by naming specific companies or countries of origin.
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by moduspol 2y ago
That's true. I prefer this approach because it removes that additional thing (the request to S3) that can be slow or fail at runtime. Or "initialization" time, I guess, depending on how you look at it.
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by moduspol 2y ago
Sorry--the throttling was at the AWS Lambda layer, not S3. We were being throttled because we'd deploy a new container image and suddenly thousands of new containers are all simultaneously trying to pull the database file from S3. We a
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by moduspol 2y ago
We have that issue at work, though I solved it by including the sqlite database within the container image that we use. We then deploy the new container image (with the same code as before, but with a revised database file) at most every fi

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