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by yunwal 4y ago
I’m not sure this is true anymore. The median American will never be able to afford their own home at current housing prices. Sure, we have a higher gdp per capita, but it doesn’t buy us the things we actually need like housing, health care
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by yunwal 4y ago
This strikes me as the most common issue, along with the issue of the person defining the problem and requirements being erratic. Often people end up using versatile-but-complicated solutions because they're afraid the requirements wil
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by yunwal 4y ago
I'm satisfied with just land. If someone gave me land for free, I might choose to keep it!. If someone gave me money, I'd almost certainly choose to spend it at some point because money only has value for what you can exchange it.
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by yunwal 4y ago
> Land isn’t zero-sum Yes it is. There’s only a finite amount of land in the world, and the fact that you own some means someone else can’t. > Do you think currency will eventually restrain growth, despite being (mostly) created by fi
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by yunwal 4y ago
It's very important in that by positioning his foundation as the largest global health provider in the world he could easily use it for nefarious or selfish means if he desired. It's very difficult to judge the motivation for Gate
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by yunwal 4y ago
That is interesting. How do you figure?
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by yunwal 4y ago
There are zero-sum portions of the economy (land, non-renewable resources), and expanding-sum portions. However, the laws of supply and demand dictate that as the marginal cost of producing a good approach zero, the cost goes down. This is
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by yunwal 4y ago
I'd prefer if he didn't hang out with convicted child rapists for one.
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by yunwal 4y ago
I definitely see your point and believe this happens often. In this particular instance, I believe adherence to this list will end up being a mark of shame even in academic circles. Using some of these terms is so brainless that people can
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by yunwal 4y ago
I do believe that woke language functions as a cultural signifier that keeps the elite safe and guarantees them success. This particular list is just too egregiously dumb to function correctly. I would be willing to bet that 99% of these re
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by yunwal 4y ago
I really don’t think this refutes my point or even differs from what I said. Likely means they think it’s true, they’re just not confident.
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by yunwal 4y ago
> But art was already so cheap Art is really not cheap. I think people think about how little artists generate in income and assume that means art is cheap, but non-mass-produced art is pretty much inaccessible for the vast majority of p
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by yunwal 4y ago
Yes, 60% of the money including tip (which is a cost that gets passed onto the consumer and therefore reduces ridership) seems more or less correct to me. A forum where people to go to complain about Uber/Lyft doesn’t seem like a repre
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by yunwal 4y ago
Idk why anyone would pay for prime anymore. They have 1 mediocre but popular show (The Boys) and pretty much nothing else relevant. There’s a decent old movie selection, but most are rentable a la cart for $3. And the shipping is never 2 da
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by yunwal 4y ago
Except the NBA league pass excludes your home team at the behest of cable providers. So for me, who doesn’t have youtubeTV, there’s no reasonable way to watch the NBA. Which is I suppose OK since I just go to sports bars, but they’re losing
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by yunwal 4y ago
I doubt even this much is true. I truly believe this document will never be referenced outside of a promo doc or people making fun of it.
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by yunwal 4y ago
Initiatives like this can be a signal of change and spur a new culture if they are accompanied by action and done thoughtfully.
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by yunwal 4y ago
Probably what you should take away from this is not “wokism gone crazy” (err, sorry “wild”). The more important lesson here is that the bloat in academic institutions has gotten so outrageous that people start bullshit time-consuming initia
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by yunwal 4y ago
This isn’t accidental and it’s not about being kind or inclusive. Just the opposite actually. It’s about being able to distinguish the haves from the have-nots. Kids who know and are hip to the latest round of preferred euphemisms are “the
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by yunwal 4y ago
We are still leaps and bounds away from robotics that can match the precision and versatility of human hands. I also think in terms of knowledge work, we’ll have to work through at least a few more plateaus before we automate away most huma
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by yunwal 4y ago
It’s the easiest and cheapest way unless you have an existing raspberry pi or something. Your personal devices are probably not always on.
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by yunwal 4y ago
Your phone or tablet is not always on
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by yunwal 4y ago
FWIW, my experiences with betterhelp were absolutely terrible. I had a therapist ghost me, and another one that would respond with answers so generic I would’ve been better off talking to a chatbot (I sort of suspect that’s what I was doing
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by yunwal 4y ago
It means a Markov chain language model where token~=word
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by yunwal 4y ago
Do you understand how AI works? It can’t just pop out things that are completely different from what it was trained on. See threads about how Dall-e couldn’t draw a hedgehog without glasses.
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by yunwal 4y ago
don’t give these people attention. This script sucks, everyone can see it sucks, and it distracts from the real possibilities of chatgpt-like models
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by yunwal 4y ago
Nobody is saying it’s a livable wage for a human. In many competitive markets drivers spend more time driving around looking for a ride than making money. But it’s still a huge cost to Uber/Lyft to pay people even if they’re paying a p
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by yunwal 4y ago
Oh yeah I’m sure the AI that was trained on decades of tv, movies, and books that didn’t appeal to you will do a great job of creating things that appeal to you.
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by yunwal 4y ago
> AI tools have basically destroyed the former Do you people think art is relegated to digital images only? No video? No paintings, sculptures, mixed media, performance art, lighting, woodwork, etc etc. How is it possible that everyone s
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by yunwal 4y ago
3) The scope and scale of “art” that gets made gets bigger and we still have plenty of pro artists, designers. AKA art eats the world

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