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3y ago
Simple solution, when gpt-5 comes out, just rename it Claudine, and the NYT will drop their suit
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3y ago
This reads as something ChatGPT 3 generated: wordy,repetitive,and simply states again and again that is bad, very bad, without providing any actual or imagined scenarios.
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3y ago
eating your own dog food with BoardGPT, what could go wrong ?
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3y ago
So, some math: $362K invested in 2003 would now be $1.25M, so this landlord would have been a lot better putting the money into an index fund. When you consider the amount of real estate taxes, insurance, and maintenance, which probably to
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3y ago
definitive sources of evidence ? no statements about furin sites being evidence of a lab leak ? no But clearly enough for quite a number of people in scientific leadership positions to state publicly that any discussion of a lab leak is a c
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4y ago
I am very curious about this: "Sometimes the issue is that there is nothing better, that is known to be available." Where SVB customers money in a money market fund that failed, or was it simply a "bank deposit" ? There
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4y ago
And we wonder why people are turning to marxism. If the "people" are being forced to bail out a bunch of rich people who create self serving incestuous relations between their companies to game the system and bend and break laws w
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4y ago
How about a petition to boycott all companies that sign this petition ?
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4y ago
I know from personal experience that you were "coached" to do so. You could choose another bank, it is "your company", however it was clear that it was frowned upon and could quickly put you outside the circle of trust.
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4y ago
Seems a lot of stupid rich people (as in stupid and rich) who made their money on unfettered capitalism now want the taxpayers to pay for their mistake. Who puts millions of dollars in bank deposits ? Especially an undiversified bank where
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4y ago
Maybe that was the intent (of the AI) :-)
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4y ago
I seem to remember a book where people starting using AI's like this to automatically improve their email/texts, eventually allowing it to do more (basic responses/appointment scheduling/etc), making communication a lot
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4y ago
The current politics around this issue is not simply about free movement. It is about economics. For example, it is easy to travel to Denmark, using Denmark as an example of an "enlightened" state. However, if you intend to stay f
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4y ago
Thank you. The "trades" are always underappreciated.
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4y ago
I am not sure that an economy where everyone is creating tiktok content can support those type of services either. It also has not been proven that we, as humans, are able to "scale up" as you say in a sustainable manner.
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4y ago
There used to be a very vibrant creator community, one in which most everyone earned a decent living. However, we no longer have a community of people growing food, making clothes, building and fixing houses, making metal tools, shoeing hor
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4y ago
"Large institution makes mistakes in face of unprecedented crisis, news at 11. " There are different categories of "mistakes". In the face of an unprecedented crisis it is understandable that there will be uncertainty in
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4y ago
"The productivity plunge is perplexing, because productivity took off to levels not seen in decades when the coronavirus pandemic forced an overnight switch to remote work, leading some economists to suggest that the pandemic might spa
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4y ago
Well, I guess those Christian and Persian refugees missed out on all the great things that happened that the majority of the population wanted to have happen. I am sure they are wishing they could have been there for those changes.
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4y ago
FAANGers will not bring this about,they will simply better enable society to get to where it is going. With the much needed reorganization of our society based on our ancestry (who our parents are, where they came from, what they did) and w
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4y ago
What about basic business functionality, for example, a function to create a site URL, which can be quite complex, and which would be very time consuming and complex and a maintenance nightmare if implemented in multiple languages. You cou
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5y ago
It is also quite possible that the Neanderthals were stronger, faster, smarter, and more moral/ethical, and that sapiens were simply crueler, more diabolical, more savage. It is quite difficult to imagine a species that is more vicious
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5y ago
There is no antimemetics group
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5y ago
There was no disconnect between productivity and compensation due to the "slow decline of unions" from 1954 to 1972 The US went off the gold standard in mid 1971, and the productivity/comp divergence starting happening in 197
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5y ago
beginning of "Reaganomics": 1983 beginning of compensation/productivity divergence: 1973 maybe there are other factors involved ?
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5y ago
American here. I agree we are a bully. However, you have no basis for complaint unless/until you want to get off the american military tit. Based on a 2.5% GDP differential in military expenditures, the EU would be paying out an extra
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6y ago
Reading and reviewing code: getting a feel for performance, appropriate use of data structures, implementation strategies, etc. As you get more senior, you spend more of your time reading code and are expected to offer insight and mentoring
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6y ago
Well, I know you are being sarcastic, but my initial impression of the article was that while I agreed with everything the author stated, I felt the author was no where as subtle as she thought she was in herself promoting this polarization
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6y ago
As mmmrk responded, you need to settle on a risk profile.It is not all or nothing. You should assume the "market" will go down 50% at any given time, and ask yourself how that would effect you. You need how much to keep in "s
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6y ago
This does not account for dividends, which, if reinvested, would have produced a 22% gain during this time period, which is not too bad when "everything was selling off" Not spectacular, but you also need to compare this to whatev
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