dabraham1248

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by dabraham1248 9d ago
To rip off my own comment from a couple of months ago: This kind of reflexive both-sides-ism works to obfuscate the _huge_ difference in scale, _and_ the occasional, small-but-real attempts of mostly democrats to do something about it. Now,
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by dabraham1248 2mo ago
Mostly to be a pedantic devil's advocate here, I'm going to argue with something you're not saying. I've heard a _lot_ of people argue that the visit is _proof_ of corruption. You're just pointing out the possibil
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by dabraham1248 2mo ago
I mean, _kinda_? This kind of reflexive both-sides-ism works to obfuscate the _huge_ difference in scale, _and_ the occasional, small-but-real attempts of mostly democrats to do something about it. Now, if the democrats had more big donors
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by dabraham1248 3mo ago
Same. I recalled pipe being used for "such that". But [per wikipedia]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_mathematical_symbo... ), that's specifically "set-builder notation", and the _la
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by dabraham1248 9mo ago
I'm going to assert that Tesla's FSD™ does not, in fact work on city streets and highways. Or, if you want to loosely define "work", Ernst Dickmanns had self driving in the 80s, and put in on the autobahn in the 90s. I&
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by dabraham1248 1y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but in case you're not... From https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate... "UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to d
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by dabraham1248 2y ago
8 (1). And I think that, in this context, those 8 plus the 22 US D-SIBs (2) means that there's 30. FWIW, I _think_ I'm not just pedantically correcting a particular number. I think I'm asserting that keeping track of n orga
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by dabraham1248 2y ago
> If people want to take non-FDA approved stuff, I don't see why regulatory and/or law enforcement should care. Well, among other things, if anyone makes money selling colored water, it encourages others to sell colored water.
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by dabraham1248 2y ago
> Sounds like that would severely decrease what authors can earn, especially older ones. I mean, I know a bunch of authors. All of them wrote because they needed to write (even the textbook authors). And almost none of them earned much
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by dabraham1248 2y ago
While I _absolutely_ agree with those sentiments, I have seen nothing like consensus on them myself (in mostly tech startups, but also fintech, and financial (yes, those are different things)). If I limit it to programmers I respect, the p
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
I mean, I dispute your implication that he's not destroying twitter (I mean, ever since he took it private we don't have hard numbers. But that itself doesn't suggest _good_ things). But aside from that, and the two examples
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
A modern kitchenaid isn't really better than a cuisinart. Back when they were made by hobart, yes, they were amazing (and, inflation adjusted, something like three times the price). These days they have plastic (I'm sorry "c
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
Umm, the bill of rights is a set of restrictions on the _federal_ government. The last one is explicitly a statement that the states can do a lot of things that the federal government _can't_. There is the supremacy clause, but goodne
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
From the _IBEW_ ( https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/2306... ): > “We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months afte
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
Oh my! You buried the lede: "In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them _after_ Euler."
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Joh... Note that the "Known for" section on his main page has 119 elements. But they're not all named after him.
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
While I don't think that your conclusion is 100% wrong, your argument does not support it. The first two examples are actually the way I would bet. For the first, MS knew what was happening, and worked to make it easier. The computer
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
> Literally not true. Some other comment of yours: > Obviously not true. I think the word you're looking for is "inconceivable". And I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
Your question reduces to "Why should my taxes pay for a public good, when I choose to have my kids not experience it directly?" I think the answer becomes a lot clearer then. Miss Manners has a quote something like "School ta
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
Yes, after all, the reason that Texas is currently working on laws to block renewable power generation in favor of fossil fuel power is because their power grid is _too_ reliable.
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
The first law linked in your article ( https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXXI/Ch... ) seems to me further reaching than the lesser of the two NY bills (S6748). Am I missing something
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
It's interesting to me that you've figured out that people bring up gun control whenever you talk about this, but you haven't made the next logical leap. Which is to say, there may be a _reason_ people bring up gun control.
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
Well, kinda? We did that. Then we discovered that about 10% of the time it didn't actually lock anything. So we included yelling across the room into our "grab it exclusively from VSS". Yes, we had MS support, and they loo
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
> but there is no evidence that bureaucrats are capable of reliably picking the right candidate drugs I'm not convinced that the govt bureaucrats would do a worse job than drug co bureaucrats. Current studies are poorly designed, i
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The Consequences of Scalable Blockchains(medium.com)
1 points by dabraham1248 3y ago|1 comments
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by dabraham1248 3y ago
Asserts a proof that "scalable" blockchains would prove P=NP
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by dabraham1248 4y ago
> Was Gates the only person who went to a college with computer resources in the mid-1970s? Was Gates the only person who read the Popular Electronics article? Was Gates the only person who knew how to program in BASIC? No, no, no, no, a
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by dabraham1248 4y ago
The theory is that, _once it becomes policy and happens a couple of times_, employees will pay attention to what their company is doing, and get out if they think they're in danger. It aligns individual morality with self interest, an
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by dabraham1248 4y ago
> Also statins are terrible with worse side effects. Fix your diet, not the estimated amount of cholesterol in your blood tests. Whether or not to take a statin is a _complicated_ decision, based on _many_ variables. Maybe statins didn&
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by dabraham1248 4y ago
> Why not talk about actual Computer Science and what she did? She was a prime mover in doubling the number of people who were allowed into the field. Personally, I think that's bigger than the LSP.

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