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by stanfordkid 1y ago
The reasoning for why they canned him is a total facade. Nothing he said was really that inflammatory. They canned him because they were afraid the FCC would screw them, then they saw their viewers were angry so they re-negged. Run of the
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by stanfordkid 1y ago
This is a common framing by neo-liberal / centrist folks: That the US/West is intelligently and methodologically utilizing Israel for some tactical geopolitical advantage / force projection. It may have played out that way in
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by stanfordkid 1y ago
To further explain: No, they didn't build iPhones to be beautiful because they would sell more, they did because they wanted to. Ferrari didn't design sports cars because he wanted to sell the most cars. Armani doesn't design
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by stanfordkid 1y ago
Friedmans theory is basically a non-statement. It’s so banal as to be vacuous, except as a justification. It’s like saying the point of life is to procreate. Like no shit, but that’s not all that it is. To put it in AI terms: you could dime
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by stanfordkid 1y ago
It always astounds me how stupid economists are. Like only an economist would use reasoning using terms something like epsilon to infinity to describe something that is a context dependent feedback loop in a closed system. Like these guys a
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by stanfordkid 1y ago
Umm... it absolutely was cut and dry. 75 years ago a set of westerners came and occupied another country through massive, brutal and widespread violence all under the approval of western govt's that themselves felt massive guilt about
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by stanfordkid 1y ago
It means two people of different races can have a baby together, but two people of the same sex cannot.
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by stanfordkid 1y ago
This a bone headed article… umm we can’t extract anything from it about your health (*now)… so might as well just spread it everywhere? Like he doesn’t even go into the fact that it could be used by law enforcement wrongfully etc: e.g Unreg
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by stanfordkid 2y ago
The answer is to work with your bank to block payments. Equity is a legal contract, it's not going to evaporate because Carta says so. Carta isn't going to hire a debt collector against a well funded startup and get counter-sued &
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by stanfordkid 2y ago
This is the great illustration of the hokey thinking that happens in economics. They don't focus on modeling humans as agentic systems. What happens if GDP is pushed to 1000%, 10,000%? When there is so much agricultural production that
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by stanfordkid 2y ago
Is back propagation really an idea applicable to the Nobel prize in physics? I mean certainly a Turing award is warranted. But back propagation or neural networks don’t really tell us anything about how the universe works. It’s an efficient
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by stanfordkid 2y ago
There is indeed, as you state, political influence being exerted on courts. Most of that influence is in support of Israel and Netanyahu — do you really think there is significant political power and influence upon the ICC from Palestine or
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by stanfordkid 2y ago
Coursera seems to have made a (reasonably) successful business out of it. $1B market cap and almost $200M revenue. Now of course it is not the scale of other SaaS/Enterprise/Social Media outcomes but there is a market here, I thin
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by stanfordkid 2y ago
The thing is… having billions doesn’t actually make you that cool or desirable to women. Maybe it’s nice on paper — like having a cool car, but it’s a condiment. I think a lot of these tech billionaires want what they didn’t have when young
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by stanfordkid 2y ago
I mean it’s easier to build something new than guess how a black box you don’t have access to works (short of spying on the manufacturing facility). I’m sure Russian missile technology has at least somewhat kept up.
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by stanfordkid 2y ago
It was ethnic cleansing, violent forced displacement paired with massacres of 750,000 people. My mistake — not genocide.
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by stanfordkid 2y ago
I think the problem the Muslim world faces is that it is too often summarized by such aspects. It’s a diverse civilization with a rich history and complexities like any other. We hardly associate all of Western or Christian civilization wit
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by stanfordkid 2y ago
Not really. It’s absurd to draw the line into ancient history of Arab’s colonizing the Levant. Early 1900s to 1948 are more reasonable given that people actually exist that lived in this time or at least meaningful records of history. The f
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by stanfordkid 2y ago
That’s a bit of a moot point. The actual human beings forming the military backbone of the “Taliban” were all fighters trained by the Pakistani ISI (at the behest of and sponsored by the United States) in order to fight Soviets. The US dist
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by stanfordkid 2y ago
Stupid, especially coming from a VC that is very knowledgeable of the amortization of returns on a portfolio: 9 companies fail for every single success. Google acts like a big VC fund, obviously many initiatives fail. Why would he judge Goo
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by stanfordkid 3y ago
It's kind of funny reading HN comments comparing this to WWII. Israel was given the land after WWII as some sort of weird hand washing by western governments. People already lived there. The claims that Hamas is like "Germany&quot
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by stanfordkid 3y ago
"to perform a lethal function in a weapon without human authorization or control." In other words... Just make sure you have a confirm dialog before launching the rockets! IMO the major cloud players have no ethical or moral contr
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by stanfordkid 3y ago
Regulatory capture in action. The real immediate risks of AI is in privacy, bias, data leakage, fraud, control of infrastructure/medical equipment etc. not manufacturing biological weapons. This seems like a classic example of governme
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by stanfordkid 3y ago
Yeah exactly. It is non-sensical to say that she is a Bank Teller twice. English isn't mathematical syntax and directly converting a P(occupation=Bank Teller) => "Linda is a bank teller" is a bad translation of mathematica
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by stanfordkid 3y ago
It's fairly clear to me that there is no such thing as AGI. Intelligence is a process of integrating sensory input with action and reward mechanisms -- nothing more, nothing less. Are there specific structures and architectures that h
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by stanfordkid 3y ago
Sounds like the ideal type of trade to build a union for?
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by stanfordkid 4y ago
Just because an economist wrote a utilitarian calculus saying "this is what makes a city great" doesn't make it so. The logic they use to define "good" ultimately has, at it's deepest core a morality. The mora
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by stanfordkid 4y ago
Yeah but cloud infra is a competitive market with multiple players, it's not like they're going to just buy a monthly AWS contract. They will probably have a cloud migration strategy, multiple year fixed contract, and multi-cloud
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by stanfordkid 4y ago
I'd be curious to understand why this is the case. It seems that businesses generally have highly network style data -- think of your average system for a "widget" business... it ranges from orders to suppliers to manufacturi
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by stanfordkid 4y ago
can't you just use soundflower with some scripting to capture the audio directly at the uncompressed audio card level? There is NO way for spotify to block that.

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