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by next_xibalba 4mo ago
I'd love to know how the demographics of steam's actual users compare against those represented on the marketing page ( https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steammachine ).
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by next_xibalba 4mo ago
This is not true. Broadcom is a public company. It doesn't have a single or even majority owner.
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by next_xibalba 4mo ago
From the article: > She wasn't saying, of course, that it's impossible to become a billionaire. Obviously that's possible. Nor was she talking about the distinction between income and capital gains. She wasn't making
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by next_xibalba 4mo ago
> this single deal boosts SpaceX's valuation by 94 x 11 billion = $1 trillion dollars That's not how valuations work. Also, it is not unlikely that SpaceX's valuation drops post-IPO (tech was 6.65% in the most recent tradi
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by next_xibalba 5mo ago
Perhaps you could share what this person's history of unethical behavior is? Lasker is called a eugenicist by the GP and in the Wikipedia article, but when I read the cited sources, they look a lot more like opinion pieces pushing a vi
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by next_xibalba 5mo ago
Most public K-12 teachers teach 9 months out of the year. So annualizing that salary gets you to $64,149. Supposing a two income household of two teachers earning that amount ($128,299), the household would be earning a good bit above the m
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by next_xibalba 5mo ago
What do they call this type of argument, again? Ad hominem?
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by next_xibalba 5mo ago
See also the OpenAI vs. Musk trial, where Greg Brockman's diary and Sam Altman's texts have taken center stage.
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by next_xibalba 5mo ago
> But, somehow ... it is prosecutors and police who need more help. I'm not sure how you get that from what I wrote. My solution is (like many, many places in the world): "treatment or jail, but we will not tolerate a destructi
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by next_xibalba 5mo ago
> SF has a famously broken city government. As does Portland (the metro I now live in). Note they have huge budgets for their police and there's still plenty of crime -- does that mean they should give up on having police? I don&#x2
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by next_xibalba 5mo ago
SF spends more per capita than anywhere in the world on homelessness. And it’s barely made a dent. The solution is upstream of money. It’s policy decisions derived from cultural values. In other places in the world, where homelessness is va
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
> an astounding 90% of chemical feedstocks are derived from oil or gas What I often wonder is, as the demand for oil declines, the economies of scale in oil production should, too. If that is the case, will not the price of everything w
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
I'm referring specifically to preventing additional countries from becoming nuclear powers. There was massive effort and coordination expended to this end. It failed repeatedly. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968.
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
I don't follow this stuff too closely, but Cloud growing by 63% seems astounding. It'd be interesting to know how much of that is converting AWS and Azure workloads to GCP.
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
> The only real solution is to make AI a public good/utility which should be regulated on an international level and overseen by trustworthy institutions. There is a precedent for this in nuclear weapons. It did not work. All it tak
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
> Whether it was fraudulent or just incorrect is a different question. And probably the more important question. How badly is the machine that does science broken? If we don’t focus here and fix it, there will be further decades without
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
Mandatory public service is fascism? Deporting illegal immigrants is fascism? There are ~68 countries with mandatory military service in the world [1]. To say nothing of countries with some other form of mandatory public service. How many o
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
Probably something related to leaking or unauthorized use of classified information.
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
Who is the "thee" and "me" in this scenario?
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
> It was fascinating, that the MAGA American conservatives lump the US together with Europe into "the West" This is not “MAGA Americans” characterization. It is the outcome of 2000+ years of history culminating in the U.S. bein
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
What is your source for this?
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
I believe what they're saying is they attempted to fine tune both Qwen and Pythia using Karoline Leavitt's "corpus" (I guess transcripts of press conferences) where she is presumably using the word "deportation&quot
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
I actually think this take is wrong... but the moment Travis Kalanick was a guest and claimed that he was on the verge of discovering new physics with the aid of ChatGPT was an eye opening moment.
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
> Can anyone explain why on earth VC's are making actual investment decisions based on imaginary internet points? It's purely incentives. Heavy competition for early signal identification has pushed them to crappier and crappie
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
Exactly. These arguments are all buttressed by the "if everyone would just..." argument [1]. In fact, everyone will not just. And so if you want to build your Utopia, it will have to be compelled by force. [1] https://x
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
You don't get highways and the interstate system if vehicles are not for personal use. And if you don't get those, you don't get the modern logistics system. I guess what I don't understand is, given the current state, 1
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
Automobiles are one of a key pillar of logistics. Getting things (food, medicine, construction materials, etc. etc.) to and from backbones like rail, harbors, airports etc. So even for those who don't own a vehicle or even want to own
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
Too long, not gonna read. When do I get my 447TB iPhone?
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
Meanwhile, the other side is just openly calling for the horrible deaths of people who disagree with them. So, I can choose the 1) openly homicidal fascist, or 2) the maybe fascist (so you say) who is not openly homicidal. So, I'm gonn
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by next_xibalba 6mo ago
Ah yes, the diaresis will relieve those confused chicken farmers! A thousand thanks to The New Yorker.

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