Nifty3929

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by Nifty3929 5d ago
Americans are too busy working for all that. Their GDP per capita is almost double leading EU countries, except for a couple of outliers like Ireland and Switzerland. You can complain about what you don't have, or you can work to produ
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by Nifty3929 12d ago
As an amateur (but competent) player of both, when I play go it almost feels like I'm playing multiple smaller games at the same time on the same board. Even if I might be struggling in one area, I can make it up in another. So it&#x27
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by Nifty3929 15d ago
One can navigate by stars as well, at least at night. Really, all modern conveniences like grocery stores and plumbing are "unnecessary" in the sense that we survived for 100k years without them.
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by Nifty3929 20d ago
Remember that function calling doesn’t mean that the model is actually calling a function for you: what it does it interpret the intent, then return back to the application the function and arguments, then the application runs the function
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by Nifty3929 23d ago
They weren't saying there is anything wrong with the syringe disposal per se, but instead that it's indicative of the people who use those facilities and the priorities of the authorities that manage them. It is observed that you
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by Nifty3929 23d ago
Thanks. I wasn't aware of this interesting report. https://data.worldhappiness.report/table It wasn't easy for me to interpret these rankings though, or how they came up with the life evaluation score. More explan
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by Nifty3929 24d ago
How would I connect to my own network? Wifi and cellular solve different problems.
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by Nifty3929 24d ago
It's a real problem when we allow violence or destructive activity to be perpetrated by sympathetic people or in the name of sympathetic causes. I don't like government surveillance either - but even if you think the destruction i
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by Nifty3929 25d ago
What are those best places in the world?
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by Nifty3929 26d ago
I really hate hiding scrollbars, and I think the warning on that "feature" misses an important point: The scrollbar is not just for scrolling - it also tells you where you are in the document, and roughly how much of it you can se
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by Nifty3929 1mo ago
Pay 2-5% to who? That's the problem for me - usually this means just another way to expand government. If you would just distribute it equally to all relevant citizens, with none of it going to the government, then I might get on board
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by Nifty3929 1mo ago
Dynamite has been incredibly beneficial for humanity.
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by Nifty3929 1mo ago
"... two old white men were having a pissing contest ..." This is the big mistake that so many people make: assuming that these folks are behaving irrationally, or somehow focused on something other than what is best for humanity
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by Nifty3929 2mo ago
How about we hope for Chinese labs to continue pushing forward - and for America and the rest of the world to do so as well. It needn't be competitive - everybody can succeed more tomorrow than they are today. You win. I win. We win.
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by Nifty3929 2mo ago
It's not all roses out there, to be sure. But there are some roses, I think. A lot of roses actually. Can we talk about the roses once in a while?
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by Nifty3929 2mo ago
The problem is that everything is negative, all the time. Nothing good is allowed to be acknowledged. Everything someone or some company does must not be acknowledged to have any redeeming value- it’s all just negative Which is sad, because
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by Nifty3929 2mo ago
"Aluminum (Al) is a widespread environmental contaminant " - they lost me right there in the very first sentence. Already using charged, non-neutral language ("contaminant"), giving away their pre-existing bias and forci
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by Nifty3929 2mo ago
That's one of the important reasons - I thought - that we have the FDA in the first place. But these days I'm really not so sure. So many promising treatments rejected (or just stalled forever) while pointless placebos and worse g
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by Nifty3929 3mo ago
Yes. It is not true that anything that makes our lives better or work easier is bad. In fact that's the story of all progress - making peoples lives better and work easier.
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by Nifty3929 3mo ago
You are correct, but I think having a good policy - and trying earnestly to enforce it - is a good start, even if that enforcement is very imperfect.
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by Nifty3929 3mo ago
I am super excited for the future! Medical advancements are accelerating, fusion power is on the horizon, space travel is exciting again. This is really an amazing moment in human history. I think we really can conquer cancer, Alzheimer&#x2
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by Nifty3929 3mo ago
Speaking of keeping separate things separate: remember that Unions (a business in it's own right) is different from the Union Workers that it represents.
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by Nifty3929 3mo ago
Because this? "I believe with little certainty" Actually, I think it's powerful to acknowledge when my beliefs are weak. I still believe it - I think it's true, and I don't have any conflicting beliefs. But still it
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by Nifty3929 3mo ago
It is more than plausible that spending money on AI is spending money on healthcare. I believe with little certainty that AI will help us find new ways to fight disease, improve our health and live longer lives.
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by Nifty3929 3mo ago
Yes, exactly! Also forced EU voters to consider how much they value these services, and whether the regulations are worth it not to have them, or to have watered down versions of them. I say this without judgment - I see it as a legitimate
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by Nifty3929 3mo ago
You and I are the same person apparently. Let me tell you about malaria! Or the bends! Or tetanus! Please! Wait, where's everybody going?
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by Nifty3929 3mo ago
It reminds me of how the Panama canal was built, and actually the first major attempt failed and they gave up. What they learned for the second attempt was that digging was not the hard(est) part to solve - it was how to move the dirt! So m
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by Nifty3929 4mo ago
Would you be willing to pay a small sum per piece of content? Maybe 10c per video or article? Maybe 1c for a short or something? Assume that it’s anonymous and frictionless (big assumptions, but this is just a thought experiment).
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by Nifty3929 4mo ago
These glasses address farsightedness, which doesn't apply while driving. Worst case you just take them off.
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by Nifty3929 4mo ago
Basically - building video games is (or seems from the outside) fun and cool, and so there are lots of people who want to do it. In effect, people are willing to be paid in fun, rather than in money. Also, games just generate a lot less rev

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