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110,928karma·51,750submissions·October 26, 2011
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"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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How are you going to compete against free and good (Linux)?
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> And if you are an American, I guess you don't even benefit from our more enlightened tax system anyway. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore…
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While interesting facts, this is typically not the primary criteria which people use to decide where to expat to, versus availability and affordability. I cannot speak to the residency requirements of…
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I appreciate the collectivism and it is a component of why I am happy to pay Europe any of the taxes they ask for.
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I can only n=1, but most, if not all, experiences we've had obtaining medical care were better in Europe. Care specialist for my autistic kids, primary care, etc. From my unofficial surveys, many…
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Europe is also excellent in my experience, specifically Portugal and Spain. My health insurance cost for a family of four in Spain is ~$2k/year as someone on a visa. In the US on an employer plan…
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We could collectively provide a long list of examples across several US states, Europe, and Australia. Is that going to change the minds of people who don't believe it? It will not, the discussio…
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At least they’ll be out of office or age out eventually, we’ll just collectively as US taxpayers with a federal income tax burden (top ~40% of income earners, bottom ~60% have no federal income tax li…
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https://help.archive.org/help/media-types-for-donations/ https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donat... https://help.archiv…
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The US also has a recent history of making it so hostile that they’re exporting scientists to China, Europe, and Singapore (not exhaustive). Hard to predict the future of who will be welcomed, if the…
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https://archive.today/W2tpE
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Cloudflare: Give any website a WebMCP interface - https://blog.cloudflare.com/webmcp/
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Can you share your dissertation with us?
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Which is somewhat humorous because it was arguably more stable when they ran on their own hosted colo infra before moving to Azure. This was a choice versus keeping the infra compartmentalized and usi…
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Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34609730 - February 2023 (185 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29127586 - November 2021 (121 comments)…
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Was assuming worse case scenario from a licensing compatibility and copyright perspective.
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Seems like the path is to use LLMs to launder code from VC funded efforts and their public codebases into codebases with a copyleft license. Otherwise you have to wait for the rug pull before taking a…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Niederhoffer https://www.dailyspeculations.com/ …
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Trump's Iran dilemma: He's stuck in war with no exit in sight - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200602 - August 2026…
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My condolences OP. Always make backups. You might make an attempt to reach out to Yahoo and see if it is possible at all to restore from a backup. https://archive.org/details/us-c…
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As fertility rates are held down longer by individual choices, raising them back up becomes harder. Countries have spent hundreds of billions of dollars attempting with little to show for it. ~71% of …
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Indeed, but what is the difference between crawl data and model data but decay rate? Models are trained on previous crawl data, but if an LLM provider engages a search engine to get "live data,&q…
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If on Mac, consider TinyTouch as a potential biometric hardware supplement when a keyboard does not support: https://github.com/zimengxiong/tinytouch (no affiliation, saw a threa…
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https://archive.today/klXHk
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This is exactly it.