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by valleyer 4mo ago
I've had SIP disabled for years, across many updates.
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by valleyer 4mo ago
They haven't approved a change, but they have released proposals, which are tentatively to go into effect on June 8: https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/indexnews/announ...
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by valleyer 5mo ago
Sure, those are some good counterexamples: both sons of professional athletes. And there are plenty of others. On the other hand, we have: Allen Iverson, Larry Bird, Shaquille O'Neal, Carmelo Anthony, Michael Vick, Bo Jackson, Jackie
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by valleyer 5mo ago
From your link: > Equity is equality of outcome for all subgroups in society.
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by valleyer 5mo ago
Your analogy works against you, given that tons of professional athletes come from poverty.
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by valleyer 5mo ago
In most modern societies, we regulate all sorts of things that people would otherwise willingly do to their own detriment. We ban drugs; we have labor laws; we have usury laws; we require seatbelts; we have securities regulations; etc. (N
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by valleyer 5mo ago
Cool. Here's something he said today: TRUMP: "They're all crooks. The Somalians are -- what they've done to Minnesota -- the Somalians. They're crooked as hell. Ilhan Omar. Crooked as hell. They're al
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by valleyer 5mo ago
Life imitates art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeKX99gZpYs
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by valleyer 5mo ago
> It used to be that they only had to say no to more junior engineers’ handwritten PRs, but now they have to say no to a barrage of AI-generated code, some of it generated by managers and VPs who are politically difficult to say no to. H
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by valleyer 5mo ago
Sorry, maybe I should have been more explicit. Facebook, Discord, and Twitter may sell "your data", but when they do, it's likely by selling distillations of their internal databases. (Or, of course, through vulnerabilities
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by valleyer 5mo ago
They're needed for extra revenue for KGO-TV. (Which is owned by Disney.)
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by valleyer 5mo ago
You can do that with iPhone, too, using the (poorly named) "USB Camera Adapter", which splits out a USB type-A jack. (I assume you need a similar adapter on most Android phones, too, since I've never seen one with a type-A j
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by valleyer 5mo ago
Here is the actual quote you are defending: TRUMP: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best -- they're not sending you [points at unidentified people off-camera] -- they're not sending you -- t
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by valleyer 5mo ago
"Land of Opportunity" is in fact a long-used nickname for the United States, so your position appears to be mostly rejected.
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by valleyer 5mo ago
That's not my read of the message of those ads at all.
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by valleyer 5mo ago
You really weren't paying close attention to their rhetoric, then.
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by valleyer 5mo ago
Yup, and that requires extra labor to fulfill, which will cost money. Luckily, I haven't heard anyone complain about high prices of groceries lately, so I'm sure everyone would be fine with that.
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by valleyer 5mo ago
No goods or services were produced in your example, so GDP would not be affected. Purchases of securities are not goods or services.
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by valleyer 5mo ago
Margin interest is tax-deductible, but only when you're using the loan to buy more securities. So, in context, a CEO who "works for no salary" and just takes out loans secured by their stock holdings to fund their lifestyle
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by valleyer 5mo ago
What U.S. tax code provision allows an individual to write off (non-primary-mortgage) loan interest?
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by valleyer 5mo ago
That's not what GDP means.
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by valleyer 5mo ago
This is unethical.
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by valleyer 6mo ago
Hm. I read that as saying that their users are writing more code with the assistance of LLMs, thus placing more stress on their systems. I do not read it as making any comment about their own practices.
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by valleyer 6mo ago
Right. In other words, the clock cycle is already made to be long enough to allow a word-sized SUB to settle. An XOR-with-self surely settles faster, but it still has to wait for that same clock cycle before proceeding.
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by valleyer 6mo ago
Well, I hope I'm not, but yes, I will be quite disappointed if so.
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by valleyer 6mo ago
Start here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/07/tim-...
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by valleyer 6mo ago
Wait, so... cat -v not considered harmful, then?
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by valleyer 6mo ago
Fair enough, sorry :)
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by valleyer 6mo ago
If so, I apologize.
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by valleyer 6mo ago
This is some serious revisionist history. GPT-2 wasn't instruction-following or even conversational.

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