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by scoofy 9mo ago
Hmm yes. I certainly hope they would both be illegal.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
> where insider trading is nigh invisible to public ...and is illegal. It's not illegal to throw a basketball game.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
The vast majority of folks this message will reach are in tech heavy cities… almost all of which have Democratic Party representatives. It’s honestly just very difficult to communicate with Republican parts of the country on open, reddit-li
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by scoofy 9mo ago
>> Big tech is making everyone's life miserable > Sent from my iPhone. But seriously, this is a political problem, not a technological problem. The harms of technology are like the harms of the food industry or the gambling in
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I use MUSICOZY brand, and it's worked great for me. I've been using sleep headphones for decades. Bluetooth was a huge step forward.
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by scoofy 10mo ago
Rohm Travel Sound Machine
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by scoofy 10mo ago
CTRL+F "third place" -- take my upvote. Anyone suffering in the loneliness epidemic should have a copy of The Great Good Place , by Ray Oldenburg. The entire point is that you should be putting yourself into socially active areas
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by scoofy 10mo ago
This shit needs to stop. If you have any Republican representatives right now, you might consider writing them every day. We can disagree on tax policy, immigration policy, even very strong issues, and I'm happy to fight about those is
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I'd be like a bookstore banning "AI books." Like, yea, you can probably use AI in making your book and they'll sell it, but they're mainly targeting users who just happen to be publishing a book every single week, o
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What will enshittification of LLMs look like?
3 points by scoofy 10mo ago|4 comments
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I think folks attempting to build a unicorn could just do what nextdoor did -- require a modicum of proof of life -- but for clones of twitter, reddit, etc. The idea that I might get in a fight with a robot or some state agent on -- gasp
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by scoofy 10mo ago
In the US, it used to be that if you made credible threats against people you could/would be prosecuted. Social media made it so common in that no district attorney goes to the trouble of actually finding prosecuting people for doing t
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by scoofy 10mo ago
His term ends on May 15, 2026, so it's almost pointless to file these charges now. I see what's happening now as game-theory signaling, not as a real threat to Powell. I would suggest that this action is better seen as a latent th
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by scoofy 10mo ago
This will continue until people actually get hurt. Trump is exactly what decadence looks like: people willing to vote for "their team" against any better judgement because nothing really every happens to hurt them.
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by scoofy 10mo ago
Huge idiot here with an honest question: with starlink, could a rogue actor just point a bunch of high-powered lasers at the satellites and brick them?
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by scoofy 10mo ago
This headline is wrong. It’s just something Trump said and any mechanism to do this seems dubious at best. The entire idea is likely unconstitutional.
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by scoofy 10mo ago
As a student of philosophy of language, I obviously agree with the author (against the quoted thesis). The structure of a language matters to the ease and feel of its use, despite even being logically identical. One parallel would be the sy
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by scoofy 10mo ago
>more valuable than most people's Literally everyone can burn their neighbor's house down! Everyone has access to "valuable predictive information" when that information is being created by the person making the bet
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by scoofy 10mo ago
> The result was not, and could never have been, known a priori. This is a level of solipsism not worth discussing. Yes, Superman could be a real person and we all had our minds altered to think he’s a superhero. Yes, when someone pulls
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by scoofy 10mo ago
Good news is hardly worth discussing. Headline: “I went to the doctor and everything was normal.” Discussion: “That’s nice.” Headline: “I went to the doctor and I have been diagnosed with X” Discussion: “X means Y or Z. If Y, A,B,C. If Z,
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by scoofy 10mo ago
> It's not responding to my comment though which is saying that if we have prediction markets, the goal should be for them to reveal facts about the world. My point is you can’t have this without creating a massive incentive for peo
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I'm actually saying quite the opposite. That GLP-1 drugs have refuted the idea that people do not have built in biological mechanism that make them obese, whether or not that's on the hunger side (say, ghrelin) or on the amount
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by scoofy 10mo ago
>Why should we want prediction markets to be fair? I want them to reveal facts about the world. I do not think this is a reasonable position. The problem is that predicting "real facts about the world" creates a situation where
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by scoofy 10mo ago
What changed is that it’s effectively impossible not to pretend there was ever a fair playing field for obesity. A pill suddenly fixes obesity in a huge number of people. No need a cultural coping mechanism when the disease can be effective
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I mean… I’d very much push back here. GLP-1 drugs have basically thrown out the idiotic idea that people were fat because they were sloths or gluttons. Our genetic and epigenetic predispositions very obviously played a huge role in whether
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I operate a site where I have lists of things that have operations done on them all the time, occasionally I’ll load those series into memory as a tuple to save memory. If I’m adding a feature to the site in 5 years, it’s going to be import
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I think this response misses the point. Yes, if I’d not been worse at coding a decade ago, I wouldn’t be revisiting the code in the first place. The point of the redundancy of very clear, descriptive variable names, is that the code is goin
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by scoofy 10mo ago
> we know it's a 3-tuple because we can see the right-hand-side of the equals sign In the context I’m referring to, the variable may have been set 80 lines earlier, 7 years ago, when I was worse at coding.
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by scoofy 10mo ago
Lists are mutable, tuples are not… that’s a massive difference if I’m editing code deep in a function I wrote two years ago.
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by scoofy 10mo ago
I’m not sure what you mean. You’re not necessarily going to know the type of a variable just by reading a random section of code… especially in Python. I absolutely going to add the type to the variable name if it’s a complex function. It’s

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