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by scarmig 3y ago
Sure. But I'd argue that's an overly narrow view of trying to live life: living life is about being present in shared experiences with your friends and loved ones, not status-focused consumption. Otherwise non-rich people would be
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by scarmig 3y ago
It's interesting that future security, free time to spend with your partner and do housework, and hobbies don't count as something to offer (at least relative to a flashy lifestyle). But, yes, a guy needs to find an effective angl
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by scarmig 3y ago
That was badly stated on my part, and I mostly agree with you on the risky-career part (though the work-life tradeoff is a separate axis and one where I think my point holds). Men probably do choose riskier careers early on in significant p
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by scarmig 3y ago
Like most traits, I think men have a higher variance in focus on long-term planning than women do. Men are disproportionately both people who don't plan for the next paycheck and FIRE-enthusiasts. If you look at FIRE-oriented online gr
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by scarmig 3y ago
They are outcompeting men in their premarriage years; in the most significant metros, single women's income matches or exceeds single men's. And as of 2016 40% of managers are female. I agree that women tend to not be going for th
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by scarmig 3y ago
I think there are two viable strategies here: make a model that is useful at the lowest possible cost and make a model that is maximally useful at high costs. Probably some spots in between them as well. Google's mistake is in thinking
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by scarmig 3y ago
Bard represents SOTA in terms of optimizing for low cost; ChatGPT represents SOTA in terms of optimizing for accuracy. On the SOTA frontier, these two goals represent a tradeoff. ChatGPT could choose to go for lower accuracy for lower cost,
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by scarmig 3y ago
> That still leaves a substantial population of people who do not have any other support system, or whose support system is in San Francisco. It's not San Francisco's responsibility to pick up the slack for places that don&#x27
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by scarmig 3y ago
For San Francisco in particular, if you work in San Francisco, you pay a local income tax of ~0.4%. Make having paid that (say, $50 paid by either you or the person you're married to) or having attended an SFUSD school as qualifiers fo
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by scarmig 3y ago
> And lots of people, self included, show up in cities with no money or plan, and crash on couches, in hotel rooms, in their cars, etc, until they land on their feet. Sure. But the approach to dealing with that subset of people should be
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by scarmig 3y ago
It's down voted because it's a figure that people who follow the discussion closely know is misleading. The context it's usually used in (including here) suggests homelessness is because people were gainfully employed and ren
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by scarmig 3y ago
Leading question: suppose someone moved to SF, started out homeless, moved to supportive housing for a few months, and got kicked out and became homeless again. Are they counted in that oft-cited "70% of homeless people are SF natives!
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by scarmig 3y ago
> married couples per thousand population has gone from 202/1000 in 2001 to 185/1000 in 2022 which is a 10% decline. This probably understates things, if anything; as you get older, you're more likely to get married, and A
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by scarmig 3y ago
The question then becomes why; it's not some random fluctuation where every single person happened to fall on the left side of the spectrum of socialization. Have to look at systemic issues for that.
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by scarmig 3y ago
How is it bizarre? It seems the same category as saying friendship is failing, which also is a reasonable claim; see the entire bowling alone thesis. I'd probably group them all under the umbrella of social connections failing, which I
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by scarmig 3y ago
Just because something is abstract doesn't mean it's not a threat. Imagine we had started taking climate change seriously in 1990 instead of... Whatever we're doing now.
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by scarmig 3y ago
They could make the default such that you couldn't grant anyone outside your organization any particular role, unless principals associated with that domain are explicitly whitelisted (by domain). (And, in the other direction, there sh
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by scarmig 3y ago
Ah, slow this morning.
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by scarmig 3y ago
> This phenomenon where multiple language features conspire to prevent ~~misuse~~ use is called defense in depth and is one of the great strengths of the language. I kid, I kid. Lisp is great.
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by scarmig 3y ago
I suspect that if elections had the HN commentariat as the voters, it would result in landslide wins for most Democratic politicians. I don't think this has shifted much in the last decade. That itself doesn't dispute your point,
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by scarmig 3y ago
Can you share the tool? I've been thinking of making something similar for fun backed by a suffix array, interested in what else is out there.
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by scarmig 3y ago
Can't finite iteration and recursion just be unrolled? And storage just considered another part of the input?
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by scarmig 3y ago
"School shooting" is a polysemous phrase. There's the very literal version--a shooting that happens at a school--but also a more specific one that refers to a much rarer situation--a lone kid consciously plans to go in and sh
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by scarmig 3y ago
Indeed, it's quite fascinating how rapidly technology has advanced, isn't it? Your Blade Runner analogy is spot on - we're pushing the boundaries of what's possible, creating a world Philip K. Dick might have recognized.
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by scarmig 3y ago
Napkin math: the typical estimate for the statistical economic value of a human life (in the US) is $1M-$10M. So if each vaccine course can be targeted such that it saves a life with 25% likelihood, it's likely a net positive. Future i
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by scarmig 3y ago
Another point to indicate that the elderly do contribute back: if the elderly were a net negative while we evolved (which involved a lot more physical labor than typical work does today), there'd be selection pressures against the gene
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by scarmig 3y ago
Avoiding breaking the law, here, means not allowing users in those countries to use services.
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by scarmig 3y ago
You can't do either. How a system is structured drives how the organization running it is structured; how an organization running a system is structured drives how the system is structured. This is natural and even beneficial: it reduc
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by scarmig 3y ago
Per physical copy, indeed. That's what would allow attribution of the sale to the store. Even a QR code that provided a link that would allow an easy purchase for the ISBN would be great for publisher and the customer. It would, howeve
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by scarmig 3y ago
Put a unique QR code in each physical book in some standardized location (probably the publisher's imprint page). Then, someone can scan it to purchase it. The bookstore then gets a cut of the purchase. It would even work browsing a fr

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