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8,986karma·2,607submissions·July 23, 2020
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In America no one really drinks any more.
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If it is not in the interest of people over the age of 60, it will not happen in the US.
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"Banality of evil." This does seem to be obliquely whitewash the company as it's adjacent to so much of tech. I don't think this exempts them from the hostile intent of their work.
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He wrote that 20 years ago. I think today, it's more like top 10% in 3 or more things.
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Aside: does anyone know why AI landing pages prefer the color purple?
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Holy shit lmao. Like the wokest tumblr crowd focused into a laser for 2025. How do these guys get through life? Exhausting existence.
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> Presumably weather models have been using all sorts of advanced machine learning for decades now This isn't actually true, unless you're considering ML to be just linear regression, in …
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K-shaped growth, dual economy, permanent underclass what ever you want to call it, shapes all aspects of life.
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This is the concept of hungry ghost from buddhism: https://www.lionsroar.com/buddhism/hungry-ghosts/ …
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Black Mirror episode portraying what this could do: https://youtu.be/XJIq_Dy--VA?t=14 . If Apple ran SHARP on this photo and compared it to the show, that would be incredible. Or if yo…
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It's so strange to hear you and GP talking as if no one has ever learned a foreign language without moving to another country. The US military has been teaching translators for decades at the Def…
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It's solved, look up comprehensible input: https://www.dreaming.com/blog-posts/what-is-comprehensible-i... The problem is duolingo is particularly horrible and is intended t…
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This is the most pro-tech admin in decades, and that terrifies me.
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Are we the bad guys?
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Cost to build, maintain this machine? $/watt?
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Vibe coding can make code that is suitable for production. 3d printed plastic can not be a substitute for a fiberglass-metal part.
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I had a college roommate who got hit by a car and was in a coma with lasting mental deficits. He was a mechanical engineering major, and because of his "disability" he got 2x time allowed on…
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It's V6 but the 1GR-FE is probably the most reliable small car engine of all time. Easily 500k miles.
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This could cause a resonance cascade.
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Only 11 top level comments right now, and 354 total comments. To see just 3% of comments be top level is something.
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Related: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every... …
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It doesn't take any more time than reading it. Chatgpt writing is dogshit and if I see signs then I know probably the whole work is polluted.
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Fascinating. Also impressive rawness, and it doesn't even seem like she passed it thru Chatgpt. It's insane that my first inclination is to detect those telltale signs in a blog post, and he…
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In san jose, I stayed at an airbnb in a home located inside a trailer park (though a nice trailer park). The owner went to stanford.