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by panarky 3y ago
Price inflation tells you very little about how well the average person lives. The average person today has a far higher standard of living than the average person in 1963.
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by panarky 3y ago
Apparently this proves right-wing conspiracy theories about a militarized IRS to be true ... the first thing tyrannical jackbooted thugs always do is "start sending letters" to people with millions in income who never file a retur
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by panarky 3y ago
Occasionally I'll hear some leader in a suit say that the US has a voluntary tax system, or that voluntary taxpayer compliance is a foundational principle of the US tax system, and that always sounds like a sick joke. But here's t
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by panarky 3y ago
The quality of the discussion here is diminished by ad hominem attacks on theorists and those who discuss their ideas in good faith. The discussion might be elevated by reasoned counterarguments instead of unsubstantiated insults.
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by panarky 3y ago
The article argues that Orwell’s greatest fear wasn’t torture or totalitarianism, but the loss of solitude, and he fled to Jura Island to preserve his inner life. If he thought solitude was hard to obtain then, one can only imagine his reac
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by panarky 3y ago
Mortality is strongly correlated with wealth and physical activity. Wealth is a proxy for better healthcare, diet and education. City people are generally richer and walk more. Rural residents are poorer and drive everywhere.
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by panarky 3y ago
PFAS chemicals have been used in various industries and products since the 1940s and 1950s. We now know that PFAS chemicals cause cancer in humans. Humans have suffered from cancer since ancient times even though PFAS chemicals are a modern
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by panarky 3y ago
My point exactly. In a chart of world gross domestic product for the last 12 months, when was it at zero? In a chart of ocean salinity, when was it at absolute zero? Is it inherently deceptive to use a y-axis that doesn't begin at zero
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Valkey – a new project to resume development on the formerly open-source Redis(github.com)
3 points by panarky 3y ago|0 comments
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by panarky 3y ago
Apparently, if you want to avoid "chart crime" when you chart temperatures, then it's deceptive if you don't start at absolute zero.
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by panarky 3y ago
> you pay for the rewards ... No, I don't pay for the rewards on my premium rewards credit card. For the most part, my rewards are paid for by everyone else who doesn't have a premium rewards credit card. Premium reward
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by panarky 3y ago
> It took a 20 year antitrust lawsuit to bring a 2% fee down to 1.96% for 3 years? It's worse than that. See: https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2024/03/the-proposed... "When the litigatio
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by panarky 3y ago
> chart crime of truncating the y axis If you chart the temperature of the ocean do you keep the y-axis anchored at zero Kelvin?
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by panarky 3y ago
I think this problem is mostly already solved with more capable models. Here's the shoe-identification experiment with GPT-4 and it's not confused by a suit jacket: https://imgur.com/a/cPP6pH7 It's also
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by panarky 3y ago
You can love it or hate it, doesn't really matter. That's the thing about a powerful idea, implemented in code, supported by a large global community, connected by the network -- nobody can kill it. It's like arguing about wh
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by panarky 3y ago
> replace credit cards Small payments for coffee and groceries is a solved problem. We don't need to continue re-solving this problem. Maybe we should think bigger. What problems cannot be solved by instant, inexpensive, reversibl
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by panarky 3y ago
Do you believe that compensating a doctor for her labor and expertise is the same as an insurance corporation declining care in order to give a larger share of your premium payment to its officers and shareholders? Because in a system with
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by panarky 3y ago
This is market failure. Insurance works best when risk is spread out over a large pool. In private markets, insurers profit by excluding 'bad risks' which leads inevitably to coverage limitations, exclusions, and high costs for th
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by panarky 3y ago
If you think your media is biased, you should see the kind of bias that comes from media funded only by unregulated capital markets.
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by panarky 3y ago
First, Chrome's rendering engine is Blink. Chromium is not a rendering engine, it's the open-source version of Chrome. Second, third-party browsers use their own rendering engines (Gecko, Blink) on MacOS, while iOS only allows Web
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by panarky 3y ago
> ... bureaucracy and rules ... You say that as if it's a bad thing. All the rules, bureaucracy and lawyering has produced a remarkable resource. I'm sure it's easy to find anecdotes of failures, but if it does well in m
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by panarky 3y ago
Google's strengths fit well with Apple's weaknesses and vice versa. Seems like a recipe for a strong partnership. It will make both companies better.
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by panarky 3y ago
Gemini doesn't run on GPUs, it runs on Google's custom TPU silicon. The TPU v4 was already competitive with Nvidia, and the new v5p is 2.4 times faster and more power efficient than v4.
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Chronos: New ML Framework for Pretrained Probabilistic Time Series Models(arxiv.org)
9 points by panarky 3y ago|0 comments
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by panarky 3y ago
The blocked material was related to harm reduction related to illegal drug use. There's a strong possibility that some harm reduction discussions could be interpreted as promoting illegal drug use, especially within the context of Face
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by panarky 3y ago
Interestingness may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's neither cynical nor nihilist to observe what usually happens in situations like this and to make predictions about the future based on observations of the past.
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by panarky 3y ago
> here in Texas we have to pay miners not to burn electricity It seems like lunacy when you put it that way. But I'd rather pay crypto miners to shed load during peak times rather than suffer blackouts at hospitals, chemical plant
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Russian hackers accessed Microsoft's internal systems, now attacking customers(arstechnica.com)
8 points by panarky 3y ago|1 comments
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I was responding to the assertion that the "ability to compare within-context dramatically declines with large context". My test demonstrates that even with a large context, Gemini 1.5 finds the needle in the haystack. And it&#x27
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by panarky 3y ago
How would disaggregating the non-AWS segment into smaller sub-segments show that AWS is inflating intracompany billing?

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