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by odyssey7 3mo ago
A modern alternative might be a pair of crocs?
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It could also be collecting money from informants who are checking to see if they’re on the website.
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Are you proposing that poor people would not be subject to the laws of the United States, as they would be provided no means to consent? That only the wealthy are to be governed, regulated, etc.?
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights,
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by odyssey7 3mo ago
In introductory economics courses, they teach a simple result showing that in a competitive market, profits tend toward zero.
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It was fun going through the comparisons. My results settled on Lattimore.
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My comment is about MUMPS, not a specific edition of thereof. A language is inseparable from its community. The opportunity cost of working with MUMPS is enormous, particularly for someone early in their career.
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Another organism that survives pasteurization is paratuberculosis, in milk. It is commonly found in commercial dairy herds. In my opinion, this is alarming. Many consider it to be a candidate for the cause of Crohn’s disease. Johne’s diseas
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by odyssey7 3mo ago
What part of placing a human in the loop requires telling that human what they’re approving, or even that they are approving something? Pressing a button could be as simple as following orders—or giving orders.
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by odyssey7 3mo ago
Historical precedent: Quickselect, or any other discovery of a surprising algorithmic speed-up. LLMs haven’t been on the scene for very long. There’s still lots of room for efficiency discoveries. Plus, I keep hearing quantum is going to be
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The latter is easier to accept.
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The developments of political parties’ positions are themselves newsworthy, as well as the ways in which writers attempt to frame them. You’re right to notice it.
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Tangent: is AI a bearable arm?
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If you are a young person, under no circumstances would I recommend that you acccept a job working with MUMPS. You won’t be able to learn the industry best practices or the modern tools, because MUMPS predates them, and your career will suf
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We don’t fully understand even some of the most obvious pathologies. If a disease isn’t glaringly obvious and coupled with profit incentive, God help you. The question of what microplastics do to us is simply beyond the capabilities of both
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I’m not sure this is clickbait in a literal sense, but given the factors you point out, it could promote misunderstandings among casual readers.
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I appreciate this reply. Even as a technical reader, these concepts are somewhat tricky to follow. In my opinion, this is more of a foot-gun than a feature. A user cannot know whether the screen is closed or not while it is next to their ea
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Are there times when, during a call, pressing an iPhone’s screen-on/off button will end the call, but other times when it will just turn the screen off? I still do not know the pattern, but I have on occasion inadvertently ended a call
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by odyssey7 4mo ago
This might reflect a misunderstanding of my comment.
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If free speech is a drug, it’s a tonic against dictators and tyrants. Terribly ironic that this is up for a vote at the time of the United State's 250th birthday.
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Meta can figure out the information about users that helps it target ads. That’s one of their moats. Giving advertisers demographic information outright would actually weaken Meta’s moat.
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For the deep-pocked advertisers, this is a loss. Because big players have systems to fill in those information gaps, they have a moat that protects their position in the market. If the data were instead just handed over, that would weaken t
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by odyssey7 4mo ago
Answering this point directly, not the full argument. If Meta bans young people from their platforms, young people will just go to a different platform, and then Meta loses a generation of customers. But if the age blocking affects all plat
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History rhymes. They killed Socrates to protect the youth of Athens.
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That’s a different debate, and imo, the lack of a severe curve makes it safer for students to resist temptations to cheat. Severe curves ratchet up structural pressures for students to cheat, due to a prisoners’ dilemma effect in a zero-sum
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The thing about the community of trust—of which all stewards—is that camaraderie, respect, identifying with the community, and integrity will keep the majority of students from cheating. And if that isn’t enough, the “single sanction” was h
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by odyssey7 4mo ago
So, formal methods produce runnable systems, but communication remains the challenge. If a formal spec is messy, then it's a proof of ... what, exactly? A formal specification that bridges tech and product, that lets non-technical cont
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The bargaining dynamics are stacked against biology researchers at every stage of their career, from needing years and years of unrelated performance to be admitted to terribly expensive programs before they can begin to do experiments, to
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Okay, fair. I was thinking mostly about the high-impact issue of preserving the security vulnerability and how an essential vendor was not being candid, but you are also right to note how AMD was avoiding its responsibilities to the individ
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What hair is this splitting? The issue was that AMD allowed a known and serious security vulnerability to exist within their customers’ systems, for months, and acted with a lack of candor while doing so.

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