Rescis

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by Rescis 2y ago
Given current models can accomplish this task quite successfully and cheaply, I'd say that if/when that happens it would be a failure of the user (or the provider) for not routing the request to the smaller, cheaper model. Similar
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by Rescis 3y ago
The secret is: there is a lot of subsidized housing, and the article primarily talks about said subsidized housing. The cost of non subsidized housing is in line with Hamburg.
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by Rescis 3y ago
The lack of an easily accessible search function/option to select a city (Seattle) other than SF/NYC/London/Paris/Dubai was a little annoying to me, and then the login gate when I try to click explore again was a li
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by Rescis 3y ago
I've found it mildly useful for when I say I'll meet up with a friend but I've forgotten their address, so then look at my timeline to see where it is (since I generally remember the last time I saw a friend, if not exactly w
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by Rescis 3y ago
Several hundred million dollars at best gets you a mile of subway in an American city: https://www.vox.com/22534714/rail-roads-infrastructure-costs... Experimentation with alternatives is desperately needed.
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by Rescis 3y ago
Archive Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230412131029/https://mathstodo...
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Octopus shows unique hunting, social and sexual behavior(news.berkeley.edu)
2 points by Rescis 5y ago|0 comments
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Another (Outer) AI Alignment Failure Story(alignmentforum.org)
1 points by Rescis 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Community Around Manufacturing Automation (MES, ISA95)
1 points by Rescis 6y ago|0 comments
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by Rescis 6y ago
There are cureently bacteria that eat diesel/gasoline, which is why if you leave either in your vehicle tank for a long period (1-6 months) , you shoud to siphon it out and replace it.
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by Rescis 7y ago
My experience is mostly with epilepsy, but CBD at dosages of 25-100mg (varying on the intensity of the siezure) really does help better then any prescribed medication my partner has tried. It's not ridiculous to me that it's effe
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by Rescis 7y ago
I think those numbers are for passenger flights carrying large amounts of people, not private jets carrying very few.
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by Rescis 7y ago
Im curious about the study that shows the causation of lowered compassion with higher income?
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by Rescis 7y ago
To start, we are at 7.53 /billion/, not trillion. Second, ever single time someone has said that overpopulation was going to be the end of us, they've been wrong. To quote Wikipedia, which go so far back as Ancient Carthage
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by Rescis 8y ago
Why do you say that? Far more industry leading companies (much less companies as a whole) have rose and fall in power, changed their goals/products/management/etc in the past 5/15/50/etc years than governments.
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by Rescis 8y ago
I'm currently a software dev getting paid monthly, and fronting around 3 grand this month. It happens.
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by Rescis 8y ago
No, he's saying that the business must weigh the cost of backups with the risk of needing them and determine if it is necesarry to fund creation of said backups.
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by Rescis 8y ago
This is outside of my normal area of expertise, but from what I gather, the total geothermal power output was around 14 GWH in 2017 [1], with an estimated maximum of 2TW possible worldwide if we develop every spot available [2]. It looks li
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by Rescis 8y ago
I feel like you're making two different points: 1: That our goals are unrealistic and therefore lead to less 'good' (in the utilitarian sense) 2: Progress without happiness isn't 'good', since we all will die T
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by Rescis 8y ago
If reading about Wesley Crusher makes you and I function perceptibly worse, I would argue that doing so is the opposite of striving for perfection. We, as biologically limited beings, have to understand that perfection for robots is differ
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by Rescis 8y ago
I feel comfortable equating problem solving with optimization, for while we are still living outside of a utopia, any beneficial system that less than perfectly efficient is causing suffering (from an opportunity cost perspective). Similarl
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by Rescis 8y ago
While I agree that we (where we is a reader of the NYT or other western individuals) focus on hyper optimizing our life towards a perfect, unachievable goal, I am not at all comfortable with the authors assumption that it is inherently bad
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by Rescis 8y ago
Do you have a source for that? While still in definite need of improvement, the highest number for illiteracy I can find is 40%, and that is for adults exclusively.
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by Rescis 8y ago
I really appreciate your statement that even us crazies who want to privatize everything generally want to do it slowly, and don't think that just abolishing the government today would be beneficial at all from a humanitarian perspecti
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by Rescis 8y ago
It's shrinking by your definition, growing by others (the poor of today are the middle class of history if you look at poverty levels, purchasing power, or class mobility). Further, we are in a noticeable amount of ways not a free mark
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by Rescis 8y ago
> Food exists and we have political problems, therefore food is part of the political problems we have today. Senators are a very integral and powerful part of our current government, and have a far larger per pound effect than food on t
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by Rescis 8y ago
> The stories by people are all very similar, warranting further investigation. Weird stuff. The hallucinogenic similarities may be due to a similar chemical reaction to the drug between human brains -- not necessarily a higher entity. I
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by Rescis 8y ago
Applications like WhatsApp noticeably improve the standard of living for people in WhatsApp, as they allow them to communicate with people far easier, cheaper, and faster than otherwise would have been possible. It really is more cruel to s
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by Rescis 8y ago
It would be foolish for me to attempt to quantify what worth "more"; however, it is worth keeping in mind that the railroads we're very heavily subsidized in their time as well. http://archive.boston.com/ae&#x
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by Rescis 8y ago
> Yes, trains already exist and have existed much longer, and yet have obviously lost out to the truck. That may be in large part due to the substantial government subsidation of car/truck traffic through public roads, not the merit

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