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by pjkundert 2y ago
Show me an example of “gouging” in any market except those with government-controlled supply. Surprise! You can’t — because, it turns out, people enjoy providing goods and services at a profit, and will gleefully and immediately resolve the
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Except the shortage lasts for mere moments, instead of as long as the causal disruption.
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by pjkundert 2y ago
People incapable of doing (or even understanding) something, interfering with other people who can do it, with no consequences if they are found to be wrong (or biased) in their basis for objecting to the activity. Fundamentally, this is
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by pjkundert 2y ago
I’ve been doing this for 40 years. I love it, every day. I’d quit today if forced to do what I saw 100% of the guys doing in that Windows dev shop… Or, continue to believe I’m a “Linux fanboi”. Cut my teeth on Gosling emacs + make on a Va
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by pjkundert 2y ago
There’s plenty of regulation. It’s caused several builders I know to close their businesses. Congratulations! Sometimes, evidently, you get what you vote for?
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by pjkundert 2y ago
That’s the demand side of the equation. Simple to fix, in an operational economy, right? The supply side has been imploded by government decree, leading inexorably to the current debacle. I personally know several builders closing down th
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Do you use Windows to do software development? I've talked to several people who described why they left "software development", and recently worked in a Windows development shop -- I'd leave the field, too, if I had to
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by pjkundert 2y ago
With current Starlink + solar, Canada has so much arable, accessible land that it beggars the imagination — the entirety of Western Europe fits well within the western 4 provinces, below the arctic circle. This is livable, beautiful land. I
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by pjkundert 2y ago
For example; if the revelation of the training datasets and their relative weighting revealed bias on the part of the LLM trainer toward some ideological goal, should we have the right to know that? Similarly, if some food ingredient was fo
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by pjkundert 2y ago
They should be concerned; these kinds of issues have led to revolutions in the past. Canada is a prime example. We have huge amounts of available land, and 90% of that inputs to home construction are locally available. There is a huge labor
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Hiding the content and weighting of LLM training data sets is the equivalent of hiding poisonous ingredients in food.
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by pjkundert 2y ago
I guess you do get what you voted for…
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by pjkundert 2y ago
s/More Sustainable/Less Convenient/
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by pjkundert 2y ago
France is arresting people for providing end-to-end encrypted communications? What could possibly go wrong!
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Price “gouging” always ceases, virtually immediately, in an open market. Only with government interference stopping new suppliers from entering the market (eg. making it illegal to protect your store from looters) can “gouging” persist. L
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by pjkundert 2y ago
A) Government destroys competition in marketplace by allowing looting, etc. B) Government passes laws to prevent “gouging” by remaining government-funded incumbents, further increasing risk to new market entrants. C) Remaining providers dep
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by pjkundert 2y ago
- subsea temperature increases impossible to explain by any atmospheric heating mechanism - complete predictive failure of all atmospheric models, over both the last 2 decades, and the last year But, trust us — we’re “the science”, and we t
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Tax is for us working-class slobs. Nobody with mobility options pays taxes. But that’s not the problem: your betters have convinced you that they need to take 50%+ of your earnings to pay their elite friends for things you’ll never see. And
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by pjkundert 2y ago
"Wow, the government is so catastrophically bad at managing IDs; what should we do?" "Hmmm. I know! Lets get the government to manage a mandatory ID system, and require it for all aspects of citizen's lives! In fact
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by pjkundert 2y ago
2-3% is the rate of inflation that has been shown, historically, to allow the monetary authorities and those close to them to transfer the wealth of the nation's public to themselves without (much) turmoil. Any more than 2-3%, and you&
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by pjkundert 2y ago
What are the odds this "study" was produced by an AI? ;)
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by pjkundert 2y ago
It is a proxy for consuming less Poly-Unsaturated FAts (PUFAs). Likely because your skin ceases to be able to withstand sun exposure, making it more uncomfortable to generate vitamin D. This also explains why supplementing vitamin D doesn’
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by pjkundert 2y ago
You realize this is the expected normal, with large unmanaged forests and fire suppression… right? I live near these forests. They have been poorly managed for decades. We’ve been warning about this.
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by pjkundert 2y ago
PUFAs.
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by pjkundert 2y ago
I’ve been doing IPv4 networking for decades, and recently decided to take plunge and update all my gear and systems to IPv6. So far, it’s a train wreck. 20 years in, and none of the major platforms support IPv6 in a consistent way (DHCP6 vs
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Besides just abundant trial and error, there's a great Python module call greenery, that produces Finite State Machines from any Regular Expression: https://github.com/qntm/greenery So, you can observe what kind o
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by pjkundert 2y ago
The evidence presented thus far doesn't have any discussion of brand safety, and appears focussed on retribution for wrongthink against specific ad platforms. Which may or may not be fine. IANAL. Personally, I am shocked and appalled
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by pjkundert 2y ago
HN is, unfortunately, now sadly inhabited by many un-inquisitive cowards. Why is collusion of buyers (group influence over supply) not fundamentally different than collusion of sellers (restriction of supply)? I don't agree with prett
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Using a third-party organization to establish common selling prices amongst independent sellers appears to be suspect. Even if the sellers don't actively "collude" to set the price. This is what is happening in the San Franc
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by pjkundert 2y ago
Agreed. 99.9% of users will just appreciate the fact that their money retains its purchasing power (as measured in civilization supporting commodities), across multiple generations . Not just for a few years; their grandkids will be able

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