tbrownaw

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by tbrownaw 5d ago
d'oh, yep
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by tbrownaw 5d ago
> Can someone steelman private equity, please? Step back and look at what it fundamentally is. Person A has a business they want to sell. Person B has a pile of money and thinks that that business is (or can be) a good investment. That
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by tbrownaw 5d ago
DISREGARD THIS, I CAN'T READ TODAY > Contrary to popular belief, being intelligent in one thing does correlate with being intelligent at other things[1]. > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psych
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by tbrownaw 8d ago
> There are now unsealed Anthropic internal documents describing Project Panama as an effort to "destructively scan all the books in the world" If I do something destructive to my copy of Accelerate -- feed it through a sca
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by tbrownaw 8d ago
The basic problem is that out-of-sample predictions don't work very well.
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by tbrownaw 8d ago
With a title like that, I was expecting a piece about society ending as a result of how too many people marrying chatbots affects the population pyramid.
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by tbrownaw 15d ago
> As a benign example, eating food with your hands rather than utensils. In some cultures this is rarely ever tolerated, in others it depends on the food item, and in others still you might always eat with your hands. I know there are
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by tbrownaw 15d ago
I thought that was only the top <very few>, and most just made pocket change?
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by tbrownaw 15d ago
Well, the enforcement mechanism for manners.
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by tbrownaw 15d ago
> For billionaires shame makes no sense. They will never have to confront the people that they abuse. This sounds like you're agreeing with the article about consequentialism / "optimization culture" being the cause
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by tbrownaw 15d ago
> What you experience is a cultural difference. In that not all cultures recognize causing negative externalities as a bad thing?
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by tbrownaw 24d ago
Well at least they need it until they get back a success response from the bank/payment processor/whoever.
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by tbrownaw 26d ago
I do not see the term "euphemism treadmill" in this anywhere. This is talking about the same thing, so I'd think the common term for it would at least be mentioned.
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by tbrownaw 26d ago
I'd think copper would mean ferric chloride, which isn't that bad.
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
> want to be coddled and always want to feel like they are the king of the world. Greeters at Walmart, cashiers not being allowed to sit but have to stand for "respect", I thought the greeters were an anti-shoplifting techniq
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
> What I’m particularly curious about is what the “endgame” of this looks like. A higher fraction of money going into the system is lost to navigating adversarial processes. And probably the occasional person getting in legal trouble f
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
> what the desirable alternative is here Limits on how much parents can spend other people's resources on their kids. Which goes with civil office being a job rather than a special privilege.
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
I use an xrdp quite a lot. It works fine.
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
Yes. They'd probably have kept the device for a while, but he wouldn't be in legal trouble.
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
... And motivation is what lets you stay disciplined when random life things try to get in the way.
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by tbrownaw 1mo ago
Limits are what give consistency when your pod gets scheduled on nodes with different amounts of load.
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
27000 + 20% is 32400 not 47000, so not sure what's up with that sentence. Also, define "success". Even if it's just about being exceptional in economic terms, AIUI a bog-standard swdev salary is enough to be in the top 1
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
Several states have already had this for a while now.
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
Sure, but that looks like a page footer. If I go to the site home it's the same, so it's probably the last time the site was a whole was updated.
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
The usual argument I see is that group differences in outcome exist, therefore there necessarily must be discrimination somewhere causing those differences. That this discrimination can't be found is proof of how inventive the people d
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
At least some were the result of court cases, so maybe not that trivial to reverse.
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
> a) "just legislate that being racist/sexist to people is illegal, then have judges interpret" (which is what seems to be simply necessary to actually make progress against the endlessly inventive evil of racism/sex
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
I don't see a publish date on this? As I understand it, there have been recent shifts away from what's described and towards the relevant government agencies wanting more direct evidence of individuals being treated differently.
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
> open source nature is something of a technicality No, but maybe this highlights that it's never accurate to conflate "open source" or "free (as in speech) software" with end-users having power over the people
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
Probably clergy?

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