p_j_w

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by p_j_w 3y ago
Sure, if what you want is a toxic team.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>I've seen people do this before, and I've always been just... confused. That compassion and concern for the wider community is this alien to you is sad.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Every time I read something about climate change and warming it always points to fossil fuels and emissions, usually in a hand-wavy sort of way. Maybe you should change what you're reading because climate science is quite rigorous.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
HN users are just like most people: smart in their area of expertise and wildly optimistic about how smart they are outside of it.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>The concept IIUC is both sides have zealous advocacy - both sides leave no stone unturned, no argument unmade (generally speaking) - and through the court procedure, that's how a fair trial and the truth come out. It seems to me we
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Rich techbros being hypocrites? I'm utterly shocked!
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Took me a few minutes of cynical reading to understand that he did not send the letters It didn't take me that. I knew it within moments of reading the article and it seems the vast majority of readers didn't have this problem
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Spread Spectrum is very real, it was used in 802.11b.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
I stand corrected, thank you.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
For most heavy passenger rail like Amtrak and things like Caltrain in the Bay Area, it's because those trains use the same tracks as freight companies and the freight traffic takes priority.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
What evidence has lead you to this belief?
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by p_j_w 3y ago
> they’re hardly “opaque”, at least not any more than any other publicly traded company is Publicly traded companies are required to report certain financial facts about the company, but they’re still extremely opaque.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>it was the US who led the world in opening up to China in the 90s/early 2000s, opening its markets to China, bringing China into the WTO, etc. (all at great cost to middle class Americans). China was an economic basket case and inc
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by p_j_w 3y ago
> LinkedIn is aging like fine wine Is there a non-shitty version of LinkedIn somewhere that I don’t know about? The one I use seems to have turned into a version of Facebook with rants trying to get me to buy into glorifying the grind in
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Carbon/emission considerations aside This seems like a massive thing to just throw aside.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Both of those examples could have simply been implemented as tax brackets but voters get far more excited about a "Tax Reduction" than they do about a new tax bracket. Doesn't sound like the problem is entirely on the pol
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by p_j_w 3y ago
They’re looking at their particular use case. That may limit the applicability of this to other people or companies, but that doesn’t make it politics.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
No, they don't build compute clusters either.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
No one treats people who want to legislate veganism with this level of charity, there's no reason to do so for the "pro-life" crowd.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
It doesn't matter if it was in your mind. The people who claim to be pro-life explicitly do not believe that ending any human life is always murder, and are very vocal about it. Regardless of what was on your mind, it's impossible
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Should they act completely peacefully while Israel maintains settlements and themselves don't honor the agreed upon 1967 borders? Why is it wrong for one side to behave violently but not the other?
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>But then I read about things like WorldCoin and that people who go to startup parties jump at the chance to give away scans of their retinas and I'm befuddled. I'm befuddled that anyone thinks Sam Altman is the least bit trust
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Blocking public services that naturally have a pricing advantage over private businesses because they're supported by tax dollars. That's the stated rationale. The actual reason is that the entirety of Republican economic ideo
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by p_j_w 3y ago
I'm not a fan of this graph. It's not immediately obvious what things like the size of the colored state represents. It's certainly not the percentage of rural people. What is it?
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by p_j_w 3y ago
Yes, that's what I meant.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
They own licenses to the insanely expensive software you need to build a modern IC.
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Like, I feel that GPT-4 (pre-turbo) was an extremely powerful model for almost anything I wanted help with. Whereas I feel like Bard is not great. So does this mean that my experience aligns with "HellaSwag"? It doesn't m
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>While doing chores, I asked chatGPT "tell me about Genghis Khan's sons", and then follow up questions like "what was the name of the khanate or empire Ogedai founded?" You actually trusted the information it gav
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by p_j_w 3y ago
I’ve done the critical thinking and the conclusion that such critical thinking has lead to is that I will most likely have better outcomes if I follow the advice of people who have looked at these issues 8 hours a day for years on end than
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by p_j_w 3y ago
>Maybe just think about this from an armchair standpoint Why? >Before 1900 heart disease was extremely rare. And what were people eating before 1900? A whole lot of beef, bacon, butter, and eggs. Saturated fat consumption per capita w

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