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by nwiswell 4y ago
Step 1: Read your cloud services contract with Microsoft very carefully. What does it say about your liability for fraud? Step 2: Read your business insurance policy very carefully. What does it say about fraud coverage? What are the limits
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Yeah. I just read the entire Wait But Why article linked elsewhere in the thread, and it seems to be taken as a given that technology will continue to increase at an exponential rate, and so the ability to precisely detect and arbitrarily m
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Not everyone lives in the suburbs with a two-car garage.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> In fact, a 2017 Glassdoor study found that the wages of H-1B workers were 2.8% higher than their American counterparts The problem with this is that H1B workers work a lot more than 2.8% harder, on average, and companies know this. Man
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by nwiswell 4y ago
I'd happily trade 2x capacity for 0.5x life in my cell phone battery, provided that the cell phone manufacturer just makes it easy to swap batteries. Something that baffles me is how hard it's become to replace the battery. I had
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by nwiswell 4y ago
"this is fine"
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> but there hasn’t been a power plant built and operated in the last 20 years that come even close to these numbers If we are being honest, that also has a lot to do with why nuclear is so expensive.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
What strikes me as odd is that Bitcoin only topped out at ~3x what it did in 2017. How much do Super Bowl ads actually matter? Is frivolous advertising the ultimate metric for financial froth? Or are ads like that just a symptom of macroe
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by nwiswell 4y ago
I said the same thing after the wild times in 2017. Frankly I don't think anyone actually knows.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
You might want to read that abstract again because you did not understand it. It says the transmission ratio is 0.50 (i.e., 2x better) vs unvaccinated with two doses of BNT162b2 (that's the Pfizer vaccine, the other one is a research
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Totally unrelated to the question of whether vaccines are efficacious or not. If I was from Germany or the UK, why would I even care what the CDC said? The study linked at the top of this thread finds this effect across all developed nation
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by nwiswell 4y ago
That's actually even more argument why it's important to reduce your risk of passing on the virus, then: because it can kill even vaccinated people. Anyway, from the article you linked, here's the punchline: > Unvaccinated
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Right, yeah, so the implication of XO 14043 being that the 80% of people who are voluntarily vaccinated are not down with the government taking their money in order to pay it to people who are voluntarily unvaccinated.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
This is an issue of semantics. They "prevent" in the sense that they "reduce the risk", not in the sense that they "preclude entirely". Put another way: they prevent some transmission. They do not prevent al
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by nwiswell 4y ago
The legal standard for blindness in the US is 20/200 vision, i.e. someone with "ideal" 20/20 vision sees with the same acuity from 200 feet away as a legally blind person can from 20 feet away. It's really a misconc
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> while a blind person sees 0% For most blind people this is not correct.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> I really don't understand the comments I am reading here. Selection bias. The people who were/are affected by the mandates are still very upset. Everyone who got the vaccine doesn't care and has moved on with their live
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by nwiswell 4y ago
It applies to anyone paid with federal money. That's constructively the same as being employed by the government. Again, free association cuts both ways... If you don't have to work for the government, why should the government be
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by nwiswell 4y ago
OK, so you're talking about 14043 specifically. No, that is not force. You don't have a right to work for the Federal Government, and the Federal Government does not have a right to require you to work for them. 14043 just says yo
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by nwiswell 4y ago
The parent is suggesting that this is simply a sensible business move and the pressure is irrelevant.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> doesn't sound like force to you? Not by the state, no. And withholding a job offer is certainly not force. We generally accept that there are a lot of things that will make you unemployable, like having a swastika on your forehead
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Basically every nation already uses force to deter certain forms of socially problematic behavior. If you habitually litter, for example, you'll receive a fine. If you don't pay that fine, you're going to end up with a bench
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Now I'm imagining keycap-replacement sweatshops :)
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Your figures are totally wrong. The distance to geostationary orbit is around 30,000 km, so at the speed of light (~300,000 km/s), that is 100 ms of latency. Low earth orbit is 3,000 km or so, meaning that's only 10 ms each way. O
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> i can get an Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 for 300€ less in Bulgaria compared to France This is insane. What prevents grey market arbitrage? Why wouldn't hardware from the country where hardware is cheapest immediately get posted on the
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by nwiswell 4y ago
There's an interesting implication here, which is that if SBF is enough of a charismatic con to make otherwise sophisticated investors toss money around blind, wouldn't he also be able to work similar magic on otherwise sophistic
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Something that comes to mind is real-time controls, like for high speed manufacturing, rockets and jets, medical robots, etc. These computations are often highly vectorized and are extremely latency-sensitive, for obvious reasons.
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What happens when you have a moderate amount of data and you can't wait for GPU latency?
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Huh? Jaywalking is not a felony, it's a traffic violation. You'd get a ticket. There is no criminal trial. This is like saying CA doesn't fine people for speeding. Jaywalking laws are probably enforced whenever they're c
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by nwiswell 4y ago
I don't have an alt but it would be cool to meet my stylometry-neighbors. I'm curious whether the writing similarity translates to oral communication too

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