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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Can someone explain how Google Groups has posts from 1990? They bought Dejanews which brought in a large chunk of what was available on usenet. But there was also a team inside Google that was specifically tasked with hunting ancient n
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by ur-whale 4y ago
Who's "they"?
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> and then congress just raises the ceiling. Sure, why worry about debt. If the debt is held internally, we'll just tell the citizens to get over it. If it's held externally, we'll send in the killer robots (via some lose
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> This is only an issue when it's a democrat president. You'd think that indeed (dems are indeed, in a long leftist tradition, always ready, willing and eager to spend other people's money). But, very unfortunately, the la
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by ur-whale 4y ago
https://archive.is/oCvhG very much worth a read in that context: https://comprehensivemoney.com/blog/thriftville-squandervill...
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by ur-whale 4y ago
What is it? I only see a boring gray page.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
Just rent instead and negociate a fixed rent for the next X years.
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RISC-V(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ur-whale 4y ago|0 comments
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by ur-whale 4y ago
Nice convoluted defense of an indefensible pov. But Occam's razor applies here.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> EDIT: Now it wants my phone number. Yeah, I walked away at that stage as well.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> Say what you will of the Americans, they will always do the right thing Are you living in some sort of bizzaro parallel dimension? They most certainly haven't since the end of WWII Top of a very, very long list : Irak. They didn&#
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> De-dollarization is happening at a ‘stunning’ pace And - knowing fully well that it is a highly unpopular on american-centric HN - I still claim that, if true, this would be a very, very good thing for the planet. Monopolies are bad. P
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by ur-whale 4y ago
It flatly refuses to generate code (I can't do that yet).
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Would a BRICS Common Currency Work?(youtube.com)
2 points by ur-whale 4y ago|0 comments
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> FDIC charges insurance premiums to banks In other words: the float is finite [1] No other source of financing? Someone mentioned "backstopped by the government". What does that mean? Unlimited credit line with the Fed? [1]
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> Having to read every line of every version of each of these packages in order to decide whether it's safe to generate the blog clearly isn't practical. Understatement of the year.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
An interesting question: how is the FDIC financed? Will they go bankrupt if enough small banks collapse? Or are they sitting on an infinitely deep well of money somehow?
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> When LLMs get going, you will never be able to reach a human at a corporation by phone or email again. You say it like it's a bad thing.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> I'm not at all impressed with this page because you don't show the tool doing anything interesting. a) has there been anything like this before? b) give it a year and see what it does
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by ur-whale 4y ago
>The only people I've ever met who know who this person is IRL outside of Mongolia are Kaiserreich players. https://www.google.com/search?q=corto+maltese+ungern+sternbe... https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by ur-whale 4y ago
Math is hard, let's go shopping.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
It may have been interesting, but I had to work on a Japanese PC-like machine that used one of those ... god was this computer slow.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
Naive question, but gotta ask: can Gröbner basis get over the "in general, a polynomial of degree >=5 can't be solved algebraically" hump? Given that the above is a theorem (from Galois IIRC) I'd assume the answer is
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by ur-whale 4y ago
>Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages Oh, this goes so, so, so much against both intuition and actual, lived experience with the topic. But then again, it's social "science" so why even pay attention when e
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> Gee I'm sure nobody thought of using AI for that before /s Instead of behaving like an unproductive ass, how about you do something useful and provide a link to folks working on the problem?
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by ur-whale 4y ago
>limited context length is an issue Fresh from HN: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11062
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> Why didn’t the author linked to the examples he cites? And generate traffic and revenue for another company without getting a cut? You gotta be kidding, right?
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by ur-whale 4y ago
> They are passionate about cheap mindless entertainment. Everyone hopes that their kids will be exceptional. You just have normal kids, get over it.
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by ur-whale 4y ago
>I'm going to go against the grain here and say my YouTube algorithm is great. I agree with the minor caveat that I'd like a "broaden" button and a "change theme" menu. My search algorithm presents me with c
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by ur-whale 4y ago
Automated and smart decompilation is the ONE thing I would love to apply AI to. Especially given the fact that we can generate and infinite training set: High level code -> compiler -> assembly code All the AI's got to do is le

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