millimeterman

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by millimeterman 2y ago
Start with Praxeology (the methodology of Austrian economics). "Start with a fringe ideology that explicitly rejects empirical evidence" is not exactly a good start. The simple axiom that all preferences are subjec
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by millimeterman 2y ago
I half agree. While I respect Pope's artistic vision and the work that went into the aesthetic, I personally found it headache-inducing to actually look at. Especially with how much of the game is about gleaning clues from the environm
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by millimeterman 2y ago
Void definitely exists in ML. —- Haskell data Void (* Standard ML *) datatype void = Void of void
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by millimeterman 3y ago
The government is using tax money to fund the creation of consumer products, while consumers vote with their wallets that they don't want those products. Doesn't sound very democratic to me.
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by millimeterman 3y ago
That kind of "stability" is more accurately described as stagnation. It may protect workers in a narrow sense, but it also disincentivizes the kind of productive risk-taking that leads to business creation, innovation and overall
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by millimeterman 3y ago
I may have misunderstood your earlier comment as a claim that minimum size laws are beneficial and should be maintained. If I understand correctly now, your argument is that minimum size laws are not currently a bottleneck for building den
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by millimeterman 3y ago
Minimum unit sizes necessarily increase the price of housing and lower supply - there's no free lunch. Small apartments suck, sure, but you have to ask yourself whether it's a good idea to ban them and thus force everyone to pay m
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by millimeterman 3y ago
That strikes me as a fairly modern thing. I imagine that weevils and/or rocks in flour was a common issue just a few generations ago (or, in many countries, to this day).
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by millimeterman 3y ago
In the very long term, yes a large plot of land in a densely-constructed city would be extremely valuable. In the short and medium-term though, the downward price pressure of increased supply outweighs the upward price pressure of amenity e
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by millimeterman 3y ago
> We have had local regulations and NIMBY groups forestall new construction/denser housing, but the state pushed through legislation to forcibly override those local blockers. Incentives should now be aligned for builders to build,
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by millimeterman 3y ago
California's permission of converting single-family zoned land into multifamily housing is in name only. It can only be done by owner occupiers - not by developers who want to buy land and build on it. Which basically never happens.
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by millimeterman 3y ago
The strong scientific consensus is that saturated fats are worse for you than unsaturated fats. The idea that saturated fats are better than unsaturated fats is a small minority opinion. It's all the rage with wellness influencer types
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by millimeterman 3y ago
I suspect the community will start creating lower precision/quantized versions of the model very quickly. LLaMa 30b quantized to 4 bits is runnable on a 3090/4090.
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by millimeterman 3y ago
> I'm happy to hear about your self control. Actually, my self control is really quite bad. I'm terrible at doing difficult or unpleasant things and am very prone to low-effort, self-destructive hedonism. But as a result I have
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by millimeterman 3y ago
> I've encountered several people here claiming that stimulants don't get you high and that they aren't addictive. Just because stimulants _can_ get you high and be addictive doesn't mean they will when taken appropri
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by millimeterman 3y ago
Stimulant addiction is certainly real, but addiction recovery groups are obviously going to self-select for people that have/had a problem. The reality is that there are millions of people who take ADHD medicine at therapeutic doses (w
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by millimeterman 3y ago
Talk is cheap - actions are what reveal true preferences. The fact that Teams is so widely used despite it being slow garbage indicates that people actually don't care (enough to overcome whatever benefits they see in Teams).
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by millimeterman 3y ago
My uninformed speculation is that this might be an artifact of the embedding layer (e.g. CLIP), not the image training data. Presumably, the dataset for training the embedding layer (which is trained separately and then fixed) is not stripp
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by millimeterman 3y ago
In my experience ADHD medicine doesn't actually induce weight loss, despite weight loss being a desirable thing for me. It suppresses your appetite, sure, but it doesn't shield you from the effects of not eating all day. I often f
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by millimeterman 3y ago
Sorry, I imagine you posted this before my edit. I don't think this marketing video contradicts my point at all. For Microsoft to commit a large amount of dev time to rewriting Teams and improving its performance, there must have been
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by millimeterman 3y ago
I know of mid-size organizations where everyone up to the very top complains at length about Teams being slow and buggy. But they still use it, because it's cheap and doesn't actively hinder work getting done. I don't think i
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by millimeterman 3y ago
I think the boring but true answer is simply that no one cares. Users don't care because Teams still basically functions and the performance problems are at most a minor inconvenience. As a result, organizations don't care because
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by millimeterman 4y ago
I wonder what "economically conservative" means here. Usually I would expect someone economically conservative to be against government intervention and prefer market-oriented solutions to problems, but the people you're talk
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by millimeterman 4y ago
It's not, but I didn't say it was. Plus the reasons that "the left" opposes housing are generally quite different than the reasons "the right" opposes housing.
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by millimeterman 4y ago
Directly? No. But indirectly? Yes. The rampancy of NIMBY, PHIMBY, and "anti-gentrification" attitudes leads to decreased construction, increased housing prices, and the enrichment of (existing) landlords at the expense of tenants.
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by millimeterman 4y ago
By what mechanism would (2) make housing cheaper?
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by millimeterman 4y ago
Not when US immigration policy is so restrictive and hostile. We are actively preventing our own prosperity in the pursuit of protectionism.
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by millimeterman 4y ago
It's worth noting that while Houston does not have zoning in the strict sense (e.g. assigning land to be commercial only or single family home only), it does still have quite a few harmful restrictions on land use such as parking minim
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by millimeterman 4y ago
I'm disappointed they didn't push parameter count higher, but I suppose they want to maintain the ability to run on older/lower end consumer GPUs. Unfortunately it severely limits how high-quality the output can be.
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by millimeterman 4y ago
What exactly do you think is degrowth? Allowing construction of dense, walkable cities would likely dramatically _increase_ economic growth in the US.

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