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If your time is worth a lot of money, you'll buy a home theatre anyways.

The more people join a social media site the worse the conversation gets. This is already happening to HN as tech people flee Reddit. Most of the new comments on any given post are people that didn&#x…

> But I vaguely recall Roark being the main viewpoint character in the Fountainhead, while Dagny was in Atlas, right? iirc the Fountainhead has two viewpoints, Roark (heroic architect) and Dominiqu…

The best part of the monologue is in-universe, it supposedly takes 3 hours, but everyone on YouTube takes 4-5 hours, which means John Galt was speaking at 1.5x speed. Honestly Ayn Rand's sexual p…

AI is more energy-efficient than a human doing the same language-generation task is my point.

Food is extremely dense in energy. 1 food calorie is about 1.1 Watt-hours. A hamburger is about 490 Wh. An AI model requires 0.047 kWh = 47 Wh to generate 1000 text responses.[1] If an LLM could conve…

I'm not a lawyer (I just read regulations for fun). My understanding is Congress can still explicitly delegate authority to agencies, but an ambiguity in the law is no longer treated as an implic…

It'd be unethical for YC to kick them out. PearAI signed an agreement with the startup incubator and presumably didn't misrepresent their product. The main criticism is that YC made a bad bu…

That's called administrative law. In the federal govt, Congress enacts a broad mandate as a law, and then individual agencies promulgate additional rules on top of that. https://en.wik…

There's still a non-zero cost for compliance because universities have to report their legacy statistics.

The legal system is partly the codification of society's views on what constitutes unethical behaviour. Specifically, things that harm society as a whole. Making an action against the law express…

Do you get weird checkerboard patterns as well?

I constantly get graphical glitches on my Zenbook Duo 2024. Would recommend against going Intel if you want to use Linux.

We have fully licensed computer and software engineers in Canada. There isn't much demand for the professional designation outside of safety critical fields; many people graduate from accredited …

American healthcare spending 80% more than Canada on a per-capita basis for worse or equal outcomes.[1] Our system has major problems, but we spend less money and have a healthier population. That def…

This takes place in Canada. There are no for-profit hospital complexes like the USA. All of our major hospitals are non-profit, reimbursed by the single-payer healthcare system and philanthropists get…

Implementing the cycle of abuse in an AI partner could be as impactful as the invention of the cigarette. I'm now very concerned about hypothetical young men who enter into relationships with AI …

https://www.ark-invest.com/articles/analyst-research/is-ai-c... The biggest callout is that NSFW AI already has 10% relative market share compared to OnlyFans. And there are…

Your assumption is that the status quo provides those things. Nowadays, people will break up as soon as they get "the ick" or just have a rotating group of people they see. Lasting relations…

The author didn't mention constexpr in C++ which tackles the same problem as Zig. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/if#Constexpr_if In this case, "if…

> For example, one of my favorite Majordomo dishes is a whole boiled chicken. We present the bird to the table in a big pot, bring it back to the kitchen to carve it, and then return with a beautif…

The point of a free market is to allocate scarce goods and services to the people that need them the most, by raising the price until demand is equal to supply. Raising price decreases demand and incr…

I'm OK with didactic commentators if the person talking to me is an expert and giving me new information. Broadcast media outlets fail at that. I don't know much about sports but even I can …

Creative Commons has standardized non-commercial and no-derivatives licences. https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/ This covers some of the use cases you d…

I use git add -p somewhat frequently to do partial staging of a file to split up my changes into multiple commits.

It's a lot harder for the average person to lose 1 million dollars in cash than in Bitcoin because humans naturally understand the exchange of physical objects. If I have a duffel bag of money, i…

> It's well known that Wikipedia doesn't need those donations. I disagree. Wikipedia is similar to Exercism on that count. A tiny fraction of expenses are hosting the encyclopedia. It…