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by woeirua 3y ago
You can't squeeze blood from a turnip, and you can't make Twitter profitable. Twitter's problem is, and always has been, the business model. If you want to make money off ads then you have to keep the content acceptable to ad
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by woeirua 3y ago
The hope would be that the new vaccines are drastically more effective. The problem with assessing flu vaccine efficacy is that the uptake of the vaccine is so low because the flu vaccine often has significant side effects (it knocks me out
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by woeirua 3y ago
I'd be totally OK with companies withholding pay from people who refuse safe and effective vaccines for the flu while they are sick. Companies lose billions of dollars in productivity due to the flu every year.
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by woeirua 3y ago
It remains to be seen just how effective longer contexts are because if the attention vectors don't ever learn to pick up specific items from further back in the text then having more tokens doesn't really matter. Given that the c
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by woeirua 3y ago
There certainly will be more developers because coding will be more accessible to people without software backgrounds. So that's a net positive for the world. Also, I think that software engineers in general will get more productive be
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by woeirua 3y ago
This x 100. In many ways making friends as an adult is like romantic dating, but should be less stressful and easier. You just have to start asking people to do things together. You'll find that you really connect with some people, an
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by woeirua 3y ago
The problem is that the Fed is trying to fight inflation while also trying to keep the banks from having to recognize the losses in their HTM portfolios. In a sane world, Congress would raise taxes and cut federal spending to suck money o
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by woeirua 3y ago
No, that is not what happened. State governments initially did put into place age verification restrictions. Those restrictions were struck down by the Supreme Court in Ashcroft v ACLU because SCOTUS believed that content filtering could
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by woeirua 3y ago
The main criticism of AutoML type frameworks was that they generate models that cannot be understood by a human. It seems that GPT based AutoML will solve that problem to a large extent. Model building / selection is almost certainly
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by woeirua 3y ago
> People don't (generally) want to stand next to a 13 year old while looking at what porn/sex toys to buy, but beyond that it's pretty much the same argument That is not why people don't want kids in sex shops.
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by woeirua 3y ago
I never said that. I said that its unique in how wide its reach is. Yes, you can find porn on Google if you turn off SafeSearch. Yes there are other PornTube sites out there. But if you dig deep enough I bet you'd find that most of the
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by woeirua 3y ago
Yes.
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by woeirua 3y ago
> So.. what, you have to enter a license number or a picture of a license to let people into a porn website? How does that prove anything other than someone has access to a license number/picture? It's still a barrier to entry
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by woeirua 3y ago
Your position is that a 12 year old should be able to buy any porn that they want?
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by woeirua 3y ago
Then why do we have laws restricting the access of minors to various goods in stores? By the way, those laws are broadly popular.
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by woeirua 3y ago
Reading a description is very different than seeing and listening to simulated rape or sexual assault.
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by woeirua 3y ago
Utah hasn’t said what the solution has to be, just that age verification needs to take place. I think the market should find the best solution here.
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by woeirua 3y ago
A lot of those porn sites also are not free ( so automatically age restricted). PornHub is somewhat unique in that it’s so large and totally free.
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by woeirua 3y ago
It makes no sense to me that every physical store in a state must check IDs if you want to buy porn or alcohol, but porn websites can just let anyone in without checking ID. There are legitimate privacy concerns with checking ID online, but
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by woeirua 4y ago
Stellar result from MSFT. MSFT may be the company to beat now. Their revenue streams are much more solid than Google's and they're actually growing their core business. Pressure is going to ramp pretty quickly here for Sundar t
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by woeirua 4y ago
My understanding was that it was a one off due to a change in how they amoritize costs for the hardware underpinning GCP.
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by woeirua 4y ago
The big loss here is Buy Buy Baby. They really had a nice market niche that they were filling but Bed Bath and Beyond wrecked it. Now I have no idea where you will go to see and buy nicer baby items in person.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Cloud turning a profit is good for Google, but the rest of the picture is not great. Stock buybacks are great for shareholders, but terrible for the employees and long term prospects for the company. Also, WTF is going on with their headco
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by woeirua 4y ago
Counterpoint: Google. They've built a lot of shit. And they shut it all down a year or two later.
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by woeirua 4y ago
I have to assume so, if not why else did Google acquire them?
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by woeirua 4y ago
This move makes sense from the perspective that DeepMind has some street cred in their ability to produce novel models that solve interesting problems. The only issue is that DeepMind has also suffered from the same problems that the mother
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by woeirua 4y ago
Agents could be the next big thing, but only if the tech advances to the point where it can be trusted to do the right thing most of the time. I think people will go right back to what they were doing before as soon as your "agent&qu
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by woeirua 4y ago
Proctored exams, in RF shielded rooms, where you have to go through metal detectors (to prevent bringing computers into the room), are going to become the norm.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Not sure I would take that lesson away from history. There were quite a few voices in the US military at the end of WW2 that recognized that peace with the soviets was tenuous at best and wanted to push the nuclear advantage right then. Th
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by woeirua 4y ago
Yet another half-baked and poorly supported AWS service. Now that they’re starting to see pressure on their margins I’d love to see AWS focus on their core products, but instead we get more spun off side projects.

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