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by tivert 2y ago
> Though that's only the enabling technology, the lower desire for babies is almost certainly driven by other factors (urbanization, better health care, etc) I'm not so sure about that. There's no law that says desire has
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by tivert 2y ago
> "women disproportionately bear the cost of child-rearing" is very difficult to measure objectively. Not really, they've got the equipment for it (e.g. uteri and mammary glands). I think it would be impossible to "e
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by tivert 2y ago
> Except that it’s nothing new, right? “Writing helps you organize your thoughts more clearly”: everyone and their grandmother know that! Writing a plan, writing a diary? People keep listing how transformative that’s been for them. Lucki
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by tivert 2y ago
> There are an endless amount of interesting and/or useful things to learn in this industry; spending time relearning how to do a mundane task in an app I've been using for a decade is a waste. It's not just "in this
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by tivert 2y ago
> There's places were "mining" copper from street poles is already profitable, and wire theft is a huge problem. I don't think that's really "profitable" in any way besides theft being profitable. Peopl
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by tivert 2y ago
> Testing for the safety of lane-keeping systems is more challenging than other crash-avoidance systems, because it must be actively engaged by the driver as opposed to constantly monitoring for danger, like an imminent forward crash. No
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by tivert 2y ago
> How did we get here? I would guess it's an unholy confluence of putting people who prioritize appearance over usability in charge of UI design, plus the diminishing actual returns of computer technology coupled with an incessant p
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by tivert 2y ago
> That seems true if you only think about coal, but we started with wood and any future world without people would have a ton of that. Whale oil too would also be available. I think the point is you can't go far with those fuel sour
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by tivert 2y ago
> Or maybe, by then, none of it will really matter very much, because the past will itself have been automated. Instead of historians, we’ll have ‘history machines’ based on algorithms and databanks: more facts on file, designed by survi
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by tivert 2y ago
> Fwiw: all governments engage in propaganda, and people are typically biased towards that produced by their own country/culture Honestly, probably all people engage in propaganda. IMHO, that impulse is the raw fuel for crowdsourc
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by tivert 2y ago
> I'd argue that what you're talking about in fiction is coherence (internal consistency) not factual accuracy (consistency with an externally verifiably ground truth). No. I'm talking about "factual accuracy (consist
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by tivert 2y ago
> Is that a joke? With NHS you have to wait to get GP appointments, wait several weeks for examination by specialists, more waiting in waiting list for surgery... The backlog for everything is huge! My experience of healthcare in capital
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by tivert 2y ago
> A generic AI image generated from a simple prompt is kind of the opposite of a deeply researched and well written article. Throwing the two together is incongruous. It doesn't personally bother me as much as some, but I certainly
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by tivert 2y ago
Yeah. I disliked Tesla before it was cool because I didn't like their product decisions or Musk's lies about self-driving. His fandom rushing to defend all the faults of the products and company made me even more wary. IMHO, it&#x
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by tivert 2y ago
> There is a hilarious film right now about a black American writer being forced to do this by liberals. The terrible book he creates takes off and people think he is the caricature. This? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by tivert 2y ago
> LLMs are best thought of as language generators (or "writers") not as repositories of knowledge and facts. And the utility of a "language generator" without reliable knowledge or facts is extremely limited. The tec
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by tivert 2y ago
> Maybe they could use some gravity assists to speed up the journey out to Saturn/Neptune, and then use aerobraking to slow down again for the rest of the journey??? Or an gravity assist at Neptune to slow down? Given their orbits c
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by tivert 2y ago
5. The documentation won't get lost in a botched wiki migration or something like that. The documentation in the repo should not be restricted to relatively low-level stuff about APIs, it should also include design documents and cover
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by tivert 2y ago
We did it guys! Generative AI is set to make the web fantastic again!
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by tivert 2y ago
> Reminds me of the statistic I heard recently that something like 95% of soybeans grown in South America are used to feed livestock in Europe, even though soy is already a complete protein and could be used to satisfy the protein requir
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by tivert 2y ago
No idea what that exactly was, but here are the videos I could find about it. Looks like mostly surplus electronic parts (like incompletely used reels, etc)? Walk-throughs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEV0Kqpg1jE http
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by tivert 2y ago
> How does a company like NVIDIA operate without IP law? Don't bother us with such complexities. We developed our ideas about IP after being outraged by attempts to stop our piracy of music and movies, and carefully reviewing lists
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by tivert 2y ago
> The best model I've seen for patents is increasingly escalating renewal fees for periodic terms. Such as get the first 5 years for very limited fees, every 5 years (up to some max such as 30) require 2-5x to renew or the patent ex
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by tivert 2y ago
> Like this site, one of the highest signal to noise ratios on the internet because no one has any incentive to game it. There's tons of incentive to game it. If it wasn't, why would all kinds of startups and tech companies hav
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by tivert 2y ago
>> So I take it you're totally OK with an adversary of yours spying on you, then? > Adversary of your government, not necessarily of yours. You badly misunderstood what I wrote. > Accusing any other country of spying is r
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by tivert 2y ago
> The hyper fixation and "we're done talking about this" vibe is very strange. "End of story" didn't mean what you seem to think it meant. But we're done talking about this because you seem to be too pr
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by tivert 2y ago
> I'm merely pointing out that the U.S. does not have a leg to stand on when they'll turn around do the exact same thing. > I find all the hypocrisy and posturing very tiring. I'm merely pointing out that you're se
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by tivert 2y ago
> Would love to know how they maintain it, eg replacement parts. Total speculation: I'd bet some combination of collector interest keeping parts available and the relative ease of manufacture of such parts using modern techniques.
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>> companies like Huawei that American officials say could be used as a spying tool by the Chinese government > Remember, spying is ONLY okay when the good guys™ are doing it. So I take it you're totally OK with an adversary
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by tivert 2y ago
> I don't think I ever met a single woman in person. That's almost certainly not actually true unless you have some pretty bizarre personal circumstances. If you went to school, you've met single women in person. But I cou

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