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by wwweston 4y ago
> Hybrids are not EVs. My statement that Toyota had EVs on the road before Tesla was born is not based on any degree of confusion between hybrids and EVs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV You can argue a
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Debt is a decent point. Margins are not going to hold for Tesla. They had the privilege of being the only strong EV vehicle on the market. Those days are gone. They had a certain cache as a luxury-ideal brand; that's been deeply eroded
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> In that case TSLA is 1.7x Toyota While valued at 3x. The valuation still doesn't add up, though the debt issue is a decent point. > It matters how much profit you make and TSLA has the highest margins on EVs of any company. The
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Tesla's market cap implies that kind of zero sum game -- it's only justified by the idea that they're going to own a bigger portion of the automobile market than Toyota at some point, or that they'll move into providing
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> most are incapable of summoning valuable ideas and tasks from the ether. Is this really true? It's absolutely not a personal problem for me. I haven't worried about boredom or lack of purpose in decades. My worry is that I&#x
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> Just apply regular people filters to ChatGPT output. This is technically correct, as LLMs are just aggregations of texts people produce. It's also not quite right, as people have expectations/biases about how responses from c
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Will there still be an option to use it with Bootstrap? I could see something like this being helpful to a team I work with, but they're pretty strongly in on Bootstrap and there are human reasons I wouldn't want to pick up the ch
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IRS workers goals will largely be around statutory/policy compliance rather than maximization. And government “incentives” are different from usual — if they really want more money they can pass different laws. Where there’s a bone to
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Orienting on responsible use of a tool seems like a good place to start, and I'm sure that will be especially important as individuals and organizations delegate decisions that can affect people's lives to various agents like Chat
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As far as I could tell, the big pain point was performance -- they were just too slow on median machines during the late 90s/early 00s window they had mindshare. I actually enjoyed using them to get around a few browser limitations aro
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> I wonder how OpenAI filter these low quality web pages out of their training set as they continue to training. This. The value proposition is very clearly tied to the quality of the training data, and if there's secret sauce for a
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> Feminism has made most women unfit for marriage. Of all the women I've seriously dated, I can't think of a single one I passed on marrying because of feminism. > The very idea that casting the relations between men and wom
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Which social network doesn't have people as the product?
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Those may not be adequate checks, but they are checks, and personally I think it's worth worrying that the day could come when we'll look back with nostalgia on "not automated, and there is some small back flow of information
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I'd also guess the correct take to see LLMs as human magnifiers more than human replacers* -- most technology does this, magnifying aspects of the human condition rather than fundamentally change it.. But that doesn't make me sang
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The cause of liberty will probably be better served if you distinguish aptly between general categories like "citizens" vs tax preparers lobbying against the state providing some margin of built-in tax prep services. Public defend
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> Also of note is that Edwards was acquitted Perhaps he had some sort of defense. I hear that's how courts work. Along with dealing in findings of fact and law, rather than speculation about whether it's vaguely fair or vaguely
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> IE 6 was abandoned because Microsoft won the browser war. This has never been adequate to explain how MS treated IE. Microsoft also won the desktop decisively, arguably more decisively than the browser front. And yet far from abandon
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Actually, yeah, it did have competitors with money. You ever wonder why IE and specifically IE 6 just got abandoned in stasis forever? Because like a number of other big incumbents circa early 00s, MS really thought the web was a fad. They
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Twitter isn't dead but it has competition now. That competition feels/looks like early 00s blogging -- less mass, pre-eternal-September, Gibsonian ham-radio-postcards -- but then again that's what grew up into what we have
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At some point, you saturate the market for whatever’s being produced and then prices drop and you have diminishing marginal returns for production so the economics of making more doesn’t make sense.
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“Incentives don’t matter” is usually a bad take. The idea that patronage isn’t dominant because… it can’t compete with copyright? is a not-even-wrong take. And there’s an astounding burst of human creativity in the last 300 years. There a
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> You are talking like inflation is some conspiracy wielded by “the rich” (who are they? Are they all friends with each other and plan all their schemes together?) No of course not. That'd be 90s-Mr-Burns territory. Nowadays you pay
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> Theory is about music; it is not the practice of music. I'd quibble a bit with this: theory is language to speak of certain experiences and patterns one discovers in the practice of / play with music. Saying this to (perhaps)
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> It turned out that people were using Readlang for card testing fraud. After I helped them to fix the problem How does one fix the card testing fraud problem? Certainly you can refund people after the fact, but it seems to me any point
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Accountability (including the light form of it represented it by explanation) is super useful in refining personal development. And I'm starting to believe the reason power/status corrupts is that it removes it as an option for ch
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> If this kind of abstract copyright regime of 'I had the idea first, and anyone who uses a derivative of my idea must pay me money!' is a very sillpery slope This is a cartoon conception of both existing copyright and the prop
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From what I've heard, certain real estate enterprises including a substantial portion of commercial real estate can get financing on their nominal asking rent , whether or not they actually have tenants paying that rent. I'd imag
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> AI companies could very reasonably argue that use of images for training AI models is transformative and qualifies as fair use Yep. They could. And people do. But this particular use is entirely new, though. Old conceptions of fair use
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> today's "conspiracy theory" is tomorrow's verified fact. How many tomorrows will we be waiting through to finally verify that the moon landing was faked, that the UN has a plan to invade the US using black helicopte

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