orwin

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by orwin 11mo ago
Ideally, I agree. Along with other freedom limitations depending on the crime (corruption should prevent you from actively managing your money/assets). The issue is what to do for people without a house. But in a perfect society, you&#
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by orwin 11mo ago
Capital is power in a 'free market'/liberalist world. I like the idea of free markets, but capital accumulation makes the capital owners able to decide more and more on policies that allow them to accumulate even more capital
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by orwin 11mo ago
Also, Trotsky was only a only a butcher and repressor, never a dictator, as he didn't held power.
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by orwin 11mo ago
People shouldn't let the facts distract them from their feelings and opinions I guess then? People should base their opinions on reality, not invent a reality that conform to their opinions. Not only because intellectual laziness is ba
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by orwin 11mo ago
I'm sorry, who do you think the majority of homeless are? 2/3rd are people living in their car or moving from a friend apartment to another, sometimes sleeping in their school (I did that) if possible, or at their workplace (I kno
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by orwin 11mo ago
And some do have that position. I think I 100% agree with you, people should own their opinions and ideas. Usually when they don't, it's because it's ideas they didn't built but still hold tight, for the only reason that
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by orwin 1y ago
'talent'. Talent here is very often having friends on the board, through common investments and co-ownership of those private jet/ luxury yacht/luxury hostel rentals that operates 'at a loss' (you only pay cons
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by orwin 1y ago
We just integrated a new international member. For some reasons(dysorthographia/dyslexia and a poor command of either English or of the latin alphabet), every email/teams message he sent was AI-generated, and that was so, so grati
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by orwin 1y ago
From my understanding, the issue with the police in the US is that they have to do to much, work as EMT, social services, mental health services, community police (proximity police? basically neighborhood cop), peacekeepers (during protests
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by orwin 1y ago
Didn't Altman fail upward multiple times before working at YC?
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by orwin 1y ago
Already told this story, but basically my mother overreacted to a vaccine in the 80s, became an early antivax, had me, only did the bare minimum, I got pertussis at 4-5yo (lucky it wasn't earlier), and since no doctor in the area ever
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by orwin 1y ago
It's a translation tool, and it's great at that? Basically it vectorize words in a multidimensional space (and share dimensions with similar words) if I understand correctly, so llms can 'distinguish' homonyms, find syno
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by orwin 1y ago
Ti'm not at all pro-AI, but the argument were that LLM _alone_ were a dead end to reach AGI. I'm pretty sure we're generations away from AGI, but if we manage to build it, LLM would probably the tool it would use to communica
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by orwin 1y ago
I think we have like 5 words left from Gaul in modern french (only one I know is 'talus'). Old central French was mostly vulgar latin+frankish, with a bit of Gaulish and Arabic, then Gaulish was traded for latin and greek forcibly
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by orwin 1y ago
The Venezuelan cartel (well, cartel network) is the 5th biggest on the Atlantic/Caribbean side, and are known for people trafficking and gold smuggling before drug related offence. Targetting Venezuelans boats is political. US should t
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by orwin 1y ago
Venezuela more known for gold smuggling (and 'trafficking' people who want out) than drug smuggling. I bet some environmentalist will argue that gold smuggling is worse than drug trafficking, but still, my bet is that most of the
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by orwin 1y ago
I usually stay afar of those 'too political for tech/gaming' stuff as long as no one is harassed (like Hyprland), but Omarchy is a litter box of a distrib, and doesn't deserve any money. I'd even take Ubuntu over it
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by orwin 1y ago
I have hosted the models (mostly regression and random forest) WV use to predict missing part availability at their dealership in 2018-2020 (considering sales in the area, average fabrication/delivery time, likeliness of the part havin
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by orwin 1y ago
Indie games pay for discoverabiliy (don't know if that's a word). To be clear, I mostly use GoG when I can, unless it's a multiplayer game with bad lobby/MP support (Firaxis/paradox basically)
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by orwin 1y ago
Above human rates for sure. In the 90s in my country, accident rate were 5 for a million kilometer (so 5 for 621371,192 miles), and the rate have come down since. Basically they are crashing at the same rate as 18-25 years old in the 90s, i
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by orwin 1y ago
It's already cost effective. Lidar prices have been divided by like 10 in a bit more than a decade. I've read a Wall street story about a SV company that wanted to enter the Lidar market for cars, only to bifurcate to a weird scam
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by orwin 1y ago
I will rephrase GP. Most taxis/Uber drivers have less than one minor accident every 250k miles. The fact that "FSD"+dedicated driver have more indicate to me that FSD is more dangerous for an experienced driver in urban setti
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by orwin 1y ago
"erupts". They have a rowdy argumented discussion, no ad hominem that i found? To me it look like a very civil discussion on the internet.
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by orwin 1y ago
The new TGV-M already have batteries inside. When you have an issue with the catenary for any reason, the batteries can help keep the train momentum without risks, or if the train had to stop, allow you to start from 0kmh to 80kmh and keep
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by orwin 1y ago
Most likely, these are human traffickers, second most likely, they are gold traffickers, third most likely they are drug traffickers. Or maybe some of them are just fishermen, which is actually more likely than all the previous cases.
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by orwin 1y ago
No one thinks cartels use fishing boats to transport drugs, especially launching from Venezuela. Venezuela itself only have minor cartels. Target Zodiacs from DR, Jamaica, Haiti or Sinaloa, you'll get a better ROI. Venezuela network tr
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by orwin 1y ago
I think "Scrapping" semantic meaning is slowly switching to "illegally collecting", and for those who mean that, your comment is perceived as pedantic (basically me when people talk about "crypto" and i am stil
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by orwin 1y ago
> Ukranian(?) Basically Ukraine had a lot of small "security" (mercenary) groups post 2014. In the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, those group were basically told "please go oppose Wagner in Africa", and some fou
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by orwin 1y ago
I build tools for our security teams, I guarantee you the only reason we use Microsoft Azure is corporate deals. All the critical infrastructure is on AWS (including our Azure monitoring tools), and if we could move from Azure to GCP all ou
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by orwin 1y ago
What I meant that we only have circumstantial evidence, not hard evidence, so any explanation will be about beliefs, not about facts.

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