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Most of the time, workers and managers are smart, well-meaning, and hard-working. Even executives (though as you get higher and higher up, you see more and more people whose qualification is political skills and not expertise). The issue wi
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Just wanted to chime in that Nic is an amazing tutor, and if you're someone who wishes they had studied math more rigorously, you should reach out! You'd be amazed how much you can learn in an hour every week or two that's fo
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Douglas Hofstadter (of Godel, Escher, Bach fame) has written a whole lot about this and related questions. Translator, Trader is a great essay (my favorite work of his) that anyone who thinks about translation and its implications a lot
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Most of the hammering out is giant corporations hammering each other, trying to forge a niche to more effectively extract rents. The solution is minimal or no government intervention to create state-sponsored monopolies. When you do have th
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Mass scraping the Internet and linking to different places was also legally questionable until lawyers hammered it out. Would the world be a better place if search engines had been preemptively ruled illegal?
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Humanism arose during the Renaissance, when scholars and artists gleefully cribbed from each other's work without attribution and copyright didn't even exist. It's perfectly fine to copy someone else's work. The immorali
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The public key is, by definition, not a secret.
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There's no way for someone to make an identifier that's also a secret secure. You could have huge penalties, give the corporate death penalty, and you'd simply see old insecure companies replaced with new insecure companies.
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The point is that they would be able to earn money without being taxed money anyway. It'd mean fewer accounting tricks, or none. Those would be shifted to individuals. You'd see an uptick in high earners trying to avoid taxes. It&
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Another effect: universities would be recentered on learning, instead of being four year resorts kids go to because it's what you're supposed to do and they don't know what else to do. Students don't need fancy rock clim
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Waymo ride runs into high-speed sideshow(sfstandard.com)
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What doesn't go into statistics is 1) the negative externalities of being near crime. Suppose you live in a densely populated enough area that you can expect a person to be murdered within 1km of you every year. There's another ar
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I have struggled writing valid YAML before (my tokenizer doesn't handle whitespace very well). And it probably takes me a quadrillion operations on the reals to get a minimal YAML file (I think your 10^25 fp ops is an overestimate--I t
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Chromecast also allowed you to stream Netflix... I'm not sure DLNA ever got to that point.
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Gemini Ultra Nest TV with Chrome Cast Ultra™
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Google Cast was originally built on top of DIAL, but DIAL itself is mostly about device discovery IIRC. Nowadays it's all mDNS instead.
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> amazon hasn't tried to create a standardized protocol Amazon is pushing Matter Cast, which is in many ways superior to Google Cast, most of all by being open. Its biggest downside is that it's not supported by anyone else.
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> Unfortunately no sign of Google Cast protocol being opened for general purpose use. Matter Cast in theory exists, though afaik Amazon's the only big power really pushing it.
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Suppose you construct a fat Cantor set of measure 0.5. You then select a random real from [0,1]. Similar to the rationals, any particular number in the fat Cantor set has zero chance of being selected. Does that mean that the chance of sele
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x > 0 and x < 0 are both semidecidable. Which is to say, they can be decided, but their converses cannot. So if either of those are true, they will halt (by running them in parallel, and halting once one halts), but if neither of them
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There's also an interesting dynamic: costs scale exponentially (in a handwavey way) with quality. If you're willing to stay a half generation behind, you can create models a whole lot cheaper than the frontier labs. So Meta can al
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Depends on the context. Physics puts some hard constraints on what can be avoided. The question should be: in the context of an unleashed dog rushing out into a busy street from a heavily obscured homeless encampment, does a Waymo handle th
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I have been considering switching to typst, but my main concern has been running into things LaTeX can do but it can't. Were there more fundamental issues you came across?
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It's way too much, but it's pretty funny that David Gerard is the target of an obsessive hit piece.
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It's more like, you should be very skeptical of any shocking results that you find reported on widely in social media and the press. Errors will always happen; they are more likely to result in shocking, surprising results; and the pre
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Can't speak to Gemma, but I found 1.5 superior to Claude and ChatGPT 4 when it came out. The trend seems to be each taking the lead when it comes out, being king of the hill for a couple weeks, and then being surpassed by the next. Cla
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There's another tidbit I noticed that I missed before: at the time of enrollment, 6% were housed for the first and second group, 12% for the control. Presumably those already housed would be more likely to be housed after a year than s
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Interestingly: People who received $1k/month: 44% housed People who received a $6500 lump sum followed by $500/month: 48% housed The control group who received $50/month: 43% housed
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Closeness to power generally seems to be a source of laxness, across many different societies.
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China is not what I'd call... Lax when it comes to corporate malfeasance. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/24/china-executes...

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