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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
> our people Do you think Black Americans, or native Americans feel shame when visiting these museums? Or are they not "our people" to you?
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
People have speculated that the main thing that sets the human mind apart from the minds of all other animals is its capacity for recursive thought. A handful of animals have been observed to use tools, but humans are the only species ever
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Right now about 45% of the market is passively invested, and economists estimate you'd need 80%+ passive investments for active investors to reliably beat the market. We're not close to it yet.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
There's also so much road noise. They designed the car bodies to be light for battery-related reasons, but in doing so, the cabins of even their luxury cars sound like budget economy vehicles.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
People grow almonds in the desert specifically because they have access to artificially cheap water. In the U.S. lots of land comes with water rights: e.g. if a river or creek passes through your land you can use x% of the water to irregate
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
It'll burst in the same way crypto burst. The NFTs and the shitcoins and the grifters and the bandwagon hoppers all got washed out, but Bitcoin is still hitting record highs today. All the smaller AI companies will have to quickly figu
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
I think this is mostly true, but when it gets cheaper and faster, it will be able to complete much larger tasks unsupervised. larger != more complex The widespread adoption of cheap agentic AI will absolutely be an economic revolution. Mill
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
> a huge amount of the public was taking stimulants regularly Anecdotally, 100mg of caffeine combined with 200mg of L-theanine makes me maybe 25% as productive as I am on 5mg of Adderall, which is actually enough for me to function most
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Yes - to enter most houses you needed to be a member of the club, or know the owner, have an invitation, etc. Some houses were open to the public ("public houses," "pubs") where anyone could walk in and grab a drink and
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
I suspect the vast majority of OpenAI's users are only using ChatGPT, and the vast majority of those ChatGPT users are only using the free tier. For all of them, getting access to full-blown GPT-5 will probably be mind-blowing, eve
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
It makes a little sense, but I'm not sure it's good for your eyes. My eye doctor had me come in first thing in the morning, then again the next day at the end of the day, after my workday, and my vision had degraded about -0.25 to
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
This is hilarious
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
I remember there was a time years back when there were "light" variants of apps, usually intended for underpowered or older Android phones, but that also came in handy if you were in a situation where you had shitty cell service,
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
It seems like a big part of GPT-5 will be that it will be able to intelligently route your request to the appropriate model variant.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Normally they're accurate enough, and the revisions/refinements are small. The initial estimates haven't been accurate recently, because many workers have been completely dropping out of the economy because they're afrai
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
I've imagined for a long time that eventually we'll shift the bulk of our heavy computation closer to the poles, and use those data centers to power our society. You either use solar power and shift the computation from north pole
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Yep - it's not too difficult to coax a thing to grow. Life, uh, finds a way. Gardening is often much more about preventing the stuff that you don't want to grow from growing, whether that's weeds, microbes, fungus, insects,
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
I thought it was a little tougher than that? I know it costs at least a few hundred bucks and takes a day or two to ozone a small apartment, which would roughly line up with the $500 fine this hotel charges.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
That's pretty standard in American hotels these days though. You don't touch anything you don't intend to pay for. It's to prevent people from drinking the booze and refilling it with water. There are always signs, but i
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
I hung out with some (Vietnamese Zen) buddhist monks at their monastery for a bit, and it was really interesting how they really strive to limit sensory indulgences that take their awareness away from what's happening right here, right
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Eh there's more nuance. When people outside of LA say "Los Angeles", they're almost always referring to the county. The city of LA is actually quite small. For "San Diego", it's precisely the opposite - a
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
On Android phone, the equivalent voice assistant (Gemini) handles the question gracefully. Regardless of what you think about Google, having a single-button LLM-powered voice assistant, deeply integrated into the phone's OS, is a very
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
We had a few dozen customers, and "percent of wallet" (figuring out how much money they walk into the casino with vs. how much they leave with) is a standard metric in casino marketing everywhere. You can figure out their paycheck
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
It's not indifference, it's much more comically evil. Like, they're using software to identify gambling addicts on fixed incomes, to figure out how big retirees' social security checks are, and to ensure they lose the en
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
> There's no Bond villain at the helm. It's good people rationalizing things. I worked for a few years at a company that made software for casinos, and this was absolutely not the case there. Casinos absolutely have fully shame
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
Ideally, the upper house is gradually stripped of its powers, as it's undemocratic by design. IIRC it's actually somewhat rare to have a bicameral legislature where both houses have roughly symmetrical powers.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
The U.S. is unique in that it offers fixed-rate 30 year mortgages to basically everyone who can afford the monthly payments. Once you've locked in a 30 year mortgage at a great rate, it's super cheap money - your new goal is to ba
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
According to all the studies, this is absolutely the worst thing that you can do. GLP-1s are revolutionary, but when you go on them, you should intend to stay on them for life. When patients first go on them, they lose both muscle and fat,
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
In North America, Coyotes have almost completely replaced the ecological niche that feral dogs fill in most of the rest of the world's urban environments.
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by rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1y ago
According to empirical laffer curve studies, median earners in America start taking their foot off the gas pedal when you tax more than 33% of their wages, but you can tax 73% of billionaires' income before they begin to dial back thei

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