esalman

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by esalman 3d ago
Even normies are anti-flock, along with lots of tech savvy people who care about privacy. These are dark days, but Flock and data centers are a couple of things that actually bring people together and take a united stand against something.
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by esalman 4d ago
I'd blame it on liquidity trap. Technology team decided to keep money instead of using it to fix the issue.
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by esalman 4d ago
This was a nice refresh of my economies classes.
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by esalman 5d ago
You don't need to take everyone's vote to influence an election. Look at the data. Most elections are decided by a small percentage of swing votes. With appropriate amount of data and resources (i.e. money) it is possible to swing
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by esalman 6d ago
If these were mere ideas we wouldn't have a problem. On a given day anyone can come up with worse ideas. What makes us separate from animals and thrive as a civilization is that majority of us do not act on our intrusive ideas without
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by esalman 6d ago
Let's be honest, someone hacked Anthropic to build biological weapons. They could easily use a Chinese model but they didn't.
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by esalman 6d ago
Quotes from the man himself: On Democracy and Freedom: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" On Competition: "Competition is for losers" On Technology and Control: "One of the things I like
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by esalman 6d ago
Hard to elect better leaders when you do not have multiple billions of dollars to spend.
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by esalman 8d ago
I work in catastrophe risk modeling and it's a multi billion dollar industry. We often chat where the business might be heading in future. An uncomfortable scenario is what if a frontier tech company decides to offer our customers the
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by esalman 9d ago
I think a more apt analogy is iPhone. You pay Apple for a brand new one, they make more money when you make in-app purchases. Another really important issue is depreciation. You own the car for a few year and eat a cost of depreciation, and
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by esalman 11d ago
He just bombed civilians in the middle east. Current administration is both bombing civilians in the middle east and stealing from civilians in the US.
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by esalman 11d ago
That's what the linked article is talking about. Training for extreme failure. Sure you have self driving cars and everything that make you more and more disconnected, but still highways more dangerous to drive whenever there is a stor
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by esalman 12d ago
The most controversial one I can think of is a school shooting simulator. But I doubt it's live now. Even if there are dark games, they are meant to be parody/satire. Certainly not done in the same spirit what the white house is d
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by esalman 12d ago
Well friend, the current political climate in America might be unprecedented, but is not unique. As someone who lived under a mix of military, monarchy, psudo-democratic and democratic governments for first 30 years of my life, I've se
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by esalman 12d ago
These games are toxic and dark, and would be moderated on a marketplace like Steam. And Steam has fair share of dark games.
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by esalman 12d ago
I see them in many gas stations in SoCal. Irony is unlike this administration, the previous one didn't have much to do with fuel demand spike in first summer after COVID lockdowns.
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by esalman 13d ago
If you let them develop critical thinking skills, it'll actually be easier to reach them.
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by esalman 13d ago
> AI is our best shot at a post-scarcity society Whenever I hear AI (or a token predictor in its current form) will solve some universal problem like hunger etc., a picture comes to my mind. . It's a picture of a mom breaking bricks
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by esalman 13d ago
Incorrect. Ninth circuit ruled in favor of Nevada State, but earlier this year third circuit ruled in favor of Kalshi. So it's going to the Supreme Court. All of the above is completely independent from what Congress can or cannot do.
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by esalman 13d ago
> Keeping younger students away from computers is dumb No. There's proven research that shows reading a book or writing with a pen or pencil is much more stimulating and beneficial compared to looking at a screen or tapping/typ
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by esalman 13d ago
Sports gambling is controlled by FTC in the US. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket found a loophole where they can run gambling operations under CFTC and and not be controlled by FTC. There needs to be some legislative actions fr
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by esalman 14d ago
Not necessarily. The article I linked reported that the white blood cell DNA of the child did not contain Y chromosome. That's different than conducting a survey.
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by esalman 15d ago
Yeah.
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by esalman 15d ago
> it does not matter if Jesus did in fact born from a virgin mother, it is not repeatable, and therefore not scientific https://www.newscientist.com/article/1837276-the-boy-whose-b...
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by esalman 16d ago
Exactly my thoughts. There are people out there claiming code itself has become disposable, and maintenance and refactoring are cheap now. Which escapes the fact that a. all these are heavily subsidized now and unsustainable in the long run
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by esalman 16d ago
He's done the math- this kind of moves is exactly what retains support from 30% of the US population - enough to sway elections.
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by esalman 16d ago
Tariff has already proven to be a bad thing. Prices have increased due to tariff. Government lost a case and refunded money to corporations. Consumers got nothing. Tariff induced inflation has caused volatility in the bond market. I was for
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by esalman 16d ago
I see it's changed in Google maps. Really lame from Google.
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by esalman 16d ago
I respected Terence Tao but since listening to his "Mathematics in the age of AI" talk, I've become a fan. I have had nobody else explain so succinctly what is the purpose of Mathematical research, why it matters, and why it
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by esalman 16d ago
There was a period in time, few years ago, when I was going back and forth between Firefox and Chrome, driven by alternate paranoia about privacy vs performance. These days I don't really have to. Firefox on Android, at least for the p

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