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by nopassrecover 3y ago
I think it’s the first time AI has made me chuckle. I ended up with “Riddle”, so I combined that with “Tornado” and it gave me “Twister” which I thought was a great Christmas Cracker pun, and then when I combined Riddle with “Bottle” it gav
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
Until you get the worst of both worlds and have to align an enterprise architecture approval committee, get cyber sign-off, put the request through your service desk, have it land with some sort of enterprise task prioritisation team, and f
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
Haha good pickup. I meant "non-human intelligence", but cats still tick that box too.
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
Call it naivety, but I still think there is something to the Titius-Bode observation, with the deviance from the pattern suggestive of events early in our solar system, so it's exciting to see these astronomers forming a similar view a
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
Great link! I wonder whether we look at this with new eyes in light of the recent discussions in Congress around UAP. I think it illuminates the profound insight of Ellsberg’s commentary if, even for the sake of argument, you entertain the
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
The way I see it, the problem is almost closer to social engineering than SQL injection. A manager can instruct their reception team to only let people in with an ID Badge, and they already know they need to follow their manager’s direction
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
Some shows seem spectacularly bad for this as well: eg we have tried watching The Expanse after many recommendations but simply cannot get past the fact that the sound balancing is notoriously awful, even with a soundbar, which is especiall
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
Agreed - what would be the harm in holding counting, or at least publishing/communicating counts, until all votes have been cast?
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
Yeah I think we agree that utilitarianism is held to an unreasonable standard. I think contributing to that is some advocates suggesting it’s a solid utopian model to guide all decisions without further refinement and nuance (and I don’t th
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
But aren’t the counterexamples largely detached from reality because in reality people adopt other ethical systems/principles to avoid extreme outcomes? I’m by no means opposing a general morality of optimising for the greater good, an
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
Agreed. I’m not entirely sure why the US even borrows at all other than “that’s the way it’s always done it and our system is configured accordingly”. The primary purpose of US Gov borrowing seems to be to ensure the stability of the curren
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
Have we finally? That reemergence of DLL hell on the web that every bright dev insisted was The Modern Way to code (or quit to somewhere else that enabled it) accompanied by spending my days pointlessly upgrading a mix of abandoned and poin
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
Definitely agree it isn't absurd - everything you say seems plausible, and I appreciate your excellent examples. What's your take on the article's take that they feel this plausible hypothesis is challenged by their study? In
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
What a great observation! I find it interesting to your point how even the way we make sense of something like this brings its own contextual baggage. Even "complexity" as a word can be good ("more powerful, developed")
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
So depending on the categories it would potentially not be sensationalist to say “Intel GPU drivers are recording how much you watch porn”. And this potentially covers a lot of people if integrated video is covered by the same drivers. I su
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
> Quasar 'clocks' show the universe was five times slower soon after the Big Bang ... By observing quasars, this time horizon has been rolled back to just a tenth the age of the universe, confirming that the universe appears to
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
Great find, thanks for sharing. Bohm was so far ahead of his time - he still would be - and yet we need more of this thinking for the times we find ourselves in.
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
Good post and a slightly different take on the classic “be earning or learning”. When I saw the play+earn (an area the author says they have less examples for) I was picturing more freelance advisory consulting - dabbling in fun pieces of w
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
That’s worth knowing! In AU some fix all or part for 2-5 years (typically 3 years or less, with discouraging rates for the longer term relative to current rates at the time to factor for risk) but it’s not universal. For example, as of mid
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
This is a bit devil’s advocate, but if you accept higher profiteering has been happening, and that this has fuelled inflation data (higher prices effectively devaluing the purchasing power of the $), and that this has led to increased inter
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
I don’t disagree with your view that profits are a key part of our economy, but I find it interesting to reflect on whether the movement of wealth (especially “excessive” wealth for some definitions) from consumers to capital holders (from
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
It's interesting that there's potentially a bit of a pattern forming with the stars we've observed, with an outer belt being around 10x the diameter of an inner belt. Though out of fashion, the various power laws of Bragg, Ri
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
It's interesting how quickly the Chinese Room has moved from thought experiment to reality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
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by nopassrecover 3y ago
Do you feel differently about fish who can swim?
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by nopassrecover 4y ago
The BTFP has a one year term compared to the 90 day discount window. You’re completely right about still being stuck with the low yield paper at the end of the year and the relatively high (to the paper) interest rate in the meantime (my re
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by nopassrecover 4y ago
What would it take to leverage Starlink?
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by nopassrecover 4y ago
So our banking system needs somewhere to park capital risk free, and it’s economically desirable that’s in a place that doesn’t create other distortions such as asset inflation or malinvestment. So we have treasuries as a tool for the finan
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by nopassrecover 4y ago
> because the Treasury needs banks to purchase government bonds Does it? Or is this just how the system is currently designed? 50 years ago we might have asked who will provide the Fed with the gold it needs to issue enough currency to a
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by nopassrecover 4y ago
I’m sure you’ve tried it all, but as someone who also dislikes odours in glasses that have been through the dishwasher we’re pretty attentive to only ever putting glasses in their own cycle, and minimising cleaning dishes with eggs in the w
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by nopassrecover 4y ago
This whole trail through to the top comment is spot on . It's also helped me work out a corollary in my mind that has puzzled me for a bit. My sense, in the Marxist tradition, is that modern organisations are dependent on the extracti

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