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by smt88 9mo ago
The problem is when someone makes a profit from your use of that tobacco, especially if they aren't covering the enormous costs of your premature illness or death
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by smt88 9mo ago
What's your point? We regulated cigarettes and now they have a tiny fraction of their former customer base, saving millions of lives. These are solvable problems.
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by smt88 9mo ago
Starbucks is a miserable place to work because of strict rules around dress and conduct, but they pay better than basically any other retail job. Baristas get $20+/hour and eventually work their way up to $30, along with health insuran
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by smt88 9mo ago
No serious person thinks LLMs will be the method to create AGI. Even Sam Altman gave that up. Anyone still saying they'll reach AGI is pumping a stock price. Separately and unrelated, companies and researchers are still attempting to r
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by smt88 9mo ago
It's vastly different. It's more (exactly?) like pulling a .sh file hosted on someone else's website and running it as root, except the contents of the file are generated by a LLM, no one reads them, and the owner of the webs
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by smt88 9mo ago
> Statins, ezetimibe, and PCSK9 inhibitors can reduce LDL or ApoB by 85-95% What? Absolutely not. Not even close. Provide a source if you really believe this.
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by smt88 9mo ago
VS Code is a fantastic Electron app
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by smt88 9mo ago
This is certainly true in the US, but I don't think it's universal at all
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by smt88 9mo ago
I'm in the US and have never experienced anyone keeping results to themselves. In fact, I can now easily access even my doctor's appointment notes. I have my entire chart unless my doctor specifically writes private notes.
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by smt88 9mo ago
Why would we want to do this when we can just watch each video in a sequence and pull out relevant clips or frames? There's no issue with the angle. All angles tell the same story with varying levels of detail: he was trying to protect
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by smt88 9mo ago
I think they're actually just saying bad actors are inevitable, inconsistent, and hard to identify ahead of time, so it's useless to be a scold when instead you can think of how to build systems that are more resilient to bad acts
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by smt88 9mo ago
> US censorship, US surveillance, US narratives (patriot approved) This is the status quo for a lot of US media, but TikTok is actually much worse. The "US narratives" in this case are in service of Trump, possibly behind clo
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by smt88 9mo ago
It has 200M users in the US (I'm not one of them), which is about half of all citizens. Do you really think it's possible they have no point? For most people, it's a distracting little jolt of dopamine and a way to get quick
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by smt88 9mo ago
Do you feel there's no difference between being surveilled by Oracle and being surveilled by the CCP? They're both terrible, but do you really think they're equivalent? There's also the issue of the algorithm being used
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by smt88 9mo ago
Yes, but such people are so rare that they're functionally non-existent. I certainly don't know even one.
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by smt88 9mo ago
> For me this is a far better tradeoff than having all my most private mail on some bigcorp server where any nerd can rifle through it. You've functionally given yourself very little extra privacy because the vast majority of emai
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by smt88 9mo ago
Value for money doesn't matter if people are boycotting them for political reasons. Tesla only exists today because it got huge subsidies from the government. It has competitors now and the subsidies were spread out before the GOP kill
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by smt88 9mo ago
It's not silent. It tells you when you set up BitLocker and it also allows you to recover the drive.
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by smt88 9mo ago
I used to feel the way you do, but as I've gotten older, learned more about the fields, and met more researchers, I've come to disagree. Calling them science is a farce. We should put money into them and continue most of these are
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by smt88 9mo ago
Feels like now that I've seen it, it could become a self fulfilling prophecy
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by smt88 9mo ago
How else should we interpret "both parties are 100% in the pocket"? You even conveniently quantified it for us so that there's no confusion that you're saying they're exactly the same.
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by smt88 9mo ago
https://elonmusk.today tracks some of his utter nonsense
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by smt88 9mo ago
Both parties have sued Alphabet and won a major case, although the outcome isn't ideal. Meta and Apple have also been sued by both parties for monopolistic behavior.
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by smt88 9mo ago
Biden appointed Lina Khan. "Both parties are the same" is lazy and unhelpful.
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by smt88 9mo ago
Good reviews are almost 100% fake or planted
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by smt88 9mo ago
I expect masked ICE agents to be deployed to polls in purple and blue states to "prevent non-citizens from voting" (i.e. to scare minorities away from polls)
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by smt88 9mo ago
If trying to overthrow a democratic govt doesn't deserve the death penalty, nothing does (which is a reasonable position to have)
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by smt88 9mo ago
If you've ever used Claude Code in brave mode, I can't understand how you'd think a dev team could make the same categories of mistakes or with the same frequency.
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by smt88 9mo ago
> If I am an IC at, say, a FANG company, what insurance has been taken out on me writing code there? Every non-trivial software business has liability insurance to cover them for coding lapses that lead to data breaches or other kinds
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by smt88 9mo ago
I use LLMs whenever I'm coding, and it makes mistakes ~80% of the time. If you haven't seen it make a huge mistake, you may not be experienced enough to catch them.

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