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by msabalau 2y ago
The Straight Story is almost certainly his most accessible film, while also very focused on themes that he cares about. It isn't the elusive puzzle that many cinephiles value in his work, but it is clearly a Lynch film, even if it&#x27
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Quickly and accurately understanding the competitive landscape is hard, to their credit, and not sufficient. Even if they came up with a strong response, it would still involve innovation and execution, and probably disruptions to their go
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I was interpreting the poster as saying "you, yourself, the reader will be better off cutting this out of your life" in which case your questions are irrelevant. Of course, it is possible they meant to come up with a holistic plan
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Graham's early essays on, say, the ambitions of cities or hackers and painters, were interesting, original, were grounded in his personal experiences, and were focused in scope. This latest mush makes extravagant claims about the evolu
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China had everything going for it for couple of decades. Other countries were happy to outsource manufacturing and invest for the sake of access to the the Chinese market and under the assumption that great power conflict with China was ver
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Pragmatically, "AI" will mean (and for, many people already does mean) stochastic and fallible. If your users are likely to be AI illiterate and mistakenly feel that an AI app is reliable and suitable for mission critical applica
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by msabalau 2y ago
Alternatively, maybe Alphabet actually came to understand that while it would have been a pointless waste of time to flush money away on AR and VR in the manner of Apple and Meta, AI use cases and work on stuff like like Gemini streaming an
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by msabalau 2y ago
Theory: Apple's lifestyle branding is quite important to the identity of many in the community here. I mean, look at the buy-in at launch for Apple Vision Pro by so many people on HN--it made actual Apple communities and publications l
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Yeah, either AI is significant, in which case Google isn't going to kill it. Or AI is a bubble, in any of the alternatives one might pick can easily crash and die long before Google ends of life anything. This isn't some minor co
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Half decent approximations work a lot better in generating the equivalent of a stock illustrations of a powerpoint slide. Actual long form art like a movie works because it includes many well informed choices that work together as a whole.
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As a matter of taste, fair enough. But having recently read about all etiquette concerns of the Japanese admirals doing their life or death struggles during WWII, it hardly seems unrealistic. For a lot of people, seeing people navigate mult
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by msabalau 2y ago
So you believe that companies ought to get immunity from antitrust regulation simply because they made investments in the hopes that they'd be able to profit from their ability to dominate the competition? Regardless, if the shareholde
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Or run for Congress in the midterms if they are 25 by the time of the next election two years from now.
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There are all sorts of valuable things to explore and build with what we have already. But understanding how likely it is that we will (or will not) see a new models quickly and dramatically improve on what we have "because scaling&quo
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In terms of generative AI, for general use cases, Open AI reported having 11 million paid subscribers last quarter. People clearing paying for Adobe Firefly and Midjourney access. That's already a ton more people finding it useful in
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by msabalau 2y ago
Minor note: as a percentage of GDP, the US military budget under both Biden and Trump is/was significantly lower than the post cold war "peace dividend" years under Bill Clinton. If we are not doing prescribed burns or, say,
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From my, probably naive perspective, there seems to be at least two major sources of value the generative AI provides: 1.Understanding the world, for example by creating a statistical model of entire languages, as languages are already a mo
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There is a huge difference between the US accounting for 20% of Global GDP and merely being "in first place" at the end of WWI and the USA having half of global GDP (and 80% of the world's hard currency reserves) at the e
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by msabalau 2y ago
Or, if someone is a person of judgement and taste, who regularly watches and enjoys films a lot more experimental than Megalopolis, and one went and saw the film, perhaps one can reasonably come to the conclusion that the film is an artisti
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One real answer is "we don't know because this capability hasn't existed before" I mean, you can wear something like a traditional cuff that puffs itself up every five minutes or whatever, but that doesn't really fi
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Hmmm, not entirely certain about that metaphor. I do that sort of thing all the time. Sure it is nice to walk out with the Verne, but I am quite certain that I'll probably be walking out with several random books, with or without the
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by msabalau 2y ago
Yeah, the examination system may have been an elegant way for emperors to prevent consolidation of power among the gentry. But it really seems a stretch in the interview say the exam system provided political mobility to farmers. The exams
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Pragmatically, the statement was made famous in English by a conservative US president, addressing the nation, including his supporters, who trusted him, but not the Soviets with whom he was negotiating. Saying, in effect: "you trust i
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The first iPhone was fine, but it was the second generation and the app store that actually delivered a "real" smart phone. The retina display in the iPhone 4 may have been an incremental improvement, but it wasn't a "sm
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People do make the claim that this ought to be considered "fair use" under the law. There are an numbers of prominent cases were AI companies are getting sued, and we'll see if this defense actually works. If the question i
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Given that I was specifically talking about Qing claims during a historical period when the United Nations didn't exist, it is not entirely clear why you felt the impulse to reply to me. Especially if you don't think history matte
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I ran across this in Taiwan: Contested Democracy Under Threat, which came out from Columbia University press last fall. Of course, you might not want to buy an expensive book from a university press. But a there seem to be a range of google
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Would you say that a blockade "inevitably" leads to "victory"? Because it was really the "inevitability" notion of the OP that I was pushing back on. A blockade is one potential option that the PRC has, and it
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Very good points. If anything, this overstates the connection. Yes, there were ethnic Chinese settlers heading over to get paid by the Dutch, or to leave mainland China for a variety of reasons. With vague, intermittent interest/claims
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There is nothing "inevitable" about Taiwan falling. China would have to take an inexperienced military and accomplish one of the hardest things imaginable, an amphibious invasion that can only happen in narrow time windows at hand

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