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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
The easiest way to get a higher valuation for your house is to sell to an apartment builder. I realize there are loads of cultural hangups around doing that (the driving force behind NIMBY-ism), but the mathematical truth is that there is a
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
We all love the bipartisanship, but this is probably too little too late. Partly because the federal governments leverage on local politics is very little but majorly because currently the interest rate and the labor/material costs is
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
because you have a different vector store for each categorization? What if the question crosses categories?
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
“As an example, the question “When did we replace our pool pump?” will be mapped to a category called “pool” before querying the Index database.” Cool write up! Really appreciate it but incidentally how does this categorization help you get
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
Yea exactly, OP’s argument is the same as “if you want the government to pay more taxes you should just personally write a bigger check during tax time” The underlying optimal game theoretic action is obvious (and therefore common), the pro
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
Yea, "We currently have 10 houses renting at $2500 for 15 people who have $2000 to spend on rent. WHAT IF, we gave those 15 people $2500 instead. Housing crisis solved?" -This article...basically.
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
Barring any real causal studies, I’ll lean on the experience of teachers and school boards [1]. Note if the article called for instituting a school board ban instead of a country-wide ban, I’d support it. But the article is fundamentally qu
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
The problem is, a classroom full of TikTok zombies doesn’t fit into the 20% more work vs. 80% more work dichotomy. It’s simply spending 40 hours a week talking to an (almost literal) wall. It’s money sure, and some teachers who don’t care c
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
The original article doesn’t care to explore the difference, it doesn’t even acknowledge there is a problem. If the article was “instead of a national ban, we should look at school-wide ban”, I would be sympathetic. FWIW, American states ar
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
Quoted in your article: “Later this year a ban on mobiles in schools – even for educational use – comes into force.” It’s obvious to most that taking away the laptop while leaving the TikTok will not have the intended effect.
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
This is not about resources anymore. What’s especially interesting is that a lot of teachers take a paycut [1] to go teach in private school partly because the kids are better adjusted, rich kids have more comprehensive childcare and don’
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
Article mostly cites self-reported studies ie the kids think that the kids are doing alright, which is a different statement from the kids are actually doing alright. Most teachers seeing generational changes are raising five alarm fires
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
Whenever I see headlines like this I have to tap the glass and point to this class article [1]. tl;dr: The most likely scenario is that AI affects us at the scale of the internet. Revolutionary, but nothing that fundamentally gets rid of la
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
"Tech companies have quietly abandoned their climate pledges to build gas-burning power plants that feed your favorite AI." What I love is this quote is super-imposed with a background image that has gas-burning smokestacks but a
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
Is there a good Unreal + Physics simulator OOB now that people can try? I guess Isaac Sim is king?
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
"Many cities have enough money to buy or construct social housing for anyone who wants" This is patently untrue. Especially for superstar cities that people actually want to live in precisely because the cost of housing is too lar
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
Wondering if it would be better to abstract Vulcan away by Unreal, get even better photo-real quality. I guess the better question is how much does photo-realism quality matter for this kind of sim2real work? A lot I would wager.
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
Or you can get to know me! Visiting from another city. New friends are good! <2% of most cities are Airbnb's, they by no means preclude having permanent neighbors. And parties are banned on the platform, I know because I had enforce
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
It's not a conspiracy, they aren't meeting in smoke-filled rooms. It's just a systemic problem, a classic tragedy of the commons. An individual neighborhood move to protect an old church is noble and courageous, but do that a
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
>I don't know about home ownership - but not having random strangers I I mean, this is just garden variety NIMBY-ism. Having a quiet farmhouse in the middle of midtown would also be a definite improvement just for you , but you&#x2
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
No because Airbnb bans are basically political bike shedding. Yell at the guys sprinkling oil on the fire because taking on the NIMBY's flooding the region with oil is too difficult. "Multiple causes" is just mealy-mouthed pu
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
"To have illegal hotels that then help keep a generation out of home ownership?" To solve this, New York City (basically) banned Airbnb's and home ownership is now famously more accessible in the City? I am not even asking fo
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
Pokémon Go being a military base opsec psyop is certainly a possibility. Just not what the original article is talking about.
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
Good thing we’re not selling this data to the Russians?
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
No the tech doesn’t work like that AFAIK. The most common use case is exactly localization (think “HD maps” for autonomous cars). It almost 1-1 data correlation, n-phone Pokémon go scans of a location helping a drone locate itself in the sa
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
"The Middle-east" isn't a war zone. Even the parts of the middle-east that are, don't have any drone deployments. Lebanon maybe? Reports are thin. Maxar is/was primarily a satellite data company, and to say Pokemon
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
Which of those are active theaters of war? Pokemon Go wasn't that big in Iran or Lebanon and even there, there aren't any reports of significant drones deployed there. The only place I can imagine is maybe Ukrainian drones in Russ
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by pj_mukh 4mo ago
As someone who works in this space, the headline is a bit of a stretch. The overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone heavy theaters of war is a tiny sliver (or zero?). The military contractor (Vantar/Maxa
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
"largest user of electricity" Compared to what? More than all heavy industry? All residential usage for a given sector? Seems like a tall ask requiring some modeling.
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
But they are not "privacy invasion glasses", data isn't uploaded unless I explicitly tell it to. "Oh But he's definitely lieing", yes yes, I know, and the moment there is evidence for that, I can switch to othe

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