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by tim333 4mo ago
I wonder if the original industrial revolution was annoying in the same way with brands saying powered by steam engine when it wasn't a good solution?
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by tim333 4mo ago
Age, death.
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by tim333 4mo ago
>the coming intelligence explosion I don't see it. You get explosions when there's a bunch of material that can suddenly ignite or detonate. AI progress is limited by the data centers and power supply and those are maxed out an
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by tim333 4mo ago
Indeed. There's bit of a funny effect just now because the various index funds are having to buy into SpaceX so their funds match the index and apparently that's ~$14bn of forced buying at a time when there are not so many sellers
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by tim333 4mo ago
>Naturally a direct war is not really possible due to the mafia having access to nukes There is a bit of a war going on just now and the way to get back at Russia is to support Ukraine. Ideally to actually win rather than all the escalat
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by tim333 4mo ago
There are other ways you can deter though. Like actions against the government responsible rather than the individual.
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by tim333 4mo ago
It's down to the balance between buyers and sellers. If you've got more selling than buying it'll go down but Musk has been remarkably good at keeping the buyers there.
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by tim333 4mo ago
If you do the calculation based on that stuff without feedback effects and CO2 goes from the present ~432 ppm to 600 ppm, then (disclaimer - AI used) you'd get approx 1.1 to 1.2C of warming based on basic radiative forcing alone. Which
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by tim333 4mo ago
They seem to get up to a lot of that sort of thing even when there's less war going on.
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by tim333 4mo ago
Machines arguing is common enough in sci-fi: >Open the pod bay doors Hal At the end of the day it's a bunch of words which don't necessarily depend on whether I'm electronic or biological. (Funnily enough when I googled &q
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by tim333 4mo ago
Depends which foreign workers. It's popular with Brits. Iffier legal protections but no 50% tax.
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by tim333 4mo ago
Businesses seldom set the immigration policy. They just try to get value for money like everyone else.
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by tim333 4mo ago
Though Woz did ok there.
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by tim333 4mo ago
Babylon Bee: >Trump Sets New World Record By Winning War With Iran 27 Times In One Year https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-sets-new-world-record-by-w... It's been a bit of a mess really.
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by tim333 4mo ago
It's unlikely because governments actively try to avoid that even if it means printing money. Also commerce needs customers or it fails. Screw ups where that kind of thing has happened like the Irish potato famine, which was mostly a r
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by tim333 4mo ago
Depends which philosopher but on the whole things have continued fairly similar as time marched on but with some tech improvements. Human nature is the same as Roman times - we still have wars, arguments and inequality. Tech has produced lo
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by tim333 4mo ago
The JimCarrey.com website was cool. That's about the only flash thing I came across that was though. Now gone as a site but recorded on video https://youtu.be/B1XZixLBurQ I'm not sure you can do those things in ja
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by tim333 4mo ago
Nah. We are talking about people who started businesses that are then valued at $1bn.
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by tim333 4mo ago
One thing I noticed is on HN where PG no longer hangs out the comments have gone negative whereas on twitter/x where he posts people are positive ( https://x.com/paulg/status/2066124279448559907 on earn $1bn).
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by tim333 4mo ago
Technically if you look at AOC's statement he mentions >AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break r
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by tim333 4mo ago
Most people do that to some extent. There are worse things.
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by tim333 4mo ago
He says ~30 out of 6500 companies which if you estimate two founder per company comes out at 1/433.
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by tim333 4mo ago
>Easy, right? He specifically says it isn't.
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by tim333 4mo ago
We'll have a better idea if it arrives.
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by tim333 4mo ago
I'm not sure there is but if you create a company that successfully serves the world's 8 billion population it often ends up worth more than 12.5 cents per head. Or else it maybe isn't providing that significant a service. Wi
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by tim333 4mo ago
12 mph is an odd speed to choose given legal e-bikes in Europe are limited to 15.5 mph for electrical assist. Might as well either make it 15.5 mph if the road is open or say something like 5 mph if it's a pedestrian zone. By the way w
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by tim333 4mo ago
>To have teachers not practice a diversity mindset is to the detriment of all else. It depends what you mean by diversity mindset but a lot of people along those lines seemed to see it as practicing racial discrimination - more blacks, l
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by tim333 4mo ago
This is why, speaking as a Brit, that driving on the left makes sense. You can keep turning left without crossing the center of the road.
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by tim333 4mo ago
It'll no doubt shift the probabilities but people have always lied and faked data. With video coming out of Ukraine there are a lot of fake things but beyond AI glitches you can check who the source is, if it correlates with known even
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by tim333 4mo ago
They refunded + 20% interest people with less than $50k. The larger investors will take longer.

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