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by tomp 2y ago
This ”congress is too slow” is an oft-repeated trope but completely wrong. What people like you don’t understand is that slowness is a feature, not a bug ! The first COVID relief bill was passed in less than a month. Because it had broad
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by tomp 2y ago
Supreme Court simply limited the (in their opinion overbroad) lower court's interpretation of the law. Congress is free to fix the law.
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by tomp 2y ago
Interesting, I see exactly this: https://archive.is/aRPau
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by tomp 2y ago
Lying article lies. > Though Forbes has a metered paywall on some of its work, the premium work — like that investigation — is behind a hard paywall No it's not, see for yourself! I can read it just fine... https://www.
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by tomp 2y ago
Exactly. AI that answers questions using online sources isn't a web crawler , but a web researchers .
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by tomp 2y ago
The statement is false, unfortunately. There's definite a positive (non-zero) threshold below which it doesn't trigger. Bananas are radioactive, and while a single banana doesn't trigger the alarms, a lot of bananas might !
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by tomp 2y ago
as @katbyte already suggested, yes No speed limits anywhere, or at least no enforcement. As I said above, speed limits are repressive and a way for the government to bully its citizens and extract money from them. If the government actuall
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by tomp 2y ago
nothing compared to Italy, Slovenia or Germany haha
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by tomp 2y ago
> Explain to me what makes them faceless and detached from the situation? The fact that they’re not there. The idea that the same speed is appropriate at 9am when kids are crossing the street going to school and 2am when there’s noone
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by tomp 2y ago
There is approximately 0% chance that the speed limit decreed by faceless bureaucrats is the optimal speed for the current circumstances on a given road.
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by tomp 2y ago
You’re either mixing stuff up or need to be more precise in your communications. A “data race” is simultaneous access of memory from multiple threads, where at least one access is a write. It’s undefined behaviour in modern compilers (inclu
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by tomp 2y ago
There are no concurrency errors in Python. Every bytecode instruction is implicitly wrapped in a lock. Of course, you could still get semantic errors by locking the wrong things at the wrong time; but you can do that in Rust as well.
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by tomp 2y ago
“Freedom of speech” by definition includes ”speech you don’t like” , including ”misinformation” . Otherwise anything can be suppressed by claiming it’s misinformation and then banned, such as “Hunter Biden’s laptop” or “Covid might have
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by tomp 2y ago
I think you're confusing a few things. First of all, we're talking about pre-IPO startups, so you can't just sell the stock. Second, talking about "company loses money because it gave equity to employees" is as non-
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by tomp 2y ago
employees aren't shareholders they get options, not equity personally, I never understood why they don't get actualy equity (in particular, given that the options are "fairly priced" i.e. the call price is the latest equ
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by tomp 2y ago
You mixed up parties a bit. Democrats were criticising Trump for rushing the vaccine, and flaming vaccine scepticism, helped by mainstream media. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2671R8/ September 17, 20201
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by tomp 2y ago
Yeah, that's why I laugh every time I get an offer for ~$200k (a very good startup salary) in SF. The average cost of living for a 4-person family in SF is ~$350k [1] (I'm guessing that's pre-tax, and probably the job is also
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by tomp 2y ago
I think it's far more complicated than "racism / xenophobia". Hitler had delusions about "Aryan" race, white blond people, even though he was not blond. Also, the war was mostly fought in Europe (or at least st
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by tomp 2y ago
Hey, I’m very interested in learning more about sfm, 3d reconstruction, slam etc. primarily for robotics applications (3D vision). Currently still a hobby project but I’m more than happy to throw money at it. If you’d be willing to share so
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by tomp 2y ago
Do you know what does 8thwall use for SLAM? is it OrbSLAM or something else?
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by tomp 2y ago
It's not that we don't believe in climate change . We just don't believe the climate predictions (because they're wrong - no more glaciers by 2020?!). And we don't believe in climate change solutions promoted b
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by tomp 2y ago
No, you're confusing stuff. First of all, taking any code with you is theft, and you go to jail, like this poor Goldman Sachs programmer [1]. This will happen even if the code has no alpha. However, noone can prevent you from taking
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by tomp 2y ago
This has been the case for the past decade - Israel has been financing Gaza and providing it with resources (e.g. electricity) as well as jobs. Gaza was quite beautiful! And given its prime location on the mediterranean sea, I don't se
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by tomp 2y ago
Not if they win decisively and eradicate not just the terrorists, but the terrorist indoctrination as well. Note: there hasn't been a "generation of motivated terrorists" coming out of Japan and Germany after WWII, those popu
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by tomp 2y ago
Are you sure about this? Seems to me that minorities (Asians) are quite over-represented in tech. Many people are of course racist and don't count Asians as minorities...
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by tomp 2y ago
This doesn't make sense. I worked in hedge funds, even there the management fee (2%) covers the fixed costs (legal, trading operations, treasury, IT operations, etc.) whereas the performance fee (20%) incentivises the alpha. In VC it
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by tomp 2y ago
“Not ML” as in “not learning from data to apply in new situations” but rather they do “mathematical optimisation”. The data they optimise over is just the images of the current camera trajectory (as far as I understand)
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by tomp 2y ago
I skimmed the Overview and am not an expert. It seems to me they don't use any ML at all. They use backpropagation to jointly optimise the entire physics/motion model, which models camera motion and the generated blurry images (th
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by tomp 2y ago
this work won't solve that. it requires a video (sequence of images)
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by tomp 2y ago
The simplistic explanation is, if you're doing arbitrage - i.e. "fixing market mispricing", there's only so much arbitrage you can do before you fix the price... This is of course a completely theoretical proposition, be

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