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by zopa 3y ago
> It's quite absurd to assert that ELIZA from 1966 outperformed GPT-3.5. They don't. The researchers ran a modern ELIZA implementation alongside the GPT models. They're not citing ELIZA results from 1966.
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by zopa 3y ago
Non-compete clauses are already extremely difficult to enforce. They're traditionally disfavored under common law; get one before a judge and it will frequently be struck out, or at minimum, sharply limited in scope. But it's not
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by zopa 3y ago
Curricula are hard to change for the same reason widely-used apis are hard to change: it’s the downstream dependencies. There’s a shared understanding of what “took undergrad differential equations” means, and breaking from that has a cost.
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by zopa 3y ago
This is in Europe: https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/contractors-accuse-eur... A very similar-sounding caste-system. Europe’s great and all but it isn’t Utopia.
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by zopa 3y ago
> It did not serve as a medium of exchange in the same way coins or modern digital money do. Source for the confidence here? We know that a corvée economy existed, but I’m skeptical that we can rule out private quipo-based exchange. The
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by zopa 3y ago
Now you’re moving the goal posts. You argued that writings from the past are worthless; I pointed out that they have great historical value. Cost-benefit analysis is beside the point. But we’re both here writing comments in a Hacker News t
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by zopa 3y ago
If we're talking about writing from ancient Sumeria, or another civilization in the distant past, than everything we can recover really is valuable. A text doesn't have to be another Epic of Gilgamesh for it to teach us a lot ab
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by zopa 3y ago
These are regulations that have already been studied extensively at the agency level. OIRA’s cost-benefit analysis is a second layer of review on top of that. It’d be interesting to see a cost-benefit analysis of OIRA’s cost-benefit analysi
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by zopa 3y ago
I’m not in California so I don’t know about that proposal. But it sounds like a separate issue. Does it even involve the same tribes? I’m asking, as gently as I know how, if there’s anything here besides “because they’re Indians.” Because t
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by zopa 3y ago
The evidence is that they used the word “economies?” Am I missing something? To me that line reads as “some of our people fish a bit.”
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by zopa 3y ago
Sure but also; > and be it further resolved, these waters are also claimed by the State of California, who through its California Natural Resources Agency Pathways to 30x30: Accelerating Conservation of California’s Nature Report, suppor
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by zopa 3y ago
Tribes were sovereign, signed treaties that enshrined sovereignty—within limits,to be sure—and continue to exercise that sovereignty. Nothing is being handed over, it’s always been there. Interestingly the idea that tribal membership is bas
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by zopa 3y ago
https://archive.ph/pDyh7
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by zopa 3y ago
The claim was: > anything with a wok, just doesn’t work with induction López-Alt, in the article[1]: > But for most wok cooking, you don’t need it. There’s plenty of homestyle dishes that don’t have that flavor. For my Wok book tour,
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by zopa 3y ago
No? https://www.fs.usda.gov/whitemountain https://www.fs.usda.gov/dbnf https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/nfsnc/recarea/?recid=48114 And lots, lots more
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by zopa 3y ago
Malice is not falsifiable: anything could always just be another trick. So unless you want to end up believing everything is malice, it’s best to start with the benign explanations, until you’re sure they don’t fit.
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by zopa 3y ago
We already have to appraise most of that anyhow, for capital gains tax purposes. Though not really for the population as a whole: the majority of people don’t have all that much in the way assets. The proposals that get floated in the US do
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by zopa 3y ago
That’s mistaking an effect for a cause, in my mind (your first paragraph). If companies are constantly changing the rules to squeeze more monetization out of existing relationships, of course consumers will only care about the lowest upfron
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by zopa 3y ago
That’s a common belief, but it’s wrong. In principle an EU court could decide to apply the GDPR to conduct outside the EU; and in the right circumstances, a non-EU court might rule that the GDPR applies. Choice of law is anything but simple
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by zopa 3y ago
One of the very first chapters is "Heap Profiling and Inspection," which is where too much laziness would manifest. So I really don't think this is fair. We'll have to see when the book's done, but a practical, tech
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by zopa 3y ago
No, it wouldn’t count: “work” in this context is a technical physics term meaning a force applied over a distance.
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by zopa 3y ago
> However, for industrial equipment if you can modify it - the manufacturer is likely liable. That’s interesting if true, but do you have a better source (ideally, a court case)? I don’t see that theory of liability discussed anywhere on
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by zopa 3y ago
Go read a few slave narratives — Fredrick Douglass’s autobiography for one is great, extremely readable, and pretty short. And just notice how often the writers mention not having enough food, or basic clothing. Then get back to us on the i
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by zopa 4y ago
If the company sells $5B in stock, the value of the company should increase to account for $5B in additional cash holdings. That still gives a smaller payout than the pre-IPO estimate, but it’s a lot closer.
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by zopa 4y ago
> The economy is a giant Jenga tower […] A Jenga tower is in unstable equilibrium. Push it a little bit away from its resting configuration and it collapses. The economy is in stable equilibrium, mostly, more or less. Push it by increasi
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by zopa 4y ago
If someone got into wine or baseball cards because their boss liked them, we might call it a smart career move. But much of the time the underlying psychology will be exactly the same. And in fact it will likely work better if it’s not done
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by zopa 4y ago
Trump is, at minimum, lukewarm on NATO. If you think that’s good policy that’s your business, but surely it’s not hard to see what the appeal to Russia could be.
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by zopa 4y ago
Some of people’s wilder imaginings about Trump and Russia didn’t check out, sure, but I certainly consider the Mueller Report itself accurate.
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by zopa 4y ago
Sure, but many fewer of them. There are over a hundred people on a submarine crew; it’ll be a good while before a moon base gets anywhere near that big.
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by zopa 4y ago
Does the counter-factual world you’re comparing to have any copy-cat bank runs in it? Seems like those might drive fees up and rates down.

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