svara

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No, you're really adding a constraint. You're adding a description of what exactly a piece of data represents, allowing the compiler or interpreter to limit the ways in which you can use it. The form of data in a computer is simpl
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It's usually not just imprecision though, I've found that a lot of programmers fundamentally don't understand what types are and this confusion might be an example of that. Types are just a layer on top of your code that help
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You're not wrong, but anti elitism is a much greater problem than potentially being perceived as elitist. When I say you should read, I'm not really saying that's the only valid way to take in information. I'm saying tha
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Your whole thesis rests on assuming that the price will stay where it just so happened to be at stock market closing yesterday. It's a bit early to say that, don't you think?
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I mean we do get a few of them per week. I think there is a legit danger of too much heated political discussion changing the character of this site. I feel it's about the right dosage?
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My hope is that this will go beyond Europe. The free world - advanced economies without the US - are the largest economy in the world taken together. Thirty percent ahead of the US. I'm far from being anti-American, I'm European b
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Yes, exactly. I'm beginning to think that being somewhat reined in by the Republican establishment in his first term, a weakness that the MAGA-crowd sought to correct, ultimately worked in his favor in protecting him from his poor inst
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I don't know about that. Your analysis is correct in that it's ultimately about business incentives, but those incentives lead businesses to choose certain formats over others, thus promoting certain kinds of content. It seems ver
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Books can be terrible, but they can be good to a level that (most popular) social media can't, due to the limitations of the medium. Without long text, to a good approximation, you just can't convey long, multi-step reasoning chai
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Social media has really proven that phrase that "the medium is the message", which I remember long ago thinking was a little odd and not obviously true. With all the new stuff coming out in the LLM field, I've taken a cynical
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We're long past the point where we can say "how it works" from how it used to work. The incentive is there now, when it wasn't before. Cooperation emerges under external pressures, almost as a rule.
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> Sweden and Denmark haven't been hegemons because they haven't needed to be. That's exactly right, and I used nearly exactly those words in a recent comment. Important to note: The free world - economically advanced democ
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You can't compare London from back then to London today though. In terms of its place among cities around the world, it's a different place now. There certainly would have been locations where your dad would not have been able to
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Yes, exactly, and that's the one huge issue with overt Machiavellianism as a strategy. The big question I've been asking myself for a while now is, why isn't that plainly obvious to everyone in the US? Why isn't it plain
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If you're one of the US allies in Asia, feeling threatened by China, what do you conclude from this? This looks like a major strategic blunder.
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The historic strategic opportunity is for all of what remains of the free world to join the EU and become the 'rules based order' hegemon. Doesn't need to be literally the EU, a similar kind of organization would work.
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Yes, you did forget a scenario where a EU, US and possibly other countries military presence is on the table as a threat to deter further escalations by Russia, but does not actually occur. To be more specific, you give Ukraine what it need
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He did. Merkel accelerated it and Scholz chose not to delay. They all wanted this.
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DNA methylation is epigenetic, and that's a direct chemical alteration of DNA. The title isn't wrong, and your example sentence isn't wrong either.
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Interesting idea. AI can't look at ads, so in the long run ads on informational material might die any you're going back to paying outright. I like it.
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You're right, but cooperation and centralization emerge under external pressures. It's almost like a natural law of social systems. (I could say more but don't want to digress, let me know if you'd like some pointers.) I
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Not true at all. The reason that these scams have become a larger industry than the entire world-wide illegal drug trade is because of how easy and lucrative they are, and that's entirely on cryptocurrency. By revenue, cryptocurrency i
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I read it all. It's apparently supposed to be a way for celebrities to extract money from their audience by having them buy into their currency. If you're satisfied with calling that useful, okay, I guess - to me it's deeply
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I looked at your links and I still don't get it. I do want to understand. Where is the problem stated, clearly and concisely? What is the solution and why does it require crypto? I say that as someone who read the Bitcoin paper in 2012
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It just occurred to me that if you squint a little (just a little!) the S1 paper just provided the scientific explanation for why Twitter's short tweets mess you up and books are good for you. Kidding, but not really. It's fascina
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> Gemini has had this for a month or two, Would have loved to try it when they released it, but I'm apparently in the wrong country. I think it's not available outside the US (?). OpenAI and DeepSeek have no such issues. It&#x2
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It's tempting to speculate about what might happen in the very long run. And different from the jobs question, I don't really have strong opinions on this. But it seems to me like you might not be sufficiently taking into account
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Yes, okay. I think we're talking about different time scales - I'm talking about the next few, maybe two or three decades, essential the future of our generation specifically. I don't think what you're describing is rele
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Totally wrong, killing humans is not required for evolution. Ignoring genetic drift and taking into account only natural selection, all that's needed is differences in fitness, i.e. differences in how much an individual contributes to
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There's no public evidence to that effect but the speculation makes a lot more sense than you make it sound. The Chinese Communist party very much sees itself in a global rivalry over "new productive forces". That's offi

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