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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
Society makes this judgement every day in a thousand different ways. Resources are limited. It's why we don't give 85-year-old's heart/lung transplants - the 30-year-old recipient can use it better/longer. Does tha
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
You didn't describe, but rather demonstrated, another aspect of the pattern which is that someone inevitably "goes meta" and remarks on the pattern - and usually someone points out that it's "not black and white&quo
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
It is a mistake to anthropomorphize large groups of people.
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
Unfortunately many people read Accelerando maybe not as a utopia, but at least as an excuse to ignore many pressing modern-day problems, for the simple reason that they would soon be obviated by technological progress. That is, why worry ab
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
In theory you could use it with your foot...
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
An M5 Max MBP with 128G of RAM costs ~$5k. An Nvidia RTX 5090 with 32G RAM is $4-5k, and RTX PRO 6000 with 96GB RAM $10k. Do you have any data on which is the best price/performance for local inference? Do you know what the big OpenAI&
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by simpaticoder 5mo ago
Yeah it's crazy when the CCP expresses frustration that you're not doing more capitalism... As an aside, I'm surprised that computers wouldn't make centralized economies more doable. It might not be good but at least
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by simpaticoder 5mo ago
Rather than donating 5-6 figures, what about saving enough cash to live on? Roughly speaking you can "make" ~$200k/year on $5M in T-bills. You could live comfortably in the US or Europe, or basically like a king anywhere else
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by simpaticoder 5mo ago
It's really hard to tell if an idea is bad without trying it out first. Zuck's runway was unusually long. And who knows? Maybe he should have stuck with it a while longer. We cannot say for certain that it would always have failed
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by simpaticoder 5mo ago
"We forced every user of every printer, worldwide, to interact with their printer through our centralized servers. This caused service disruptions affecting everyone. The cost was instability felt by all users." There, I fixed it
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by simpaticoder 5mo ago
9 times out of 10 I'd listen to Sarah's stories. Is buying a spice blend really so urgent and important? So much of life is lived incidental to transactions. Not everything improves with productivity.
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by simpaticoder 5mo ago
Wouldn't it be nice if there were less of a distinction? Think of old school mom-and-pop shops, which were actually a reflection of who they were, personally, vs. Wal-Mart or Target. Which main street do you prefer?
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by simpaticoder 5mo ago
I didn't notice until you mentioned it; fixed. Like others have pointed out, one issue has little to do with the other. Cars were made for 100 years without an internet connection. Even for an EV there is no need for network connectivi
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by simpaticoder 5mo ago
This is insufficient. There needs to be a physical button that either physically disconnects every antenna and/or de-powers the transceiver.
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by simpaticoder 5mo ago
This is the part that makes the least sense. It shows a profound lack of empathy. For many devs this is equivalent to saying "Give up your livelihood to show you support this principle, that will likely have little to no effect".
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by simpaticoder 5mo ago
There needs to be a name for the way people think the world hasn't changed since they were a young adult. I'm not convinced it's just boomers; it's just that they had it so good the contrast is higher. Gen Xers do the sa
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by simpaticoder 5mo ago
In the US, credit score is used for hiring and rental agreements. It is not something you can opt-out of.
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by simpaticoder 5mo ago
So, like an intersection of workers?
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by simpaticoder 5mo ago
In real life you need to know the options and their trade-offs to solve a given problem. You don't need to know all the techniques perfectly, but you do need to be able to characterize them and compare them, from rote memory.
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by simpaticoder 6mo ago
Your comment betrays a lazy survivorship bias.
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by simpaticoder 6mo ago
I have both Blu-ray and DVDs and I've found its the content that determines which is good enough. Kids in care not one bit about image quality. Obviously: people still like retro games, too. But then other movies, like anything by Vi
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by simpaticoder 6mo ago
I hear lots of talk about concentration of power, but too little about its amplification. It was a quieter world before amplifiers, both literally and figuratively.
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by simpaticoder 6mo ago
Because at least someone benefits. It's why theft is arguably better than vandalism. If you steal the thing, at least someone gets to use it. If it's vandalized, no-one does.
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by simpaticoder 6mo ago
There is a larger pattern here worth noting: old tech atrophies in the presence of new tech. For example, stores that stop taking cash. Books that stop publishing on paper. Music that has no physical media distribution. The problem is that
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by simpaticoder 6mo ago
I am not a scholar in general, or of Chuck Norris specifically. I only have the impressions I have from the pop culture I've consumed. Like most people. And for us, Norris represents something wholesome. For others, those who've r
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by simpaticoder 6mo ago
Chuck Norris (and Michael Landon) were golden age role models for young men. Strong but thoughtful, firm but compassionate, and deeply principled but also practical. Yes, these were acting roles but they picked those roles for a reason. Re
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by simpaticoder 6mo ago
The feedback loop for this moral hazard is slow but implacable. You can treat the zeitgeist as a dumping ground for so long, until you get so big, that you can no longer treat it like an idealized infinite substance.
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by simpaticoder 7mo ago
Yes, and here's an interesting (and clear) example that shows that narcissism is a complex delusion that puts one's own fault squarely into a blind spot that cannot be perceived. I watched this and, for the first time in my life
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by simpaticoder 7mo ago
I find this kind of argument tiresome. If indeed you confidently know that a claim is fear mongering in bad faith, then the onus is on you to support your claims. Otherwise you're just adding to the noise. To wit, a perfectly reasonabl
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by simpaticoder 7mo ago
>Start holding capital to account You forgot one: capital cannot be held accountable for making a tool used in a crime. It is a simple generalization of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), passed in 2005, which large

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