Fade_Dance

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by Fade_Dance 9mo ago
In general, that term is mostly used outside of the borders of a country looking in. After all, "illegitimate leaders" tend to be authoritarians who take power and quell dissent within the borders. Not at all arguing that it someh
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by Fade_Dance 9mo ago
Entirely different, from an American perspective. Afghanistan had the context of 9/11. All Americans knew about 9/11, and most cared strongly about it. I doubt most Americans know anything about Yemen or know anything about any US
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
I have seen a very similar example with someone who quit their tech job to pursue th solution to quantum gravity with bizarre likely Ai generated mathematical work, and posted to HN about it. They also lived out of a car, and it sounds like
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
>If you want to get rich, build roads first; have fewer children, plant more trees That's funny, because the supposedly widely repeated quote that I heard in the past that stuck with me is the exact opposite message on demographics:
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
At first I had some suspicion that perhaps the findings were partly a result of interpretation of the question. After all, I don't generate a crystal clear image of what I'm thinking about - the image has some amorphous qualities
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
That's true to an extent - LLMs are trained on an abstraction of the world (as are we in a way, through our senses, and we necessarily use a sort of narrative in order to make sense of the quadrillions of photons coming up us) - but it
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
Seems strangely out of touch as well. First of all, 20 years ago porn proliferation was also rampant, and the stuff online was, I'd argue, considerably "worse" that the Onlyfans flavor content that dominates now. The descript
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
>what should instead happen is the AI try to guide them towards making their lives less shit There aren't enough guardrails in place for LLMs to safely interact with suicidal people who are possibly an inch from taking their own lif
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
So... everything I thought I knew about last week's AWS outage is right? Aside from a few tangential rants, this seems to match the coverage I had read. >Widespread issues trend toward DNS because it is just that important to how th
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
It's not uncommon at all to see the cash spent on buyback... And many CEOs lead because they like the fact that they get paid millions in stock options that are neutralized through buybacks.
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
>Interest rates only go down to stimulate growth The Fed targets price stability and employment, not growth. Of course that is largely correlated with stimulating growth as a derivative of that, but certainly not "only" to stim
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
>When businesses, governments, and individuals increase their borrowing, as they are now, that means that the cost of borrowing, the interest rate, is too low. That's not necessarily the case. Credit expansion comes with healthy gro
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
You know, now that I think about it, I have seen an actual ticket short squeeze before - when the airline is overbooked and has to run a reverse auction to buy back their ticket.
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
This article downplays the extent of Kramnik's online harassment campaign. The first thing that it is important to note in articles covering this is that Kramnik's cheating allegations are clearly outright trolling and cyberbullyi
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
It's subscription lists that do it for me. Such an improvement.
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
Target literally just let 1800 people go, so they probably have an internal initiative to fill the gap with... That.
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
LTSC is all that's keeping me from a complete switch.
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
Additionally, even if the "self-funded" aspect was enshrined into the process on all levels, you're looking at a program that dwarfs any other program of this type, worldwide. It would necessarily be in US government bonds, a
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
This is why HN is great. An immediate pivot to the technicalities and semantics of the French judicial system, off of a pithy comment. eats baguette
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
I propose any company that flagrantly violates the intent of a ruling like that is sent to a special judge who operates in the same manner - bring forth a penalty while explicitly looking for every violation and arcane loophole to punish th
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
This is probably one of those scenarios where if someone wants to fake it they're going to fake it (or at least it will be a never ending arms race, and I expect AI to keep close chase), while a basic security solution will suffice for
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
Seems odd there's still doing old school tests like sit-ups (which from what I've read is a poor exercise even for a casual gym goer). I assume that there's some tradition in "army recruits doing push-ups and sit-ups&quo
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
I read a quote today that was quite striking, in regards to an argument that the consumer focus stimulus was ill-advised (it was focused on Big ticket purchases like appliances, which will arguably pull forward demand and then leave a long
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
Hesgeth is quite radical and arguably unhinged, even among peers in the administration (which is saying something). I wouldn't be surprised if there is more to come from the Department of War acting abroad extrajudicially.
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
FX necessarily trades in pairs. To buy a peso one needs to sell something against it, and the US will sell dollars if acting in the FX space. Since the USD is one of the core currency crosses and is at the base layer of the financial system
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
There is also an element of tradition with scotch, which is something that can survive even the occasional craftsman who may not care as much about what they do, as long as they respect the traditions. Humans don't live that long, and
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
The concern is more about speculation specifically. Internet armchair-investigations regularly get out of control and fills discussion with what reliably later turns out to be misinformation, in addition to being disrespectful at sensitive
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
>it’s going to end with an unpleasant surprise for many. Investors who bought the yellow metal as a hedge are going to find it was anything but, as gold falls along with AI stocks. We already saw a hint of that last week, with gold and s
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
Resale value is also considerably higher on an Apple laptop though, so it probably nets out long term. Every time I've sold on my Windows laptop it's basically junk value after 4 years. Even when I buy used initially for half pric
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by Fade_Dance 11mo ago
>But... should they even? I don't see why not? Also, while I don't have access to this perspective myself, I'd imagine this is an unending annoyance in many areas of the world, since they are consuming often quite America-

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