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by omnee 1y ago
I can't emphasize this strongly enough. Recently, I had the pleasure of eating at a fine dining restaurant that grows a number of vegetables and herbs, and they presented an amuse bouche with a number of raw vegetables and herbs for
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by omnee 2y ago
A real life Manchurian candidate, whether by intention or not.
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by omnee 2y ago
The US can use internal policies to support the industries and skills you mentioned. Tariffs as implemented, and greatly damaging longstanding relationships with allies, will have the opposite effect. The existing lead in services will be l
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by omnee 2y ago
The Trump admin wants to devalue the dollar substantially, enact protectionism and maintain its reserve status. I can see them succeed with the latter two, but with these actions, the world has no choice but to move away from the USD as t
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by omnee 2y ago
I agree that any system claiming general intelligence must be able to form and modify a model of the world. A fundamental part of this is being able to ask counterfactual questions on its own understanding or knowledge of the world. The h
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by omnee 2y ago
The status quo in western countries of giving absolute primacy to the needs/demands of capital above all else has indeed failed. The share of national income going to the middle and working classses makes this obvious. Yet, this is not
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by omnee 2y ago
The world, including the US, will be poorer and less safe if the US moves to zero sum geopolitics and mercantilism of 19th century. And the losses will be burdened on everyone else other than the very rich elites. Indeed, even a short revie
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by omnee 2y ago
I agree with you on how many different objects, such as seashells or even certain types of stones have been used as money by some cultures. However, the point of this article is about real returns, and the real return of Gold over centuries
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by omnee 2y ago
Bitcoin is commonly compared to Gold and I agree with BTC proponents who state that most of Gold's value is driven by speculative investment, however in the long term (over centuries and even millenia) it has a demonstrated real return
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by omnee 2y ago
I couldn't agree more. Elite Olympic athletes are a representation of extreme talent, perseverance, physicality, creativity, luck, risk-taking, emotion, mentality and work ethic. Even if I find most of the disciplines boring, sometimes
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by omnee 2y ago
HN has, within a few years, become one of my primary sources of information for all things related to technology and many other intellectual topics. Not least because of the many knowledgable commentators. Happy (20+25)² to all!
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by omnee 2y ago
So many beautiful stories. Merry Christmas Everyone!
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by omnee 2y ago
This implies that a sustained crash will only happen if/when these two institutions are no longer capable of supporting the market. In effect, it's a bet against the US, which so far has been a losing one.
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by omnee 2y ago
I've already had the pleasure of learning from his previous post on 'Sound', and this one on the Moon is equally informative and beautiful. In the age of slop and pop-ups, it fills me with joy that there still exists on the i
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by omnee 2y ago
Latency between the live TV signal for my neighbours and the BBC iPlayer app I was using to watch the Euro 2024 final literally ruined the main moments for me. It still remains an unsolved issue long into the advent of live streaming.
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by omnee 2y ago
The rule of law is a key part of a nations success as argued by AJR. A very good exposition for the layman on the rule of law provided by Tom Bingham in the eponymous 'The Rule of Law): https://www.goodreads.com/book&#x2
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Octopuses seen hunting cooperatively with fish(nbcnews.com)
4 points by omnee 2y ago|2 comments
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by omnee 2y ago
The cephalopods never fail to surprise and these observations demonstrate the complex intelligence of at least one octopus species.
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by omnee 2y ago
Just to add to this point further. Russia has vastly more combat aircraft than Ukraine, but has only been able to achieve local air superiority in a few areas of the contact line. Ukraine, without having anywhere close to the number of anti
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by omnee 2y ago
Two parts stand out for me: 1. COVID: The explosion in revenues during 2020 is self explanatory. 2. Product market fit/Execution: The owners having previously created other, albeit, unsuccessful platforms certainly helped with creating
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by omnee 2y ago
If O1 did rickroll you deliberately , then it would indeed more impressive than solving ciphertexts, and I'd start preparing to bow down to our AGI overlords :)
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by omnee 2y ago
We have come a long way from Descartes argument that animals are no more than automata. Which supported our unabashed exploitation of countless species. It is now abundantly clear that animals have their own phenomenological experience of t
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by omnee 2y ago
Anandtech was one of my earliest sources of highly quality tech reporting. In particular their reliance on data and testing always stood out. Many hours were spent there during my formative years. And, while I did stop reading it regularly
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by omnee 2y ago
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has made it clear to the strategic planners the obvious; that peer or near peer warfare is one of industry and attrition (which it always has been). So while we may all, and should dislike war, it is ever mor
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by omnee 2y ago
I just asked Google's Gemini the following question: Q: How many N's are there in Normation? A: There is one N in the word "Normation" Note that the answer is the same when asked n's instead of N's. And this is
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by omnee 2y ago
This net economic benefit of immigrants varies based on their background and skill sets. In Denmark for example, MENA immigrants are a net drain throughout their entire productive work lives. https://web.archive.org/web&#x2F
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by omnee 2y ago
This event raises the question: What is the liability of Crowdstrike given its erroneous update caused the meltdown, and the impact certainly had negative personal or business outcomes globally. See for example 6000 flights cancelled or the
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by omnee 2y ago
Each Windows version has regressed from Windows 7 onwards. To the point that Windows 11 can almost be construed as malware. I'll be using Ubuntu henceforth.
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by omnee 2y ago
I've assumed they are kilocalories, and both models appear to have used that too.
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by omnee 2y ago
I've asked models from ChatGPT3.5 to many others including the latest ones to calculate the calories expended when running, and am still receiving mixed results. In this instance, Claude 3.5 Sonnet got it right and ChatGPT 4o was wrong

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