erentz

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by erentz 28d ago
> An engineer checked progress twice a day and reviewed every proposed change. It doesn’t sound like that much changed. If one engineer can really review all the changes in under two weeks, the original estimate of 5 years of engineering
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by erentz 1mo ago
I think the genesis was the Panama papers release way back. Turns out the US is one of the better places to launder money through. I don’t understand though: Why would any company find it difficult to register their owners? That seems like
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by erentz 1mo ago
This all feels like when Enron started talking about making a market for trading /bandwidth/.
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by erentz 2mo ago
See: “benefits in terms of capital spending + the few ongoing jobs created”
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by erentz 2mo ago
> There IS value being created, or people wouldn't use the tools. But for who and where is it realized? Ireland’s massive data centers aren’t there to serve Ireland’s tiny population. The value is exported overseas and profits reali
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by erentz 2mo ago
> Americans really do get screwed in so many ways. Absolutely. I assumed the parent was talking about the US because that's the only place in the world I've encountered this.
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by erentz 2mo ago
It’s not your property they care about. They usually want this because it includes liability insurance if you damage their property or someone else’s, or your negligence causes harm to someone.
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by erentz 3mo ago
What is the rationale for going to the trouble of such a law but only banning sale, rather than all sharing?
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by erentz 3mo ago
What makes it giving up sovereignty? I understand it creates the potential for separation in future but not yet. The devolution of Scotland and Wales happened peacefully a couple(?) of years later, and Scotland may also separate in future.
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by erentz 3mo ago
How can we know the IRA “won”? The country changed a hell of a lot over the course of the Troubles and by the time of the GFA in 1998 I don’t see how it is so clear that the reforms wouldn’t have also been achieved via other peaceful and de
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by erentz 3mo ago
You’re extremely confident about this just based on your experience of it not happening to you. It’s good that it hasn’t driven you into a house but that doesn’t mean it can’t fail in a way that does drive someone else into a house.
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by erentz 3mo ago
Your example would call more to create an "information technology" subject in schools, that updates its curriculum to include changes like the development of AI. Thus, you go to that class, some of your coursework in the year is g
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by erentz 3mo ago
It’s a tax. So the government wouldn’t be buying anything. OpenAI (for example) would need to issue 100% new shares and give them to the government to hold in this new sovereign wealth fund. This the new sovereign wealth fund holds 50% of t
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by erentz 3mo ago
This would be an incredible $1,800 from each taxpayer sent overseas to the Iranian regime. On top of what’s already been spent and the inflation caused. In any other time in history just this alone (ignoring all the other scandals) would le
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by erentz 4mo ago
It looks like when you sum up: the cost to generate information using an LLM + the cost to actually verify the information, the result on average is the same as not using the LLM. That does not mean some times it isn’t faster and cheaper. I
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by erentz 4mo ago
NZ is even worse than Australia on the housing tax vs shares tax front. No housing taxes. Yet they have what is effectively an annual wealth tax on shares (FIF) even on their pitiful retirement savings schemes. This discourages saving in sh
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by erentz 4mo ago
But now even this is just producing more information and requires more work both of you and of the original sender.
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by erentz 4mo ago
Seems AI has made it cheap to produce information but now you have to spend more time parsing the information. And it’s now the less competent/useful people spending less time producing more information with the more useful people spen
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by erentz 5mo ago
> What I remember most about the 90s was the overwhelming optimism. To me it felt we were slowly making the world better for all. Progress was happening and would continue to happen. Now it feels like we are rapidly on the path to a dyst
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by erentz 5mo ago
This is where the media (or your media bubble) failed you. Trump was always this way. In his first term he significantly increased the amount of bombs dropped and number of countries bombed over previous presidents.
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by erentz 5mo ago
Democrats shouldn’t have wasted effort on trying to reduce student loans simply because the constituency (students) didn’t even give them recognition for it. They simply blamed Biden when SCOTUS blocked it. But more generally we shouldn’t d
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by erentz 5mo ago
> our politicians seem entirely unwilling to do anything about colossal expenditures on this "expedition" Not all politicians. Most democrats have tried to do something about it with the help of just one republican. They aren&#
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by erentz 5mo ago
The way AI is being used feels like it is proving that, in many orgs, what has always mattered has been the appearance of work, not results of work. Will we wake up in a few years and find out we’ve fired all the doers and are now overloade
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by erentz 5mo ago
Be warned though that life and disability insurance will absolutely use errors in your medical records to refuse your coverage or claims.
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by erentz 5mo ago
I rely on Medicare as a disabled person. I love it. The reduction in stress I experienced when I got to transition from my former employer plan to Medicare is pretty indescribable. I want every American to have at least this as a baseline.
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by erentz 6mo ago
> Website operator: I do not care about serving UK citizens and am now blocking UK IP addresses. Thank you for notifying us. Wait did 4chan actually block UK addresses? My understanding was it hadn’t which makes your story fall apart. Th
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by erentz 6mo ago
In the original example the Parisian bars sells and sends the alcohol. You’ve modified that to introduce a proxy, DoorDash, that now sells and sends the alcohol. If DoorDash sells it they’re the ones in trouble in your example.
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by erentz 6mo ago
If that were true why is everyone so irritated by this? Just ignore it in that case. But for those people that may want to become subject to British jurisdiction in future or do other business there in future, they will take requests from O
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by erentz 6mo ago
The Parisian bars are the ones writing the address on the package not the courier.
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by erentz 6mo ago
Why should it be done that way? If a country has media or broadcast standards laws, and you distribute or broadcast content in that country that violates those laws, that’s on you. The country can just fine you if you chose not to comply. J

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