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> What industry could Mars possibly support profitably? Government crew and supply launch contracts probably, though these don't need to be "profitable" in the conventional sense for the entity footing the bill. All that&#
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> ...like saying Microsoft has no moat for spreadsheets Which would be very inaccurate as network-effects are Excel's (and Word's) moat. Excel being bundled with Office and Windows helped, but it beat Lotus-123 by being a super
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> I’ve changed my mind on things after a month ...and what is the implication here? After I broke a bone, I was given a choice between surgery and a cast. I chose surgery - which cant be undone - and I half-regret it because when I bump
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> The average young man wants mutual compassion and respect from their social circles and loyalty and being loved from their girlfriend. Everybody wants that, including the potential girlfriends, but a functional relationship requires
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> There is no choice. They can't get a relationship. and the porn-rot brains will make it harder for them to get into healthy relationships as well adjusted individuals, resulting in a glut of long-term customer for corporate-mediat
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> The question of whether people in higher socio-economic class score higher in standardized tests is obviously true and uninteresting Indeed, it's uncontroversial and that is why I used it to set up the second half of my question,
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I asked a very specific question, and I fail to see what's confusing about my first sentence. I asked how poor whites compared to other non-poor white people, as well as poor people of other races (i.e. controlling for income). Your r
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> Tesla FSD is practically perfected, with no accidents whatsoever, under such conditions already Disengaging 2 seconds before an accident leads to a perfect driving record
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This is tenuously related to what I asked.
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> Yes there are actual "legal" notions of driver assistance "levels," but out of those 3 companies Tesla seems to be taking it the most seriously. ..and yet Tesla is quick to blame the drivers when accidents happen -
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> they don’t do as well as the modal group of white Americans, so as the composition changes, and the whites become less of a statistically dominating factor How do poor whites compare to the rest of white people, as well as other races
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> Releasing code under a BSD license is making a promise that you are OK with people using your code for commercial purposes. That's just a microcosm of the larger issue, isn't it? Contributors : Redis :: Redis : AWS - Redis ga
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> Open source is a gift economy. Receiving a gift does not form a social contract that entitles you to future gifts I think op was talking about contributors, who essentially gifted back. One might take offense if they were exchanging gi
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> That was a quick end to that conversation, because of how insane it is to suggest giving up human rights for money. It is insane when you write it out kike that, but this is further complicated by money providing extrinsic motivation,
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The last time the issue of "abrupt" startup shutdowns messing up people's lives was debated on HN, the was a contingent that insisted that the founders and leadership have a fiduciary duty to share holders to hold out for a m
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> I would not say that the first gen of Zen is was a clear winner over Skylake. In 2017, I would not have said that either for Zen 1 without qualification[1]. Zen 3 on the other hand, was a winner. That said, 1st gen Zen had better bang-
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> The next step is to automatically add "nodes" to the 3D images where the model can pivot, rotate and whatnot and then boom, you have on-demand animated, interactive content My gut says a 3D engine + this would be a superior s
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> ...Intel was falling behind even AMD The "even" makes the tone of your comment feel a tiny bit disrespectful towards AMD. By 2021, it was clear to me that AMD had their gloves off and were winning. Zen 3 was released in 2020
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> Trump supporters are not remotely supportive of this So, the guys who brought/assembled gallows to the capital and were chanting "Hang Mike Pence" are not supportive of extrajudicial killings? We're not on the same
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> Thompson is not responsible for the existence of the insurance industry Surely he bears some responsibility for making UHC the worst to deal with and the having the highest rejection rate? > What I do see is a strong push by media
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The VA is notorious for long delays.
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> What is "violent" is generally defined by those who are more powerful I'd say. I think the hidden war of words is over the definition of "illegitimate violence" (like premeditated murder) and "legitimate v
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...and its still pretty awful. Which says a lot about the entire industry.
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> Thanks for the article but I don't think I have the sequence reversed I suppose I read your first sentence as being in future tense when it might not be. The thrust of my argument is that Meta already successfully built those ad
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> It would be strange if they didn't also use these models to generate much more sophisticated models of their user's interests and generate the hyper targeted advertising You have the sequence reversed as Meta already created
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OTOH, you can't write a Boolean SAT solver without backtracking.
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Is your accusatory statement falsifiable?
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> ...once you've reviewed enough of the output, you can easily see specific patterns in the output That is true, but more importantly, are those patterns sufficient to distinguish between AI-generated content from human-generated
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In the fight between labor and capital, the favored class is right there on the label of the economic system. Class warfare is a built-in feature of capitalism - no mainstream American political party is going to repudiate capitalism; the D
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Not only is in the the same range as cable TV packages, it's basically a cable TV play where they bundle lots of models/channels of questionable individual utility into one expensive basket allegedly greater than the sum of its pa

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