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by youareawesome 5y ago
Regardless of whether or not the output of Copilot is sufficiently "crow-like," the reality is that Copilot would not exist without its corpus of largely GPL-licensed code. Training data has value and many companies go to great l
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by youareawesome 7y ago
Agree, it's not new, and I think GP's point is that event-driven is the norm for the kernel and why kernel-level interfaces are efficient. What's new here is that this is being made available to user-level custom applications
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by youareawesome 7y ago
Loading BPF requires root, so does loading kernel modules. I.e. if you have permissions to load BPF, you can already load arbitrary code.
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by youareawesome 7y ago
This is easily solved using the Lambert W function: Observe: W(x * e ^ x) = x x ^ x = y ln(x ^ x) = ln(y) ln(x) * x = ln(y) ln(x) * e ^ ln(x) = ln(y) W(ln(x) * e ^ ln(x)) = W(ln(y)) ln(x) = W(ln(y)) x = e^W(ln(
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by youareawesome 7y ago
Joel is a family friend. I personally don't know him very well but I remember a great demonstration of his encyclopedic knowledge of the classics at my bar mitzvah. Great to see him getting published.
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by youareawesome 7y ago
This is great, thank you!
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by youareawesome 7y ago
I've gotten a vasectomy exactly because it's clear that some of the worst outcomes of human-created climate change are inevitable, and I recommend anyone who cares about the environment and the well-being of their potential childr
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by youareawesome 7y ago
The 1A is about freedom to express any idea or opinion, not about literally publishing or saying whatever you want. Purposeful lying, for instance, is not covered under 1A. Finding bugs for the purpose of selling them to people with malicio
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by youareawesome 7y ago
Many years ago, My TA in 6.034 for some reason gave me a C for the semester. This made no sense because I was 80% sure I was supposed to get an A. I was hesitant to get in touch with the head TA for the class because I wasn't the sort
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by youareawesome 7y ago
Yes, everyone will eventually be equally poor and dependent on the government. Sounds great
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by youareawesome 7y ago
Because one is just cynical pandering to non-rich people and an increase in government power at the expense of liberty while the other is actually effective at reducing poverty, reducing wealth inequality, and reducing dependence on the gov
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by youareawesome 7y ago
Yeah, so then let's eliminate the next 100, and so on and so forth until everyone is penniless.
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by youareawesome 7y ago
These statistics don't tell the whole story and often are misleading. While increasing the number of welfare recipients may decrease poverty stats for paper-pushing bureaucrats, on the ground you're increasing the number of people
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by youareawesome 7y ago
The IRS only enforces tax collection on the wealthiest individuals because it isn't efficient to do otherwise, that's why you see most of the tax revenue coming from the wealthy. They only go after the big fish. You're wrong
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by youareawesome 7y ago
After that first year there would be no one left to tax, so how would you sustain your government's revenue long term?
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by youareawesome 7y ago
Yeah I don't think increasing welfare is really the solution to ending poverty. Lots of evidence that welfare actually prolongs poverty, not to mention the waste endemic to bureaucratic administration. How about instead of taxing indiv
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by youareawesome 7y ago
This doesn't apply to everyone, only about 80K people who hold more than $50M in assets.
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by youareawesome 7y ago
Do you really think an extra $100B-$200B added to federal revenue of currently ~$3.6T (5%) will have any noticeable effect on poverty?
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by youareawesome 7y ago
Just because it's not literally applicable doesn't mean it's meaningless, it emphasizes an important point that people overlook. The amount of wealth held by the top 80K is a drop in the bucket when compared to the total reve
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by youareawesome 7y ago
This is not an income tax, this is a wealth tax. Very different. You're taxed on money you are simply holding.
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by youareawesome 7y ago
I never brought up the top 1% and the top 1% has nothing to do with the wealth tax. The wealth tax will apply to all Americans with assets over $50 million, which is roughly ~80K people, or 0.02% of the population.
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by youareawesome 7y ago
Taxation is well-acknowledged a trade-off between liberty and social responsibility. This is a new type of tax that has never been implemented in the US. If the goal is to reduce poverty, it won't do that. So what is the goal?
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by youareawesome 7y ago
Only those with more than 50 million in total assets will be paying a "wealth tax" according to Liz Warren's plan, everyone else won't be paying. I never claimed the top 1% is just the top 100 wealthiest Americans.
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by youareawesome 7y ago
If you took the total combined wealth of the wealthiest 100 Americans, you wouldn't be able to fund the federal government for more than half a year or so. Taxing the rich sounds nice as virtuous political rhetoric but it won't ef
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by youareawesome 8y ago
I agree that attention should be drawn to potentially malicious behavior. I don't know that the actions were indeed malicious but there is evidence to suggest that they may have been and I'm doing my small part to make the greater
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by youareawesome 8y ago
Do you think potentially malicious behavior should be overlooked or made known?
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by youareawesome 8y ago
Do you think it's possible that this wasn't a mistake and instead they acted with malicious intentions and only fixed the problem to minimize the negative PR fallout? If not, why not?
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by youareawesome 8y ago
Do you think they would they have fixed the problem if they weren't called out publicly?
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by youareawesome 8y ago
When they were called out privately, no mistake was admitted and no action was taken. The attribution was only added after they were called out publicly.
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by youareawesome 8y ago
This project has been known to copy code from other projects without respecting licenses. The founder of ethereum pointed this out a few weeks ago. https://twitter.com/gavofyork/status/1094597005333151745 https:&

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