smallmancontrov

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by smallmancontrov 5d ago
The cap is generous. If an insurance company is hitting it, competition is failing to keep them in check and lifting the cap would just let them gouge deeper. Of course, that doesn't keep them from constantly yapping this talking point
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by smallmancontrov 8d ago
Yes it's about them not being human. No it's not about humans being irrationally competitive. Human limitations on conversation length, bandwidth, research speed, etc are severe, creating a prisoner's dilemma around open-mind
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by smallmancontrov 8d ago
Nothing, but if you believe that laissez-faire capitalism is tautologically good then you can't blame your capitalist overlords for selling your job to China and refusing to backfill it, so you must blame China for developing themselve
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by smallmancontrov 9d ago
Is 1T1C SRAM a technological thing or does it mean "persuade designers to use DRAM in the many cases where the retention contract could be timeboxed with a bit of extra thought and cross-team haggling"?
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by smallmancontrov 9d ago
> fluid, self-modifying things w/ contracts This smells like worm food. Those contracts had better be airtight.
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by smallmancontrov 9d ago
> Build a users table with a primary key and twenty single-column indexes That's pretty bad > (I have seen worse in production, and so have you) but yes, yes I have.
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by smallmancontrov 9d ago
> “anything that makes life easier leads to laziness then death” is a moral opinion, not fact It's a moral opinion that we turn into an economic opinion when we mismanage a robust inelastic labor supply into soggy declining demand,
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by smallmancontrov 9d ago
It gets fun when someone uses an uncensored model to bypass a refusal, but they accidentally pick one that was trained for erotic writing and brings its particular talent to the documentation task.
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by smallmancontrov 9d ago
Seawater is 10% saturated IIRC, so you'd have to make the saturated solution first, and if the easiest way to do that is to dissolve another cavern then using brine doesn't have much of a cost advantage over "use this one unt
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by smallmancontrov 9d ago
Ah yes, the "Joint" investigation by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX)! Republicans do love to pinch pennies when Democrats are in charge, don't they. > 2011 Excluding Trump, who I'm sure those fiscally responsible congressiona
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by smallmancontrov 11d ago
"Trump is misusing a term, better roll over and let him do it!" Gross.
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by smallmancontrov 11d ago
No, the fed doesn't set rates. Not by much, not for long, not without inflation taking off. In theory they chase R*, in practice they chase the 2-year. Plot EFFR and US02Y on tradingview and tell me who leads whom, and tell me what hap
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by smallmancontrov 11d ago
You really don't want to accept that our deficit expansion has been overwhelmingly due to Republican largesse, do you? Democrats aren't fiscal conservatives, but the last time they were able to expand the deficit in pursuit of soc
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by smallmancontrov 11d ago
Yeah, in 2020 we let Trump print $4T in a single election year and then he spent the next four years successfully convincing the weak minded that Biden caused the pandemic inflation by printing $2T over the next four years, running the prin
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by smallmancontrov 11d ago
> Maybe we should vote for people who are financially literate, can think long term, and can "conserve" rather than politicians who promise endlessly? Conservatives: +-------------------------+----------------------------
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by smallmancontrov 11d ago
The system was always working, ZIRP was the market screaming that it had more capital than things to do with the capital. Of course, thinking about this too hard quickly leads to the idea of rolling back some of the enormous tax and policy
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by smallmancontrov 11d ago
I'm pretty sure that's the idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhumans
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by smallmancontrov 11d ago
This isn't a fight we can avoid by retreating. They would just advance and the same battle would happen on different ground. If we abandon the trans, the culture wars will be about the gays. If we abandon the gays, the culture wars wil
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by smallmancontrov 11d ago
Let's suppose you had your way and the cultural concept of America as a set of ideas and values related to democracy was erased. Would the universal non-national concepts of democracy and civil liberties have been able to inspire Mike
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by smallmancontrov 11d ago
The American people deserve to know that President Trump and his advisors didn’t just ask me to pause, they asked me to reject votes, to return votes, to essentially overturn the election. To keep faith with the oath that
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by smallmancontrov 11d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_January_6_Unit...
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by smallmancontrov 11d ago
When Trump calls Democrats "enemies from within," that's anti-American. When Trump refuses to peacefully transfer power to his victorious opponent and instead plays "heads I win tails you cheated," that's a
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by smallmancontrov 13d ago
The oil that lubricates the combustion chambers and pistons gets burnt and filled with nasty combustion goop. An impressive amount of cleverness goes to minimizing this, but the oil that sees the combustion chambers still goes bad at many t
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by smallmancontrov 16d ago
Load up on verification cans because the companies who got away with flaunting EU advertising/tracking laws will get away with obnoxious ad-driven AI too. (The cookie consent banners that you see everywhere were anticipated and forbidd
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by smallmancontrov 16d ago
Need? A committee of the dumbest software on your pc/phone will get together to tell you what you need, and they have decided you need tin-can audio quality so that the microphone can be active so that AT&T spyware embedded in t
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by smallmancontrov 17d ago
"It's not a search unless we found something." - FISA courts, re: 4th Amendment
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by smallmancontrov 17d ago
These are ~1000-word stories (prompts at [1]), squarely in the sweet spot where planning logistics are minimal, context windows comfortably fit everything, and the appropriate level of abstraction omits any details which could glaringly rev
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by smallmancontrov 18d ago
Yes, I saw that too, it was quite remarkable. Still, learned helplessness would have us believe that such an appointment was impossible and yet it happened, and it happened in a Democratic party that leaned "more lib than left" to
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by smallmancontrov 18d ago
> our government works for corporations instead of the public Yes, but we cheat ourselves out of change with learned helplessness. Did you see how much hatred the business community directed at Lina Khan when she started dusting off the
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by smallmancontrov 18d ago
You get what you pay for. If you want to think harder and get more, https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attention-qk/index.htm...

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