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by neffy 4y ago
And this is Google's core business. Nothing came along yet that replaced corporate use of microsoft office, and that is were they make most of their money.
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ChatGPT itself is being trained on curated content, it is clearly not trained on unscreened internet sites - this is easy enough to establish if you ask it questions around hot topic issues in the conspiracy groups - it gets the correct mai
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by neffy 4y ago
Get the feeling the software is being developed by people who never stray far from their desks?!
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At some level it both is and it isn't. The problems behind scaling a distributed application are quite well understood at this point, the problem that hasn't been solved is that too many won't accept the answer in terms of de
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by neffy 4y ago
Hard to be sure, but I would suspect very probably, although perhaps not for that reason. Long covid is real, and statistically significant. Heart and blood stream involvement issues with covid have also been apparent from the start. Put th
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Did you include any compensation for the increase in water vapour due to the Ha'apai eruption? There are far better ways to do this btw.
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by neffy 4y ago
The other rather dangerous assumption is that arrogant Californians are the only ones who will try to do this. The problem is Geoengineering is not a zero sum game - if India decided to try and engineer the next ice age for example, to get
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by neffy 4y ago
Latency and logistics in my experience will always get you. On the similarly populated, but much closer to major landmasses than Vanuatu island I live on, we have had local outages from multiple failures close together. One transformer blow
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by neffy 4y ago
I have no idea why this got downloaded - but can only agree. Life in a major city at the forefront of technological change will rarely prepare someone for the realities of life outside that bubble. Numbers do have a quality of their own, an
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by neffy 4y ago
The cloud is just as vulnerable as everything else is: https://www.amazon.com/Hack-Like-Ghost-Sparc-Flow-ebook/dp/B...
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by neffy 4y ago
Go back 150 years, and what was tracked was actual production. Iron mined, boats produced etc. GDP is a bad measure for all the reasons above, and because prices do not work the way GDP want's them too. As another poster alluded to, in
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by neffy 4y ago
The problem though is that exceptional people are scattered all over the system, since 1) not everybody can get into Harvard (class size) and a significant percentage who do are selected from a small monied elite. The number of non-Harvard
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by neffy 4y ago
It would be very interesting to have that studied... but my general impressions (as somebody who does read the publications) is that the answer is usually no.
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by neffy 4y ago
Agreed... far worse in fact. the issue in particular with the ice core melting is how much we can trust the peak readings for things like methane and co2.... what we consistently see in the cores is that these things increase steadily until
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by neffy 4y ago
It's usually the people - but don't rule out that sometimes the reason people are behaving strangely, let's say, is that there are financial, business, or somewhat corrupt pressures they are unwilling to talk about. Which is
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by neffy 4y ago
Yes, that's the joker in the pack. Did you see the papers about the evidence for the ice pack on Greenland having completely melted before? It left me wondering about how much we can trust the ice core readings from there.
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by neffy 4y ago
It's accurate but not complete. The long term (600k year) climatic history of this planet is sobering, and if only climate change was just our fault. Believe me, there is nothing humanity has so far achieved that comes close to matchin
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by neffy 4y ago
If you take the truly non-performing folks, well sad to say you can probably get rid of most of them and improve performance. Otherwise, get rid of any engineer and the minimum impact is 3-6 months code and culture familiarisation before th
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by neffy 4y ago
I´ll put this here, since it may also help slightly tangentially with the above (and likewise thanks for the thread). I worked in a large public library service as a teenager (before the internet), rotated around several libraries, and noti
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by neffy 4y ago
The UK does get the occasional tornado. Mostly in the midlands, and mostly places where they don't get noticed, but they do happen fairly frequently in fact. https://www.bbc.com/news/education-33136737
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by neffy 4y ago
Early pixel blob analysis (I don't know a better way to put this, check Figure 5 in the paper) from the James Webb: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.09428.pdf Suggests that the universe may be older than the Big Bang th
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by neffy 4y ago
Honestly, until we have actual Star Trek level medicine capabilities, I will take the NHS approach, loosely we want to cure you and never see you again, over the USA, again loosely, the patient is a source of income for all involved, so let
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by neffy 4y ago
Ferdinand Foch (French WW1 general) called the Versailles treaty a 20 year armistice in 1919. He thought the treaty was too lenient.
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This is banking centric, but does have worked examples that may be useful. https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1583 Above and beyond other reasons, double entry book keeping has some very nice error detection properties (the or
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The problem with that argument, although I congratulate you for following the state line, is that it requires us to believe that the entire operation wasn't necessary to begin with. If there were no health consequences, then there were
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The gold standard didn't stop money creation. The linkage in the banking system was to the price of gold, as fractional reserve lending slowly increased the amount of deposits in the system, the price of gold drifted up, and the amount
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Yes, if you are living in the US, and could access fixed rate mortgages. Or indeed anywhere where a fixed rate mortgage for a reasonable 5+ year term is available. Because the money supply is in some sense linked to house lending by the ban
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by neffy 4y ago
Money is no more imaginary than IP packets. The reason the transfer problem is hard is that it is yet another instance of the Fischer consensus problem, that's all.
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Exactly - this is one of those things that the former Soviet Union and its successor has worked hard to deny happened, an effort that extends to writing down vague or incorrect causes of death for liquidators. If you read the book Voice of
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That's the convenient mythology. De facto - bear in mind the system that we´re talking about moves rather slowly - recessions always have real financial or economic system causes, and quite often are seen coming in advance by some peop

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