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by gretch 8mo ago
When enforcement is this shoddy, it’s easy to create corruption through selective enforcement. “We don’t have the resources to go after everyone, so we must prioritize” - but it turns out there’s a bias to the selection process… I believe t
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by gretch 8mo ago
> The crossword has a similar sort of unwritten rule, maybe not as strict, but really hard technical words seldom appear. Not my experience at all. Ask me how I know what an EPEE is
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by gretch 8mo ago
No evidence or supporting material, just continued insistence that the author is correct. “I can’t crawl inside your skull and prove you wrong. But this is how it works for most people, including most who insist it does not.“ Consider this
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by gretch 8mo ago
Yup make up something I didn't say to take my argument to a logical extreme so you can feel smug. "totally disregard" yeah right, that's what I said
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by gretch 8mo ago
Every other source for information, including (or maybe especially) human experts can also make mistakes or hallucinate. The reason ppl go to LLMs for medical advice is because real doctors actually fuck up each and everyday. For clear, obj
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by gretch 8mo ago
You are punished one way or the other. These scammers are parasites on society, they add nothing while draining resources away from honest people. If you participate in society, that net drag will affect you in subtle ways. Like if you have
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by gretch 8mo ago
Well I decide if it’s annoying to me and I’m going to tolerate it or lend support.
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by gretch 8mo ago
Yeah so far there's not enough nuance in the discussion. I also like to separate between 1) solvable vs unsolvable problems: e.g. you cannot solve a deceased relative. Also 2) first time vs multiple repeat problems If find it very irri
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by gretch 8mo ago
> it is a disastrously poor use of resources For it to be a poor use of resources, you have to have some goal you are optimizing against. And I think you'll come to find that the assumed goal in your head is not one that's wide
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by gretch 8mo ago
An interesting thing I learned from reading the article is that Spain is the 4th largest exporter of turbines behind only China, Germany, and Denmark. Reading the other comments, it's really a shame we can't have a discussion abou
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by gretch 8mo ago
> our government already doesn't like the government there. Well yeah but we could drop even more bombs than we would have
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by gretch 8mo ago
You don’t see them as experiments because they succeeded and are now just seen as “normal”.
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by gretch 8mo ago
I’ve seen it personally in San Jose. Guy turned left but instead of continuing onto the crossing road, he turned onto the VTA rails in the middle of the road. Then proceeded to get stuck on the concrete partition once the intersection was o
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by gretch 8mo ago
Pretty sure this is a form of ad fraud and the people who paid for those ads would be really mad at you e.g. if it were a CPC campaign
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by gretch 9mo ago
> And do you wonder why do you have to go so far back? I'm wondering why you don't think they count.
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by gretch 9mo ago
You made the exact point of the parent comment. Everyone remembers the bad ones only. What about Germany and Japan after WWII? What about South Korea?
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by gretch 9mo ago
I'm not the parent commenter, but here's one: https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/09/americas/venezuela-election-r... and you can google similar keywords from a variety of sources - many dispute the in
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by gretch 9mo ago
The running red lights thing is crazy. I think at it's height, I would maybe see 3 people do this in a single 20 minute drive. And not like running a late yellow, but a full on my-light-is-green-and-there's-a-guy-in-front-of-me-si
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by gretch 9mo ago
Well I can list some things which are completely irrelevant (happens even in online ads despite the advancements). I got an offer for life insurance for US veterans - I’m not a US veteran so this has nothing to do with me. I got an ad for w
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by gretch 10mo ago
If you’re interested in the subject and want to read more, the concept is commonly called “outcome oriented” vs “process oriented”. A LOT of workplace conflict arises out of outcome oriented ppl having to work with process oriented people.
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by gretch 10mo ago
>The building and electrical infrastructure are far cheaper than the hardware. Maybe it's cheaper if we measure by dollars or something, but at the same time we lack the political will to actually do it without something like AI on
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by gretch 10mo ago
Well you still get the establishment of 1) large industrial buildings 2) water/electricity distribution 3) trained employees who know how to manage a data center Even if all of the GPUs inside burn out and you want to put something els
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by gretch 10mo ago
Maybe, but Tokyo, despite being literally tokyo with tokyo's politicians and tokyo's transit system has allowed Waymo to come in: https://waymo.com/waymo-in-japan/ So I guess it's still pretty valuable
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by gretch 10mo ago
If you buy ETFs, you basically hold some stocks you don't want. For example, stock from war profiteering companies (lockheed, raytheon). Note that investing in war profiteers is a proven way to build wealth. I just don't want to d
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by gretch 10mo ago
they are free to do that - simply don't sell your game on steam
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by gretch 10mo ago
Or how the iphone 4 antenna was obstructed by normal holding of the phone (including poses in apple marketing materials), and then steve just told everyone they were holding their phones wrong.
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by gretch 10mo ago
Given enough time, hashes are reversible via brute force. If the attacker steals the entire password table undetected, they have a large amount of time to generate soft collisions. After all they don’t need to hack any particular account, j
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by gretch 11mo ago
Why does it matter if everyone else knows or cares? If you were actually the guys from the big short and you have strong conviction, you should short the market (literally like the guys from big short) and get really rich. Money is the lang
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by gretch 11mo ago
All of those people have already pass through a filter of self-selection There's a person out there that's 1) knows how to bake amazing cookies 2) has no desire to record tik toks Why is that you need both of those things combined
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by gretch 11mo ago
Looks like it’s been verified as true now. So it’s safe to ago ahead and short it. Remember it trades under GOOG

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