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by whatshisface 8mo ago
Here's why no LLM rules make sense: Imagine you know a guy named Patel. He pirated every movie ever made and is a prolific writer. So prolific, in fact, that he has a blog, called "Patel's Log." On this blog is a review
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by whatshisface 8mo ago
This is commonly misconstrued as christianity, but in christian tradition it would bring about the coming of the antichrist, massive persecutions globally, and armageddon.
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Sometimes I wonder if HNers have met more aliens than 8 year olds.
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Religion is a powerful tool for politicians in sheep's clothing, but God's kingdom is "explicitly" (i.e. stated in the Bible to be) not of this earth.
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by whatshisface 8mo ago
> going to track your location and read all your messages and copy all your photos. To keep her safe from the "actually" bad people, of course. The guy's name? Google. ;-)
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You put them to work doing more things than were possible in a month before.
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by whatshisface 8mo ago
Ok, so basically, the author is saying that you can spend the prime working years of your life living on a small stipend, in exchange for a 20% chance of a middle class salary when you're 40. Let's assume the worst, that tenured p
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
Colliders have been the source of almost everything we know about the fundamental nature of reality. That makes them a fruitful scientific direction.
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
I didn't write out enough to fully explain the idea. Here is the wiki page where you can find the details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_discount_factor
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
In the context of investing there is a correct price for financial assets that is given by trading everything back to dollars in the present. There is one remaining parameter (the exchange rate between future payouts on different dates, the
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
These perspectives bother me a lot, because I want to invest passively, but if people are out there thinking like that, maybe nothing is priced right...
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Everyone is born naked. Some people are then assigned stuff... by other people.
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Maybe it's that we don't think people should be threatened with starvation to force them to perform degrading labor.
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
Are you asking why the person who indirectly implied a question about the meaning of an ambiguous statement would leave it to the subtext to suggest they suspected that the unclear motive of the author of an ambiguous license was to leave s
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
I wish I could maintain a similar level of recent news avoidance.
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After a certain point, these threads start sounding like, "I hate my rights. I hate the town square. There is litter in the common square. There is a child outdoors. Take away my pubic square."
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
That's not true. There are a huge number of theories that would be falsified by a more precise measurement of the Higgs mass.
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Other vehicle manufactuers are taxpayers...
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They can have whatshisface's digital certificates, Inc. on their statements.
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They can check for credit cards without requiring any payment. Are you sure that's sufficient given these vaguely worded laws? If so many HN readers could solve the whole problem by making websites which issued digital signatures of ra
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
If having a credit card and the ability to make purchases was good enough as an ID system, they could have simply made it the law instead of requiring tech companies to collect those sweet, sweet personal ID document photos.
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
It is not you who plants weeds in the garden but the wind, but the wind won't weed them back out again.
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
People do not have justifications for most choices. We watch YouTube when we would benefit more from teaching ourselves skills. We eat too much of food we know is junk. We stay up too late and either let others walk over us at work to avoid
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
The present future of top down Linux management is NixOS. Who knows what the eventual future will be. ;)
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
> Why not spice it up with some whimsy. These leaked documents (pastebin below) might present evidence for a different view. https://paste-bin.org/0bu8f8igkd
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
The fact that there is a demand for fake evil, functioning like fake piety did in the 1600s, is a flaw of difficult-to-encompass proportion. Our culture is totally bankrupt if companies are now pretending to be worse than they're in re
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
The USA cannot do it, because there is actually a law against cutting off communications systems dating back to 1944. Of course there have been attempts to make it possible. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/1
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by whatshisface 9mo ago
The purpose of protesting Israel's human rights abuses is that lack of awareness, misinformation, and propaganda, are key pillars in the policies that make them possible. Protests (and online complaints) are ineffective enough already,
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That is the intended conclusion of my post, that body fat is obviously regulated biologically, and suggestions that changes in obesity rates are due to the increased availability of food (implying that it was regulated by some sort of preci
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Social drinking and smoking can also pull you forward. What pulls you back is having something else to do (in other words a greater life to go back to), and that is why behavior problems fit in to a larger picture of a not-having-anything-t

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