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by vasilipupkin 2y ago
The Americans that don’t have any savings don’t necessarily have wages that keep up with inflation either. But also https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/01/14/average-net-...
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by vasilipupkin 2y ago
It’s not that surprising. Inflation destroys your savings
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by vasilipupkin 2y ago
if this account is true, Sam Altman is a deeply unethical human being. Given that he doesn't bring any technical know how to building of AGI, I just don't see the reason to have such a person in charge here. The new board should
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by vasilipupkin 2y ago
Do use Telegram as a news source, to subscribe to channels Do not, for the love of all that is holy, use it for any communications. It is not secure and most likely has been hacked up the wazoo by the FSB.
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
no, I was expecting any evidence, some evidence.
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
"Overselling supposedly magic software is not a kind of fraud?". I suggest googling what fraud means. Marketing is most definitely not fraud and has nothing to do with fraud. You are making circular arguments. Palantir is a 50
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
Bernie Madoff was a fraud, which is an unrelated thing to this convo Palantir is a real company. "I am sure Palantir has a bit more but not by much". Why are you so sure?
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
Regardless, I don't think you can make a reasonable case that MBAs in general are such low IQ people that they are buying Palantir software for no reason other than marketing or sales. It's much more likely that Palantir software
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
"Bullshit receptivity and bullshitting frequency are both negatively associated with cognitive ability and analytic thinking." from your link. Given that it's pretty hard to get into a top MBA program, I think we can put thi
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
because what's going to happen is if enough students are absent, there will be a big number of them who thought they would master the material no problem, would turn out to be wrong and then would bug the teacher incessantly to let the
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
McKinsey hires top of the class people at top schools and pays them top dollar. If all they needed was marketing or sales, they could go to University of Nowhere and hire good looking tall people to do sales.
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
source? most psychological research doesn't replicate
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
you can't teach very well if 20% of the class is absent, it just creates an absurd situation for the teachers it's not that hard, if you commit to going to school, then just try to go and do vacations during school holidays otherw
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
please. the last people that would buy into any kind of marketing are MBAs because they actually study marketing among other things during their 2 years of obtaining an MBA. there is no perfect product, I don't know how well Palantir
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
Agreed. But in general if I’m looking for a plumber for a huge skyscraper, am I going to hire a plumber who has never worked on one of them and had only done suburban houses ? Most likely, no, I’ll get a recommendation for a pulunbet with
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
Absolutely, but I think my example still stands If humans could come up with truly novel solutions frequently, it would be no problem hiring a divorce lawyer to do a corporate merger. But there is a very low likelihood of this ever happeni
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
bingo, I think it's a weird gotcha. Most human occupations require years of training exactly for this purpose, so that humans can just regurgitate data they have seen in training. Very few humans ever produce truly novel insights. yo
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
I am not going to be surprised to be downvoted, but you don't need shared_ptr in C++, that is itself overkill The point of C++ is performance. If you don't need performance, why not just use Java or Python, why use Rust?
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
General Consul? Is he a Roman general ?
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
this is true, but even these results show that vast majority, even at the lowest level of ability, don't commit violent crimes.
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
I don't think this is true https://usafacts.org/articles/how-have-cancer-rates-changed-...
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
If you are lifting heavy boxes in the warehouse and you are on drugs, you can physically harm someone. There is no way to directly correlate using drugs and performance of an engineer, for all we know, small infrequent drug use improves per
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
no, the disagreement is about whether the fact that Israel exercised some control over Gaza strip after it withdrew can count as "military control over Gaza strip" In plan English, it's plainly absurd. If I own 10% of the sto
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
Gaza is not occupied by Israeli military. After Israel withdrew from Gaza and ended its physical presence in Gaza, some still consider Israel as occupying Gaza due to control of airspace, etc. Some consider, that does it make it a settled
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
"By destroying civilian infrastructure, targeting journalists, using starvation?" they are not using starvation, humanitarian aid is going into Gaza, multiple trucks are going on, hundreds a day. they are not targeting journalists
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
You are missing the point. Israel physically withdrew from Gaza unilaterally, without any agreement, without any negotiation. It simply withdrew its forces and moved its people out of there at huge cost. Subsequently, the expectation was
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
Israel completely withdrew from Gaza. This inability to deal with the basic facts of the situation is amazing to me. Are you seriously arguing that Israel didn't withdraw? here, watch this video https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
sorry, that's just an absurd way to reason about things. Of course, they are relevant. Israel is not acting in a vacuum. It didn't just wake up one day having completely withdrawn from Gaza and say, let me blockade Gaza for no re
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
you are making a lot of conclusions that don't follow from your premises and many of your premises are false. "Since Hamas cannot be defeated in this way, it stands to reason" It can and it doesn't. Of course Hamas can
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by vasilipupkin 3y ago
well, it's not as banal of a point as you think because plenty of players treat Hamas as a legitimate organization, including Turkey and others. Palestinian politicians from the West Bank are on record, for example, that future govern

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