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by sdwr 2y ago
On the other hand, search is not a commodity that can be dispensed in interchangable units. Those opaque tweaks that tank your business are the same ones that keep spam and SEO garbage down.
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It's not about the numbers. The core argument is: - they suffer - we are good people who care about reducing suffering - so we spend our resources to reduce their suffering And some (most!) people balk at one of those steps But serious
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That's reversed. The number of people can be mapped linearly, but not the intensity of the pain. (Intuitively, it's hard to say saving 100 people is 100x as good as saving 1, because we can't have 100 best friends, but it doe
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That's what a functional government looks like. High-information, low-controversy, consolidating citizens around a shared truth.
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I think they are taking issue with escalating an already dismissive argument to infinity. It's Godwin's law - even if you're calling the other guy Hitler, you still brought it up in the first place
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I believe the logic is to heat gently through friction, and to promote blood circulation through manipulation. Warming up cold body parts is painful, so maybe it's about distracting from the pain as well.
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Everyone is on an equal footing materially (basically), which opens the door to the social layer being all-important (and wildly unequal).
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"Understanding" and "self-awareness" is as much a political tool as a practical definition. Pigs are self-aware, and understand, but we don't give them the space to express it. AI is currently missing pieces it need
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by sdwr 2y ago
The social graph described in the article is what you see in a high school or small community or anywhere material productivity is not important. Relationships and attention are the source of value. Ironically, those places are the most com
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Bad governments have a consistent internal logic, and operate at a local maxima. In some sense, they are "doing the best they can", and practically, most forms of resistance damage the social order without improvement.
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Hang on, it's only the same if Just Eat bought GrubHub from the government. Otherwise, the $5.5B isn't removed from circulation, it's in the hands of the previous owners of GrubHub
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You absolutely can engineer your way out of those problems. There is always a simpler, easier way to put things together. https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1819772716339339664 I think what happened is, Boeing codified a
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It's like how there's an inherent value to adding numbers together on a calculator. It "just works". Once you have it, you can rely on it to do the math part while you do more complicated things. A prediction market that
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It's fine if it's already fine. As part of a normal conversation, it's a good line. Self-deprecating, flattering the other person by comparison, and opening the door for them to share their experience. In the worst case, it&#
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I've had a few moments like that, it's not a pleasant thing to be around. In that kind of mental breakdown, you get addicted to the story you build in your head, where you are special and important and on the verge of something gr
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Byoyomi creates severe relative advantages based on banked time. One player having 3 minutes left, with the other in byoyomi is an "on the ropes" moment. Like the article says, with Fischer you always have the opportunity to claw
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Reading between the lines, sounds like the seller is reselling the tickets, so it's more of a graymarket transaction, practically, legally and morally.
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LLMs are a stone soup problem. They are only worth talking to if you believe they have something valuable to say.
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It's the sweat production. Imagine someone sticking their hand in their armpit, then shaking your hand. Vs putting a hand on their bare hip, then shaking your hand. Also, groin sweat smells different and probably has extra hormones&#x2
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Roast potatoes can't be called baked potatoes because baked potatoes are a well-defined product. The name transcends cooking method - a baked potato made in a microwave is still a baked potato.
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Everyone using ELO already does use something other than ELO. Game developers skew matchmaking based on: - the amount of people in queue - how long it's been since you last played - total games played - player reports - how many cosm
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"High profile coverups, the national pension fund has been emptied. Chinese with money seek to escape overseas. The education system is terrible." The picture being painted is of a doomed, sinking ship.
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Objects are made by men and used for many purposes. But we never love objects
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No, leopards eating faces is about being the victim of a policy you support (but thought would only affect other people). It's karma for being a hypocrite, but it's not every instance of karma, hypocrisy, or consequences.
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If the market moves down after you bought, you are stuck holding the bag. You can either a) sell for a loss, or b) keep your item, and be unable to make further trades until the price (maybe?) recovers. Remember that OP put his entire stack
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Laptop CPUs run hot, there isn't a lot of room for airflow or cooling. Hardware degrades with time/heat/cycles, so if it was used hard, it might be close to the end of its usable life.
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There's comfort in settling for mediocrity. Muddling through at your own pace instead of grasping for the ideal.
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Definitely morbidly fascinating! The efficiency, the scale of death, the way pack behavior maps effortlessly to hunting.
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There's a huge huge gap between "coaxing what you want out of it" and "trusting it to perform flawlessly". Everybody on the planet would use #2, but #1 is just for enthusiasts. AI is squarely #1. You can't trus
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Don't airlines have to pay for and/or actively use slots at some major airports? So New York to Chicago is a "mandatory" flight for the airline, but Chicago to Podunk is scheduled based on demand.

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