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by slibhb 2y ago
Brain drain is a real thing, but there are other issues preventing poor countries from being rich. Most of all political dysfunction. As far as brain drain goes, I don't think there's much point in fighting it. Cities like Singapo
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by slibhb 2y ago
You program servive workers in the client whereas headers are controlled by the server. Among other things, this means that service workers work when you have no internet access.
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by slibhb 2y ago
Yeah, ditto. "1M people" seems great but it turns out that you don't really want people who joined due to the result of an election.
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by slibhb 2y ago
Few people (perhaps none) expected LLMs to be good at chess. Nevertheless, as the article explains, there was buzz around a year ago that LLMs were good at chess. > It has no idea about the quality of it's data. "Act like x&quo
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by slibhb 2y ago
In my experience, a lot of remote empoyees not only do very little work but also are unresponsive. So when you need them, it's hours/days before you hear back. Even if people are unproductive in the office, they tend to at least b
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by slibhb 2y ago
I doubt giving someone who isn't doing a lot of work more money/leisure/status is going to motive them.
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by slibhb 2y ago
It seems obvious why companies want employees in the office. Namely it's a lot easier to shirk while remote. If you do valuable work and prefer remote then your employer ought to make an exception. That's how things were before CO
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by slibhb 2y ago
I haven't transcended my ego!
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by slibhb 2y ago
It's hard to get more ironic than farming upvotes on the internet talking about how you transcended ego or whatever.
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by slibhb 2y ago
Strongly agree. I am weirded out by the "Facebook is evil" thing. Facebook (and other tech companies) have become a scapegoat for upper class people who don't find their lives meaningful or are disappointed that their childre
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by slibhb 2y ago
I got hit by a car last weekend. It was the "left cross". Fortunately I wasn't seriously injured -- just a minor concussion -- and my bike wasn't badly damaged. It's a weird situation. The guy who hit me stopped but
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by slibhb 2y ago
The idea that the DNC stole the 2016 nomination from Sanders is silly. Sanders had no path to beating Hilary.
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by slibhb 2y ago
I only skimmed it but he clearly says that "energy beaming" won't work with Mars. I also don't think there was any "conflation."
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by slibhb 2y ago
> I’m not saying that the stats are wrong, but when it comes to politics, you can’t address economic anxiety by just pointing to statistics and saying, ‘Look, the numbers say everything is fine.’ So improving the economy can't addre
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by slibhb 2y ago
There's no reason at all to say Occupy was "real" whereas current conflicts are "manufactured."
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by slibhb 2y ago
> I am fairly regularly called violent, demented and mentally ill by anonymous commentors on the internet, ranging from pathetic fascists on HackerNews and ranging all the way up to Jordan Peterson himself. While part of this is unfortun
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by slibhb 2y ago
Nah. English speakers use God-based exclamations from time to time but they generally do not pepper their sentences with "God willing", "praise God," etc like Arabs do. That said, I do not care at all that Arabs used &qu
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by slibhb 2y ago
Most programming is trivial. Lots of non-trivial programming tasks can be broken down into pure, trivial sections. Then, the non-trivial part becomes knowing how the entire system fits together. I've been using LLMs for about a month n
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by slibhb 2y ago
Was there a breach with Strava or did people simply choose to publish their location publicly?
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by slibhb 2y ago
This idea that we have to respect other people's decisions is so stupid. There is nothing in the world wrong with believing that someone else is making a mistake. We have brains so we can make these sorts of judgements.
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by slibhb 2y ago
Psychedelics boost your mood in the days, weeks, and even months after taking them. Source: I've used them. It's really dramatic. However, eating a piece of chocolate also makes you feel good. Doesn't mean chocolate is an eff
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by slibhb 2y ago
You're assuming it's luck. But maybe we're actually good at identifying boundary-pushing geniuses? There are huge, huge incentives for being good at that.
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by slibhb 2y ago
It depends how you define "mass extinction." That aside, ask yourself why so many people are aghast at the idea that humanity isn't causing a mass extinction. Is it really because they love nature? Does ranting about how aw
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by slibhb 2y ago
I think you're right. Even worst cases of climate change and habitat destruction won't match historical mass extinction events. But there are a lot of people who are weirdly invested in humanity causing a mass extinction. I think
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by slibhb 2y ago
It's a fair point that Chomsky's ideas about grammars are used in parsing programming languages. But linguistics is supposed to deal with natural languages -- what has Chomskyan linguistics accomplished there? Contrast to the stat
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by slibhb 2y ago
Chomsky is shockingly un humble. I admire him but he's a jerk who treats people who disagree with him with contempt. It's fun to read him doing this but it's uncollegiate (to say the least). Also, calling "generative gr
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by slibhb 2y ago
Weed was already illegal! We could have kept it illegal and simply punished people less for using and selling it. Whereas making alcohol, tobacco, and guns illegal is clearly impossible.
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by slibhb 2y ago
People in this thread have said that harms caused by criminalization exceed harms caused by legalization. I think that's wrong. My sense is that people have a cognitive bias here. Diffuse harms are hard to measure and usually underesti
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by slibhb 2y ago
> We have quite a lot of evidence to the contrary. Such as? You assert that anti-legalization is about revenue. But what about millions of people with health issues caused by weed use/addiction? The ones discussed in the article. Is
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by slibhb 2y ago
I think this is probably wrong. The total society wide harms of legalization are higher than the total society wide harms of criminalization. The former harms are more diffuse but probably greater in sum. Of course, criminalization isn&#x27

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