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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Regardless, you can't short anything without someone taking the opposite position. It's really independent of the overall downward trend.
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
They're illegal, and you can look at them just as the broker making a long bet themselves. Since they'll have to pay off the short seller, if the stock goes down.
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Every single shorted stock, was purchased by someone else who is taking the long side of the trade. So there's as many people betting the stock will go up. This says more about volatility and volume of trading, than anything else.
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
There are conversations worth having. But it feels very dismissive of the obvious power of the technology to constantly focus, in an unbalanced way, on the challenges. People are biased heavily by irrational emotion, on both sides of the
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
But people can't separate their emotions from the "reality". The reality is, this technology has strengths and limitations. It has benefits and it has negative consequences. We can and will discuss all of that. But many pe
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
> The parallels you can draw between LLMs and calculators.. just don't make sense. The technology doesn't matter, you can compare to say the power loom from the 1700's. I'm comparing the reaction of humans; human&#x
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
The exact same arguments were made against electronic computing in general, in the early days. Pearl clutching is a very human thing to do as new technologies are integrated and become common place. A whole generation or two of developers
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
In 2024, "search royalties" brought in approximately $585 million for Mozilla, largely from Google. It's not hard to see why they tread very lightly around ad blocking. It's actually impressive that ublock remains easy
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
For sure, on both counts. I'm just a bit astonished at how many people continue to do business with them, especially anyone who strongly denounces authoritarianism.
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
> ... because buyers trust it. I did until October 2022, when PayPal published an update to its Acceptable Use Policy that threatened to fine users $2,500 for promoting "misinformation". Like they were the arbiters of what is m
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
No, the point is that not everyone is cut out to be an engineer. If you find yourself being depressed as an engineer, one possibility is that it's really not the job for you. Not everyone is capable of being an engineer, and being pro
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
I think the point was that there are people who don't need all this extra work, it just comes naturally. And they are more suited to engineering than people who need to spend a lot of energy on emotional and mental regulation as well.
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Forming the prompt is still a skill, tokens aren't free, and it all takes some time and attention, which also has a price. So someone else doing that for you isn't exactly worthless , if they do a good job of it.
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
> It doesn't matter because nobody cares. Businesses truly do not care. You are a cog, a means to an end. It's only about "winning". A cynical person would tell you that nothing has changed; this was always the way it
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
See, you're part of the problem. This perfectly demonstrates the point of confirmation bias. You've already decided what the evidence shows, so you don't need to analyze it independently and objectively. "We already
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Not ignoring anything, just commenting on what the graph says as a singular piece of evidence. And it's "the hundreds of other signals that tell a similar story" that can lead to confirmation bias (ie. following a narrative
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
The graph represents 44 years of statistics, and shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. But you can not determine how these stats relate to longer term time frames such as a 100 years or more. Obviously the article wants you to believe
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
There are people who see red whenever AI is involved. We've been automating away jobs for years, but now that we're starting to automate our own jobs, all of a sudden it's a moral outrage. People are just being emotional an
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Everyone at sea, uses them now.
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Only if the problem is ideological, ie. you don't like the "idea" of llm's. But if in fact your actual dislike is the style of writing, then you can simply change the defaults. It's pretty easy to make a llm conf
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Just keep using the proper Postgres project if it makes more sense to you. But notice that this isn't just a strict translation, it actually makes changes (moving from process to thread based design, for instance). Time will tell if
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Not that it's an ideal solution, but you have all the tools you need to do something about it. You can put all your preferred writing style guidelines into an LLM and have it ingest and rewrite any text you dislike.
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
I appreciate your admiration, but I assure you I put on my pants one leg at a time.
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
With all due respect, this reads to me as a couple of confusing non sequiturs. I took a quick look at the link you included, and it didn't help me understand what you're talking about either. Probably I'm just horrendously
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
What is under discussion is the taking of a life. You think it's fine to take a life in certain circumstances, but object in others. Fine. But you have no more a hold on the truth (moral or otherwise) than someone who draws the line
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
That's just your opinion. The point of my comment is to show there are cases where even you agree causing the death of someone is "deserved". Once we both agree there are deserving cases, the rest is just a disagreement abo
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Camus is just wrong. And the word "murder" is doing a lot of work in hiding the deception. It hides the artificial difference between cases where you cause the death of someone. Murder is used, almost by definition, to classify
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
You stop the philosophical navel gazing and use your best judgment. If someone has their hands wrapped around YOUR throat and is actively trying to kill you, you would defend yourself to the death if necessary. And you would clearly claim
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
I have always actively avoided all the videos online of beheadings or other types of death, because i'm squeamish and don't want such images in my head. However, while not in person, I did actually witness a guillotine execution
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
> it is obviously no less repulsive than the crime, Hard disagree. There are people who deserve death, and it is a good thing when it happens. It's just really dangerous to give the state such a power.

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