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by peterlk 3y ago
Oh! One of my favorite soap boxes! How about instead of making laws more restrictive for drivers, we change car regulations so that everyone isn’t driving a tank. Pedestrian deaths are on the rise because windows are smaller, cars are heavi
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by peterlk 3y ago
> If people are dumb enough to consentually waste time and money on casinos, they deserve to lose their time and money. I find this to be a very naive perspective. It’s not how addiction works, and even people who want to stop sometimes
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by peterlk 3y ago
Yeah, perhaps alternatives like permanent address on a government issued ID would be better. But exceptional circumstances should be the exception; the more exceptions are made, the more loopholes creep in
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by peterlk 3y ago
If they’re registered to vote in the municipality, they do not pay the heavy taxes. Those taxes are only paid by people who do not reside in the town but own property there. So local teachers, service workers, etc. pay “normal” (low) taxes
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by peterlk 3y ago
I think high density housing is a band-aid because there are sometimes significant infrastructure challenges to packing more people into a town. I’m not saying not to do it; I think it’s a good solution for many places, but I do not believe
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by peterlk 3y ago
I’m talking about much higher taxes than that. If you can afford a 10m slope-side deer valley home, make it a 1M+ annual tax. The problem of people not being present cuts both ways, and I fall on the side of preferring people to be present.
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by peterlk 3y ago
I’ve lived in and around mountain towns my whole life. There’s a relatively simple solution to this: taxation. If you don’t live there full time, you get to pay hefty taxes to the city/county. How do you verify this? Voter registration
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by peterlk 3y ago
Smoking increases risk of all cause mortality by 79% over non-smokers [0]. This means that your probability of dying by any cause in any time period is 79% higher if you smoke than of you didn’t smoke. If you’re not that worried about bpd o
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by peterlk 3y ago
I think this view is overly pessimistic. I’ve started to find statistics like the ones in this article to be more or less useless. No error bars, no distributions, no detail - maybe that trend is really just the top 2% (by pay) of the (tech
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by peterlk 3y ago
I think Europe is much better than the US for car safety. Having uniform bumper levels also help a lot. I’ve always wondered about the legality of driving a US pickup truck in Europe. Do you have any more resources about that sort of thing?
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by peterlk 3y ago
The article mentions safety, and I think safety is an interesting discussion because at its limit, it creates perverse incentives. Manufacturers focus on the safety of the driver and passengers of the car. Not on the safety of anyone else.
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by peterlk 3y ago
I think a lot of scientists are moving to Mastodon, but sometimes doubling their accounts. I am quite pleased with the feed that I’m getting on Mastodon now
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by peterlk 3y ago
Well, here I am replying to you on a social media platform (HN) to contribute to a discussion. So yes, social media does serve a purpose. It connects people and allows us to have discussions. The problem you mention is a huge one with moder
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by peterlk 3y ago
This absolutely happens. Running a K (kritik) is a risk because if the judge decides that you’re full of shit, they can basically just ignore your case. Your opponent can make an argument to throw the kritik out, and then you’re dead in the
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by peterlk 3y ago
In the case of fine tuning, you can end up with catastrophic forgetting. Architecture can influence how data scales, and adding data doesn’t always improve performance
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by peterlk 3y ago
> In January, the drug received what's known as accelerated approval from the FDA, based on its ability to remove the substance beta-amyloid from the brains of people in the early stages of Alzheimer's. Whenever beta-amyloids c
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by peterlk 3y ago
Correct. It’s a digital currency based on blockchains (or whatever the current buzzword might be). It allows central banks to tightly audit cashflow and exert greater control over how money is spent.
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by peterlk 3y ago
I’ll give you a very specific example. When turning on the flashlight, I have to hold the flashlight icon for a specific period of time. If I hold too long, I get the dimmer option. If I don’t hold long enough, it doesn’t turn on. The iphon
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by peterlk 3y ago
Hey dang! There are a ton of these threads showing up right now. Any chance we could get them merged or pinned in a comment?
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by peterlk 3y ago
Yeah, ok. But I would really love it if content creators stopped putting kindergarten emotion faces on thumbnails. Replacing a doorknob will never require a level of emotion indicated by hands on cheeks eyes wide “Oh” face… So just please,
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by peterlk 3y ago
Because running a business on cryptocurrency adds a lot of other operational headaches. Like volatility and currency conversion. If I’m running a small business, I want to focus on that and not an additional forex business
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by peterlk 3y ago
This assumes that your dreams are internally consistent and that you have defined them well enough to know when you’ve achieved them. I’ve met very few people whose dreams that satisfied both of those criteria. If you are one of them, my an
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by peterlk 3y ago
“This is going to be difficult for all of us, we’re going to need to learn to do more with less” - quote from the CEO mantras chapter 4 verse 8
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by peterlk 3y ago
> In a new study that is yet to be peer reviewed Thank you very, very much to the author for saying this
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by peterlk 3y ago
If this got more development energy put on matrix bridges, this seems like a net win. IRC still works, but is used through a matrix bridge… I would love to have a unified chat layer
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by peterlk 3y ago
> In addition, they created an architecture that simulates minds with memories and experiences This sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I’m excited to see what they actually did. Semantic search in past text? Some lossy encoding if
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by peterlk 4y ago
Investors make for spectacular customers for a few years. You can sell them dreams! Many companies struggle when they need to pivot away from this model
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by peterlk 4y ago
The answer can be both. There are times when deadlines are fixed, the path is known, and everyone just needs to march in the same direction. There are other times when a company faces an existential threat from a new technology. This is whe
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by peterlk 4y ago
China is already experimenting with social credit. This does create a unified and measurable goal against which people can be optimized. And yes, that is terrifying.
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by peterlk 4y ago
Life and chess are not the same. I would argue that this is showing a fault in standardized testing. It’s like asking humans to do square roots in an era of calculators. We will still need people who know how to judge the accuracy of calcul

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