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by tshaddox 1y ago
And bizarrely, next dev —-turbo isn’t any faster on my code base at work.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I’d say reverse causality is a very common example, particularly in health and medicine (e.g. illegal drug use and psychiatric disorders).
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Surely that's incorrect. The most obvious scenario is A causes B, B correlates with A, but B does not cause A. Whether causality is transitive is irrelevant.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Isn't causality transitive though? It sounds like you're saying that low socioeconomic status causes poorer access to healthcare and healthy foods, and that those cause worse health outcomes. Yet you're claiming that low soci
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Yeah, it’s almost certainly hallucination (by the human user).
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by tshaddox 1y ago
This framing of climate change (as a problem which can meaningfully be addressed by private individuals changing their habits) must be loved by people who stand to benefit from climate change.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Almost every common glass object I can think of has rounded corners. The only obvious exception is most household window panes. I have to think pretty hard to come up with another one...maybe aquarium tanks? Some mirrors and glass tables, a
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by tshaddox 1y ago
And don't forget eyeglasses, which are named for the fact that they are made of glass, and which very often have rounded corners.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> I guess they needed to show something if Siri still isn't ready, but this is just not it. This certainly is not that. Like it or not, a huge multi-OS redesign is not something you rush out for a keynote because your first choice d
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> At some point it's necessary to confront the uncomfortable truth Sometimes the truth is even more uncomfortable than “lots of people are stupid.” A much more insidious scenario is when there’s two groups with no major differences
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by tshaddox 1y ago
It was also a protest and a riot. These things are not mutually exclusive.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
In that case, it would be neat if corruption were illegal!
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I didn’t claim that and neither did the commenter before me. The commenter implied that, because the operation has non-zero costs, it must not be rent seeking. I offered a correction.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Yes, but the point is that rent seeking profits come from things which don’t contribute to economic productivity, which is the accusation being discussed. Having non-zero costs doesn’t imply that you’re not rent seeking.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Well yes, rent seeking is specifically profit from things that don’t create new wealth or contribute to economic productivity.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Probably because they enjoy it. Same reason you and I contribute to a social media service operated by a for-profit company.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
What then is the distinction between YouTube and a newspaper?
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I think using the example of Nazi content and the first amendment is a distraction. What’s relevant is speech that is not legally protected. Should the New York Times have civil libel liability for what they publish in a newspaper? Should G
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I have to imagine that YouTube also has massive storage requirements that are a non-trivial portion of Google’s storage costs.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
That’s not mutually exclusive with rent seeking, of course.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
They presumably charge much more than their ongoing costs. Rent seeking doesn’t mean zero costs.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> Now the other extreme of free software is, arguably, also (economically) bad, as it fails to reward the effort of the creators proportionally to the value gained by the user. What’s the economic explanation then for why so much high qu
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by tshaddox 1y ago
If the predator species have heritable differences in prey selection, no matter how slight, natural selection can work with that.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
They’re also an acquired taste, which makes it even more absurd.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Sometimes you're stuck using some API that throws exceptions for expected (i.e. non-exceptional ) errors, and you really do want to do nothing additional when those expected errors occur.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
For what it's worth, the mantra I was taught in the U.S. in the 1990s was ordered "recycle, reduce, reuse," but there was no indication that the ordering mattered. We were just taught about all three things.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I don't doubt that LLMs will have a large impact on software and programming. But I do wonder whether it will be a positive impact. I think one of the biggest problems the software industry has is that it's far too rare for the pe
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Surely that must depend on the altitude the drone is flying at. Surely I can use a net to capture a drone flying 8 feet above the ground in my backyard.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Both of those types of arguments are false.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I wouldn't expect a journalist to apply second derivatives, but I would expect them to talk to physicists and accurately report what the physicists say. Of course, I have no real physics or astronomy education beyond high school, b

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