DickingAround

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by DickingAround 1y ago
I run thousands of robots in production. We can get a very high success rate but only for the task they're designed for. Production robots can't pick up stuff they drop yet. And this '80%' level is not actually acceptabl
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by DickingAround 1y ago
I think actually you could do that if you wanted to; look up what notes mean, write some little program to make a sound if you had to. You could do it in a week if it was your only job.
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by DickingAround 1y ago
We should not under-estimate the need for speed in supply chains. Predicting future demand is hard. To be more specific, we're talking about predicting ~100M unique products (the order of magnitude that moves on the pacific) and some o
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by DickingAround 1y ago
I think the core of the 'improved productivity' question will be ultimately impossible to answer. We would want to know if productivity was improved over the lifetime of a society; perhaps hundreds of years. We will have no clear
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by DickingAround 1y ago
This is a good point; a man or woman sitting behind a desk doing correlation analysis are going to look very similar in their function to a business. But they probably physically look pretty distinct to an x-ray picture.
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by DickingAround 1y ago
Just because a whole industry is bullshit doesn't mean I should force it to not exist. I don't like musicals. I don't understand or care anything about their culture. But it has a right to exist. Some people are into musicals
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by DickingAround 2y ago
TINA = There is no alternative... to stocks. Lot of people lost money on long term bonds. Short term bonds are at least better than cash. Stocks are supposed to be about investing in an asset. I guess there is kind of an alternative out t
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by DickingAround 2y ago
Humans can do a lot of useful things with electrical energy. It's good to see our most powerful entities (companies) directly getting involved in getting the energy they need and still trying to do that in a climate-friendly way.
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by DickingAround 2y ago
Sadly, that's still very non-causal. A lot of things in China were happening at the same time. We just need to be honest that we don't have causal data and we have to make decisions on correlation data (and not try to over-claim c
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by DickingAround 3y ago
At a practical level, this is NetBSD story is a story of a machine that just does it's job and doesn't change. For example, there is no active experimentation, no machine learning added on, etc. It's like a wood-mill; good th
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by DickingAround 4y ago
There was no pre-mining in Bitcoin. There were early adopters, but I think we're all early adopters still at this stage. Really, it might not be CPU mine-able and $1/coin but it's still nowhere near final value if it managed
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by DickingAround 4y ago
In what way? There's a limited number of bitcoin (I get there's unlimited altcoins, but they're easy to distinguish). I've never heard of anyone being able to censor a transaction on the network (hard to imagine how you
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by DickingAround 4y ago
Block rewards get replaced with fees. Part of the 'blocksize wars' was the decision to not just increase block sizes or (or course) increase issuance of bitcoin but to be honest and recognize that there will be constraints on what
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by DickingAround 4y ago
The constant combining of altcoins and bitcoin is not helpful. There's a use case that is 'money' in which the value of the object used as money is always deeply disconnected from the underlying asset value (i.e. we never tra
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by DickingAround 4y ago
It does seem to be almost some kind of stigma or classism with buses rather than an actual functional difference in technology. We have electric overhead-line buses and they're just the same as streetcars except you don't need ded
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by DickingAround 4y ago
I can't wait for Tether to fail. These 'stable coins' are just waiting for disaster; how many times have we tried to tie asset prices together, or tried to make a paper version of something else where there wasn't clear
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by DickingAround 4y ago
Money is kind of like that; it's a delusion. The problem is something is always breaking that delusion by printing more of it. But not everything can be printed. If you can't print, the delusion can be pretty hard to break. If the
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by DickingAround 4y ago
We did that in Q4 2021/Q1 2022 amongst my friend group. Literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in spending among us in land, tools, etc. Stock market looked high, don't want to stay in the dollar. It's not a complex econo
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by DickingAround 4y ago
I wanted to come in here and bad-mouth MBAs, but you all already did an admiral and accurate job of it. Instead, I would claim having the view 'business owner' and 'economist' is really helpful alongside expertise in the
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by DickingAround 5y ago
You're probably right that the country "USA" doesn't get "sanctioned" much since they're the super power. Instead they use their power to punish other 'bad' performers. That said, Russia's g
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by DickingAround 5y ago
If they really are low on power, for whatever reason, it's time to raise prices. I know people like fixing the price below what the actual market rate would be but it causes a lot of problems. And Europe in particular isn't doing
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by DickingAround 5y ago
It is if you think it's as simple as 'processing a transaction'. Anyone can design a system that records a transaction. It's very hard to make one that can't be deleted and can't be reversed. Doing this unlocks
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by DickingAround 5y ago
If you worry about the power waste, have a CO2 tax. You don't think some people's use of power is right, but perhaps they don't think your use of power is right. Is that really something you don't want to be a fundamenta
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by DickingAround 5y ago
There's just one more step; the market's value is an expectation of the future while the GDP is a 'now' metric. So while inflation is auto-adjusted (roughly) in the past, a strong expectation of inflation now can send th
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by DickingAround 5y ago
"In olden times, the average person didn't expect to be happy" - I don't think that statement is supported by any evidence or logic. People are happy sometimes even when they're food-scarce. Only the dead are truly
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by DickingAround 5y ago
The 'intolerant minority' is a very interesting and surprisingly useful concept.
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by DickingAround 5y ago
Yea, I'm not saying I want a kinetic or offensive solution either. More like, it might be possible. Like if someone kills a bunch of people in France and flees to Germany, then Germany is going to hand them back over to France. Clearly
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by DickingAround 5y ago
I think if you had good attribution it's more like armies. We have been focused on locking our doors, on building better walls, etc. But there is a non-defensive side. In meatspace we expect the government to use kinetic force to stop
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by DickingAround 5y ago
Examples? (Presumably there's some browse history that you're referring to which we may not be experiencing the same way. So citing sources is critical.)
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by DickingAround 5y ago
I get that humans are wiping out a lot of less capable species. This will turn out to be wrong if humans are themselves wiped out. But from an evolutionary sense, this is a pretty clear cut case; humans are wiping out everything else becaus

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