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by sokoloff 5mo ago
If I build a chat bot that encourages people to off themselves, am I in the clear because I didn’t take any destructive action and my chat bot didn’t either?
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
If you're in a market where a competitor can cut their costs to produce the same quality product, end customers don't know (and if they knew, 95+% of them don't give a crap) how rich you've helped your employees get. If
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Because they want the fixes that B-ZZZ learned about and they may not be able to avoid letting the model know that it made an error, unless they suddenly go silent to the model about what happened.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Part of the positive aspect here is that if I have a junior dev who learns a lesson today, maybe they and their immediate peers learn it, but it won’t be all my junior devs and it certainly won’t be junior devs at other companies. With mode
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Plenty of time to talk about your life and hobbies once hired. If I’ve got 45 minutes to make a recommendation based on an evaluation, I don’t want to base any of that on your relationship/family status or pets, I certainly don’t want
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
That's not especially different from the typical LLC/SPE holding structure where individual properties in a large real estate portfolio are not held directly, but rather by a single-purpose entity that holds each property and then
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
In residential real estate, I think stems in large part from a desire to help people who don’t come from money to own personal real estate (which is one of the best ways to go from $0 or negative net worth to positive six figure net worth).
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Exactly. That is largely how commercial lending is underwritten: by ensuring the DSCR (debt service coverage ratio) is over 1.0.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
That varies by state. Twelve states are fully non-recourse states (lenders can’t go after borrowers beyond the loan security); in other states they may be able to, but borrowers who default on their mortgage may not be particularly asset-ri
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
You understand mortgages, though, right? Even 3% or 0% down mortgages?
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
The same thing as happens if I go to sleep for 8 hours.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Where should housing come from if not by paying someone for it (either by the month [renting] or for an eternity [buying])? My uncle built his own house; it took him ages (and still hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy the materials and
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Looks like a Polestar and Corvette had a child.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
That was a callback to "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Even if that didn’t land, I think it's clear from the rest of the context that I don't intend to provide my passcode.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
I read “may request” and “may be requested” quite literally. They may request it, but it doesn’t say providing it is compulsory. I have nothing to hide, but still no intention to provide my passcode.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
I don't understand the comment. I wrote the tests . That was how I expressed the spec and my intentions.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
I find it hard to call Amazon robotics a failure. All of the small/binnable item FCs make extensive (and, as an outsider, apparently very productive) use of robotics.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
I think most people test at least a happy path of their code end to end. I think we can all agree that your last sentence is far more aspirational than bare minimum standard practice. (“I believe we should be spending our energy thoroughly
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
I love ice cream. If I was eating a quart/liter of it every day, I could think I should cut back but still not be anti-ice cream. I enjoy salt/spices; there’s still an optimal amount of spices to add to a dish and wanting to hit t
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
How so? If legal immigration was at 40% of its current level and I wanted legal immigration to double from there, would that still be anti-immigrant? Or does having any limit whatsoever mean that you're opposed to a thing?
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Only if that job board was an actually useful and common source for genuine hiring. If it becomes “these companies are checking a box, don’t bother applying” or “these companies are considering an H1-B application, flood them with resumes”,
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Where does this ~$350 trillion dollars come from?!
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
It doesn’t seem inherently contradictory for someone to think “I’m not anti-immigrant” and “my ideal target for legal immigration is at 80% of its current rate”.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Strong border policies with moderate (weaker) and selective enforcement will give the combination that GP describes: enough supply backed by the threat of strong individual penalties if someone here illegally “gets out of line”.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
I know. I read that. I was adding the practical point about basis establishment and record-keeping; I never disputed their other points.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
The full value of the shares (original basis plus step-up [or step-down] in basis) is already part of the estate and so is already subject to the inheritance tax rules. It's just that the exclusion amounts are fairly high, so in pr
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Passing a law that restricts the amount of my own money that I can spend talking about myself seems especially directly a 1A violation.
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
Does your and my tax return data fall into that same category? Individual health records from the Veterans' Administration? Earnings records from Social Security? Census information down to the individual household? Individual FAFSA (s
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
On what basis should the recording of voices of identifiable flight crew (often the last words of people soon-to-perish, perhaps unknowingly) be public information? You seem fairly sure that the public has a right to hear them and that view
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by sokoloff 5mo ago
It’s also a practical policy. It’s far easier to know the stepped-up basis on the date of X’s death than it is to know the basis that X had in something once X is dead.

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