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by qurren 5mo ago
Do you get angry when someone mentions London that they didn't specify that it is London, England? Because there are other Londons.
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by qurren 5mo ago
> your motivation is not altruistic to the host country in that case, it’s selfish There is nothing wrong with that. I'm selfish, you're selfish, the government is selfish, everyone in the host country is selfish. It's hum
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by qurren 5mo ago
> the kids must first get visas to their parent's countries The bigger issue honestly is that the kids may already have grown up in the American culture and fluent in English and it could massively disrupt their education and well-b
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by qurren 5mo ago
Lots of other differences. 1. Citizens have a right to enter at ports of entry, can refuse to hand over social media accounts, etc. Greencard holders are still at the discretion of border officials. 2. Citizens can wander the world and li
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by qurren 5mo ago
> have migrated to improve their lives, not to altruistically benefit a foreign country These are not mutually exclusive. I want a better life, and I also have career ambition and skills that I'm willing to deploy in a place that wi
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by qurren 5mo ago
> how Westerners idealize Japan Westerners are taught by the media and education to idealize Japan and hate China almost everywhere. They present cherry-picked aspects of both countries that make China look bad and Japan look good. In re
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by qurren 5mo ago
The serious answer is in the non-AI-summarized world, you can choose whose information to read and trust. If you want to learn about finance, you can learn about it from people who actually know what they're talking about. You can choo
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by qurren 5mo ago
It is, in fact, categorically wrong, and misleads beginners to make bad decisions. Robinhood is notably bad for promoting this kind of gambling behavior on its platforms; they also state the same misinformation (that you buy a call if you t
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by qurren 5mo ago
Depends on what you ask. It's pretty easy to get wrong information. e.g. search for "how do you make money with options" Google's AI says "When you buy a Call, you are betting the stock price will go up. When you bu
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by qurren 6mo ago
But what is the border? Set the border to what it actually is, not a simplification of it. The state of Colorado is formally a 697 sided polygon, don't simplify it to a rectangle.
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by qurren 6mo ago
And that makes it a super pleasant place to live, I don't ever have to smell that junk on the street. I prefer the smell of good food and that's pretty much what all of Singapore smells like.
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by qurren 6mo ago
Exactly. Usually is most people. You can choose to deviate. You can delete your social media accounts and just keep working on what you want to, for one. Nobody is forcing you to use social media.
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by qurren 6mo ago
It only becomes your problem if you choose it to be your problem.
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by qurren 6mo ago
You also don't have a duty to read or respond to the social media flames. Just do the work you want to do. If people get worked up about experimentation, that's their problem, not yours.
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by qurren 6mo ago
... and it takes up 50% CPU on 16 cores just to run a video call. Laptop battery drains in 30 minutes. Chrome doesn't do that. I literally can't use Firefox anywhere I don't have a power socket. My laptop also becomes a toast
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by qurren 6mo ago
If that's your concern you can also do this server { listen 80; server_name "tensorboard.localhost"; location / { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:6006; } }
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by qurren 6mo ago
URLs already have default ports for service names as a feature. http:// means port 80 unless specified otherwise https:// means port 443 unless specified otherwise ftp:// means port 21 unless specified otherwis
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by qurren 6mo ago
One thing extremely worth noting that the article does not: The reason "temperature" is called such is because softmax is mathematically identical to the Boltzmann distribution [1] from thermodynamics, which describes the probabil
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by qurren 6mo ago
> some random user cannot make a market You absolutely can market make on Polymarket. The barrier to entry is actually extremely low; you can do it from an AWS instance in Dublin (the closest non-geo-restricted region to the Polymarket e
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by qurren 6mo ago
Without giving away my exact strategies, I'm also an ML engineer and I'll just say that ML is in 90% of cases the wrong tool, whereas simple regressions and scatter plots will unearth loads of statistical anomalies if you know whe
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by qurren 6mo ago
I've been quite successful trading weather prediction markets. The prediction markets were never about predicting outcomes. If that's the level you are playing on, you're playing at the lowest possible level, and probably won
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by qurren 6mo ago
> You don’t need a rooted phone. I disagree. 1. I need to be able to change SSL root cert, disable SSL cert pinning, and intentionally MITM installed apps and see what they are sending about me to their servers. Open source OS isn't
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by qurren 6mo ago
... and hold participants' private keys truly private, which you cannot verify without a rooted phone.
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by qurren 6mo ago
> if we had access to all the knobs and levers. We do, just tell it what you want in your AGENTS.md file. Agents also often respond well to user frustration signs, like threatening to not continue your subscription.
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by qurren 6mo ago
> With a password, you open your password manager, copy the password in memory, paste it into the input field and trust that nobody could read it from your clipboard and that the program handling the password does it correctly. If your p
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by qurren 6mo ago
I still don't understand what the hell passkeys are. Weren't passwords and {hardware keys | authenticator apps} enough? I don't think average Joe is going to understand these passkeys either.
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by qurren 6mo ago
> Free to do what? Sit on a beach, apparently. Quite the opposite for me. I'd like to have freedom to work on things I want to work on without "paying rent", "paying medical bills", or "short term profitabil
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by qurren 6mo ago
I'm not "worried" about that cost, I would rather just pay PG&E electricity if the solar panel cost $300. Just pointing out why capitalism + solar is a failure. Capitalism reprices the good thing to be equally expensive t
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by qurren 6mo ago
If you put the DRM in the printer I can hard wire the stepper motors to some H-bridges and an Arduino and run the unsigned gcode. I have no intention to print weapons, but just saying that this law does nothing.
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by qurren 6mo ago
> You can get a 400 watt solar panel on Amazon for $300. Too expensive. It's probably producing 200 watts average for 8 hours a day. That's 1600 watt hours, which is about $1.60 at PG&E prices. That would take 187 days to r

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