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by trts 3y ago
Brave is really good and always surprising me with features while largely staying lean and out of my way. They recently added a chatbot that runs locally they call Leo based on llama2. It's pretty impressive that you can perform LLM t
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by trts 3y ago
if GDP growth fueled by deficit spending is still legit GDP growth, then couldn't we easily have double, triple, or 100x growth just by more deficit spending? Why limit it to single-digit percentages? Let's really get things coo
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by trts 3y ago
you’re referring to tact or social acceptance gp is referring to government policing of speech and legally punitive consequences
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by trts 3y ago
their agents get their commission partially structured based on the customer satisfaction feedback following the transaction, or used to. So the incentive is at least somewhat more in favor of the consumer.
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by trts 3y ago
https://www.usdebtclock.org/ Federal debt more than $250K per taxpayer. Doesn't include state-level debt and unfunded liabilities such as public employee pensions. Interest payments on the debt alone now exceed spendi
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by trts 3y ago
what's the alternative to Tor?
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by trts 3y ago
There is no way this world exists without an authoritarian global government. Have you analyzed the impact of the total elimination of 4 car garages, golf courses, "trinkets", and enforced 5-year upgrades on devices? do those ran
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by trts 3y ago
DC is always an outlier in state-level comparisons because it is essentially a large city. States are otherwise averages of metropolitan and non metropolitan areas.
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by trts 3y ago
heads up display (HUD) was a good feature that I haven't seen re-implemented as a an option out of the box in another desktop environment.
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by trts 3y ago
it would surprise me if they didn’t try to handle this. It is similar to the Christmas music in January problem. With white noise it is so easy to generate for free that likely 1000s of people are generating hordes of static content and upl
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by trts 3y ago
A choice is being imposed on citizens and private companies by the government, for the benefit of organizations that are influential with the establishment. An experiment is when you have a hypothesis about something that could be improved
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by trts 3y ago
If they make it better for the reader, they can potentially raise the price. If they can make it cheaper to produce, they can potentially increase their profit without raising the price. Usually on balance this falls somewhere in between -
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by trts 3y ago
it's a fairly common and incredible experience for me to see people on reddit assert the most inane drivel that collect hundreds or thousands of upvotes and enthusiastic agreement. It makes me feel some combination of 1. Reddit is floo
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by trts 3y ago
Seeing the authors of this paper, I am reminded of some of my favorite conversations with Gulio Tononi on Closer to Truth, about the nature and constructs of consciousness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiS5i2d9zBA
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by trts 3y ago
are you suggesting that a worker who does not protest an arbitrary mandate to log onto their computer at a specific corporate office building, would receive greater clemency from the management team when the opportunity arises to replace th
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by trts 3y ago
If all it does is avoid making me re-authenticate several times a week that alone is worth the install for me.
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by trts 3y ago
on previous bluetooth models I've had experience with, the feature is fairly easy to ignore completely. Probably not to the same degree with this version. The B5000 series has a press-and-hold to connect to bluetooth, otherwise pairin
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by trts 3y ago
I work for a small, remote-only company and overall it works well. I probably work 40-55 hours in a given week, and give back 25-50% of my commute time to the company, mostly because I'm not a morning person so would rather just open
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by trts 3y ago
I didn't read the book; it was written prior to 2013 when I heard him on a podcast conversation. Parts of it stuck with me, and I remember there being a more recent followup: - https://www.econtalk.org/kling-on-the-thr
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by trts 3y ago
There is a framework I recognize as similar put forward by Arnold Kling that I think of often, the Three Languages of Politics, that suggests part of what makes political discourse so often fruitless is that the primary value axes differ fo
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by trts 3y ago
One of my favorite films of all time, and still relevant today. As a young person it totally altered my view of time and humanity. Subsequent viewings have always revealed new interpretations as my life and surroundings changed. I think on
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by trts 3y ago
There is endogeneity between the results and the product. Sites have been gaming SEO for so long that some terms have become their own recursive universe of ad-based search promoting ad-monetized content. Long-winded recipe pages are the c
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by trts 3y ago
Adding to that, it is what makes me miss R when using other languages. It just isn't very much fun to me to do discovery and building in python, but ultimately where things get operationalized.
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by trts 4y ago
What was it they changed about Music?
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by trts 4y ago
If automation can make tax code easier to be in compliance with, does this imply a reduced cost of increasing complexity and special exceptions in the tax code?
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by trts 4y ago
If other big or small banks were also holding long-term, illiquid assets that have rapidly declined in value along with the increase in Fed rate increases, then they have the same problem. SBV bought 10-year term mortgage backed securities
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by trts 4y ago
It also kind of dictates that the employee dedicates square footage in his or her home for workspace, but also has to deal with commute, attire, transit schedules etc. Yes, I can just elect to do 5 days/wk in office, but it seems like
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by trts 4y ago
I buy Spotify for podcasts (as a listener of Heavyweight which is now exclusive to Spotify). It sucks, and about 40% of the time an ad comes on, it crashes or loses my place in the episode completely when I try to skip (or I'm unable t
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by trts 4y ago
That extension was constantly asking me for new site permissions as they adjusted the filter list. Grateful to the developers for their work but think I might actually prefer the ublock addition going forward.
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by trts 4y ago
notably absent language about anti-racism in this RIF https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32897195

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