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by weakened_malloc 4mo ago
Or just allow what happens in the EU. Every time I've applied for a job and been rejected, I put through a GDPR request and find out the reasons I was rejected.
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by weakened_malloc 4mo ago
Just a regular old username + password, kind of like HN allows?
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by weakened_malloc 4mo ago
> I would eat my hat if Mistral doesn’t go out of business in next 5 years Hope you're hungry. The Mistral are going to what most great European companies are good at - regulatory arbitrage. They're going to insert themselves
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by weakened_malloc 4mo ago
It's a business that seems to have high operational leverage. Effectively, similar to airlines. Enormous capital outlays with low marginal costs, so once the current infra has been built at cost x, the additional data centre at cost 5x
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by weakened_malloc 4mo ago
This is why I think in the long run, the Chinese models will probably end up winning where it matters. You can get a cluster of relatively affordable 30 or 4090s, load up DeepSeek v4 and let it rip. Your only ongoing cost is power. We'
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by weakened_malloc 4mo ago
The "guardrails" are just Anthropic's attempt at building a moat. Guarantee they'll be seeking regulation around AI as well to ensure a form of regulatory capture. Guardrails, in this context, are useless. Anyone who&#x2
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by weakened_malloc 4mo ago
Look, I'm not from the US, I'm guessing maybe the pay for tradesmen isn't as high as in Australia. But what you're suggesting as a comparison involves a pretty high degree of variance and odds are stacked against you. Yo
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by weakened_malloc 4mo ago
I love this - it seems so obvious but I had never thought about it that way!
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by weakened_malloc 4mo ago
Unironically the most simple (note; not easy) way to become a multi-millionaire. Do a trade in your 20s, leverage that into running your own trades business in your 30s, and have a >10m valuation business by your 40s. Really regret not d
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by weakened_malloc 4mo ago
Is it really any surprise with how expensive psychologists and therapy are?
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by weakened_malloc 4mo ago
They also only earn $50-80 per month
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by weakened_malloc 4mo ago
I think they're more referring to the scalable service economy. Haircuts, which are a service, don't scale (unless we're talking about robotics or something).
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by weakened_malloc 4mo ago
Someone (can't remember who) said it best. US is the best at going from 0 to 1, China is the best at going from 1 to 100.
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by weakened_malloc 5mo ago
The idea is broadly similar, but I guess here's another example with a company this time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Bubble_of_1769 The point is that I don't think irrational exuberance in stocks is
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by weakened_malloc 5mo ago
It's been that way for a loooooong time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
In Australia one of the most common paths to wealth outside of owning property is literally taking up a trade as an apprentice, then after a couple of years beginning your own plumbing/electrician/brick laying/etc business. T
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
This is something you talk to people about that are in the western world but outside of the US (which includes me) but whenever I have the conversation people just can't grasp it. The US, by having bad worker protections and privacy ab
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
> Anyone know if there's a way out that doesn't require this? Honestly, I see this as a way for the powers that be to force explicit KYC. You want those coins? You prove they're yours, you stick your name on that wallet an
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
This time you'll have hundreds of billions of BTC that will be hacked by someone who will probably instantly unload it. In that scenario it's hard to see the price of it not dropping >90%, so you'd have to think people wou
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
Yes and no. I'm no expert, but there's two things that don't make it nearly as dangerous as it is for BTC. The first is the fact that many things are centralized. Things like Signal already have quantum-resistant encryption,
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
What I find funny about this is that stories have been floating around for *years* about HFT/quant firms specifically hiring quants to work out what the lowest they can pay people in the firm is, and still keep them.
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
> Ctrl + F > "Google Sans Mono" > 0 results I'm disappointed in you today, HN
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
Economists have predicted 15 out of the last 5 recessions after all.
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
I definitely don't think it's a case of more market resiliency but rather a case of central banks willing to act much more aggressively to respond to these things. This is often what Ben Bernanke argues, given he wrote his thesis
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
> I agree with your main point: "just go renewable" is both naive and utterly useless advice. That's a decades-long project. Also, who makes all the solar panels (and probably windmills)? China. This is the key point a lot
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
Eh in a way, I can see both sides of the coin. On one hand if Fed governors didn't have independence, the inflation rate would make Venezuela look like a bastion of economic management. On the other hand, you end up with situations lik
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
Sure, but then you end up with stuff like this happening time and time again. If something doesn't pass the first time, put it through again, and again.
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
True but it's a step removed. The MEPs are directly voted in whilst the EC are not, they're "voted in" on account of "voted in" people assigning them to the EC. I mean nobody argues that the FED governor is vot
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
When the small local models catch up I would think
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by weakened_malloc 6mo ago
I do find it quite funny how unless you're using one of the frontier labs interfaces, more or less all other 'model providers' are using small models that work on a macbook. Proton did something similar - I've tried thei

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