nkmnz

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by nkmnz 2mo ago
In 1817, capital did not cross borders. Borders crossed capital.
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by nkmnz 2mo ago
1. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. 2. Risk is convex, so every risk increase by measures not taken is multiplicative, not additive. The real question must be: does the disinfection do more harm than it provides reduction of
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by nkmnz 2mo ago
Basic napkin math: 5% IRR means they'd only need to 4.5x their revenue to make this roughly work. If they can finance this cheaper and/or do not have better options for their cash, it's even less.
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by nkmnz 2mo ago
A sales person is usually trained on an existing product or portfolio of products (including services). A good sales person might use their exposure to customers for gathering valuable information to feed back into their upstream org. But t
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by nkmnz 2mo ago
Never in my life have I bought any of the household names when it comes to household equipments. Of course, I use the household names’ names when I speak about wipes, washing powder, glue, etc., but never ever would I pay the 2x to 5x premi
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by nkmnz 2mo ago
GLM-5.3 is one of the faster models, at least according to artificialanalysis - openAI and Anthropic are the slowest.
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by nkmnz 2mo ago
The fact that it’s a canary makes it a prime tool for A/B testing of generalized approaches to censor or “secure” a model.
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by nkmnz 2mo ago
So it's better to wait around for motivation to build a habit and develop discipline.
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by nkmnz 2mo ago
Same. I still do not agree with some of his stances on high dose creatine, genetic engineering, neurosciences, and Israel, which led him to block me on Twitter. Sometimes, he acts like a sad guy. But his writing is genius. No wonder, he’s a
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by nkmnz 2mo ago
I think Taleb's argument is more along two lines: 1. Hormesis ("low-dose exposures have a beneficial effect and high-dose amounts are either inhibitory to function or toxic"[0]) 2. Evolutionary adaptation: alcohol has been ar
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by nkmnz 2mo ago
It’s a common denominator if you want to do napkin-math for a whole national economy. Regulatory capture is like a tax on those people not on the beneficiary side, so if the government were to nationalize both supply (no export license for
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by nkmnz 2mo ago
I think at this point the question is: will the US government be willing and capable to justify the trillion dollar valuation for _one_ of the companies via regulatory capture? The US has a workforce of 170m, so 1.7 trillion would come down
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
Nothing more horrible than apps that "care about the host OS in terms of UI", thus looking different on every type of device I have to use for work.
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
That would be “ranks second to x OR y”
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
The survey is completely useless. Just let me vote on pairs of designs which I like more, then aggregate the data. It's not that hard to program and a hundred times more accurate and useful.
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
I stand partly corrected, the last fracking was done 2011, and I cannot find any information if the site is still active today. There have been more than 300 active sites. New ones have not been opened, but NOT due to laws, or lack of econo
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
> What/who do you mean with "movements"? Peace movement, environmental movement, anti-nuclear movement. > Are you implying that 1986 was a Russian propaganda plot? Two things can be true at the same time. Something can
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
Where's the code?
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
So at least we can agree that Germany’s reliance on Russian gas has been far deadlier than all nuclear and fracking accidents combined. Regarding your arguments: ad 1: This happened only because public opinion had been shaped by the movemen
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
In the mean time, we've sponsored the Russian war of aggression, flooding Europe with violence that led to the death of over a hundred thousand, disabled half a million, displaced 10 million, and destroyed houses and infrastructure wor
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
That number is clearly wrong. The german term "Kohle" includes the english "coal" (Steinkohle) and "lignite" (Braunkohle). The real number is >20%. German: https://strom-report.com/strommix&#
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
What about the >100.000 Ukrainians killed with bombs and bullets paid for by German energy policy?
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
> > ...ranks second only to Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. So... it ranks THIRD?
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
But they were cancelled for similar reasons based on fears fueled by Russian propaganda.
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
Genius.
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
Scientists found a way to extract up to 90% of oxygen from air! They call it “breathing”.
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
1. Be offended by political comments. 2. Make political comment about political comments.
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
> I agree with all the criticism...
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
Feel free to create your own university where you can do this sort of research in a discriminatory way. Have fun with the litigation afterwards. Also, explain to the peer reviewers that they just need to get over the hangup, too, when you t
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by nkmnz 3mo ago
So you say the Germans should just have reeducated the Jews to not being Jews anymore - and it wouldn't have been a genocide?

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