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by qcnguy 9mo ago
Conversion metrics = people find what they want to buy quicker and more efficiently, allowing them to spend time on leisure that would otherwise have been spent on gathering needed goods. Engagement metrics = making entertainment that'
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
Left wing thought doesn't contain any philosophy of limitations on state power, so under a left wing regime there is no limit to what it might do. No matter how terrible something is, if it can be imagined they will consider implementi
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
In practice the average German voter is still supporting the coalition against the AfD despite that the coalition is implementing Soviet-like policies. They talk constantly about banning the most popular political party, for example, and th
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
No communist ideology? What was the regime demanding compliance with, do you think? The normalization era was a return to Marxism-Leninism, not a departure from it. Czechoslovakia in that period had one party politics, justified because mul
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
The BLM movement hasn't suffered any hardships. They were the opposite of cancelled: BLM were donated over $90M. (they embezzled large parts of it. one of them just got charged with wire fraud and money laundering https://ww
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
Being cancelled for saying "it's really scary that half of all black people don't agree it's ok to be white" would radicalize anyone. The fact itself radicalizes people, the hysterical reaction of the left radicaliz
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
> One of the fundamental equations of macroeconomics: savings == investment That's not a "fundamental equation", that's merely the hope savers have. Sometimes the hope turns out to be futile and you get bank runs or
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
Four. You forgot xAI. And that's ignoring the Chinese labs.
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
We don't really know how much money Google sunk into YouTube before it became (presumably) profitable. It might have actually not been strongly coupled to economics.
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
Late 1990s maybe. Not late 2000s.
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
They subsidize manufacturing of certain specific industries, EV cars being one, at the cost of domestic consumption. Basically they steal Chinese people's savings and use it to give the rest of the world cheap cars.
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
Seems they have self driving finally cracked, according to Karpathy. If they have finally managed it then they'll have a big advantage over the other manufacturers. Better late than never.
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
Interesting how now the list has expanded to include Chinese "bots" and "actors". Calling anyone who disagrees with your political beliefs a foreigner is an old and extremely paranoid, nasty rhetorical trick. Very simila
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
The Chinese economy is far more heavily planned than America's is, and they are far more totalitarian. There is no meaningful way you can claim America is more communist than China. China is less communist than under Mao, for sure, but
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
Nobody says math is a conspiracy, except maybe the far left educators who think math is some kind of racist white supremacy. That's a ridiculous straw man. https://www.hoover.org/research/seattle-schools-propose-te
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
Yeah they say "we couldn't pry the model out of our engineer's hands" which is obviously nonsense. What they mean is that it doesn't work yet.
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by qcnguy 9mo ago
> Tesla is shipping Optimus Sub-Primes. Hyundai is shipping a boring, reliable, high-torque worker. I’ll take the boring static model that actually has a spec sheet over another backflip video any day. We don't actually know how b
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
> we do not have EU wide parties. So what are the parties in the europarl then? They're not EU wide parties but also not national parties. Waving national flags in the EU Parliament is against the rules, lol. They're not genu
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Compilers only obtained that level of trust through huge amounts of testing and deterministic execution. You don't look at compiler output because it's nearly always correct. People find compiler bugs horrifying for that reason. L
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
There's nothing technically new that he's covering here though? It's all just startups adding stuff to Postgres that Oracle had for decades already.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Oracle is mentioned at the start, where he proclaims the "dominance" of Postgres and then admits its newest features have been in Oracle for nearly a quarter of a century already. The dominance he's talking about is only abou
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Yes we do have proof of such negotiations. Political parties often use elections internally to select their leaders, those campaigns are public, and then they may spend months negotiating between themselves based on their publicly stated st
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
https://x.com/MillennialWoes/status/1893134391322308918 "Because the party groups negotiated with the heads of states comprising the European Council to find a suitable candidate?" What negotiations? W
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
The woman who reported his location said that.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Iraq has historically had a lot of undiscovered reserves.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
I asked why, not how. In any democracy that question is easy to answer. You can look at the candidates platform or poll the voters to find out why someone won. You can't answer the question I asked, because nobody knows why she got th
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Your first example is a public announcement of an llm assisted ask question form. A detailed request for feedback on an experiment isn't "sneaking" and the replies are a tire fire of stupidity. One of your top complaints abo
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Yes it will. Iraqi government budget is ~88% funded by oil revenues.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
China is heavily dependent on oil imports and a big part of Germany's defeat in WW2 was due to difficulties obtaining oil. This move may - if successful - change the calculation over Taiwan
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
It was done at night with stealth helicopters, and over 150 planes in the air. Not sure it's necessarily easy to take out US military helicopters in that environment. They move pretty fast.

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