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by toss1 3mo ago
Yup, at least a table of the on-books and off-books debt of the top 5 AI-building companies would be nice
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by toss1 3mo ago
If seems this should make obsolete the setup of having a separate computer (e.g., old laptop) to isolate Facebook properties, or am I missing something where a separate machine would be advantageous? (I avoid FB like the plague but may need
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by toss1 3mo ago
Health insurers tripled their profits while covering 80,000 fewer people 2015-2025 [0] What is the difference between the 32 developed countries who successfully deliver healthcare to all their residents, vs the wealthiest country of all
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by toss1 3mo ago
And you are saying overcharging an insurance company is on the same level as an insurance company denying medical care and directly killing the patient because they don't want to pay? And your examples justify obviously incompetent ins
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by toss1 3mo ago
NO The insurance companies are running the system more than any of the others — it is the finance "wizards" there who put the constraints on the rest of the system. I'll agree somewhat on the pharma companies too, who are als
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by toss1 3mo ago
Right, because in an actual free market where DHI was not heavily subsidized, DJI drones would cost MUCH more, and the other drones would be competitive. Same for BYD vs Tesla and every other car. It is easy to win in the "free market&
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by toss1 3mo ago
It was a person free-running in a cave. Here's one article about it [0] to get you started, and here's another [1] of multiple 9-day studies showing the fairly immediate shift to 24.5 - 25 hour cycles (we're actually Martian
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by toss1 3mo ago
You are not alone. Recalling from college neuroscience classes and subsequent reading of research, the studies show the ordinary human sleep cycle when unrestrained adds about a half hour per day, so 24.5 hours is 'natural'. Long
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by toss1 3mo ago
How huge is it on a continuous basis? Ii's low earth orbit, so only available for a few hours after sunset, AND requires a new satellite in position every 15 min. So for two hours extra illumination you need to support a couple DOZEN
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The inventor of the outside white stripes on roads(iflscience.com)
1 points by toss1 3mo ago|0 comments
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by toss1 3mo ago
>>Driving alone kills far more people every year than disease spread by anti-vaxxers That is a seriously dubious claim. Just for COVID, or Influenza, deaths from nonvaccination are well into six figures per year in heavy years. While
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by toss1 3mo ago
No, those three things are NOT the same. Exactly zero of those things you list also spread disease throughout the population, and are aggressively anti-science. They only arguably affect the person themselves and the overall HC costs. Mor
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by toss1 3mo ago
Exactly THIS! I found an excellent way to avoid premature abstraction and optimization and to write better software in general was to explicitly consider v1.x a throw-away. Build something expedient that works well enough to deploy in the f
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by toss1 3mo ago
Yup, did some digging on Tylenol/acetaminophen before I had some surgery, and it's a real danger. Oddly enough, it seems downing a whole bottle won't (usually) end your life as it gets mostly directly eliminated rather than
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by toss1 3mo ago
>>Are they worth the cost/tradeoffs? Hell NO!! Ubiquitous on-the-ground lighting is already disrupting plant, animal, and insect life cycles. Adding a blanketing sun reflector illuminating five-plus square kilometers at a time wi
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by toss1 3mo ago
Same here; it's expensive to not be a crook at heart (at least short-run expensive. I think it is far better long-run) .
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by toss1 3mo ago
Yup. All it will take is one juror who understands Jury Nullification [0,1], and they've got at best a hung jury mistrial... [0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/jury_nullification [1] https://en.wikiped
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by toss1 3mo ago
Hence, the alleged action of Luigi Mangione. If the law of the government doesn't catch up, eventually the law of the jungle will. But maybe not in their lifetimes. As President John Fitzgerald Kennedy said: "Those who make peace
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by toss1 3mo ago
I used to make similar arguments. But I also now look at actual results, and they are not merely late, they are far less than promised. Globally competitive EV? Not against the Chinese competitors (Hint: it's why he plans to merge Tesl
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by toss1 3mo ago
>>money and venture capital Yes, this. I used to think AI news summaries would kill it, but having tried Kagi news (first impressions as a daily driver for a week), I no longer think so, particularly because Kagi are doing everything
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by toss1 4mo ago
All true, but anyone putting up a site would need the bankroll to handle such a lawsuit through to winning, and then be able to collect on the SLAPP judgement (which the non-paying employer would likely have put up obstacles to collection).
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by toss1 4mo ago
Externally subsidized predatory pricing is the opposite of a free market — precisely because it sells things at below market rates . Free markets are where players compete on quality, efficiency, and supply. Prices are a result of cost a
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China claims to have developed AI 'cyber nuclear weapon', matching Mythos(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by toss1 4mo ago|2 comments
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by toss1 4mo ago
Externally subsidized predatory pricing is the opposite of a free market.
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by toss1 4mo ago
Nevermind government edicts & bans -- this seems like reason enough for them to require Know Their Customers, require ID, and shut of certain nations. Failing to have done so seems to have allowed 25000 fake Chinese accounts to walk off
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by toss1 4mo ago
Thanks for checking in, Captain Obvious! OF COURSE there are other sources of funding. The point is if you have access to far greater scales of VC funds than most of us do, then build hard tech companies, not software, so you build a moat.
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by toss1 4mo ago
Yup, seems to be exactly the point. Hard tech requires a lot of capital — money. He has the money. You and I don't have the money. So he won't find you or I competing with him. There's his moat. If it just required clever
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by toss1 4mo ago
The Stack Exchange poster seems to be confusing "State Of The Art" with "Best Practices". Meanwhile, Wikipedia specifically calls out "Cutting Edge" as specifically synonymous with "SOTA" [0], Cambrid
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by toss1 4mo ago
A fine example of Goodhart's law: "When a measurement becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measurement." Measuring open source contributions as a way to judge prospective employees used to be a good measurement. Of course
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by toss1 4mo ago
It is not merely showing proof of age It is using the proof of age requirement to require a much larger ask -- full proof of identity Age verification could be done with any of a variety of mathematical systems showing you have a proven age

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