MrSkelter

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by MrSkelter 3d ago
I don’t think it’s trying to distill life in the way you say. It’s the opposite. It’s impossibly thin slices of lives, the length of a conversation at a bus stop, which accrete meaning over the episodes. You are constantly reminded of what
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by MrSkelter 3d ago
That’s just unfounded hero worship. You need to provide evidence he was right.
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by MrSkelter 5d ago
If your heart rate has been in the 40s for years your cardiovascular system is at the peak of what’s possible. It’s not “pretty good”. A resting heart rate in the 30s is the kind of thing Olympic distance runners touch on. You are either ex
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by MrSkelter 7d ago
Based on this post the makers are safe.
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by MrSkelter 7d ago
I absolutely agree. A better result at lower cost would come by making the entire piece from wood. You would need a few handtools and nothing else. Plenty strong and totally gap free. Plus the huge bonus of acquiring some woodworking skills
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by MrSkelter 7d ago
This is a pointless essay. The point is the person in the article believes systems can cause harm to humans. How we label those systems is irrelevant. You write as if you are a lawyer for an AI corp trying to avoid a judgement. It’s akin to
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by MrSkelter 8d ago
The Economist publishes opinion pieces which are just the educated echo of right wing populism. They are infinitely tolerant of the vagaries and missteps of capital, and hold the state to a standard of perfection no business can attain. The
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by MrSkelter 8d ago
The issue isn’t being offended. It’s human rights. One group of people are upset their views, which were consequence free until recently, are now resulting in negative consequences. The other group is arguing to defend the rights of people
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by MrSkelter 14d ago
The irony of a grammatical mistake in the title of the piece is killing me. It should read - “The job safest from AI may be writing”
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by MrSkelter 17d ago
I am currently in London. I have run AC every night since May in order to sleep. The interior of my new build luxury apartment in the financial district is routinely over 30°C during the day and can’t be cooled below that even with the wind
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by MrSkelter 20d ago
This is deliberately missing the point. Everyone knows think tanks are opinionated. This one doesn’t have real staff or a real address. It’s an attempt to benefit from “intellectual” engagement with an issue, and having a corpus of work in
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by MrSkelter 25d ago
You cannot negotiate with a country that doesn’t stand by its word. All other issues aside, Trump and the Republicans love to boast that they aren’t bound by anything including their own promises. This is the end result of that. You’d be ma
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by MrSkelter 26d ago
This is an argument against capitalism. Under capitalism money and power are inextricably linked. Your influence in a democracy is tied directly to your access to capital. This is why expensive elections are are desire of those funding Supe
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by MrSkelter 28d ago
Why do you assume that building data centers is critical to begin with? You seem to start with an assumption you haven’t even questioned? Just 5 years ago very few Americans thought massive data center buildout was key to the economy. Your
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by MrSkelter 29d ago
You are implying conspiracy. It doesn’t track. Israelis, and their supporters, love to boast of Israel’s technical prowess and world leading capability in many areas. Most people do this and Israelis are no different. However in Israel’s ca
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by MrSkelter 29d ago
Healthcare reform isn’t actually hard. Every advanced country has done it bar the United States. In every case costs have gone down and outcomes have improved. You always build on what you have because you can’t pause healthcare for very ob
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by MrSkelter 1mo ago
The idea that 2 or 3 founders means the next investor is a founder is total bunk. It wasn’t a “paper” company because Musk himself valued it in order to get access to their IP and the assets which were the founders themselves. Apple and Goo
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by MrSkelter 1mo ago
You seem to be implying that there is a huge demographic shift when the reality is that, just as was common in the UK 100 years ago, in the Muslim population men get one of 5 names and 4 of them are Mohammed. The UK via colonialism has deep
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by MrSkelter 1mo ago
This is flatly wrong and why so many people still seem to think that 18th century economics cannot be improved upon. Degrowth doesn’t mean making people less wealthy. It means consuming less overall and not mandating growth as an objective
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by MrSkelter 1mo ago
I was offered a new silk topper when I bought my last Montecristo at Locke & Co. The right corded silk is in rare supply, not the skill. They asked under £2,000 (not that much more than my Panama) and I was a fool for not taking them up
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by MrSkelter 2mo ago
Your example is nonsense. So someone cloned the market quality leader and you are suggesting that means the design, engineering and QA in the original isn’t valuable? Show me those tools in 10 years. The process of working out how to make t
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by MrSkelter 2mo ago
You are making a good point but blaming the wrong thing. Caution needn’t spiral cost. The reason US weapons cost so Much is because it’s profitable. Building things that work 80% of the time makes sense in wartime. It doesn’t as a rule. Hen
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by MrSkelter 2mo ago
The industry is a joke. Meta requires tens of thousands of engineers to maintain a social media site. Google even more for an ad platform. Never have so many achieved so little and the joke is all those clowns think they are “10x engineers”
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by MrSkelter 2mo ago
You are completely right. I have decades of experience building products working with everyone from remote teams I have never met to FAANG employees in Silicon Valley. Pretty much every product and site is a combination of good work, hacks
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by MrSkelter 2mo ago
Europe is already competitive, or leading, in many areas. The US only has leverage over ASML due to other ties. If those are broken the leverage disappears and without ASML Americas tech industry suffers greatly. Similarly Rolls Royce engin
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by MrSkelter 2mo ago
You make some reasonable points but the implication, that cannabis is as benign as water, is farcical. The popularity of cannabis doesn’t justify pretending it’s entirely harmless. Consumed as an inhalant it’s impossible to claim that it wo
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by MrSkelter 3mo ago
Even more likely, high frequency ringing in the higher res file, caused by the converters, has the same effect analog distortion via tubes does creating the perception of clarity where there is none. No one can hear the difference between p
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by MrSkelter 3mo ago
The casualness with which you suggest AI can produce better films than the Disney archive makes the rest of your assertions irrelevant.
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by MrSkelter 3mo ago
You misread your link. That list is of the change in moving to cashless since Covid. Sweden is low in the list because it’s been cashless for such a long time already. Those places aren’t more cashless than Sweden. They are the ones that ar
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by MrSkelter 3mo ago
As a sometime Swede the idea of dealing with daily life in cash is farcical. Possible, sure. Convenient. No. When my coffee shop in Sodermalm’s card readers weren’t working they just gave me free coffee over taking cash. Cash in Sweden is a

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