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by qzw 1y ago
You and I may call it that, but in SV that’s just standard growth hacking.
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by qzw 1y ago
And the more general version, “Humanity progresses one funeral at a time.” Which is why the hyper-longevity people are basically trying to freeze all human progress.
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by qzw 1y ago
Yes, I think a lot of NLP folks must’ve had their “God does not play dice with the univers(al grammar)” moment.
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by qzw 1y ago
> somebody figured out how to make a computer do something Well, I would argue that in most deterministic AI systems the thinking was all done by the AI researchers and then encoded for the computer. That’s why historically it’s been eas
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by qzw 1y ago
Ok, I found the German imposter right here.
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by qzw 1y ago
To add to everything you said, another way to think about the importance of baseball at that time is to imagine that all the time kids now spend on Minecraft, TikTok, Pokemon, Twitch, and YouTube was instead directed at just one thing, and
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by qzw 1y ago
Baseball was called the national pastime for a reason. Back in the day it was the sport in America. It had a degree of cultural ubiquity that’s hard to understand for us today. Also I assume the questions weren’t about the basic rules of
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by qzw 2y ago
Most of the general population can’t read above something like a fifth grade level. Here on HN it’s higher, but I wouldn’t say it’s safe to assume you can just engage in even mild word play without risking being misinterpreted, unfortunatel
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by qzw 2y ago
AI companies are definitely pitting their AI models against both in-house and external models. Didn’t Alpha Zero get to some insanely high level in go by only playing against itself without any reference to existing go literature? So if thi
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by qzw 2y ago
A lady in my neighborhood has crashed two different Teslas. Both times she rear ended somebody, judging from the damages. Some people can crash anything.
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by qzw 2y ago
You might have child safety locks engaged on the rear doors by default. If you don’t have small children, you might be able to find a switch or setting to turn that feature off.
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by qzw 2y ago
Yes that just boggles my mind. Why is there a desire for such designs on a fundamental and safety-critical part of a vehicle? Aesthetic minimalism? But why?! A car door is not a phone screen. There’s plenty of real estate on a car door and
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by qzw 2y ago
You certainly make a good point, but in defense of the Buffet Indicator, perhaps the tendency for private companies to go public and vice versa also depends on economic conditions. Being a public company can be a costly and burdensome propo
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by qzw 2y ago
Not sure if it's the same one, but I saw a similar IMAX with my kids at the Kennedy Space Center a few months ago. Agree that it's well worth seeing and has some spectacular images from the JWST.
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by qzw 2y ago
Yes, I think posters above are conflating margin and markup.
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by qzw 2y ago
Framework? Or do you need something mainstream?
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by qzw 2y ago
It very much depends on what your kid wants to do after college. Having the imprimatur of a top 25 college is definitely an advantage for certain endeavors that value brand names. Plus there's a genuine networking advantage if your kid
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by qzw 2y ago
In a similar low brow vein, I once took a wizz next to RMS in the old LCS building. When we were washing hands he tried to talk me into contributing to OpenJDK because we had previously talk a bit about a Java project I was working on for m
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by qzw 2y ago
It seems like we’re hitting all the projected points early. For example, aren’t we already at 1.5C of warming by some metrics, which was supposed to not happen for another decade or two? If anything, I think the scientific community has bee
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by qzw 2y ago
Thought it was viral marketing for Top Gun 3 for a second there. But thanks for the interesting read. It's a pity such a dramatic real world event never made it into either of the Top Gun movies.
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by qzw 2y ago
The modern super billionaire is so rich that only complete societal collapse or being personally targeted by a state-level entity can threaten their basically never-ending wealth and power. That's why they all have built bunkers on var
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by qzw 2y ago
This is reading very SEO-ish. It’s basically profiles on top of AutoHotKey, do we really need such long descriptions for obvious features like “Edit profile”, “Delete profile”, and so on?
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by qzw 2y ago
If I were in charge? I would start by creating 3 (or more) editions of Firefox, segmented to casual, power, and pro users. Casual would be similar to the current Firefox, but with even more focus on ease of use, a “hand holding” mode, and m
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by qzw 2y ago
That’s an interesting idea. I would think that trying to do a second split would have significant challenges because the monopoly has already been turned into a duopoly, so now you have to do the work against two rich companies. Looking at
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by qzw 2y ago
> As written, the proposed remedies will force smaller and independent browsers like Firefox to fundamentally reexamine their entire operating model. I think a lot of us Firefox users would see that as a good thing, or at least no worse
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by qzw 2y ago
Yes, that's what I'm trying to say. Obviously anybody who goes to the trouble of penning a manifesto is a hero/protagonist in their own narrative. When they see that their acts have captured the attention or even admiration o
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by qzw 2y ago
In the movie "Wag the Dog", Dustin Hoffman plays a Hollywood producer who is hired by the President to create a fake war to take attention away from another scandal. Spoiler alert Near the end, Hoffman's character is upset
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by qzw 2y ago
Exactly my thoughts as well. Every piece of evidence law enforcement has was basically intentionally provided by him. If he just stuffed his trash in one of his 7 pockets, or wore a pair of sunglasses, or didn't actually stare straight
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by qzw 2y ago
I wonder if the McDonald's employee really recognized him from those couple of off-angle photos or if Mr. Mangione himself initiated the action in order to let someone "deserving" collect the reward. It seems to me that he wa
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by qzw 2y ago
It encourages paying more wages, but it’s still a 20% giveaway to the business owners for paying themselves . I know that my own effective tax rate went down a couple percent when QBI took effect. If the idea behind the requirement to pay

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