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by panarky 3y ago
> Chase monitors your political activity This is a big claim. It should have big evidence to back it up.
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by panarky 3y ago
Many things are wasteful. An equivalent amount to grow almonds for export also seems wasteful. Do either of these wasteful uses of water constitute an existential risk to the planet?
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> home lawn -> destruction of the planet Your citations state that lawns consume 60% of household water, implying that this leads inevitably to environmental catastrophe. But household water usage is a small fraction of total fresh
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> taking money from the rich and distributing it to the poor There is zero evidence that this was his intent. There is a lot of evidence that he intended to maximize trading profits and use those profits to help people. The fact that h
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>>> Did you fly to the Super Bowl in a private plane? > all crypto is a scam Most people think SBF spent all his customers' deposits on private jets and luxury condos, and blew the rest on shitcoin bets that went bad. B
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by panarky 3y ago
Crossposted from https://nitter.net/ESYudkowsky/status/1718654143110512741
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Comp Sci in 2027 (Short Story by Eliezer Yudkowsky)(lesswrong.com)
26 points by panarky 3y ago|34 comments
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Covid-19 Vaccination and All-Cause Mortality(nber.org)
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Passkeys and Privacy(eff.org)
9 points by panarky 3y ago|1 comments
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What the _% Is a Passkey?(eff.org)
30 points by panarky 3y ago|12 comments
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> way higher Even 10% less grievous bodily harm would be a massive improvement.
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This action is about one specific brand, not the entire product category.
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Apples, grapes, pears, and watermelon are particularly high in fructose. You could substitute low-fructose fruits like berries, cantaloupe, and oranges. Many "healthy" snacks and desserts don't want HFCS on their labels so th
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by panarky 3y ago
It seems like his argument is that putting access to valuable accounts on your phone is a bad practice, because if your phone is stolen at the club after the thief watched you enter your code, then the thief can get at your banking, brokera
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>> There was no expectation for there to be a ground assault from Gaza Many homes were equipped with safe rooms -- concrete and steel reinforced boxes inside the house where people could retreat, lock the door, and be safe from atta
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>> guaranteed access to pretty much everything that matters > "game over devices" tend to be a bad idea If you have something worth stealing, don't put it on your phone. If you have $1000 in Robinhood or Coinbase alo
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Seems like "backed by law" is just a synonym for the Latin "fiat", "let it be done", as in "the current regime decrees that this particular figment of our collective imagination is their preferred medium o
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If total shrink as a percentage of sales has remained within a narrow band for many years, then it's natural to wonder why there's suddenly wall-to-wall coverage of the ostensible crisis of retail theft. From the panicked noises m
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by panarky 3y ago
> no intrinsic value > electrons > entry in a database The most fascinating phenomenon of crypto arguments is that they never change. Fifteen years ago you could find these same unintentionally ironic statements, where the most cut
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by panarky 3y ago
The Seattle Times compared stores closing with stores remaining open and found that (1) the stores closing had fewer calls to the police than the stores remaining open, and (2) the stores closing just happen to be Target's new smaller-
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by panarky 3y ago
I'd love to know how vector databases compare in their ability to do hybrid queries, vector similarity filtered by metadata values. For example, find the 100 items with the closest cosine similarity where genre = jazz and publication d
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The price you pay for better camera sensor and lenses.
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Pixels get updates direct from Google, doesn't depend on your carrier.
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In my testing about four months ago, Starlink had between one and seven outages per day lasting more than 10 minutes each. It was not reliable, and it's even more costly than the local monopoly. My reply wasn't asking for help to
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by panarky 3y ago
The internet provider for my home is a true monopoly. I have no other choice. I can't click around in my browser, or futz with the cables in the walls and choose a competitive internet provider. I live in an area with moderate populati
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The same article also does the regression on vaccination rates. The data is as clear as it gets.
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>>> What about ten lives? One thousand? Ten thousand? Are 200,000 lives meaningful enough? Silver's regression model shows that for each 1% increase in the vote share for the blue candidate, the covid death rate in that stat
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My policy: No financial apps on the phone. Only other apps are from big companies with a reputation for strong security practices. That means no sports and weather apps, no restaurant or game apps, no Samsung or Tmobile apps, no TikTok. Ban
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When you approach a random person on the street, they should assume you are that 1 in 100.
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They should also measure the CO2 emissions of all the humans who wrote all the words that the AI was trained on.

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