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by frontfor 22d ago
The article reads like work of a crackpot. There’s a reason why maths is done the way it is, and intimidating people is definitely not the motivation.
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by frontfor 1mo ago
Indeed 44.1 kHz mathematically and perfectly represents sound waves within the human hearing range (by Shannon’s sampling theorem), so you’re limited by the recording and playback devices. The author failed to demonstrate an understanding o
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by frontfor 5mo ago
It’s well known that some OPEC members cheat nonetheless.
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by frontfor 6mo ago
Agreed. It’s a classic fallacy to compare rent vs mortgage on a numbers to numbers basis. It’s classic example of not accounting for the total cost of ownership.
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by frontfor 8mo ago
Agreed. Asking the AI to do a calculation isn’t the same as asking it to “prove” a mathematical statement in the usual meaning.
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by frontfor 9mo ago
To clarify, it's not "Africa and Asia". Only India, South Africa, and Zimbabwe are still using DDT actively.
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by frontfor 9mo ago
> CapEx break even is estimated 7-10 years I don’t think this is unique to wind farms.
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by frontfor 9mo ago
State control over production means instead of letting the free market decide what’s worth producing, the central planners believe they know better than the market (and the 2nd, 3rd order effects) what to produce and how to allocate and pri
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by frontfor 10mo ago
Agreed. You haven’t really won until it stops becoming noteworthy and “oh look X is using Blender!!” Nobody talks about how Linux dominates the server space anymore. Nobody talks about how “git is winning” or getting “battle tested”. These
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by frontfor 10mo ago
Exactly my thoughts. A free market tends towards specialization which makes the market more efficient and therefore more competitive. As specialization increases it becomes more critical that one chooses and specializes their career early o
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by frontfor 11mo ago
Same here. I’ve recently switched back to Fedora after a long time on Windows. There are so much less distractions on Fedora and I really hope that it stays this way forever.
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by frontfor 11mo ago
When did Apple “sue and jail ppl” for “try to look at things properly”? I’m pretty sure Apple isn’t legally allowed to jail people.
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Terence Tao: Research Powers Progress [video](youtube.com)
3 points by frontfor 1y ago|0 comments
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by frontfor 1y ago
I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt the same. There are so many edge cases to the incredibly broad and outdated classification of the world in terms of “north” (rich) and “south” (poor), the terms have lost all meaning. They don’t accoun
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by frontfor 1y ago
Why do you think you’re able to time the market? What if it keeps going up? Even if you’re right that the market eventually drops, you’ll still need to be right in timing your re-entry. It’s not as easy as it sounds.
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by frontfor 1y ago
How do you know that?
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Conway's Game of Life in APL [video](youtube.com)
1 points by frontfor 1y ago|0 comments
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by frontfor 1y ago
When 996 makes being able to afford a house easier, many people will be compelled to do it.
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by frontfor 1y ago
It doesn’t matter. From the general population point of view, whoever writes the article is the “reporter”, and “they” don’t provide the links. You can argue otherwise and it won’t change the optics.
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by frontfor 1y ago
The horrible life in Soviet Union was due to horrible governmental policies, which are not unique to authoritarian governments. Liberal governments have their fair share of bad policies.
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by frontfor 1y ago
It’s not about cynical: it’s a purely risk/reward calculation. If you talk to the police and nothing happened, you don’t gain anything. If you’re found guilty though, it turns into a massive inconvenience. There’s no positive ROI.
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by frontfor 1y ago
It might be one motivation, doesn’t mean it’s a good one as per the original comment if consumers don’t care.
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by frontfor 1y ago
Still, most consumers don’t care or notice it (we are not most consumers), so this doesn’t refute the original argument.
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by frontfor 1y ago
Manufacture domestically will result in price increases, which again hits the bottom harder than some of us here. Is this what we want?
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by frontfor 1y ago
Some might object to this analogy, but I view life like investing in an index fund. It’s a diversified bet across many aspects of life and many projects (akin to how an index fund is a diversified bet across companies, sectors, geographies)
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by frontfor 1y ago
Here’s one example, although I don’t know if this is a North Korean. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7292604...
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Jane Street's Indian Options Trade Was Too Good(bloomberg.com)
14 points by frontfor 1y ago|1 comments
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Establishing Best Practices for Building Rigorous Agentic Benchmarks(arxiv.org)
4 points by frontfor 1y ago|0 comments
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Tonal Chinese Dialects Used as a Tool of Subversion (2021) [video](blog.crackinglanguage.com)
2 points by frontfor 1y ago|0 comments
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by frontfor 1y ago
I think the analogy here is that it’s indeed easier to get any smaller piece, but it’s harder to get a specific smaller piece you want.

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