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by tivert 2y ago
Ok, so what's the actual, legitimate use case for this thing? They show it lighting random fires, which doesn't seem like a good thing to do unless you also have a crew of firefighters handy... and those don't come flying on
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> Not sure where you’re from, but at least in the countries where I’ve lived (Canada and the US) your address was not in the phone book. It was a book of phone numbers - nothing more. I'm pretty sure addresses were listed US West (
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> It doesn’t matter if China raises the limit to 10. > Immigration would be a tough sell but not out of the question. In fact with an aging population China’s options may be highly limited. I think you're making the mistake of th
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> That massive coercion is exactly why the birthrate is dropping like a stone. Yes, but that was coercion in the other direction . Nothing's preventing them from using coercion to course-correct their previous policy. They're
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>> China will have fewer people in 75 years than the US. > Source? Wikipedia predicts US population of ~425 million, China ~632 million in 2100. Still a dramatic decline either way. Also, assuming current trends continue for a ridi
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> Very interesting article. The irony is, if not for politics I think many more Americans would be unsettled by the many ways in which China is becoming extremely advanced. As it stands today our instinct is to dismiss it. But I think th
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> Everyone recognizes the education system is terrible and seeks to send their kids overseas. Is that so? My understanding is the Chinese education system is pretty cutthroat, and lot of the Chinese kids studying overseas are the ones wi
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> Competition is generally good for consumers, forcing companies to make a better product then the other guy, rather then the crappiest thing people will buy. If by "better," you mean "crappier but even cheaper." IMHO
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> YCombinator is a tech investor, of course they are investing in the future. It just so happens that in this current tech cycle AI is the future. I think the term you're looking isn't "future," it's "hype.&
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> When I started working at Amazon in 2014 I had a number of coworkers from India and Taiwan whose dentists had convinced them that they needed professional teeth cleanings every 3 months. I have a friend from China whose dentist convinc
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> This might sound stupid but I refuse to go to dentists that have "too nice" of an office. That is a very good heuristic, and I've come to the same conclusion. > Over the years I have lived in several places and had a
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by tivert 2y ago
> They're getting it by paying contractors at Scale AI to write content for them. Just a wild guess, but at best that content is probably pretty mediocre quality. It's probably Mikkelsen Twins ebook-level garbage.
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>> "Last fall, Tinder rolled out a $500 monthly subscription, in addition to two cheaper membership tiers. The League charges up to $1,000 a week or $2,500 a month." > For that kind of money, you should get bottle service
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> If the government wants to increase the birthrate, then they should something about childcare expenses, like make them tax deductable, instead of building OkCupid.gov. Meaning daycare? IIRC, they are already tax deductible to a point (
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> If the agency grants moral authorship to the forest alongside the song’s co-creators, it is expected that copyright authorities in other nations would have to acknowledge the same moral authorship. So is this really meant as some kind
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> Traditional search is mutually beneficial... to search providers and publishers. At expense of the users. LLM search is becoming popular because it lets users, for however short time this will last, escape the fruits of the "mutua
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> I wonder what a world where 17 kps was 6% of light speed would look like. A Slower Speed of Light: http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/
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> ...but it's a great look into how a group of aging scientists and engineers (the last to really understand how Voyager 1 works) are keeping it alive. That kind of brings up some interesting questions of team composition. When you
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by tivert 2y ago
Actually, the amazing thing is the Voyager team has documentation to know how all that stuff built in 1977 works, so they can still maintain it. So much software nowadays is written like it's a disposable item (and then the company dec
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> Given that the car industry here in Germany opposed the (even much more moderate) tariffs... Isn't the German car industry pretty much all-in on China, and thus dangerously exposed to any retaliation? IIRC, they have lots of facto
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> Do any free market absolutists actually say these things, or are you just attacking a strawman? Oh, they totally do. See https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/26/mcdonalds-peace-nagorno... (paywall bypass:
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> Bloomberg was the source that claimed SuperMicro servers were compromised by a grain of rice sized chip that only had two conductor leads on it. In a similar vein, Bloomberg was the source that Continental and United passenger jets wer
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> "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." I don't think the issue here is that he doesn't understand. I think the issue is he's lying. He'
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> Otherwise completely eliminating our auto industry would be an enormous national security risk. But I have been told zealous adherence to free market dogma will guarantee national security, without explicitly considering it! [Also, I&#
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> Only reason they wouldn't take off outside China is the astronomical tariffs the West are putting on Chinese cars (100% in the US). Yeah, due to Chinese state subsidies and other assistance, China has a competitive advantage in au
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Well that will work great if you let the AI decide if the code is working or not. User: This is calculating the result wrong. AI: CLOSED WONTFIX: WORKING AS DESIGNED.
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> ...and I can review code very quickly so the overall productivity boost has been great. Color me skeptical. After a certain point, greater speed is achieved by sacrificing accuracy and comprehension. So, "I can review code very qu
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> I believe that Intellectual Property is a terrible concept that shouldn't exist at all. IMHO, that's an overreaction to certain specific abuses. Intellectual property shouldn't be abolished as it solves certain pretty se
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Also something about the characters gives me the cold, dead feel AI generated art (even though they do not appear to be AI generated). Can't put my finger on exactly what it is, though.
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> A detail I only mentally noted as an adult: the butchers in his books are always pigs themselves. A pig selling ham, sausages and, presumably, cuts of pork is a bit morbid (and also hilarious in a black humor sort of way), but it fits

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