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by viscanti 5y ago
> The way in which things are trending, an Idiocracy is unlikely because of an AGI singularity. The way in which things are trending, an AGI singularity is unlikely because of the IQ decline over time.
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by viscanti 5y ago
> Imagine if there were coding boot camps that were entirely based on developing a good vibe with the computer From my experience the industry is sorely lacking people who have developed a good vibe with the computer and we can probably
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by viscanti 5y ago
Anyone capable of that level of introspection is unlikely to be someone who is on the wrong end of misinformation. If the solution is for everyone to identify misinformation and to block it, then the criticisms of social media platforms are
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by viscanti 5y ago
Seems pretty clear. Zuck helped some people make a decent return on their investment so he shouldn't be held accountable for anything and it's cool for him to pillage the company coffers to bribe governments to let him off.
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by viscanti 5y ago
It's a PR stunt and an attempt to continue to show "progress" so they can keep getting funding. Their current design requires up-to-date ultra high definition 3d mapping, perfect weather conditions, and a minimal amount of t
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by viscanti 5y ago
They were providing a list of neighborhoods in SF. It wasn't ambiguous and would have been well understood by anyone familiar enough with the city to comment on the state of SF. There's also a Richmond Virginia (among many other R
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by viscanti 5y ago
> Our share of global manufacturing is tiny compared to what it used to be You mean compared to a time when most developed countries' production capacity was significantly limited because they had been bombed out in WW2 and developi
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by viscanti 5y ago
What part of the 5 year plan outlined the strategy behind why the CCP went after DIDI? I'm genuinely curious and it might be more useful to link to the relevant parts. Some people might actually be interested in reading those and bette
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by viscanti 5y ago
Or Didi who had the nerve to IPO outside of China on the NYSE on a date the CCP thought was too close to a party anniversary.
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by viscanti 5y ago
Zuck pitches it as being like current social media but that you're embodied in it. That sounds pretty dystopian to me.
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by viscanti 5y ago
So you don't want to be embodied in a world full of Russian and anti-vax propaganda (along with the fictional 'best self' content from 'friends')?
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by viscanti 5y ago
It might not be feasible for China to get to 3 kids per couple, but it points out there's a natural tension between governments that want population growth for economic reasons and a need to reduce population growth (if there aren&#x27
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by viscanti 5y ago
Was he harming innocent people? Was he injecting too much noise/unnecessary work into the system? I don't see how him doing it as more of a freelance thing rather than an undercover position guarantees a different outcome. It seem
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by viscanti 5y ago
The US could create an amendment to say something like "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people". Which would giv
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by viscanti 5y ago
That assumes that companies will pay dividends and your can get a good estimate of future yield to value. Corporate earnings are a proxy for potential future yield when there might be future yield. But most large tech companies don't r
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by viscanti 5y ago
If you cherry pick data during COVID that's true. But it was the first year since 1900 with any decline and state forecasters say it's more to do with over 50,000 COVID related deaths and less migration from other countries (the l
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by viscanti 5y ago
I guess I misunderstood things then. It's difficult to reconcile why they'd be using a legacy version of Java that required these specific GC tunings if they weren't forced to use it because of libraries that couldn't be
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by viscanti 5y ago
Can't you delegate your ETH with other people you trust? Isn't that an arbitrary decision that seems likely to change (ETH is famous for making sure that people can run a full node on an older and underpowered laptop)? Not sure ho
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by viscanti 5y ago
Maybe they have to use some kind of legacy JVM library that doesn't work on Java 8? It looks like they're a GoLang shop, so I'm not sure why we'd assume their Java stuff is representative of anything other than what they
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by viscanti 5y ago
But as soon as someone bought 51% of ETH and abused their influence, their investment would go to zero. I'm not sure I get the scenario where it's worthwhile for someone to invest the amount it would take to get that significant o
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by viscanti 5y ago
> I am surprised how much legacy inefficient crap is lingering around in companies like Uber. Maybe there are some JVM specific libraries they need for things like mapping that don't exist on GoLang? From reading their tech blog, it
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by viscanti 6y ago
According to their public investor reports, they've been EBIDTA profitable on Rides for years. They're also profitable in more rationalized Eats markets (markets where there aren't other VC funded companies burning hundreds o
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by viscanti 6y ago
Apple trades an order of magnitude more per day than any of the stocks that were halted. So why are there no liquidity issues there but there are with the stocks that keep being halted?
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by viscanti 6y ago
No it doesn't. Antitrust comes down to if there's harm to the consumer from the behavior of the company. If Apple's tracking is sufficiently different than Facebooks (because one is a hardware and services company collecting
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by viscanti 6y ago
Apple trades an order of magnitude more per day than any of the stocks that were halted. Somehow the clearinghouses have no trouble with the Apple volume.
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by viscanti 6y ago
Second, consumer harm needs to be proven.
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by viscanti 6y ago
This feels like false equivalency. Sure, it would be great if consumers had better visibility into how data is used, but one company is an ads company where the users are the product and the other sells hardware and services.
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by viscanti 6y ago
> He starts a VC fund. The fund has no "major" wins. Box, Slack, Yammer, Palantir. I guess I don't know what the definition of "major" is, but those seem decent. The VC fund did eventually "burn down",
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by viscanti 6y ago
Tesla just announced they were profitable for the full year of 2020. What's the compliant about top line income? They make money from sales and from credits because governments want to incentivize the sale of electric cars. My point is
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by viscanti 6y ago
Would we expect Tesla to optimize for profitability ex-regulatory credits? It seems like they know what they'll get from that, and they invest in building out new gigafactories based on the total net income they have, or they pass the

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