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by skulk 2y ago
> As corporations rival the power of nations more and more See: British East India Company. I don't really have a relevant point to make here but corporations being more powerful than countries actually seems to be the default state
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by skulk 2y ago
Improving the diets of Americans enough for it to have a real impact on healthcare spending is a 3-4 decade undertaking. Without significant support from Congress, this is basically just a windmill that RFK is charging at.
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by skulk 2y ago
I'm currently reading through the automatic memory management claims which look really cool (reminds me of linear types), but the highlighted punctuation (, : =) makes it very painful to read.
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by skulk 2y ago
Sure, if you're willing to ignore eight or nine orders of magnitude of efficiency.
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by skulk 2y ago
Nah, they're totally right about this one. When you exploit the global power imbalance in your favor, at least acknowledge what you're doing before dishing it out as general advice.
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by skulk 2y ago
Just to provide a data point here, I have absolute pitch (from a very young age) in that all the different notes FEEL different in an incredibly obvious way the same way different animal noises feel different. I have no issues identifying c
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by skulk 2y ago
Anyone who has watched The Wire will recognize the use of the term here. (Minor spoilers ahead) In season 3 (I think) Herc caught the mayor doing something inappropriate in his office and his silence was rewarded with promotions. Later on,
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by skulk 2y ago
Playing the victim is also another page right out of the Nazi playbook, thanks for bringing that one up too!
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by skulk 2y ago
According to the wiki article on fexprs, they lost favor because they make it hard to statically determine whether a function call evaluates its parameters, which makes it hard for a compiler to optimize. > At the 1980 [Conference], Kent
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by skulk 2y ago
Looks like the archive got paywalled too. Are the days of freeloading news articles over?
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by skulk 2y ago
I'd appreciate an explanation of why my tax money should go to feed brown people in other countries. Those children should have thought twice before getting into a civil war, can't they take responsibility for their actions? I swe
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by skulk 2y ago
At that point, if there is a credible threat of those decrees being enforced, it's already over. The point is that obedience in advance empowers authoritarians to start ratcheting up the abuse. edit: also but sorry, complying with vacc
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by skulk 2y ago
Would you like to explain how taking (perhaps illegal) action to force transparency in authority is somehow itself authoritarian?
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by skulk 2y ago
It looks like it's up to the US Marshals Service to uphold the judge's order, which is pretty much one of their only jobs. If that doesn't happen... we're cooked.
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by skulk 2y ago
It means telling your wife she can't hang out with her friends.
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by skulk 2y ago
yep
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by skulk 2y ago
No need for past tense! The most active MUD today (AFAIK, 250 logged in at most times) uses a version of this to automatically reboot every 2 days.
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by skulk 2y ago
Why does the AGI want life or longevity? If you think it looks anything like an LLM, what part of an attention layer or MLP could possibly encode this? Existence is not a token.
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by skulk 2y ago
off topic (who even cares about the OP) but I heard a clip of Musk saying that "the bureaucracy subverts democracy. I want government by the people, not the bureau" and ... I don't even. Do people really fall for this? Is it
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by skulk 2y ago
> I mean it would be much faster to stay what good impact had the usa foreign policy on the world in the last 100 year. It could have wondrously good impacts, but that only matters in a moral framework where good actions morally cancel o
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by skulk 2y ago
> advertising for scams > racism these are examples of flavors I'm talking about. I should have said "flavors" instead of flavor.
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by skulk 2y ago
It means that if you bought under $100k, you are no longer the biggest fool. Bitcoin is completely unworkable as an everyday currency and this this is due to multiple factors. Any attempt to address these shortcomings ends up slowly[0] re-i
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by skulk 2y ago
> I just can't wrap my head around people that were "drain the swamp" nativists are cool with an unelected foreign-born billionaire having free reign, essentially unaccountably, to do whatever he wants to any federal depar
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by skulk 2y ago
If I was a zillionaire with an interest in dismantling safeguards against me exploiting the commons to earn more zillions, I'd be dumping huge amounts of money into Reason. They're so incredibly good at what they do (see: comments
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by skulk 2y ago
Not really, since the value in currency of their assets goes up while the compensation for labor goes down.
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by skulk 2y ago
This comment covers it pretty well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892253 Also, don't complain about downvotes.
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by skulk 2y ago
No, but 1) don't hang pieces 2) notice when your opponent hangs pieces 3) win endgames where you're up material should be enough to get you to 1500.
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by skulk 2y ago
I will remember this advice the next time I decide to write a bug.
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by skulk 2y ago
mentioned in another comment, there are ways to bundle nix derivations into standalone run-on-any-linux binaries: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-bundle
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by skulk 2y ago
There is nix-bundle (which I admittedly have never had a reason to use) https://github.com/nix-community/nix-bundle

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