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by thatguymike 1y ago
Because it allows people to very easily funnel their income through offshore companies, and avoid being taxed on it because it’s “earned” in Cyprus or Cayman Islands.
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by thatguymike 1y ago
Oh I see, they set ‘is_mechahitler = True’, easy mistake, anyone could do it, probably one of those rapscallion ex-OpenAI employees who hadn’t fully absorbed the culture.
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by thatguymike 1y ago
I wonder if it was explicitly trained with an "Elons Opinions" dataset? Wouldn't surprise me, and it's pretty surprising behavior in any other context.
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by thatguymike 1y ago
I'm sympathetic, but I do think Realtalk could be improved with some simple object recognition and LLMing. One of the challenges I found when I played with RealTalk is interoperability. The aim is to use the "spacial layer" t
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by thatguymike 1y ago
Congrats Amsterdam: they funded a worthy and feasible project; put appropriate ethical guardrails in place; iterated scientifically; then didn’t deploy when they couldn’t achieve a result that satisfied their guardrails. We need more of thi
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by thatguymike 1y ago
Harder to swipe in the bathroom as well. I reckon the meta would mean you have to be dressed nice and put on makeup just to sit down and scroll this app, which isn't usual app behavior.
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by thatguymike 1y ago
> This was effectively the most unprofessional breach of privacy I've ever experienced and as a result I think I'm done working in software (don't even ask me my opinion of SF). Huh? Power to you, and that is awful behavio
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by thatguymike 1y ago
There's a very entertaining Dwarkesh podcast with Adam Brown about this: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/adam-brown
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by thatguymike 1y ago
Elder care is a difficult and painful topic, and change is clearly needed. I feel like I am missing something in the article's argument though. A quick google says that the profit margin of nursing homes is in the 5-10% range. If the p
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by thatguymike 1y ago
If this holds, can cops still ask for whether a specific phone number was present on a cell tower at a certain time? I can't tell if it's the breadth of the data collection that's unconsitutional because it catches lots of in
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by thatguymike 1y ago
"events have given us no choice but to fight Trump as if there were no antisemitism, even while we continue to fight antisemitism as if there were no Trump." Great line which sums up the correct stance to take in the current envir
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by thatguymike 1y ago
Does it still make you look like a ding-dong and get you mocked behind your back? Yes? Oh, guess they didn't fix that yet.
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by thatguymike 2y ago
If this was actually happening, what would you expect to see different? The reason we have due process is so that we don’t have to rely on second-hand reports to monitor the justice system. Get rid of due process and this is what we have.
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by thatguymike 2y ago
Oh whoops you're right, Friday brain. The first conditional should have a `return` in it.
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by thatguymike 2y ago
A proposed solution from the article: > Use "if (condition()) { ifBlock(); } if (!condition()) { elseBlock(); }" -- assuming that ifBlock() can't possibly change the result of condition(). What?? That seems terrible to m
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by thatguymike 2y ago
So for €52mn you'll get... a worse Llama? But don't worry, it'll be "transparent and compliant" which will make people want to use it. Very European.
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by thatguymike 2y ago
None of the $500B comes from the government, so the cost is $0 of government spending per job.
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by thatguymike 2y ago
I'm increasingly annoyed that we can't have nice things without exposing ourselves to attentional strip-mining. I really want to be able to see my close friends' Instagram posts and read interesting tweets from ~50 people I&#
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by thatguymike 2y ago
The ownership of the company is irrelevant, it's who has control of the algorithm and where the data flows. If Tiktok US licenses the algorithm from China (which seems likely) then none of the national security issues are addressed.
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by thatguymike 2y ago
With the algorithm 100% Chinese-operated
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by thatguymike 2y ago
A huge shame it'll be undone in 24 hours. Shouting out Trump by name in the ban message is hilarious, they are really doing their best to tie his hands.
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by thatguymike 2y ago
They’re suggesting a merger, not a sale.
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by thatguymike 2y ago
...Explicit CCP control?
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by thatguymike 2y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/13/tiktok-...
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by thatguymike 2y ago
Also, not coincidentally, explicitly Communist-coded which isn't helpful for not getting banned in the US.
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by thatguymike 2y ago
www.recurse.com
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by thatguymike 2y ago
Building a good figure for my kids and for myself. That and status chasing.
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by thatguymike 2y ago
I hear a ball bearing will do the job nicely.
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by thatguymike 2y ago
I lose track with Gary Marcus... is AI a nothingburger being peddled to us by charlatans, or an evil threat to humanity which needs to be stopped at all costs?
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by thatguymike 2y ago
I played through GF with GameFAQs open next to it, and had an incredible time for it. All the frustration stripped away and left with just the story, soundtrack, dialogue, and appreciation for the fun creative puzzle designs without bashing

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