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> ... the abuses will only grow. SCOTUS made race-based Kavanaugh Stops legal. Stipping a banana on wheels is a much lower bar
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> We all agreed they shouldn't, right? We didnt't agree to that, only thet thr over usage of goto hurts readability, but it is perfectly fine where appropriate (as a JMP analog to non-assembly[0]). Any language that supports lo
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> Margins are high during peacetime and wartime alike. Perhaps when fighting foreign jaunts against a minnow. Preserving high margins in an grinding, existential war against a peer would be considered anything from unpatriotic, to outrig
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> I mean the obvious problem here is that they are completely untested in combat The article mentions interceptors deployed to the UAE that recently successfully hit 29 Iranian drones out of 30. Meta: this entire comment-chain accuses th
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That's meaningless without knowing many big names remain, and how much "big names" influence future outcomes. Google seems to have a knack for making names big
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> He does not need the money! Where did I hear this before? Very few people feel that a specific amount is ever enough.
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> The deep attacks inside Russia would be significantly more difficult without starlink This is inaccurate: Starlink was geofenced to Ukrainian territory after Musk's World War III tweet. Deep strikes inside Russia are mostly missil
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> the Ukraine war in Ukraine's favor once starlink locked down access I think this is coincidental correlation. In the same period drone warfare was evolving until it reached some stalemate with an optic-fiber strewn killzone where
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I believe we wouldn't have a tenth of the chaos we are currently experiencing if people talked to their neighbors and fellow commuters more.
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Yes, all those things would be broken if I don't need any leverage, and my loans were backed by liquid assets I already possess that I'm avoiding selling in an effort to avoid taxable events even though I really want to purchase a
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> You can argue for a wealth tax My footnotes are the entirety of my argument, and it's not even as radical as a wealth tax. My argument has 2 easy steps: 1. Remove the arbitrage between actual liquidity events and the limited set o
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> They are in the top tax bracket They are not in the top bracket by choice - a luxury option unavailable to non-wealthy people in the working middle-class who actually are in the top tax bracket. As you helpfully noted in your second
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And threw in a sweetener when he seemed hesitant: he can say whatever he likes about trans people in the workplace and not worry about being PC.
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The 1% hold more than 40% of the wealth, and therefore should be paying much more than 40% of income taxes, based on proportion alone - nevermind historic precedence before trickle-down Reaganomics. When the top 1% are not in the top tax
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> Experience allows you to design the skeleton where the implementation details are often inconsequential. Expanding on this thought a little more: it is possible to set up scaffolding that make incorrect implementations inconsequentia
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> At least on interesting problems. What fraction of your work is "interesting problems", and what field do you work in? > If you’re doing generic web dev work, probably not the case I have a feeling the bulk of most people&
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In other words, Codex likely has a lower demand:capacity ratio compared to Claude. Which can mean either OpenAI did a better job at building out capacity, or the demand for Claude outstripped Anthropic's projections. Or both.
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It's only a failure if perfect information was available at the time, an impossibility for most people.
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> And those who enabled it There is no single "it", the Singapore loophole is well known, and nothing has been done about it. Except by China, once , when it blocked the sale of Manus to Meta, even though on paper, Manus is a S
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> The most effective contributors at your job remove more code than they add Perhaps they tackle non-code-editing tasks like architecture, design, mentoring and code review (think staff and principal tasks) > Every line of code remove
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Os there a cost benchmark out there? I wonder how frontier models are doing over time for cost per problem solved.
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FYI: model outputs are not protected by copyright.
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> I doubt that you get high quality from forced reassignments Their bonuses depend on it. They'll have to play ball unless they have other jobs lined up, are ready to retire early, or prepared to be on the shitlist for the next roun
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> But the code quality is speed. And reach. You can not advance, unless you can read the code, you can understand the model, you can not scale beyond a certain point Other people can do the important work of investing time to understan
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> When you run local models you run socialism. Indeed, the American proletariat need not seize the means of production through local AI. Instead, full control of AI ought to be left in the benevolent hands of the billionaire capitalist c
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> What did they do differently? The Chinese government established and committed itself to a long-term renewable energy strategy in 1992.
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> Sure. Legally, makes sense. Practically, if you want to do all those things... If you had just owned up to how you were mistaken about EU legislative limits - confidently stated - I probably would have taken everything else in your ini
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> In this case though, I'll admit that it would be a negative signal if they never tried it even once and refuse to do so I was arguing that this is a bad question elsewhere but you provided another reason. If a candidate tells you
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> We're still pretty efficient while not having wheel shaped limbs. Agreed, but it was gp that brought up the human vs. machine efficiency argument. Machines can have wheels.
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> That's a strange comparison It's not strange at all, I was responding to a specific, incorrect claim. I even quoted the wrong claim in my earlier comment , and I'll repeat it again, with added emphasis >>> human
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