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by munk-a 6mo ago
Yup, Medicaid and SNAP are extremely efficient. Social Security is almost completely disbursement charges but those disbursements aren't means tested so even quite wealthy individuals receive them. Additionally you mentioned that Med
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by munk-a 6mo ago
Are Michigan tart cherry farmers allowed to sell direct to customers without additional licensing requirements and food inspections?
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by munk-a 6mo ago
I think it's extremely hard to argue that kids tend to be emotionally immature and especially vicious in this regard. But considering the GP has admitted that in retrospect they find this action to be a dick move I think it's imp
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by munk-a 6mo ago
There are plenty of business' products that I use where I'm unaware of if I share or don't share the owner's political views and I'm totally fine using them. Elon Musk has made it impossible to not be aware of his
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by munk-a 6mo ago
OpenAI, xAI, Anthropic, Google, MSFT, Spotify, Duolingo and NVidia - those are the ones that come immediately to mind. They're either selling the AI (or the tools to make the AI) or hoping against all hope that they're on the rig
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by munk-a 6mo ago
I think it opens them up to a huge customer base of less technically apt people who just downloaded some random "S3asYourFS.exe" program but also opens them up to needing to support that functionality and field support calls from
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by munk-a 6mo ago
xAI's valuation comes from an internal transfer of Elon's. Elon has stated it's worth 258B and that's the only data point to go by. It's absolutely bonkers and wrong but it's unlikely to raise to the level of
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by munk-a 7mo ago
We certainly could - it's absolutely possible. The question is if it's economical and so far the market has ruled in most cases that it isn't. Either the project doesn't need such a perfect amalgamation of materials (m
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by munk-a 7mo ago
No - it's actually local variance in materials coupled with the difficulty in moving materials between markets economically. Some areas just have better suited limestone or gravel or sand and can afford to build resilient structures f
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by munk-a 7mo ago
> too much water, not enough cement, etc. I wanted to mention that Concrete is far more complex and regional than folks might imagine. The quality of gravel and sand, local impurities - these all contribute massively. It's probabl
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by munk-a 7mo ago
IRR is so trivial to manipulate - it'd be wonderful if more investors began demanding actual metrics on capital performance. If you're parking cash with an investment firm you want to know about how much of a return you can expec
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Also, the valuation for such a debt laden company should be viewed with great skepticism. I'm afraid a lot of mutual funds will end up holding the bags.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I'm sure had you omitted it - instead of that reply there would have been a series of comments talking about how Microsoft actually has a track record of doing things like this. It's impossible to please everyone on the internet
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I'd rather the symbol be there and occasionally see this discussion happen then the symbol be omitted and occasionally have the discussion where we try and figure out if the person was serious. When talking in person there are all sor
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by munk-a 7mo ago
The only setting I'm seeing is on a per-user basis. Does anyone know how to blanket disable training on an organizational basis? Is there any information about how much information from an organization managed repo may be trained on i
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by munk-a 7mo ago
The initial title and your reply are both too broad to be fully accurate. By April 24th Github will train on private repos (assuming a flag isn't set) but this change is limited to just non-Business/Pro users. So a number of pri
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Probably extremely ineffective, it's an issue of scale and unless you really automate the terrible code generation and somehow manage to make it distinct enough in style that it isn't easy to detect and eliminate wholesale then yo
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by munk-a 7mo ago
> It feels like you can spin this idea for nearly anything. Apparently 25% of alcohol sales are to alcoholics. I'd like to propose not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. I accept this argument about gambling might be sli
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by munk-a 7mo ago
To start off with my personal beliefs... I agree - I see a much broader harm in how platforms try and make themselves addictive as I've worked on such systems in the past. I think the public and even most technical folks that aren&#x2
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Corporate liability isolation has become absurd. People who make decisions that harm people should be held to account for those decisions even if they structured their decision making apparatus in a legal way that makes it look like they&#
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by munk-a 7mo ago
The legal system has two goals - to compensate individuals harmed and to discourage further violations of the law. This lawsuit seems to have fulfilled the first goal but fell flat on its face when it comes to punitive damages.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Similar to prompting hacks to produce better results. If the machine we built for taking dumb input that will transform it into an answer needs special structuring around the input then it's not doing a good job at taking dumb input.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Yeah, I think it is. It's printable if you want to have a hard copy and it's up to you when to check for a new version. Since it's auto-updated (ideally) no matter when you visit the site you'll get the most up to date
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by munk-a 7mo ago
If they were then that memo got lost when it reached the general populace that sees them as a gambling vehicle. I think it'd be extremely reasonable if people with qualified access to information like this were banned from leveraging
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Or in paying a part of the tariff bill for companies in exchange to an entitlement to the full refund if the tariffs were ruled unconstitutional.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Probably January 6th 2021
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I absolutely agree, _in market driven economies_, fossil fuels are slowly pricing themselves out of relevancy. The issue is that for some reason the US specifically subsidizes their usage keeping them artificially lowly priced. So, how man
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by munk-a 7mo ago
The politicization of government budgeting has made inefficiency rife. Sometimes new allocations are done purely for brownie points and there's genuine wastage - other times cuts are made that save a penny but lose a pound in the guis
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by munk-a 7mo ago
It's quite a tired take that the obesity epidemic is because Americans have too much affordable access to good food. America has affordable access to terrible food and while people can keep their bellies full on that actually eating h
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by munk-a 7mo ago
It also warps reality to adhere to the prediction markets. There was a famous rash of objects being thrown onto WNBA courts recently that was spurred on by the potential for financial gain.

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