humanizersequel

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by humanizersequel 4mo ago
>He was successful in the end So it sounds like it was fine? Why would this prompt (haha) a change in their approach to things?
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by humanizersequel 6mo ago
>we have people like Thiel and Luckey misinterpreting Tolkien Could you provide an example / be more specific about this?
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by humanizersequel 7mo ago
Ok sure but in this sense it is already a rule (most people do not either prescribe these things to their kids or allow them to indulge in them) and what we're debating is how firm that rule. As it happens, I think I disagree with you.
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by humanizersequel 7mo ago
I think about this sometimes. On one hand, is it really "right" or net positive for adults to guide children into some specialized craft at a young age? Even if the kid shows some prodigal predilection (haha) for it, maybe it is t
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by humanizersequel 1y ago
I don't disagree but you're moving the goalposts. I never said that they could achieve the profits of a typical tech business, just that they could be profitable. Also, the whole distilling problem doesn't happen if the model
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by humanizersequel 1y ago
All of those expenses could be trimmed in a scenario where OpenAI or other big labs pivot to focus primarily on profitability via selling inference.
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by humanizersequel 1y ago
They're doing about a billion per month in revenue by running proprietary models on GPUs like these. Unless they're selling inference with zero/negative margin, it seems like a business model that could be made profitable ver
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by humanizersequel 1y ago
Crazy that this (random blog post with no points and zero comments) is the only discussion of a major Ethereum upgrade on here. Even if the average commenter is firmly against blockchains this is still a very interesting and impressive feat
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Software Fordism(twitter.com)
3 points by humanizersequel 2y ago|2 comments
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by humanizersequel 2y ago
Nobody is forcing you to work for Mr Beast
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
Not only is Western Union significantly less reliable and significantly more expensive, as someone who gets paid in crypto the most expensive and painful parts of my finances are those that touch the traditional banking system at all.
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
Yeah, doesn't even make sense for something like this to be decentralized, it should be run by Rolex so they can catch edge cases and correct them by fiat
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
>It is certainly possible the court will disagree with the SEC, but I wouldnt bet on it. I would (not a lot, but I would). They lost on the Grayscale trust, they lost on XRP being a security (extremely relevant here), they're seemin
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
No, you aren't, and it isn't vocal fry. Overtone singing is a distinct technique in Tuvan throat singing, and comparing it to a bandpass filter is accurate — as a whole, Tuvan throat singing is a set of techniques designed to indu
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
Are there actual perverse incentives that come with "it being married to crypto" — keep in mind that there are demonstrable positive incentives — or is it just aesthetic distaste?
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Response to Plunder and Urbit(rovnys.cataphract.us)
6 points by humanizersequel 3y ago|1 comments
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
In which Theodore Blackman, CTO of the Urbit Foundation, responds to the "Plunder and Urbit" piece that was submitted here yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37057471 ).
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
>Write once media on a server is what you want How does that solve this problem: >[company will] go out of business and take down the servers with it
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
"...I find myself consistently reaching for the blog post that clearly articulates what Urbit is and why it is important, only to continuously be frustrated by the realization that this blog post doesn’t exist. I have yet to read an ex
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An Investor's Introduction to Urbit – Part 1(deeperknowing.co)
1 points by humanizersequel 3y ago|1 comments
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
>a quick glance at their website says that it's owned by the "Tlon Corporation," Where on the website do you see this?
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A light technical description of Ares, the new Urbit runtime(urbit.org)
2 points by humanizersequel 3y ago|0 comments
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
The claim here is not that "all of mathematics is set theory", just that sets are sufficient to describe everything else. I don't know if that's correct, but it's certainly a more defensible claim.
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Lisp is an éminence grise of programming. How does Hoon compare?(urbit.org)
3 points by humanizersequel 3y ago|2 comments
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
A blogpost from the Urbit Foundation on how Urbit's native language "Hoon" compares to Lisp.
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
>In one of the (I think MIT lectures 2018) videos, btw? Gensler stated that [probably all crypto except Bitcoin, but including Ether, are moody moody most likely securities]. As recently as 2 months ago Gensler declined to say whether or
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
A bit of a heavyhanded way to put it, but one of the strengths of Ableton in my experience has been how easily you could import third-party plugins to supplement the lackluster native tooling. If you can't bounce those plugins to the P
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
"Installing new modules on an existing Cardinal binary is not possible at run-time, but we can add new modules to the build."[1] From the original release — being able to select 3rd-party plugins a la carte is probably Rack's
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
True, but a phone capable of running a chess app is essentially mandatory in the West, whereas a board + books is an extra purchase.
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by humanizersequel 3y ago
Moreover the tradeoffs that would come with an actual meaningful reduction in, say, microplastics, are drastic QOL downgrades that many people would not accept, forever chemicals be damned.

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