LargeWu

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by LargeWu 1mo ago
This is a really bizarre take. Praying to the small, local spirits, like the one of the animal you are about to eat, is noble and beautiful, but praying to a universal god is worthy of mockery? ("sky-daddy myth") I don't real
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by LargeWu 2mo ago
I don't expect them not to make big bets, but this was DOA from the start and everybody knew it.
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by LargeWu 2mo ago
Because people like Zuck think that because they're unimaginably rich, they must have gotten that way because of their own good sense, instead of getting insanely lucky at just the right time when his original product was primed to be
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by LargeWu 2mo ago
Of course they're participating, even driving it. Notably there were large bets placed predicting imminent military actions in Iran and Venezuela. In at least one case it was verifiably placed by one of the individuals planning it. We
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by LargeWu 2mo ago
Last week I was at the bank in my hometown, a small rural community. The teller took a phone call, and I overheard her say "You have $1.53 in your checking account, and $150 in savings". Presumably this is their total net worth. I
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by LargeWu 2mo ago
SQL Injection isn't even a problem of SQL, it's a problem of the applications those databases are connected to.
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by LargeWu 3mo ago
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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by LargeWu 3mo ago
Letting AI generate your image also dances around the issues of attribution and licensing, for better or worse.
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by LargeWu 3mo ago
These companies are never, ever going to make their money back off of retail customers. It's not even clear if those customers would be profitable at all, let alone enough to justify hundreds of billions in capital expenditures.
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by LargeWu 4mo ago
I want advice from the one questioning whether we should, not just whether we can.
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by LargeWu 4mo ago
Not only benefits from it, but the very one causing it to happen.
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by LargeWu 4mo ago
Didn't see it mentioned in the article, but Apple also had a program called "An Apple for a Teacher" which allowed teachers to purchase directly from Apple at a big discount for personal use. My dad secured a IIgs this way, w
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by LargeWu 4mo ago
This is true. It is also true that waiting until things bottom out will make things even worse. It will be more expensive and options will be more limited. There will need to be a federal bailout to relocate everyone who needs help. The gov
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by LargeWu 5mo ago
The difference is that schools, crime, etc., are all what they are right now . It's there, it's verifiable. Anybody buying in has access to the full information. They can walk around the neighborhood and see for themselves. The f
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by LargeWu 5mo ago
"The solution is parlay style payouts" I think you mean parimutuel payouts?
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by LargeWu 5mo ago
They say Silicon Valley was more of a documentary than a comedy, and now we have one more way life imitates art: A growing army of Erlich Bachmann's.
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by LargeWu 5mo ago
For those interested, Relisten is another repository of live concert recordings. It skews heavily towards improvisational music, ie jambands, but there's some indie rock on there as well. https://relisten.net/
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by LargeWu 5mo ago
Because the "it'll create X jobs" implies it's ongoing. It's a disingenuous attempt to oversell the benefits because they know if they're transparent about it, suddenly it doesn't seem like such a great de
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by LargeWu 5mo ago
"If they require the datacenter to be a closed water system and pay for their own electricity..." This assertion is doing a LOT of heavy lifting, and when it isn't true, it can cause huge externalities not just for the local
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by LargeWu 6mo ago
I think the differentiating feature is that capitalism used to be tethered to producing things that were useful. The current model of wealth acquisition, so called "late-stage" seems to have shifted more towards rent seeking and e
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by LargeWu 6mo ago
Is there a viable career path for researchers who choose to focus on replication instead of novel discoveries? I assume replications are perceived as less prestigious, but it's also important work.
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by LargeWu 7mo ago
For one thing, yeast was in short supply, so if you wanted to bake regularly, sourdough was a good option if you could keep it going.
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by LargeWu 7mo ago
Billionaires are allowed to have their cake and eat it too in the form of loans backed by their stock holdings. This is how they get to have $500MM yachts without having to actually sell their stock and lose control of their companies. It&
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by LargeWu 8mo ago
> LLM-based “chatty mode” where you can talk to the AI personality of your choice I'm genuinely baffled that people would want to do this.
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by LargeWu 8mo ago
It's less what should he have done, than what shouldn't he have done. Specifically, he pushed conspiracy theories, demonized his health experts, and touted ineffective cures, and ultimately cast doubt on the safety of the vaccines
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by LargeWu 8mo ago
Palantir is built explicitly for surveillance, in a way the other companies you listed are not. There is no comparison here. It's like saying the City of Minneapolis is complicit because they maintain the roads ICE is driving on.
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by LargeWu 8mo ago
The thesis of the article says "If it was bad under Obama, imagine how much worse it is now". It's literally in the headline. This is not the dunk you think it is. Nobody disputes ICE was bad then. The difference is that Obam
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by LargeWu 8mo ago
They haven't been indicted for kidnapping because it's the government itself doing it with federally deputized agents. What, is Trump's DOJ going to prosecute its own law enforcement agents for executing Trump's policy?
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by LargeWu 8mo ago
Adams claimed Black Americans were a hate group and that white people should "get the hell away". As to ICE deporting criminal aliens, that's not what they're doing. They're kidnapping people off the street and out
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by LargeWu 8mo ago
It's not just political views, though. Politics is "How much should we tax people?" and "Where should we set limits on carbon emissions?" or "Which candidate do I support" Politics is not "Black Ameri

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