neffy

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by neffy 2mo ago
Because if you can just use AI, Law becomes accessible to both the rich and the poor.
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by neffy 3mo ago
Some of the Hubble results were also raising questions. At the same time, I read one of the papers on the galaxy stuff, and what struck me was they were identifying galaxy shapes by counting the pixels each galaxy had, so there are definite
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by neffy 4mo ago
Although the stock market isn´t in itself, it benefits from the second order effects of continuous money supply expansion, and long term processes progressively concentrating money into the financial system.
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by neffy 5mo ago
It is a similar kind of lending loop to that which went on during the late 1990's leading up to the 2000 crash. A lends to B lends to C lends to A. There is a famous quote from the polish economist Kalecki, that "economics is the
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by neffy 5mo ago
Time? He´s busy starting a company, taking the time to drag out decade old emails and digging out the meta data for a journalist who is borderline stalking (assuming he even has them somewhere). I wouldn´t give that the time of day either.
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by neffy 9mo ago
There are a lot of very distinctive versions of English floating around after the British Empire, Indian newspapers are particularly delightful that way - but there is as the author says, an inherited common educational system dating back t
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by neffy 10mo ago
If they optimize though - and this is coming at some point - local AI becomes possible, and their entire business case as a cloud monopoly evaporates. I think they know they're in a race between centralized control, and widespread use
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by neffy 11mo ago
Well honestly, this security person thinks its a terrible idea - but needless to say the people selling those systems disagree - and for non-technical management, it ticks the compliance box and they get back to their jobs.
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by neffy 11mo ago
And since the economist's main skill at math is fitting a very short ruler to a very large curve... i wouldn't put them ahead of lawyers...
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by neffy 11mo ago
Feedback loops. Always with the feedback loops.
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by neffy 1y ago
It´s not just the legal system. A lot of US Doctors are typically paid on a piece rate basis, and the medical records systems are extremely fragmented, so there is an incentive to order repeat tests (as you get passed around from specialist
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by neffy 1y ago
There is a fair bit of grooming going on out there on the private discord channels and similar.
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by neffy 1y ago
No, it does make sense. Most of the purported growth in government spending is just using raw figures, and not correcting for either inflation or monetary expansion. It is a convenient mistake.
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by neffy 1y ago
It´s also a lot of assumptions. This probably is an attacker - or wannabe at least. But you could be a student or researcher working on a cyber security course looking and for some projects your search flow would look a lot like this.
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by neffy 1y ago
No, it´s really not - it's exactly what they are. Multi-dimensional pattern matching machines, using massive databases put together from resources like stack overflow, Clegg's (every cheaters go to for assignment answers, massive
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by neffy 1y ago
Ok, but this happens pretty regularly on a planetary scale (at least every 110,000 years or so) - why hasn´t it been so disastrous before - say at the end of the last interglacial?
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by neffy 1y ago
When I looked into it last year, it´s still an under-acknowledged issue. The impression I formed was that it was a bit of a crapshoot - along with some bad practitioners, there didn´t seem to be much information on when and why it would or
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by neffy 1y ago
I do the same in my classes, and it´s common practice in many courses my dept which may help, as the students know what is expected of them. I don´t think it's wasting time. It motivates the students to know that they have to present i
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by neffy 1y ago
This is exactly it. Biology is making massive use of hacked real time local network communication in ways we haven´t begun to explore.
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by neffy 1y ago
Sure. Corporations commit ransomware attacks all the time.
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by neffy 1y ago
But I don´t want to "consume" more than Americans. I want to eat healthy food in reasonable quantities and maintain a sensible weight. I don´t want to own a car and drive 2 hours to work every day, and consume more car ownership -
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by neffy 1y ago
We're really not. Just the health care issues, which can be directly seen in the life expectancy figures, make us materially richer, never mind anything else. And I much prefer not needing to exercise my rights to self-defence in the f
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by neffy 2y ago
Not actually the case. The gold standard linked the expansion of the money supply to the price of gold, not the actual supply. So as the money supply expanded, every time gold was bought or sold through direct bank transfer, the price was i
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by neffy 2y ago
If that, as @acatton says. It is certainly not happening all the time. There are laws around libel and slander, which are more aimed at civility than anything else, but its rare that they make it to actual court. In Britain at least there i
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by neffy 2y ago
There are two as it happens - the other one is Eastern Russia - ethnically asian, although not Han. Notice how Putin is always present for the pacific exercises, even when one might think he had better ways to spend his time on the western
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by neffy 2y ago
Double entry book keeping implements an error correction and detection algorithm.
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by neffy 2y ago
The Basel Capital rules dominate at the moment. If that ever gets rolled back... buy gold immediately.
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by neffy 2y ago
That´s not correct unfortunately, although it has been widely taught in economics text books, and you can blame Keynes for that. Keynes used that example to try and explain the process to parliament, and also to argue that the system didn&#
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by neffy 2y ago
There was no shortage of casual mass murder before the 20th century, not infrequently perpetrated by religious orders. The Mongol invasions in the 13th century, An Lushan rebellion in China in 750, Albigensian Crusade in the 12th century...
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by neffy 2y ago
That's what they said on the tannoy at least. They also reported he made it to hospital alive so hopefully all ended well. It's not actually unknown to get altitude sickness in Denver, it is one of the things the city warns about

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