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by vkou 11mo ago
> Rent control is not in the landlord's business... Seattle... Landlords going out of business... And you immediately demonstrate why having a conversation with you on this subject is pointless. There's a million different di
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by vkou 11mo ago
You could do some basic research on this topic, it's been exhaustively covered over the past few centuries, but I'll drop you three starting points. Pushing the tax burden for upkeeping society off people who own more shit than an
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by vkou 11mo ago
1. To make it clear what is your work, and what is building on someone else's. 2. If the paper turns out to be important, people will bother. 3. There's checking for cursory correctness, and there's forensic torture.
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by vkou 11mo ago
> IMHO what should change is we stop putting "peer reviewed" articles on a pedestal. Correct. Peer review is a minimal and necessary but not sufficient step.
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by vkou 11mo ago
Have you authored a lot of non-CS papers? Could you provide a proof of concept paper for that sort of thing? Not a toy example, an actual example, derived from messy real-world data, in a non-trivial[1] field? --- [1] Any field is non-tri
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by vkou 11mo ago
> Do other PR reviewers not do this? No, because this is usually a waste of time, because CI enforces that the code and the tests can run at submission time. If your CI isn't doing it, you should put some work in to configure it. If
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by vkou 11mo ago
It's not, but when you have 30 minutes to ship a story...
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by vkou 11mo ago
The wrong lesson is that while the teacher may think it's a stain, and you and I think it's a stain and how any civilized person would think it's a stain, the country doesn't think it's a stain. What's import
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by vkou 11mo ago
> Well I remember being taught about the Kent State massacre in school and how it was a stain on our country, and that we were learning about it because things like that need to be remembered, not forgotten. School taught you the wrong l
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by vkou 11mo ago
Could you give the whole paragraph, and not just the last sentence in it? Ah, heck, I'll do the work of pasting it in. > But again, one last thing. I — we don’t talk enough to you about this, I don’t think. One last thing that’s r
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by vkou 11mo ago
> who got covid anyway I took it in 2020, and have taken booster shots. I got COVID... This year. I felt like shit for two weeks, was fatigured for a month, and had a lingering cough for two. Nobody's promised them that they won&#x2
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by vkou 11mo ago
Maybe these means should be employed in more moderation? Certainly we wouldn't be better off if advertising were beamed 24/7 at full blast into your ears and eyes the second you step out into any public space. About 5% of its curr
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by vkou 11mo ago
The timelines were compressed because instead of doing all the safety trials one after the other, they were all done concurrently . The only people that puts at risk are the trial participants .
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by vkou 11mo ago
And when you do, the critics will just shift the goal posts, again.
825.
by vkou 11mo ago
Trillionaires don't buy mass media companies to make money, they do it to push propaganda. This one in particular is both personally desperate for approval of his petty, narcissistic bullshit, and for trying to consolidate politica
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by vkou 11mo ago
Efficiency is not always desirable in legislature. It would be efficient if a political faction, as soon as it reached the threshold for being able to pass any of its legislature to immediately pass as much of it, as quickly as it can sig
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by vkou 11mo ago
> I've never felt more physically repulsed by an individual before > His lack of inhibition, decency and compassion is disturbing Yes, but none of that has anything to do with his age. These criticisms would land just as well a d
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by vkou 11mo ago
Look, if you want the people to dig trenches with spoons, you can expect them to do it. But if all you're giving them is spoons, you're going to need to give them a lot of slack on the expected digging schedules. Being forced to
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by vkou 11mo ago
> Something in the way they are organised suppresses the competence. It's a natural outcome of authoritarian structures when the people at the top are idiots. When that happens, the whole organization rots.
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by vkou 11mo ago
You're missing the bright side - this upwards price ratchet is amazing for institutional investors and banks and realtors, though.
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by vkou 11mo ago
And in many districts you can't get elected without the endorsement of your local megachurch, but given how rarely that is complained about, Americans have a unique hatred of worker unions getting involved in politics. (Businesses, bil
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by vkou 11mo ago
My friend, in 2025, the president is auctioning off criminal pardons. So far this year, these pardons have cost the government and fraud victims 1.3 billion dollars. His friends, none of whom are elected officials, meanwhile, are making m
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by vkou 11mo ago
What? It doesn't read that way to me. It reads like any other comment from the past ~15 years. The point you raised is both a distraction... And does not engage with the ones it did.
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by vkou 11mo ago
No study should be good enough for HN. If a single non-obviously-flawed study is enough to convince you to something, then you can be convinced of anything and everything under the sun. One study can find any effect it's looking
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by vkou 11mo ago
> Is/was copy/pasting from Stackoverflow considered harmful? It at least forces you to tinker with whatever you copied over.
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by vkou 11mo ago
They have some monetization, but as long as they don't expand into other sectors, they can plausibly claim that, say, their ad business will be bringing in 10 trillion/year in revenue, or whatever other imagined number.
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by vkou 11mo ago
This code red also has the convenient benefit of giving an excuse to stop work on more monetization features... Which, when implemented, would have the downside of tethering OpenAI's valuation to reality.
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by vkou 11mo ago
If the community of people in this country didn't like regulation, all they'd need to do is vote in someone who would remove it. The fact that they haven't, or that there aren't even headwinds for such a thing implies th
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by vkou 11mo ago
The intention of a system is no more, and no less than what the system does.
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by vkou 11mo ago
> See what the wait times are for the specialists in other countries, if they even exist! I assure you, they exist, I have been to them, and the wait times were about as long. > It’s very hard to solve these things are such a massive

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