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by trogdor 2y ago
Although I know it’s an apocryphal quote, I am reminded of “640K should be enough for anybody.” The Intel 4004, in 1971, had only 2,250 transistors. A handful of qubits today might become a billion sooner than you think.
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by trogdor 2y ago
I don’t think they are accusing you of lying. >It’d be more impressive if these predictions were shared beforehand It’s hard to disagree with that. Based on your comment above, it sound like “the receipts” are messages between you and on
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by trogdor 2y ago
I am interested in learning about what you are referring to, but you linked his entire Substack and Twitter account. Would you please link a specific post?
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by trogdor 2y ago
> Russia also has a unique ability to turn the entire economy into a sort of "war economy". That hasn't really been done yet. Would you explain what you mean by this and why you believe it to be true?
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by trogdor 2y ago
Homer Plessy I read the entire Plessy entry. Nowhere does it say that he was “sponsored by the railroad” or anything like that. The closest thing I could find is the following statement: “The railroad company, which had opposed the law on
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by trogdor 2y ago
As cool as those anecdotes sound, I am not sure that either of them are true. Homer Plessy The Wikipedia article on Plessy v. Ferguson explains the following: “In 1890, the State of Louisiana passed the Separate Car Act, which required se
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by trogdor 2y ago
I have to say, I like your attitude now. At least the way it comes across here.
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by trogdor 2y ago
Your response to Iain suggests that his account of your interaction with a new female colleague (“You know you're a slut, right?") is generally accurate. Do you really think of that as “saying the weirdest shit ever”? Most people
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by trogdor 2y ago
> We have a wattage maximum for headlights too. Are you sure it’s not a luminance maximum? LED lights can be much brighter at the same wattage vs. incandescent lights.
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by trogdor 2y ago
>It's inane how hard it is to find a legal place to drop people off at some BART stations Can’t you drop a passenger off at a fire hydrant? “CHAPTER 9. Stopping, Standing, and Parking 22514 No person shall stop, park, or leave stand
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by trogdor 2y ago
> Projecting a public image of giving back to the community while actually being apathetic and not taking any safeguards is malicious. What you describe is hypocrisy, not malice.
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by trogdor 2y ago
> Many people all over the world would buy gold even if they could never resell it. Why do you believe that?
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by trogdor 2y ago
> Don't view ads. I don’t think that is possible. If you go outside, you will be exposed to advertising. And lots of it.
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by trogdor 2y ago
Not that I care, but I think this type of arrangement (skill-based, real prize gambling) is illegal in some states.
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by trogdor 2y ago
What countries don’t allow low grades?
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by trogdor 2y ago
> Apple lied about it before, claiming the LED was hard-wired in blah blah same thing, except it turned out it was software controlled by the camera module's firmware. Source?
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by trogdor 2y ago
The family that raised me surely had more of an impact on my identity, but both parts of my ancestry are independently significant to me. My point, though, was that using birth and death records to trace your ancestry is not always reliable
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by trogdor 2y ago
Not always. For example, my birth certificate has my father’s name on it. I am in my 30’s, and it was only a few months ago that I learned that I was conceived via IVF, and that my biological father was a sperm donor. In my case, my mother
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by trogdor 2y ago
What was the issue?
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by trogdor 2y ago
>careers in torturing people to death What do you mean by that?
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by trogdor 2y ago
> The only concrete things we know about gwern are that he's a world-renowned breeder of Maine Coons and that he is the sole known survivor of a transverse cerebral bifurcation. How do you know those things are true?
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by trogdor 2y ago
Very cool. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
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by trogdor 2y ago
> By 31-Dec-2025, you should be in the situation where you are not even inconvenienced if Google or Apple or Meta were to suddenly ban your account. Have you done this for yourself? What was your process?
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by trogdor 2y ago
Without question, it was the FAA. Click the link and read the document. “At the request of the FAA, SpaceX conducted a literature review of ESA-listed endangered and threatened species with known or presumed distributions in the study area
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by trogdor 2y ago
>One government agency, he said, at one point required them to do a study that estimated the chances of a re-entering rocket body impacting a gray whale in the event that it splashed down hard -- personally I agree, that is kind of ridic
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by trogdor 2y ago
This can sometimes happen. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alford_plea
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by trogdor 2y ago
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that drugs were involved.
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by trogdor 2y ago
> What would have been total losses turn into minor repair and smoke damage rehab. In my (admittedly minimal) experience as a volunteer firefighter, “minor repair and smoke damage rehab” isn’t a thing once a fire is progresses handheld f
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by trogdor 2y ago
Exactly. My business owns dozens of mission-critical domains. Their registration is all fully paid through the early-2030s.
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by trogdor 2y ago
> The only hyperscaler that picked up MI300X is Azure and they GA'ed it 2 weeks ago What does “GA” mean in this context? I’m usually pretty good at deciphering acronyms, but in this case, I have no idea.

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