cheriot

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by cheriot 5d ago
Something about large debts and widespread cheating makes me think we don't need so many students staying for 4 years. Maybe more coop programs and less class time.
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by cheriot 24d ago
If you don't like the data I used offer data that's more informative. You've failed to do that. Denying reality by nit picking the best data available is not useful.
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by cheriot 25d ago
You seem stuck on the idea that real wages have declined within the last 10 years. Is this vibes or real data? Because nit picking data to justify vibes and dropping the thought there is dumb. Gold is a market where price moves for reasons
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by cheriot 26d ago
My analysis was "Doesn't look so dire to me?" and I don't think the point you raised leads to a different conclusion. I can tell you know the topic well, but we're at the same place CPI criticism always come back to
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by cheriot 26d ago
Then what number would you use instead? A "correct methodology" that's not done is useless. Complaining about CPI to defend using nominal values poorly is not improving the article's analysis.
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by cheriot 26d ago
Agree that measuring inflation is complex and expensive. It also glosses over devices getting new features and networks improving latency and bandwidth. Unfortunately alternative measures are worse. Gold increased in price 37% in the last y
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by cheriot 26d ago
I am in favor of apples-to-apples comparisons and viewing data points in context. Now sure how that has to with fiscal deficits.
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by cheriot 26d ago
> credit card debt hit an all-time high last year ($1.28 trillion, Q4 2025) Let me inflation adjust that for you: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1XUpo . Even better, as a percentage of disposable income: https
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by cheriot 1mo ago
> By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor. There's less need to identify the most gullible when AI d
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by cheriot 1mo ago
While he was still living on his own, my grandfather struggled with people sending him scam letters in the mail. He sent a meaningful amount of money to obvious scams despite being a shrewd businessman all his life. AI will take these cons
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by cheriot 1mo ago
Agree with this. LLMs multiply the human user's ability. More ability, more impact!
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by cheriot 2mo ago
Was really looking forward to that. Hope they publish.
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by cheriot 2mo ago
Avoid the most dangerous situations by making sure LLMs with untrusted input produce output that's human reviewed. Still makes an interesting way for, say, a former employee to poison the results.
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by cheriot 2mo ago
Would be interesting to see a repeat but with marketing, ad network access setup ahead of time. And maybe an email throttle...
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by cheriot 2mo ago
Like they did with solar panels, I suspect the goal is to dominate an industry and not need to subsidize it forever.
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by cheriot 2mo ago
I’ll be impressed if somebody can make that work considering the vastly larger compute required.
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by cheriot 2mo ago
Open-weight and OSS are wildly different and the article makes a poor comparison. What's the incentive for the Chinese labs to continue releasing weights 5 years from now? It's not a stable equilibrium and cannot last. - The lab s
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by cheriot 2mo ago
What's the incentive for the Chinese labs to continue releasing weights 5 years from now? In the short term it attracts talent and builds brand, but they make little money on inference to support research and training costs. Tin foil h
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by cheriot 3mo ago
In addition to this article, I've seen well thought out assertions from knowledgeable people that Hormuz is far worse than the market thinks and the market just continues not caring. Maybe they're both right? Horrible things can h
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by cheriot 3mo ago
Apple/Google make less money if they sell the data because their ad product would no longer have an advantage. So no, I don't think they do that.
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by cheriot 4mo ago
The professions with the least negotiating power will have the most draconian "oversight". Imagine a cashier graded in real time on how many customers they smile at. Or tracking how many glasses in a restaurant are empty.
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by cheriot 4mo ago
Wild to me that Bitwarden raised > $100m from VC. Seems like the kind of thing that would make a nice lifestyle business. The enterprise version never went beyond password management so I'm not sure how this could have generated a v
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by cheriot 4mo ago
Better commit messages, better and more up to date docs, etc. It's not all slop!
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by cheriot 5mo ago
Why would an investment manager choose a CIT over an ETF? I can't help but think there's additional fees being collected somewhere. To adapt a popular phrase to personal finance, "If you don't understand the product, you
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by cheriot 5mo ago
This seems like the kind of thing that the right kind of engineer could turn into a lifestyle business. Two mobile apps, two or three browser extensions, a server, and a marketing website. A lot of care for the core security decisions and a
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by cheriot 5mo ago
tbh, I do that with Uber/Lyft, too
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by cheriot 5mo ago
Thank you, Sunnyvale man, for hitting this edge case before I do.
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by cheriot 5mo ago
Interesting way to encourage competition for its competitor. A single, scaled self-driving company is a massive threat to Uber.
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by cheriot 5mo ago
During peak hours Waymo is more expensive than standard uber/lyft - I don't pay attention to black/premium pricing. Off-peak the price can be comparable. I mainly check because my wife prefers it.
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by cheriot 5mo ago
Anyone know how much harder water resistance gets with replaceable batteries?

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