red-iron-pine

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by red-iron-pine 5d ago
> GameFAQs Now there is some nostalgia. I'd take 1000 GameFAQs .txt only pages over whatever slop Fandom wikis push. Goddamn videos on every page, etc.
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by red-iron-pine 5d ago
finance is math. there are well understood models for this, and they're not surprising. It should be one area where AI dominates, since usually the finance questions are something to the effect of "will this make me more money,
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by red-iron-pine 5d ago
> I relegated myself to an old-school dividend growth investment scheme and it's financially working out much better than I anticipated but still, I'd like to have a core of a stupid ACWI tracker. roughly same approach in Cana
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by red-iron-pine 5d ago
yeah but most of that is 1) covered by bogleheads, and 2) doesn't require serious education or advisors. take emergency funds -- how likely is it you can lean on friends or fam for money? do your budgeting and then plan for 6-12 month
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by red-iron-pine 8d ago
im not sure i'd say the attackers are more skilled -- you can get pretty far with the right attitude and a VM running kali linux. i know several red teamers and they often describe how painfully basic and routine a lot of pentests can
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by red-iron-pine 8d ago
plenty more has changed. for example the barrier to being a skiddie is basically gone, and low-skill would be hackers can hit very hard. to develop a CVE into a KEV in 2017 might take 2-3 months with a skilled team of serious security engi
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by red-iron-pine 8d ago
"I would like my $18 for reddit shitposts, plz"
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by red-iron-pine 8d ago
they became echo chambers because foreign agit-prop efforts got to them, hard, and the GOP needed to keep their base riled up to stay elected
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by red-iron-pine 8d ago
what culture war? it's a class war mon ami. i've met not a single meatspace human outside of techbros who were in favor of unlimited AI. most of the tech bros even conceeded that it could be terrible for everyone including thems
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by red-iron-pine 8d ago
but then how do you pay for things if/when you want to buy the little one something? you either add the card then remove it, get a separate card, or find a way to use credits somehow -- but in the case of the latter two, Junior could s
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by red-iron-pine 8d ago
sounds like a role that can be replaced by GPT
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by red-iron-pine 8d ago
generations of propaganda from the cold war easily co-opted by more modern outlets there are transgender people using bathrooms!
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by red-iron-pine 8d ago
its like a Russian foreign policy whitepaper writ large Khrushchev could only dream of such actions
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by red-iron-pine 8d ago
> What I’m trying to say is that what they’re suggesting doesn’t seem completely insane so the retort “You’re the groupthink” becomes an unfalsifiable statement thrown at anybody who’s “anti-AI” instead of engaging with their arguments.
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by red-iron-pine 9d ago
AI eats all of the service jobs. whole lot of college boys who are only skilled at computers now need to compete for labor jobs or truck driving gigs. the STEM guys I referred to burnt out hard but had the money, gumpstion, and ties to the
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by red-iron-pine 9d ago
the US is absolutely moving towards feudalism, and the ones pushing it are big on techno-feudalism a la Yarvin and his adherents -- Peter Thiel and Musk, etc.
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by red-iron-pine 9d ago
the Yakuza isn't running local or national governments in Italy, there are deep ties to governments, esp. in the south, and they've had their fingers all the way into national leadership before; see also: bunga bunga
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by red-iron-pine 9d ago
the DC area is a different story tho -- tons of rotation through the area due to military and fed gov. they come, they go, sometimes they come back, etc. you're rounding out a 26 year military career and looking at retirement but are
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by red-iron-pine 11d ago
the Dark Forest theory on a micro scale. contact, even if benevolent, would probably kill them all via disease. that doesn't include potential social and cultural upheavals, etc. you either keep everyone out, hard, or you lose everyth
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by red-iron-pine 11d ago
the US government is owned lock and stock by the Russians. They do not want more proxies, and under Trump, are actively trying to fracture NATO.
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by red-iron-pine 11d ago
finish the thought: this means you need to retaliate. You either step up and hit back, or look weak and invite further problems. random vandals -- that's just local scumbags being scumbags. These things happens, no need to start WWI
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by red-iron-pine 12d ago
you can't be the next steve jobs without some acrimonious counterpoint that shows unique and true vision angels eat that shit up. see also: theranos, et al
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by red-iron-pine 12d ago
because they're a publicly traded company and need to make number go higher why is this a discussion?
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by red-iron-pine 15d ago
i guarantee you there is an R&D attempt at this that failed to make it to market
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by red-iron-pine 15d ago
good. let it fall.
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by red-iron-pine 15d ago
how much water purification you have? got any guns? if you needed to GTFO out of wherever you are because it's going to hell, where will you go and how will you get there? if service-jobs vanish tomorrow what can you make or do? I kno
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by red-iron-pine 15d ago
had someone use that exact phrase "I don't even write code anymore" this morning when we were getting coffee dude is a Ph.D in ML and is leading pipeline development efforts in an ML org
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by red-iron-pine 15d ago
but the lesson is clear: there needs to be consequences for shameful behavior. introduce a meaningful sanction and the behavior stops.
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by red-iron-pine 15d ago
shame only works if there are consequences. if you're not calling them out then you are complicit. you are accepting that, and you need to live with it. if you want someone to respect your feelings then ultimately you will have to ma
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by red-iron-pine 16d ago
"careless people" is a book about how terrible facebook executives are, and the implication is that their counterparts are equally terrible

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