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by sidlls 3y ago
Most cultures choose values like this based on their aggregate interactions with observable natural phenomena over a period of some generations. It’s too bad Spanish invaders wiped out much of anything that might help discern what that migh
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by sidlls 3y ago
Petty landlords are the vast majority, unfortunately. All they care about is extracting rent. They don't see tenants as human beings who can struggle, but rather as a source of income to exploit and ignore as much as they can.
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by sidlls 3y ago
Yes, substantially.
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by sidlls 3y ago
It's possible to attack this problem from multiple angles. As it stands right now the tenants that occupy my properties either don't want to own (grad students) or can't afford it (e.g., service workers, low-end "white
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by sidlls 3y ago
That's not uniformly true, and often only applies if it's due to citation after an inspection. Regardless, the tenants are often not aware of these regulations. Besides, my point was mainly that the tenants I have are so used to l
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by sidlls 3y ago
This is one of the reasons I became a landlord in the first place. One of my tenants recently experienced a terrible water damage issue that caused both bathrooms in their unit to be unavailable while repairs occur. They were shocked when I
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by sidlls 3y ago
There are two reasons to point "on the first try" and leave out all the other context (in particular, the giant body of work done by other space agencies and engineering technologies, especially the US's, that China built on)
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by sidlls 3y ago
There is a...contingent...of people here and in other social media venues who seem quite set on elevating the achievements of their chosen group (China, in this case) with exaggerated, unmerited praise, and simultaneously poo-pooing the (us
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by sidlls 3y ago
On the one hand we have people lauding SpaceX/Musk as super geniuses able to achieve great feats without the supposed waste and largesse of the government, and on the other we have the same group wringing their hands when expectations
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by sidlls 3y ago
It's only relevant to context if it also includes the context in which the event occurred: China's first attempt is not a notable achievement in the same way the first successful landing after many failures is. I really hate these
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by sidlls 3y ago
The best brains of this generation aren't focused on ad clicks, either.
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by sidlls 3y ago
Unionizing is a bad strategy that loses when governments captured by the elites who own the capital help those same elites squash the power of unions. When governments get out of the way (marginally better) or work to actively balance the p
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by sidlls 4y ago
Tesla has nothing to compete with the Rivian truck, and the Model X—not the Model Y—is the competitor model to the rivian SUV
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by sidlls 4y ago
If Tesla counts as “lightyears ahead” that whole sector of the industry is in poor shape. Tesla’s software is an absolute mess of poor UX and bugs
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by sidlls 4y ago
99% of the controls and information (speed) are on a panel that you have to divert your eyes from the road to view or manipulate while driving. When I'm driving my gas engine car I divert my eyes a fraction of the distance to glance a
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by sidlls 4y ago
If Tesla's goal was to sacrifice itself to bring EVs to the masses, sure. Tesla's models aimed at the masses (3, Y, X) are inferior to their competitors' equivalents in every aspect but one (access to Tesla's charging ne
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by sidlls 4y ago
The Rivian SUV I put a deposit on is comparably priced to the Model X, which is Tesla's nearest similar model. The Rivian pickup exists (as compared to the Cybertruck). Similarly for the Mach-E and the BMW. The Mercedes was ridiculous
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by sidlls 4y ago
My wife's Tesla (Model Y) has poor steering, minor misalignment of weatherstripping on the door, and the interior is austere (to put it politely--it feels like I'm in a cleanroom or some box out of a modern minimalist's wet-d
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by sidlls 4y ago
It likely varies by region and social standards within different communities. I personally know people who have had CPS called on them because they let their kids (young teens, around 13 or so) walk to the store (~0.5 miles) alone. It'
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by sidlls 4y ago
My neighborhood in particular is very safe. In general being in public today is much safer than when I was a kid.
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by sidlls 4y ago
My neighbors were reported by someone in the neighborhood.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Part of this simply has to do with nosy busy-bodies ready to pounce on the phone to call Child Protective Services (or equivalent) whenever they see a child out and about on their own. I'm not afraid to send my kids to the park (few bl
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by sidlls 4y ago
Politicians aren't isolated: the people they interact with would be impacted, too.
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by sidlls 4y ago
"So much of human "reasoning" is also just automated reflex." citation needed . This is an assertion you've made without any real evidence.
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by sidlls 4y ago
This is an uncharitable description of human understanding: your statement is simply not true in this context.
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by sidlls 4y ago
I haven't seen anyone call these LLMs "useless" or "gimmicks." What I have seen is pushback against calling them general AIs or even "intelligence" in general. LLMs are not "intelligent." They do
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by sidlls 4y ago
Not to mention lack of culture.
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by sidlls 4y ago
I don’t think we should trust the soundness of their algorithm. I’ve worked in the healthcare space before, and the perverse incentives involved should make everyone extremely skeptical of insurance companies’ motivations, procedures, and a
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by sidlls 4y ago
The only winning move is not to play. Jokes aside, a LLM is almost certainly the wrong tool for this job
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by sidlls 4y ago
You might be surprised at how little some (many?) programmers with C++ experience actually know about the language. Or any language, really. Our industry doesn't reward that kind of knowledge very much.

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