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by tovej 1y ago
The loneliness epidemic is real. A society focused on efficiency and business is alienating a lot of people.
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by tovej 1y ago
They are extreme by any sensible use of the term. If your nationalist beliefs make you ignore human rights such as asylum, or if you specifically limit the rights of one ethnic group of people (such as India has done, e.g.) while you otherw
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by tovej 1y ago
Did you notice the word "extreme"? And ethnonationalism is bad, nost definitely.
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by tovej 1y ago
I would say they can't reliably deliver simple work. They often can, but reliability, to me, means I can expect it to work every time. Or at least as much as any other software tool, with failure rates somewhere in the vicinity of 1 in
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by tovej 1y ago
No? I don't think their nationality matters. And there's even a connection. All three countries have governments enacting extreme nationalist immigration policies (Poland:suspension of asylum rights, Denmark: atated goal of no asy
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by tovej 1y ago
Replication != validation, replication would be purely for experiments, which usually do not use that much causal language or attributions to theory. I'm talking about validating theory, and specifically neoclassical theory. But still,
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by tovej 1y ago
Not really, they're claiming a positive, I'm claiming a negative. The burden of proof is on them. The failure of neoclassical economics has also been widely discussed, especially following 2008, so it's a claim about the stat
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by tovej 1y ago
It's a school of economics that became dominant in the 60s, it emphasises free market dynamics, much like the classical school, and especially focuses on consumption and optimizing economic actors, these actors are a very simple (and u
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by tovej 1y ago
Please provide some proof that neoclassical economics has done this.
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by tovej 1y ago
Are you saying linear regression = statistics? Linear regression is something you learn in your first class, it's hardly ever the main model used. And if you're going to claim that economists are publishing influential papers in o
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by tovej 1y ago
Economics _is_ a social science, and a politicized one at that. Sociology is more rigid than economics when it comes to validation of theories and choice of methods (statistics vs. mathematical models filled with assumptions). Economics, es
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by tovej 1y ago
Trumps figure is probably more misleading. But even if you believe it, it's not a contradiction, is it? Hamas foghters would be a subset of all Palestinians, and 30000 is less than 67000. 67000 is, for the record, an underestimate, as
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by tovej 1y ago
Are you aware of dblp.org?
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by tovej 1y ago
Somehow? Homeowners are obviously the more powerful group, and real estate ownership in the bigger picture is tied to even more powerful entities (big companies, banks, billionaires). How many in the top 10% of the wealth distribution do yo
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by tovej 1y ago
This is full of dishonest talking points so I will only address some of them to show others just how dishonest they are. Saying Palestinians aren't part of a nation is some racist bullshit. You're denying Palestinians their nation
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by tovej 1y ago
Reminder that Israel razed hundreds of Palestinian villages to the ground in 1948, and expelled half the Palestinian population from their homeland. Israel has always wanted to ethnically cleanse Palestine of the indigenous population. It h
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by tovej 1y ago
Are LLMs not NLP? They process natural language, no? And I assume the multimodal tools still use OCR for text extraction, or am I missing something? My understanding is that they're still doing OCR+NLP, just differently than traditiona
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by tovej 1y ago
I notice a lot of threads critical of e.g., YC vompanies, silicon valley, Israel, corporate greed, capitalism, tend to get to the front page and then disappear soon after. I'm not sure exactly how the mechanism for the front page works
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by tovej 1y ago
It might be psychological, Exxon famously held back their report on the impact of oil on the climate in 1977. If you've fucked the whole world over that badly and know it, and then denied it for decades, it might be very difficult to a
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by tovej 1y ago
There's a copy pasted "Retry Claude" sentence in the copy of the page, the footer advertises unrelated travel services. Oh, and there's no details on what methods the AI uses for analysis, or any measurements at all of a
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by tovej 1y ago
Wind power is among the cheapest sources of electricity, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_sourc... Wind power also has the benefit that it keeps the carbon in the ground and isn't contrib
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by tovej 1y ago
Definitely McCarthyism, or possibly a slippery slide towards something worse. These attacks on free speech are much more brazen than I expected.
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by tovej 1y ago
Yeah, thought of pharma afterwards. But defense is most definitely on the list, even though the astroturfing looks more like manufacturing consent.
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by tovej 1y ago
Astroturfing has been the favorite MO of harmful industries like tobacco, oil, and defense for a long time now. It's sad that this has become so normal, and that they can pressure opponents into silence. I'm wondering if we'l
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by tovej 1y ago
Got it, thank you for explaining. That was unclear to me from the article.
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by tovej 1y ago
Are you saying that this antiviral would not kill bacteriophages? Or are you saying you think the effect would be small because the population in our bodies is small?
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by tovej 1y ago
Interesting, and potentially very good. But I can't help but wonder, like at least one other commenter, that this might have unexpected effects if applied at a larger scale. I know some viruses kill bacteria for instance. I don't
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by tovej 1y ago
Well yes, it's a different coorsinate system, so gradients would look different. It is still the same color space, but I agree I could have worded that better.
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by tovej 1y ago
AI upscale does not improve quality imo, I'd much prefer to watch grainy vhs originals to AI upscaled ones that insert weird shapes in the image. This is especially bad in animation, where the art gets visibly distorted.
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by tovej 1y ago
oklch uses the oklab color space.

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