pjfin123

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by pjfin123 7mo ago
Realistically food prices need to go up to make this an attractive business for people to get into
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by pjfin123 7mo ago
I wonder if a wood powered tractor for farming would be more practical than a wood powered car for transportation
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by pjfin123 10mo ago
I've been doing more and more web dev with JQuery recently. I learned it in high school and I think most of the new JS frameworks are probably worse.
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by pjfin123 10mo ago
I'm not sure where this number comes from but McDonald's profit margins may be misleading due to their franchise and real estate based model. If you spend $10 at McDonald's that's paid to the franchise and the central Mc
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by pjfin123 1y ago
Is the allegation here that a LLM generated code that was very similar to the author's copyright protected code or that they copied the code and then tried to use AI to hide that fact?
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by pjfin123 1y ago
U.S. schools are facing a huge and permanent drop in enrollment as the fertility decline starts hitting too.
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by pjfin123 1y ago
How is $5/mo a cash grab? Psychiatrists charge more
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by pjfin123 1y ago
I couldn't get Bluetooth to work on a car ride recently, wasn't able to listen to Spotify from my phone, and had to listen to FM radio. NPR was by far the best option. Everything else was just ads and annoying disk jockeys.
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by pjfin123 1y ago
LibreOffice is still fast to start
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by pjfin123 1y ago
The Federal government making funding to a university contingent on them "reforming" specifically named departments whose foreign policy views the executive branch disagrees with (Israel/Palestine policy) seems like a clear v
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by pjfin123 2y ago
No
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by pjfin123 2y ago
Blow's talk made me realize I'm not crazy when I get frustrated about basic things being incredibly difficult. Drawing a button to the screen when you want to build a software application has become so difficult that most people j
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by pjfin123 2y ago
Copyright law needs major reform. We need to figure out a way to let authors monetize their work while not making complying with the law so burdensome. We've created a system where people who (understandably) ignore the law benefit at
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by pjfin123 2y ago
It's hard to tell if they're telling the truth about the number of GPUs they have. They open sourced the model and the inference is much more efficient than the best American models so it's not implausible that the training w
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by pjfin123 2y ago
It absolutely is. If security is standing in front of the door to the stage are they going to push past? How is security supposed to remove them from the stage without using force? It's force that's designed to make the protesters
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by pjfin123 2y ago
Disrupting a talk isn't really "peaceful". You're physically obstructing the talk and daring the conference organizers who rented the room and other participants who want to hear the talk to use force to remove you.
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by pjfin123 2y ago
> This is "never-cracked-a-history-book" levels of incorrect. Severe depressions recurred about every other decade, and practically every decade had some sort of Global Financial Crisis-esque financial meltdown. Back then, most
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by pjfin123 2y ago
Yeah I think the sites broader point is that a lot of indicators of the health of American society start trending definitively down with an inflection point around 1970. The fact that the U.S. went off the gold standard on 1971 might be rel
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by pjfin123 2y ago
I calculated historical American wages in gold terms if anyone's curious: https://github.com/argosopentech/American-Real-Wages TLDR: wages in 2025 are roughly comparable to wages in the early 80s
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by pjfin123 2y ago
An auction is a great idea. If a foreign worker is valuable enough then companies should be willing to pay up for them. Then the American People can benefit in multiple ways, we get the revenue paid into the auction, and we get the economic
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by pjfin123 2y ago
My guestimate. The whole above thread is litigating the number of people in the U.K. arrested for speech crimes. It's hard to put an exact number on it but it seems like low single digit thousands (1k-5k). The numbers from Russia are e
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by pjfin123 2y ago
How would this special court work? Can anyone including amateur scientists access it freely? Are the arguments public? What's nice about free speech is it's a simple rule, "any citizen can speak about and promote any opinion
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by pjfin123 2y ago
You were vindicated in this thread. It's insane that the U.K. is throwing thousands in people a year in jail for speech "crimes". I remember ten years ago when free speech was a sacred value in the West; as soon as non-instit
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by pjfin123 2y ago
I wouldn't trust the science on something I'm injecting into my body if it was illegal for people to disagree about it.
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by pjfin123 2y ago
This is where I'm using the CDN: https://github.com/argosopentech/argospm-index/blob/main/ind... R2 is easy to use. I think there's an API but I just manually upload files in the Cloudflare das
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by pjfin123 2y ago
Cloudflare R2 has been huge for my open source project Argos Translate. Two years ago I was getting swamped with $250/mo+ bandwidth bills for a project with minimal revenue. Now I distribute 10TB+ per month of model weights for $0. I&#
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by pjfin123 2y ago
The goal of passive investing is to participate in the stock market while not actively picking stocks. So you're already investing in stocks kind of randomly.
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by pjfin123 2y ago
> Just yesterday "the Dow Jones was up 100 points". Ok - no reference value, no percentage change: means nothing to me. This always really bugged me
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by pjfin123 2y ago
Another advantage of a price-weighted stock index is that it's easier to track with a real portfolio because they don't need to rebalance as frequently. To replicate the performance of the DJIA you just have to buy one share of ea
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by pjfin123 2y ago
Are you saying more automation or less automation would benefit people?

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