myrmidon

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by myrmidon 6d ago
Sure, but do you actually do this every weekend? I mean obviously there are people that consume a lot more movie entertainment than the average, but I'm personally getting nowhere close to 70 seasons per year. Bingewatching occasiona
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by myrmidon 6d ago
It's an arab loan word for ~"price list" (originally strongly suggesting an import-duty-like meaning). The same word exists in e.g. German or Italian, but mostly just means "pricing scheme" there, like in the articl
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by myrmidon 6d ago
Buying breaking bad on DVD is <3 months of netflix subscription (no ads). So if you watch <2 seasons per month on average, you already come out ahead, and this is assuming only a single subscription. People tend to wastly overpay for
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by myrmidon 6d ago
Sadly there is no realistic approach to get there (even assuming fantasy-levels of technology). Chemical rockets are currently the only thing that allow sustaining such accelerations briefly for human-size payloads, but the low exhaust velo
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by myrmidon 8d ago
Just replace the model with a human student. "Training" on textbooks => fine "Training" with unpublished notes from another professor, then publishing something on that exact topic with a similar approach without givi
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by myrmidon 8d ago
Depending on the education/age of new recruits, you might not have seen much of the, younger, lower scored cohort, because the sharp performance drop only really started after 2018 (so the oldest affected people are around 22).
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by myrmidon 9d ago
Modems becoming super cheap is gonna be a big problem for this, because those make it even harder to prevent such snooping. Just imagine having to jam the devices in your own home just to stop them from profiling you. Better pray to your de
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by myrmidon 9d ago
There is a comparison with "zstd -19" on the Silesia corpus, showing better compression ratio for bzip3 (47.2 vs 53MB) while being ~5 times faster (and using only half the memory). Even if the examples are highly cherry-picked, it
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by myrmidon 9d ago
There is no way shipping alone explains the difference. I would suspect the majority comes from higher (VAT) tax level; possibly also some indirect overhead because Europe is a more segmented market, and needs a bunch of localization at the
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by myrmidon 9d ago
Not counting China (and South Korea) because they joined the "industrialized" club much later than the rest, but so far it is looking good, and I'm somewhat hopeful because their demographics make war an increasingly risky pr
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by myrmidon 9d ago
My view is that France tried to hold on to Indochina unjustifiably for almost a decade after WW2. So they get the blame because the US could have hardly escalated a proxy war without proxies. Not saying America is blameless though, but I do
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by myrmidon 9d ago
There were leaks before the Manhattan project even concluded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs Sure, non-US nuclear arms would have most certainly happpened either way, but exfiltration did presumably at least
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by myrmidon 9d ago
With all due respect, but I'm not letting some newfangled comic taint/monopolize a perfectly usable name that's been used to describe many-headed-thing (water snake) for over two millennia.
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by myrmidon 9d ago
I'd argue the US only got dragged into lots of conflicts because of its role as de-facto global hegemon. A lot of wars it did not really start; if you blame the US for Vietnam (instead of the french), you also have to count South Osset
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by myrmidon 12d ago
Why? I feel it kinda implies what the approach is. Could definitely be worse, strongly prefer this over just giving the thing a random-ass name like Laguna.
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by myrmidon 12d ago
Any externalized cost that you tolerate as regulator is already an indirect form of subsidy in my view. E.g. allowing a mining company to dump tailings in the next river is exactly the same as paying for proper disposal with tax money (from
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by myrmidon 12d ago
Diesel for agricultural use is subsidised almost everywhere in the west to some degree. France removed taxes on non-road diesel this year and paid per-liter-subsidies on top. Keeping independent local agriculture is quite existential for an
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by myrmidon 12d ago
Agreed. Interesting fact: If you price CO2 at <$100/ton and assume that (ballpark) 2000 Gt of emissions (starting now) already lead to very severe consequences (this is quite generous), then you are pricing "somewhat intact cli
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by myrmidon 12d ago
Is there any reason to assume they are not doing the same (ingesting books that they hold no rights to into training data)? From the copyright holders point of view, it is simply much easier to prosecute western companies.
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by myrmidon 12d ago
> You can fix companies by voting a government too Indirectly only. This is typically also always too late; instead of doing "the right thing" in the first place, companies are disincentivized by regulation from doing "bad
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by myrmidon 12d ago
I understand the sentiment, but your government you can actually fix by voting. If Apple (or another large international company) suffers from decreasing margins, gets a new CEO and decides to turn the data it sits on into money there is ab
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by myrmidon 12d ago
It's "move fast and break things" in action. But Anthropic alone paid >$1bn for copyright violations, so they did not just get away with it. These hacking cases are more difficult, because from a legal perspective there
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by myrmidon 12d ago
Julia is really fun to use, and I think they are onto something with the type system: Complex types interact much better across module boundaries than in most other languages; here's a good talk on this by one of the creators: https:&
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by myrmidon 14d ago
There is a big difference between some sports association being greedy/unethical and elected officials abusing their position of power (especially when they sit in the highest positions and there are zero consequences).
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by myrmidon 14d ago
The EU comission is not directly elected, what else is the AI supposed to reply here? Comparisons between Chinese and western media control/censorship always strike me as somewhat ridiculous; This is like comparing Guantanamo Bay with
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by myrmidon 15d ago
> so all you need is for paying clients to not be motivated to redistribute the chapters in an organised way This is exactly what copyright is . I agree that you could work around this in a world without copyright (e.g. by watermarkin
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by myrmidon 15d ago
Gravitational binding energy is too large. Project sundial was ~10Gt of TNT, but dispersing Pluto would require a billion times that (~5E27J).
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by myrmidon 15d ago
The more successful "self published" authors writing web novels make significant money from patreon (>$20k/month); this relies on copyright protection (but interestingly, just a few months would be sufficient for that busi
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by myrmidon 21d ago
Those numbers sound insane to me. This is almost half a roll per day, for a single person? Can any average american or german person comment on how this actually works? Do you wipe like 15 times per visit, or is it just a very high amount (
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by myrmidon 21d ago
German law forces you to provide address/contact info on any commercial website (just running ads qualifies). But this is often "abused" by lawyers to basically send cease-and-desist letters to small websites that don't

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