dangerwill

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by dangerwill 2y ago
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by dangerwill 2y ago
If you want a healthy market, your standard cannot simply be: As long as there is more than one retailer in the space, retailers can place whatever restrictions they want on how you pay for their services. Businesses in one sector being abl
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by dangerwill 2y ago
> What's the difference if they want to force customers to use cash or Visa. I'll leave the cash option aside because the provider of cash is the US treasury. But yes, I do think it is wrong for a merchant to only allow masterc
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by dangerwill 2y ago
> thing with credit cards is that you can have more than one. I have a Visa and a Mastercard and when I shop at Costco I use Visa. I don't see this reason stopping someone wanting to compete as though if they can't get the Cost
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by dangerwill 2y ago
Oh this is wildly cool! Do cloud providers like aws allow you to upload a custom system image to run as a vm?
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by dangerwill 2y ago
We're talking about industry here so political boundaries matter not the geographic definition of Europe. Trade restrictions are in place between the UK and the EU, and thus place a wedge between the two.
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by dangerwill 2y ago
All this talk about culture and the author doesn't talk about the fundamental issue: The EU created a European identity yes, but the amount of decentralization and universal consensus required to create the EU means it will never be a
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by dangerwill 2y ago
Great tip! But it only remove's Google's terrible AI summary, not AI generated content from showing up in searches, which is what the OP wishes for. A combination of -ai and before:2022-01-01 is probably the closest we can get to
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by dangerwill 2y ago
> It's interesting because in some respects we are in the middle of a cultural and scientific Renaissance I'm sorry to rebutt your very first assertion but we had been in a cultural and scientific Renaissance and the last 15 ye
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by dangerwill 2y ago
If those are "minor" shocks then is it only outright war that counts as instability for you? If so then what countries in Europe (sans the Balkans) or East Asia do you think are less politically stable than the US?
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by dangerwill 2y ago
The US civil war is not the only time the US has been politically unstable. The civil rights movement, the labor disputes of the 1970s, the economic shocks every decade or so from market crashes all have been moments of instability. What i
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by dangerwill 2y ago
The only use of such a product would be fraudulent. Go ahead, make money, but know you would be a scammer or at best facilitating scammers
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by dangerwill 2y ago
We're already there. It's one of the causes of why all our physical infrastructure is failing. When we outsourced our manufacturing in the 90s-2010s, we lost all that talent. It's also why this will be the Chinese century.
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by dangerwill 2y ago
ChatGPT still thinks Mississippi has an R in it sometimes.
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by dangerwill 2y ago
I'm sorry but even if you manage to resolve the PIP, it is always there in the HR records as a black mark. It will always make it easier (not guaranteed, but easier) to get hit in the next round of layoffs
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by dangerwill 2y ago
You are either being wilfully ignorant or don't know how strikes work. Offering to "help" during a strike is scabbing by definition
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by dangerwill 2y ago
Quick question: How many years of industry exp do you have? I thought the same way until this year when the burnout got to me too. I thought I was too much of a high achiever to get burnout and yet I'm in the same boat as the author. A
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by dangerwill 2y ago
I really wish that Tech people would not go outside of our purview to comment on medicine. Knowledge about how to build and maintain software does not give us any useful intuitions or insights into medicine, but the gigantic egos in this in
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by dangerwill 2y ago
Ah that is almost certainly it, it's been so long since I've gotten a roll of quarters from a bank that I forgot that is an option. Thanks!
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by dangerwill 2y ago
Generated text =! Intelligence.
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by dangerwill 2y ago
No one cares that blockchains are immutable, that doesn't mean that information written there is correct. Just that it was written on X date and the content. You could find proof of the biggest scandal of all time and post it on the bl
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by dangerwill 2y ago
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly and I actively dislike the concept of LLMs for anything real. But nothing will be worse than the flood of outright scams or attempts at rent seeking/middle man creation that crypto was. At least LLMs have so
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by dangerwill 2y ago
I think some of the consternation we see from the anti LLM crowd (of which I'm one) is this line of reasoning. These LLMs produce fine code when the code you are asking for is in its training set. So they can be better than a mid level
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by dangerwill 2y ago
Oh I did not know that this had happened. That actually does resolve a fair bit of my worry. Thanks!!
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by dangerwill 2y ago
I have to ask, how do you not sound like ~6500 coins jingling together as you walk? I notice when I have like 10 coins in a backpack. Do you wrap bundles of coins in cellophane or something?
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by dangerwill 2y ago
You slapped together a wrapper around an LLM and are expecting to be able to charge $7 a month for it? Why? "Personalized care instructions" - An LLM responding in a seemingly personalized way but with generic instructions is the
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by dangerwill 2y ago
Given that hn is the forum of yc, I think we should not feel comfortable with it's trajectory even if dang does a great job moderating. Garry Tan is in the ceo chair here and he is currently advocating for a purge of the homeless, demo
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by dangerwill 2y ago
Very interesting idea but I have to say that those goals are not possible with a simple OS, at least by OS definitions of simple :P
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by dangerwill 2y ago
A pet peeve of mine is when projects get named after proper nouns from fiction for no reason. A holocron is essentially an encrypted book where you need the force to decrypt it. How does that relate to leader elections? It doesn't, it&
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by dangerwill 2y ago
My bet for the real reason for this is that it has been widely reported that Twitter artificially boosts Elon's account specifically. Many people noticed when they did this that his posts showed up in their feeds despite them not follo

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