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wagwang
5mo ago
The state literally exists to manage violence, especially revenge. It basically provides "fair revenge" which is justice.
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5mo ago
It absolutely is, if you arent going to punish someone who hurt my child then I will do it myself.
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5mo ago
Can some lawyer explain the rationale of statute of limitations? Like why does a robber get to get away with the crime if they are able to evade the police for x number of years. Is it just because the trials suck after a while cuz no one r
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5mo ago
Everyone farms the idiots, the liberal establishment over the last 50 years sold working class jobs overseas and imported labor to devalue their wages. Don't be surprised when another faction uses these "idiots" against you.
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5mo ago
If you are on a sota model and your context window is less than 100k tokens and you don't have any vague or contradicting rules, then I've almost never seen a rule broken The most common failure I've seen come from tools that
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5mo ago
Seems to work for me https://chatgpt.com/share/6a06a4c5-d454-83e8-a5b2-c9468f6588...
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wagwang
5mo ago
You can just tell the agent to do exactly that
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5mo ago
Depends on the product, but in many cases you cant actually decouple the complexity because the complexity is the product. There are times where the archaic flow needs to work for some stupid compliance reason.
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5mo ago
The last line of the video was talking about nuking others...
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7mo ago
There's no evidence that tight labor markets lead to a inflation death spiral, food in america is supposed to be expensive because America is a wealthy nation. The elites like to dress this up as something that is bad for the lower cla
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7mo ago
It's inherently unfair because its used to drive down wages of the lower classes. Outside of highly skilled work that cannot be sourced from within the country that is critical for nation security, the moral response is to just pay the
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7mo ago
Yes, that's how I would describe using immigration to address labor shortages
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7mo ago
Always interesting to see the analogs of island vs continental culture when comparing UK <-> America and Japan <-> China. Seems like islanders, due to their reliance on trade, naturally get specialized and autistic about their c
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7mo ago
you think we can print 40t without going into hyperinflation? Lol... Why would other countries hold usd if we print 40t
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7mo ago
Ah yes, the "we can cure debt by going into hyperinflation" argument
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7mo ago
> I divide my tasks into good for the soul and bad for it. Coding generally goes into good for the soul, even when I do it poorly. Lmk how you feel when you're constantly build integrations with legacy software by hand.
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7mo ago
Executive power over the civil service is an ant driving an elephant. You can say it's a good thing and it's intentional, but the fact of the matter is that the executive appoint a fraction of a percent of the positions and those
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7mo ago
The US elected government has no control over the unelected civil servants as congress over the past 150 years did everything they could to prevent the spoils system.
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7mo ago
> because productivity gains must benefit the lower classes to see a multiplier in the economy by this logic, the invention of mechanized farm equipment, which displaced farm labor, didnt increase productivity
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7mo ago
in an age of generated tests, a mandate on no tests is just dumb
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7mo ago
That's cc propaganda; merchant fraud is a tiny portion of the overall transactions so you'd save more overall if the cc fee wasnt passed onto the consumer. The counter argument is that the aggregate data allows payment processors
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7mo ago
Let's just call it for what it is. Visa and mastercard innovated in an era where payment settlement was notoriously difficult and expensive but they've used their monopolies to entrench themselves in (by negotiating deals with mer
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8mo ago
Most of what you said has nothing to do with lidar vs camera
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8mo ago
Garbage methodology, state by state policies need to use something like a difference in difference study measure actual effect sizing
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8mo ago
Highly doubt that since its the complete opposite for coding. Whats missing for people of all skill levels is that writing helps you organize your thoughts, but that can happen at prompt time?
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8mo ago
Isnt this just flat out untrue since bots can pass turing tests
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8mo ago
If we lived in a high trust society, you could just trust people to scan their own items and walk out.
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9mo ago
This is why going to the gym matters
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9mo ago
I'm talking about the features/hr. It's trivial now to spin up a website with login, search, commenting, notifications, etc. These used to be multi week projects.
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9mo ago
The obvious explanation is that the pace of writing software has speed up 100x but documentation has remained slow... until now.
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