ordinaryradical

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by ordinaryradical 3mo ago
Seconding this comment. I would love to read a write-up about your experience and how you’ve been trying to work on solutions for yourself. Stories like these are valuable to the field and inspiring to other folks dealing with a tough diagn
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by ordinaryradical 3mo ago
CRISPR is an extremely overhyped approach which found a marketing engine via popular science. There is 1 FDA approved CRISPR therapy as compared to 7 for AAV and 7 for Lentivirus. Counting all viral vector therapies that have been approved,
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by ordinaryradical 3mo ago
> Placing a landmine anywhere is essentially the same as firing a bullet blindly through time. Beautifully said and truly clarifies how evil of a weapon they are. With that said, are these drones paradoxically more ethical because their
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by ordinaryradical 4mo ago
Describing the pope’s proposals as progressive and anti-money laundering laws as the antichrist… this is like a parody of the most blinders-on kind of libertarianism. For those of you playing at home, you can definitely have multi-lateral a
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by ordinaryradical 4mo ago
I think they will literally do anything to prevent the embarrassment / incarceration of the wealthy.
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by ordinaryradical 5mo ago
It feels like the market is full Wiley Coyote on frontier model makers, and I like Anthropic's B2B business model. But all progress points to a commodification of foundation models--Google first named it as "we have no moat, nei
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by ordinaryradical 5mo ago
You're saying it was a turning point for you to get more embedded with them? Way to be killer robot positive, I guess...
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by ordinaryradical 5mo ago
Christian orthodoxy begins with the assertion you cannot ever work hard enough to be made right with God but that your value is imputed by Christ’s death and never once earned. See also: the imago dei. What you’re describing is not “C
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by ordinaryradical 6mo ago
> Robin Hanson, the economist who’s commonly known as the godfather of modern prediction markets, thinks that using inside information to place bets like this is actually necessary for these markets to work—making “insider trading” a fea
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by ordinaryradical 6mo ago
This comment may or may not be wrong but it is quintessentially low effort. The point of HN is to discuss, not to tweet about your political enemies.
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by ordinaryradical 7mo ago
This is going to be remembered as a comical fumble, in my view. I was fully locked-in to the ecosystem, the phone, the services, the TV, and I am looking for the exits. I’m starting to parallelize to software which will play well on Linux
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by ordinaryradical 8mo ago
The problem with prediction markets is not purely insiders but that they interface with the real world, so they encourage bettors not just to predict an outcome but to bring it into being. You are a poorly paid Russian commander. You open a
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by ordinaryradical 9mo ago
An all-powerful uniparty can do things like this: - deport or jail you without due process - ignore the law in service of its own ends - punish its enemies, pardon its allies - ignore the constitution - install loyalis
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by ordinaryradical 9mo ago
Corruption is not merely something someone in power enacts in their choices; it is a rot that eats out the society from the inside. As individuals realize that nakedly appeasing the autocrat wins favor, they voluntarily corrupt themselves a
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by ordinaryradical 9mo ago
Agree. If you find yourself sympathetic to Flock, you should ask yourself: do we have a right to any kind of privacy in a public space or is public space by definition a denial of any sort of privacy? This is the inherent premise in this te
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by ordinaryradical 9mo ago
Of course it is in their interest. The problem is that Russia only knows how to bully, oppress, or violently interfere with their neighbors. You cannot get along with a tiger who only regards you as a meal.
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by ordinaryradical 10mo ago
This comment is clever but adds literally nothing to the discussion. It had no spirit of curiosity, just contempt.
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by ordinaryradical 10mo ago
I think this has somewhat strawmanned “servant leadership,” which is more about humility in posture than purely intercepting annoyances and blockers, but nevertheless the conclusions are solid.
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by ordinaryradical 10mo ago
Where can I read about this?
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
AGI is the new Marxism—a utopian dream unmoored from reality, which does not account for the nature of people, economics, states, or even nature itself. A fantasy society that will never come to pass but, if attempted by fanatics, will prob
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
I think this kind of low-effort, “religion bad haha” take is not really worthy of HN. I’d rather read a meaningful comment about the value of an institution trying to sway people’s beliefs versus a machine, just as sharp a critique even, bu
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
I think you’re thinking of TigerBeetle, not Clickhouse, which is a quite performant db with a fascinating simulation-tested story and proof of performance / safety.
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
I think you’re right on Kimmel while being wrong about TFA. The president does not get to dictate broadcasting licenses on the basis of whether or not they criticize him but ABC is not required to platform Kimmel. (I think it’s a bad move t
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
Their speech was never in jeopardy, they just didn’t like its consequences. And now that they have the upper hand they will try to actively impose the same restrictions which they accused others of placing on them. Victimhood distorts reali
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
Built a single file config with this after watching Sylvan Franklin and TJ DeVries a bit on YouTube and it has been great. Config junkies may need something more, but for a minimalist (and is minimalism not the essence of neovim?) it’s love
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
I have the Remarkable 2 and my only gripe is being unable to use a mechanical keyboard with it. In every other regard it is truly a delight, perhaps even a perfection of certain modes of thinking.
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
I think that’s overanalyzing where this comment is coming from. At the level of something like spam or cheating, it’s not really a matter of opinion whether or not someone is participating in good faith. Someone who’s only ever one email ad
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
This has to be one of my favorite hacking articles I’ve read on HN. The analysis, concept, and execution :chefskiss:
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
There are hundreds of years of art already in the public domain and society is not “universally thriving?” Why would adding a couple more recent years change that? Seems very utopian magic thinking to me.
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
Why does the company get to keep on existing? Why are its owners not financially annihilated (as in, all their assets seized, etc.)? It seems to me that if the end result of exploiting a million families/individuals for cartel rents is

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