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by stuffn 9mo ago
The EMH is provably false. Moreover if you can get an edge that is even 2-3% over a coin flip all you need is risk management to make money. Not understanding this is how you go broke. I traded for a number of years and did well. It was not
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by stuffn 10mo ago
Software engineers are desperate to have their work be like machining aircraft parts. It’s a tool. No one cares about code quality because the person using your code isn’t affected by it. There are better and worse tools. No one cares wheth
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by stuffn 10mo ago
Regulation, I’d argue, is a far more efficient route to monopoly than “unchecked capitalism”. If you have enough money you can gain regulatory capture. If you pay close attention the majority of “evil capitalists” the far left bitches and w
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by stuffn 10mo ago
Its syntax is lowest common denominator. It’s incredibly easy for people from all walks of life to pick up. It’s “good enough” for just about every task. But really it’s because Google, Dropbox, etc made it so. Same reason Java got popular.
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by stuffn 10mo ago
The software I use for hobbies is locked in to windows. A lot of extremely good software in the DIY world is locked to windows. Coincidentally I can run it all on a 10 year old PC. I see no reason I need to upgrade. I’d happily pay a small
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by stuffn 10mo ago
> Bullshit I tried to present a different opinion here and not flame anyone in my post. But since you're being inflammatory I feel it necessary to call out your terminally online sickness. The reddit/HN pseudo-intellectual far
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by stuffn 10mo ago
A person let's their case be argued by ChatGPT Esq. At sentencing: "Your honor, the death penalty for a traffic ticket?" AI will never replace humans in this capacity. Lawyers may be scummy but most people would take a slimeb
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by stuffn 10mo ago
Given they have the power of life and death in their hands having them licensed and accountable is peace of mind. Surely unions are too powerful in several industries. Police, medicine, and law. But not having some association holding these
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by stuffn 10mo ago
I feel a divide w.r.t. this topic. I'm old now and grew up when the internet was full of small groups of nerds. People knew each other (rarely by name), often times you weren't identifiable at all. You made friends strictly on the
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by stuffn 10mo ago
This list is very obviously politically motivated. None of these are banned. I can find them trivially on Amazon. My benchmark for "ban" would be a black out from common resellers. There are common themes among all of them. All of
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by stuffn 10mo ago
Yeah was about to say the last textbook I paid for was $380 dollars and it was a custom edition where the author was also the professor. The entire education system is a racket.
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by stuffn 10mo ago
I have plenty of anecdata that counters your anecdata. LLMs can generate code that works. That much is true. You can generate sufficiently complex projects that simply run on the first (or second try). You can even get the LLM to write test
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by stuffn 10mo ago
I go the other way and say this is a vast oversimplication of the job by a tech bro doing what tech bros typically do. I am not an accountant but for many years I worked adjacent to them as a developer. I got a lot of time to ask questions
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by stuffn 10mo ago
"AI" is more like a bird that flies around eating worms, sometimes regurgitates the nutrition, and sometimes regurgitates a pound of bolts. Then it apologizes, flies around again, and regurgitates pebbles. It does it again but thi
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by stuffn 10mo ago
The thing is every thing I listed is also used by law enforcement. There is nothing stopping them from turning everything into a dragnet. We already know they use ring cameras, cell phones, tower data, etc to build a dragnet. Flock is just
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by stuffn 10mo ago
There’s dozens of visas one can apply for and many of them will fast track citizenship. Talent comes in on these all the time.
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by stuffn 10mo ago
I think the counter-point to that is what I experience. I agree it can be energizing because you can offload the bullshit work to a robot. For example, build me a CRUD app with a bootstrap frontend. Highly useful stuff especially if this is
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by stuffn 10mo ago
I don't see why you're being downvoted. Aside from being a little inflammatory your premise is correct. It's not a secret companies do not want to hire Americans. Americans are expensive, demand too many benefits like fair pa
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by stuffn 10mo ago
This isn't said in bad faith but there is a few things that seem to be unanswered here besides surveillance is bad. 1. You have no expectation of privacy in public. 2. People carry surveillance devices in their pocket. It is somehow si
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by stuffn 10mo ago
This is definitely a stallman-esque shitpost. Casual thinking, as the author implies is necessary, would make you realize all of this was inevitable. The whole reason the tech boom existed, the whole reason the author is typing on what I ca
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by stuffn 10mo ago
I never implied congress is expected to be experts on everything. What I do expect is a level of scrutiny much higher than what is considered rigorous by academic standards. It should not be a hard ask that regulatory bodies produce meaning
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by stuffn 10mo ago
Chevron Deference is used to bypass congressional and court scrutiny. I'm getting downvoted, particularly, because I do not believe people understand the extent of what Chevron Deference provides. I am not surprised. It's not ment
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by stuffn 10mo ago
Some agencies lean towards proper justification (the EPA, for example, has been generally okay at best about this) other regulatory bodies don't. While it is not a popular topic here, gun laws, and I am taking a risk with my karma even
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by stuffn 10mo ago
I think you’re right and especially in regards to abstract concepts like linear algebra I don’t know anyone serious about learning who didn’t struggle with what turned out to be relatively simple things when viewed intuitively. The problem
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by stuffn 10mo ago
Chevron didn’t establish clearer guidelines. It was weaponized by both parties to create defacto laws without proper legal procedure. It should’ve been unconstitutional from the beginning as only Congress can make laws. Regulatory agencies
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by stuffn 10mo ago
How is this remotely related?
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by stuffn 10mo ago
> and as an employee you should also be focused on that as your goal. Insofar as my paycheck continually rises at a rate substantially greater than inflation. Otherwise, I couldn't honestly give two shits about how well the company
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by stuffn 10mo ago
> As my MD friend noted wisely a couple weeks ago: it’s noteworthy how this became a culture after LLMs became ubiquitous and user friendly. It was tons of fun and happy times when we were going to reduce # of radiologists, not software
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by stuffn 10mo ago
I got netflix a looooong time ago when they still had good movies on there and weren't cycling. It kept getting worse and worse. Then I got rid of it a few years back. Nearly everything on there sucks now. It's all campy political
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by stuffn 10mo ago
Trading in a nearly 20 year bull market and doing well is not an accomplishment.

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