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by pqtyw 2mo ago
> It's actually quite rare to find someone who says I will help the poor, but only if my neighbour also pays, otherwise they can get fucked You are seeing all of this in a very, very black and white way. It's about how much the
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
If you get this to work once rerunning it weekly seems fairly easy unless you actually need to see the data live and have perfect uptime?
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
IMHO this would make more sense if provided as part of a larger "platform" like Langfuse/Langsmith/etc. Otherwise you just end with a dozen SaaS products for highly specific use cases which might not scale that well. Rea
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
> I'm saying it can't be true most people don't want to help fund the poor if the majority are voting to tax themselves to fund the poor. Or people have a tendence to perceive a system where everyone is required to pay the
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
> have some individual incentives to develop services offered to the poor I never said that wasn't the case but historically that "some" was never sufficient. On average people are rational and selfish to a larger extent t
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
Well off people do not allocate capital in a way that's socially or economically (on a national level) optimal. So the government has to do that for them (even if those who the majority of taxes personally benefit less from that than i
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
Well that would apply to a lot of thing governments spend money on. I think the idea is that governments are better at allocating capital in certain cases (obviously one might disagree with that) than the people/companies who generate
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
Unfortunately we don't really have any premodern (i.e. operating under the same constraints) atheistic societies to compare against. Maybe its just human nature to try and rationalize the world around them? (using whatever framework th
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
How can you compare something when you can't see or measure the outcome for an undetermined amount of time?
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
In any complex organization that might take several quarters if not more, though.
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
Well in Islam the story is different and they consider the canonical New Testament gospels not very accurate. Then you have all the ancient texts here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel#Non-canonical_(apocryph... whi
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
> . I more dispute that there was actually a person named Romulus who was in almost any way related to the stories told about him or the founding of Rome. You and many Romans. I mean we have Cicero's letters where he's saying t
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
> Romans began rewriting their history and erasing their past. Which is exactly what we are talking about right now. I'm not sure that's true. Of course some some details might have been purposefully (or not) ignored or twiste
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
I think the point is that Muslim accounts of the same events are sometimes very different to those of (Nicaean)Christians. Also we do know there were many competing narratives describing the life of Christ just a few hundred years after he
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
> The idea that some random historian or politician simply convinced everyone his fiction story Not on purpose, it's just that without written history it's very easy for stories to drift very far from the historical facts. Ther
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
Interestingly we have surviving Hittite letters complaining about the Achaeans causing some trouble in the vicinity of Troy along with a guy whose name sounds very similar to Priam (although he actually seems to have been on the Greek side)
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
I personally find OpenCode's TUI atrociously awful, I guess a matter of taste.
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
> As a left-leaning forum Even if true it's almost entirely orthogonal. The "right" is usually only against government control, intervention and surveillance until they get into power. Then they double down on them. Also r
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
Well everyone pays the same for oil (unless there are export/import control and adjusted by transportation costs) worldwide. So americans will be paying 2x as well its just that some of that money will stay in the country instead of g
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
> is laughable Exactly, that's why it was obvious he was speaking implicitly. And well... EU will have to clean up others mess that they sprayed all over Europe anyway.
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
Apple's proposal was only for photos being uploaded to iCloud and not local ones. IIRC weren't there some thoughts that they'd switch iCloud to E2E but add local scanning on upload (compare to what it currently when Apple, Go
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
Unless they are doing something criminal their values are their and their voters business, regardless of how reprehensible they might be.
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
Well it's privacy from private companies. The government still needs to see everything you do just in case. Its not like you have anything to do hide? Do you?
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
Due to lack of transparency. The way the EU is structured makes it way easier for national governments to push policies under the radar and avoid any type of responsibility by deflecting any backlash to the EU (due to fundamental flaws in h
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
That's not the point. Voters generally can't vote for their preferred EU policies because they come bundled with internal policies which are obviously much more important for voters. It's a bit like with replacing senators in
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
Straw man... voters in parliamentary democracies generally are fully aware of whom the prime minister is going to be if the party wins. Nobody really knows or cares who is going to be appointed to the commission since domestic issues always
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by pqtyw 2mo ago
Are you implying Denmark and other governments supporting it are pushing Chat Control as some sort of false flag operation to undermine the EU?
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by pqtyw 3mo ago
So far seems like none of those use cases have generated meaningful income streams? The consumer/non-developer market is mostly dominated by OpenAI and Google anyway...
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by pqtyw 3mo ago
Because Microsoft managed to sell it to a huge number of companies, not directly because people are using it. Hardly anyone is paying for Grok.
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by pqtyw 3mo ago
> Twitter everyday So what? How much money is that making?

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