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by woah 2y ago
Even if the open source option is only slightly worse, why would a professional allow that to impact how they earn a living?
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by woah 2y ago
AAs aren't user repairable either. When was the last time you repaired an AA? What the article is asking for is just a standardized connector and voltage for Li-ion batteries.
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by woah 2y ago
Don't companies with large deployments build in some kind of support deal with their supplier?
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by woah 2y ago
# A Statement from Automattic Last night, WP Engine filed a baseless lawsuit against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg. Their complaint is flawed, start to finish. We vehemently deny WP Engine’s allegations—which are gross mischaracterizations
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by woah 2y ago
For paper titles, the law is that the answer is always "yes"
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by woah 2y ago
> The immediate danger of large AI models isn't that they'll turn the earth to paperclips it's that we'll create fraud as a service and have a society where nothing can be trusted. I'd be all for a law (however c
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by woah 2y ago
There's nothing wrong with PoS as long as it is understood as a mechanism for diffusion of power and trust, like a multisig or a corporation. Probably PoS protocols do not need to have in-protocol slashing. Solana has already thought o
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by woah 2y ago
Proof of stake is no different than most traditional governance structures such as corporations in that it relies on a committee with an honest majority to keep the system secure. Validators are supposed to act like some kind of completely
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by woah 2y ago
This is spoken by someone who doesn't know about the huge volume of mediocre work output by art students and hobbyists. Much of it is technically decent (like AI work), but lacking in meaning, impact, and emotional resonance (like AI w
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by woah 2y ago
I think there are two types of developers: those who are most excited about building things, and those who are most excited about the craft of programming. If I can build things faster, then I'm happy to spend most of my time reviewing
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by woah 2y ago
I want to see a slow motion video of what happens when you fire iron slugs past an MRI machine
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by woah 2y ago
And 95% of a doctor's job is just saying "your checkup looks OK Joe, just try to get some exercise and eat more fiber".
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by woah 2y ago
A big problem that comes up a lot when trying to think of ways to replace a centralized business is that the friction inherent in a decentralized system costs more than the profit margin of a centralized business. An end user wants to pay a
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by woah 2y ago
I participated in community mesh networks for years and even did a startup where people could get paid for installing mesh nodes on their roof. Many others have done this as well over many years, and have either pivoted (Meraki) or gone out
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by woah 2y ago
What's the upside for them?
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by woah 2y ago
Let's say a city builds a bridge that doubles its tax income by opening up a lot of economic opportunities. It pays for this with a 35 year bond. During these 35 years, the entire additional income that the bridge generated goes toward
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by woah 2y ago
If you're going to rewrite every networking protocol, why stop there? Might as well rewrite the crypto protocols too.
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by woah 2y ago
Land Value Tax (the Georgeism discussed in the article) just taxes the land on what it is worth, not the buildings on it. So holding land vacant costs more because the speculator is not making any money from it, while they could be making m
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by woah 2y ago
Everyone in this thread is musing about the role of AI and whether the process of discovery is fundamentally human, and what Isaac Newton would think, but can somebody tell me: is the technology it develops any good? For example, does &quot
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by woah 2y ago
Surprised the guy never even inquired as to how much the API access to support 100 API calls per day would cost. After 2 seconds of idle research, I have found that it would cost less than a dollar a day. https://docs.developer.y
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by woah 2y ago
> Once you have identified an activity as being more luck than skill driven, a person’s process for the activity starts to become a much stronger signal for whether or not they are actually any good. This is the central point of the arti
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by woah 2y ago
Google deleted a guys app that he wrote 14 years ago that tells you if it's Tuesday
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by woah 2y ago
Cryptocurrencies tend to use very large integers (128 or 256 bit) for everything throughout the system. Rounding doesn't happen until a number hits the UI. Why would you design a system that intentionally destroys data several times in
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by woah 2y ago
You would not get your ass kicked legally speaking. Copyright is not that broad. It's not a patent.
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by woah 2y ago
Limited edition source code print on archival quality acid free parchment, signed by the developer
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by woah 2y ago
Looks like the AI company already helped them create some content to get clicks on social media
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by woah 2y ago
Fine artists who are known in the international art market do not take commissions. They also do not give buyers of a piece copyright (obviously both of these things are even more true if they are dead). You also wouldn't be able to di
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by woah 2y ago
What happens if you put 100 of these in a box? I have a feeling it's going to be tough keeping the ones in the center cool.
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by woah 2y ago
I hate when people try to promote things by inventing a crisis
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by woah 2y ago
Thank you for contributing your wisdom

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