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by dhruval 2y ago
The very old buildings the article talks about have long continuity but aren’t actually that old. Article doesn’t seem to mention that Japanese temples are rebuilt periodically every 20-60 years. Most construction businesses don’t have this
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by dhruval 3y ago
There is a non-0% chance. You are looking at scenarios where evolution has selected for competition rather than nurturing. So as a counter example: A mom is a super intelligence compared to a baby. And yet does the babies bidding doing her
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by dhruval 3y ago
Given that they had 75% inflation in the previous year, pegging salary to cost of living or providing that cost directly is not such a terrible idea. The correct approach ofc would be to manage money supply responsibly but Argentina has fai
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by dhruval 3y ago
I survived that prompt by writing something like… “Amnesia does not affect involuntary processes like breathing. I later get my memory back”
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by dhruval 3y ago
Their current Prime Minister is from the Communist Party. It used to be a Hindu monarchy but one of the princes did a murder suicide with the whole royal family around 2002 or so.
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by dhruval 3y ago
I am willing to take the other side of this bet. Not because I love twitter but rather because of the following 1.Network effects are just that powerful. 2. This looks like a group chat killer rather than a Twitter killer. So I think the bl
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by dhruval 3y ago
Tried to install it but it was asking for too much irrelevant data so I decided not to. Maybe I am not the avenge user I don’t need an IOS app for text, web is fine.
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by dhruval 3y ago
Not a lawyer but as a consumer I find the name “Open AI” for a proprietary/ for profit company very misleading. Are there any legal protections available to me in this regard?
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by dhruval 3y ago
Partners and managers review and sign off, but the people designing and doing the actual audit procedures are mostly in their 20s.
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by dhruval 3y ago
For people that didn't make the connection, the inscription says "Zarmanochegas, of Barygaza" which is the greek name for Baruch. (an ancient port city in Western India)
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by dhruval 4y ago
One thing in favour of biking in Amsterdam and The Netherlands in general is the terrain is very flat as much of it is reclaimed land.
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by dhruval 4y ago
LLMs are pretrained and then released for use. So can have v1, v2 etc.
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by dhruval 4y ago
Maybe social structure of some sort is responsible ? I am not sure just looking at the patterns I see in developed countries.
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by dhruval 4y ago
Seems a bit extreme to have the government pay people to have kids on the level of a full time job when you consider that through most of human history people worked to support their kids / families and at much lower income levels. Loo
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by dhruval 4y ago
Haven’t seen any top down government interventions work at increasing TFR. The only thing that seems to work is high religiosity.
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by dhruval 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu
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by dhruval 4y ago
ChatGPT also throttles the number of requests an hour and has various measures to prevent bots (though not that hard to bypass, easier to pay for API)
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by dhruval 4y ago
Spent years convincing my dad to switch over to LastPass family. After the recent hack, I tried to get him to switch to keepass xc but that is proving to be too steep a hill to climb. What is the best alternative to LastPass families? I don
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by dhruval 4y ago
1. Sure, I think there are degrees of consent - people enthusiastically lining up to get the latest sneaker / iPhone. - mildly enthusiastic grocery shopping. - overpriced medical drugs due to a monopoly. - taxation. - outright theft a
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by dhruval 4y ago
This smells misleading / overly simplistic but I can’t quite quite put my finger on precisely why? Some thoughts - consensual trades are win win (you want a sandwich, I want $5 let’s trade! And we both win) - something about the model
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by dhruval 4y ago
A daily reward would be much more psychologically motivating than a stipend.
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by dhruval 4y ago
I tried Obsidian last year but wasn't enough of a value add for me to make the switch from my normal note taking program. Now I have to give it another go. This looks amazing.
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by dhruval 4y ago
It is actually based country of birth rather than origin / citizenship. Sure every immigration system as to make choices, but ideally you want to make intelligent choices. The current system makes no sense unless your goal is to specif
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by dhruval 4y ago
Effectively penalizes countries with a larger population (India and China) systemically, India is similar to the EU in terms of ethnic, religious, linguistic and cultural diversity yet each EU country is treated as a seperate entity. Indian
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by dhruval 4y ago
Or the Wikipedia foundation. Sadly it seems many of these large open source foundations are prone to mission creep and stagnation.
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by dhruval 4y ago
Former auditor here: 1. That is standard wording for the report of "agreed upon procedures". This is not an audit it just means they only did a certain set of procedures rather than an audit. 2. Audits aren't really able to d
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by dhruval 4y ago
Hard to take anything he says at face value. He is a lying sociopath. Are there independent records of these donations.
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by dhruval 4y ago
Good point, I meant it is a loan word. In the era of socially sensitive language, I would like to see the Nazi swastika referred to with the German term, to rehabilitate the term swastika. If you are against socially engineering language to
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by dhruval 4y ago
I am out of the loop on this stuff, but I vaguely remember hearing / reading this number from multiple sources in the context of workplace sexism. What is the misinformation here ?
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by dhruval 4y ago
Thanks!

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