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by scoofy 7mo ago
I will try this. I have no idea what is wrong with the algo, but I've honestly thought youtube has gone way downhill since the pandemic.
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by scoofy 7mo ago
If you're worried about inflation, you want to move into stable commodities. Normally I look at farmland, but given the fluctuations in fertilizer prices that might not be as stable. The other option is foreign bonds, but you do open y
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Somewhere there is someone 3D printing a keyboard cover that an llm can type with.
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Right, which is why civil rights laws tend to be about employment and housing.
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by scoofy 7mo ago
The issue is that “woman’s sports” is itself intentionally discriminatory. That the issue of discrimination comes up is to be expected. The idea of competitive sports exists in a framework of discrimination means that you will always have u
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by scoofy 7mo ago
That’s just not true, there are plenty of places where the math works easily without subsidies.
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by scoofy 7mo ago
I guess, though, the actual “solar” part of the solar set up is by far the cheapest part. The vast majority of the set up costs are just getting electrification done right. Like, even if LNG becomes crazy cheap, a battery set up will stil
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by scoofy 7mo ago
The system already pays for itself. The only thing you lose if a new technology comes out is opportunity cost. You also likely don’t want to be an early adopter of the newest tech anyway if this is a concern for you. This doesn’t really mak
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by scoofy 7mo ago
I mean, the payback period is like 5 years if you count all the subsides. My point is only that, you can effectively take most of your house of the grid, even in an urban area, with a relatively short payback period, and an almost guarantee
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by scoofy 7mo ago
If I install solar panels, a battery, and a next gen breaker box in CA, even with premium equipment and no subsidies, I'm looking at a max payback period of like 20 years, right? At that point yea, it's effectively free energy. Is
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by scoofy 7mo ago
I do not think I handled the response as well as I would have liked to. I'm sorry if you felt poorly treated. That was not my intention.
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Again, I’m talking about someone who has never used one who has their mind made up. I don’t think there is anything wrong with preferring gas. It has many superior use cases. My point is that “no, I like things this way and won’t ever consi
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by scoofy 7mo ago
It really is crazy that environmentalists were like, "hey look, free energy," and suddenly everyone started screaming "No, boo! We like the way things are!" I have a friend who has never used an induction range before th
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by scoofy 7mo ago
I'm talking about a deductive framework based on by definition arbitrary axioms. You're talking about an inductive framework in which we create deductive frameworks that model the world we live in as best as we can tell. This is
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Wait, what?!? Nothing about trying to strategically put yourself in an ideal situation during a recession is going to make anyone else worse off. Much of this isn't zero-sum, and assuming the investments are not rent seeking. If I we
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Axioms are, again, by definition, arbitrary. It is effectively irrelevant that we try to develop axioms so that the framework mirror the real world. Everything falls out of the axioms, period. If you want to change the axioms to better re
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by scoofy 7mo ago
I would hope that philosophy would be exempt from accusations of arguments from authority. I say I don’t want to fight exactly because I don’t want to come off like a jerk because I’m arguing. If the Chinese Room is a mess, I welcome the ar
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by scoofy 7mo ago
I don't want to do the thing where we fight on the internet. I don't know your background, but I'll push back here just because this type of comment that non-philosophers seem to present to me, which misses a lot of the point
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by scoofy 7mo ago
There is already philosophy of mind, but it was pretty young when I was in grad school, which was really at the dawn of deep learning algorithms. I’d say the two most important topics here are philosophy of language (understanding meaning)
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by scoofy 7mo ago
I studied philosophy focusing on the analytic school and proto-computer science. LLMs are going to force many people start getting a better understanding about what "Knowledge" and "Truth" are, especially the distinction
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by scoofy 7mo ago
I discovered long ago that you might as well order a can in the states because you'll pay less and get effectively the same amount of beer.
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by scoofy 7mo ago
A heatpump in every home!
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Just a quick plug for Cadillac Desert . People don't realize how fragile the urban areas of Coastal California are. We should. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert
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by scoofy 7mo ago
> How did they manage to survive as the grandma-account-draining brand for over 15 years, though? 15 years ago ransomware effectively didn't exist and virtually nobody's grandparents did their banking on their phones.
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by scoofy 7mo ago
I definitely don't want to underscore this point. I agree with you that the sense that "nothing matter, everything is fake" definitely feels more real today than it did a decade ago, or even four years ago. I'm honestl
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by scoofy 7mo ago
My point isn't that it's about tradeoffs. I'm all for that. My point is that many-if-no-most interlocutors reject the notion that scamware could even be a problem . This is why I'm concerned about good-faith discussion
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Ask HN: Why do comment threads suddenly seem overwhelmingly bad faith?
5 points by scoofy 7mo ago|7 comments
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by scoofy 7mo ago
It's very obviously not irrelevant . Google is not going to let their main phone app product become associated with Grandma losing her savings! That's not going to help the free software folks... it's going to send everyone
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by scoofy 7mo ago
If you’re suggesting that the electorate is not generally in control of fiscal policy then it’s safe to say this conversation is over. We can agree to disagree on the structure of the American government.
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by scoofy 7mo ago
My point is the vast majority of citizens don’t actually want to become poorer over time with zero incentive to save or invest.

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