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by smsm42 3y ago
BTC is over 2x from what it was a year ago. Granted, a year ago it was at the local minimum, after crashing almost 4x from the peak, but isn't this exactly what "coming back" is accurately describing? It crashes 2021 to 2022,
842.
by smsm42 3y ago
> said stupid things (e.g. no evidence that masks are a good idea for healthy people, back in the era of the mask shortage That wasn't "stupid", that was a cynical lie. I.e. if you believe masks worked, that would be a mur
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by smsm42 3y ago
This is getting ridiculous... Maybe they should ask GPT4 how to handle it from now on?
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by smsm42 3y ago
That never stopped the regulators. If they thing "there must be a law", then there's a law, and if it makes much more trouble for you and doesn't create any benefit overall - well, that's your trouble, not theirs,
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by smsm42 3y ago
> Many of those policies didn't follow any science. And a bunch of them not working well is likely due to conflicting talking points from various of the powers that be. Virtually all of them were sold by "trust the Experts&quot
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by smsm42 3y ago
Could be. Housing bubble happened even though most people lived in houses and still do. It's all in price vs utility. If the former gets way ahead of the latter, and people start trading just on future price raises, you've got a
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by smsm42 3y ago
> you bet on the consensus science because it's probably right. And it was. Was it though? As I am seeing now, some early policies were flat out murderous (such as hosting COVID patients together with healthy people in nursing home
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by smsm42 3y ago
> What about those who deny "HIV causing AIDS", and don't take their medications? You may consider that for the argument "current consensus is not always true and should not be enforced as if it were always true"
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by smsm42 3y ago
That implies that best scientific knowledge may be faulty or even wrong. And in terms of scientism, this is heresy, or "science denial". In the era of Rationalism (TM), if something is not done in the best current knowledge of thi
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Maryland Law Requires People with Sleep Apnea Report It to Driving Authorities(nbcwashington.com)
20 points by smsm42 3y ago|9 comments
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by smsm42 3y ago
Why? Whoever is responsible for the data, we could assume if MS knew it, the owner of the data knew it too - if it's not MS, MS would notify them immediately. Of course, there's an option that the owner is privately held, has no i
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Scala Community Email Regarding John De Goes(gist.github.com)
5 points by smsm42 3y ago|1 comments
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by smsm42 3y ago
> leaked a bunch of data, and it wasn't disclosed, but Microsoft knew about it Didn't we just have a topic here on HN how not disclosing the breach within 4 days is a securities fraud? Since Nov 9 there has been more than 4 day
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by smsm42 3y ago
Actually no, it often is not how it works. For example, Harvey Weinstein's behavior has been "open secret" in certain circles way before the scandal exploded. Epstein has been known to be super shady way before he found his e
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by smsm42 3y ago
Tried to ask GPT4 to make a complaint - it produced a decent one but much more longwinded and repetitive. Maybe with some different prompting it could produce the same as in the article, but one thing is clear that it's a possibility -
856.
by smsm42 3y ago
Very useful word if you play Words with friends
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by smsm42 3y ago
Interesting! I am the exact opposite - I can drink coffee any time, and it doesn't affect my sleep at all. The reverse side of it it that it doesn't wake me up at all either. If I'm sleepy, giving me a cup of coffee is useles
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by smsm42 3y ago
That has been my experience too with more complicated scripts/tasks. If it's something beyond basics, GPT seems to be lost in its own dreamscape and never get out of it. Then again, sometimes it produces enough pointers/links
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by smsm42 3y ago
> There's nothing natural about extracting some chemical compounds from a plant on the other side of the world and using it to improve a medical problem you have. Excepting "other side of the world", the rest is very natur
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by smsm42 3y ago
It's so refreshing to encounter a manufacturer that gives a hoot about users. And then I feel sadness for realizing that this situation should be normal and routine, and it is so much not that it deserves an HN frontpage when somebody
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by smsm42 3y ago
You don't need a "model" for this - I remember a Coursera course on ML I did some years ago, and one of the exercises was email extraction. With some very basic algorithms, nothing more than a bunch of common python libraries
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by smsm42 3y ago
You know perfectly well that there are many views beyond "lower taxes" that are or were getting censored on large platforms. For example: origin of COVID, efficiency of masks and COVID mRNA vaccines, side effects of the above, nec
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by smsm42 3y ago
Paying to attend a school does not mean owning the school. People who want to hear the speaker also paid to attend, but somehow their money is not as green. Unless somebody promised them when they paid that they will never ever hear a word
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by smsm42 3y ago
Good people, obviously. Or, whoever the mob on the closest college campus prefers to.
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by smsm42 3y ago
You know perfectly well it's not about "selling them a megaphone". It's about shutting them up. We witnessed it with Parler - the whole network infrastructure was mobilized to not let them exist, in any way, in any form.
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by smsm42 3y ago
Looks like what you're saying is that the results are garbage but people who don't know it could be better are fine with it, because they learned it's how the world works and can't be otherwise. While the ones who are c
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by smsm42 3y ago
One good thing that came out of this myth, at least. That game is awesome.
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by smsm42 3y ago
For me, it means nothing, it's just stupid confused term that some people use to try to appeal to some vague authority. That's why said it's not good or useful term and I wouldn't use it.
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by smsm42 3y ago
Not all medicine. A lot of medicines are derived from plants or other organisms. Many animals use their saliva to avoid infection. Not sure if any use other materials.
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by smsm42 3y ago
We live in a culture where it matters a lot. We possess biology where it matters a lot. If we were robots which are about to be designed and programmed from scratch, you could ask if it's worth it to make us sexually dimorphic and ing

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