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by profile53 1y ago
Did you use an LLM to write this post? The Wikipedia link is hallucinated
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by profile53 1y ago
It didn’t create a level playing field, it just discouraged a very specific type of R&D while ignoring all others. All other types of employee salaries follow certain rules and some can optionally follow R&D rules. Software is now
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by profile53 2y ago
The existing system is already corrupt so I don’t think that hypothetical is helpful here. The process by which contracts are awarded is already unfair and biased towards certain players with the right connections to get a contract written
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by profile53 2y ago
Sidestepping the corruption piece, which is a huge problem here to be clear, my understanding is that SpaceX has promised to provide starlink antennas at no cost to be used in commercial aircraft. Assuming that is true (again, a big if), th
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by profile53 2y ago
Bans from planes are already arbitrary and capricious, so I don’t think changing which arbitrary power is responsible really makes a difference here. Look at all the news articles of people ending up on the no fly list for garbage grounds.
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by profile53 2y ago
> They could do a shitty job and keep the contract, so why would they bother to do well? I think this is probably the key piece I didn’t consider. SpaceX’s previous work was done under heavy competitive pressure so they had to do good. H
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by profile53 2y ago
While I don’t like the way it is handled, I’m going to be a contrarian here and say this could be a good thing. Previously, the contract was awarded to Verizon at the same price. I have more faith in SpaceX’s ability to deliver than Verizon
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by profile53 2y ago
I’d argue digital ads kill people just via indirect means. Think of all the “dangerous” ads - fast food, alcohol, weight loss and plastic surgery, unnecessary medications, even guns. All of those things kill people over different time horiz
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by profile53 2y ago
Your product hunt link is scheduled to go live on Feb 1st, not Jan 2nd.
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by profile53 2y ago
In the USA it is public record which in practice means anyone with money can get the record. This is potentially a large part of the high US recidivism. Once you have been convicted once, most employers will see the record and refuse to hir
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by profile53 3y ago
You’re totally right … should’ve thought that one through more.
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by profile53 3y ago
Diffusion models are a different architecture, namely, a recursive or iterative one. Transformer models are not recursive or iterative.
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by profile53 3y ago
That is incorrect. Somewhere in the order of 90% of US nat gas is shale gas/fracking related. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/where-our-na...
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by profile53 3y ago
Most natural gas in the U.S. comes as a byproduct of fracking oil, which imo is worse than coal as reserve power because you have to maintain fracking sites and usually pump a fair amount of oil and briny water alongside the gas. Coal is ea
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by profile53 3y ago
Totally fair and I agree. But what about between now and eventually? Eventually renewables will be all we use and eventually fossil fuels will no longer be needed. But between now and eventually, maintaining backup capacity is necessary and
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by profile53 3y ago
I think the counter argument is that renewables are never going to replace coal/oil/gas completely as there will always be the boogey man of “what if there is no wind/sun”. Having a small amount of fossil fuel based capacity
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by profile53 3y ago
> I would suggest that relying on one power source is painting yourself into a corner and then drinking the paint. You’re aware that that is exactly what the GP poster was arguing against, right?
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by profile53 3y ago
I think that’s an energy conversion for petrol vehicles.
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by profile53 3y ago
And you probably could have said the same thing about Google 25 years ago when altavista and yahoo were around. What ended up happening was a complete dominance on web search for Google. The end result is unknown but it does appear they hav
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by profile53 3y ago
At a purely technical level, no, as long as the model can output a null token. E.g. imagine training using a transcript of two people talking. What would be a single text token is a tuple of two tokens, one per person. Each segment where a
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by profile53 3y ago
Lease is already a near perfect term for this. It describes a long term rental and everyone knows what it means.
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by profile53 3y ago
I think the interesting (and scientifically unanswered) question here is: what is the minimum amount of a neuron needed for information processing alone? If we look at the other side, the replication (giant fab facilities) and energy produc
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by profile53 3y ago
If inflation is 60% and interest is only 40 percent, wouldn’t everyone be running to the bank to get a loan and buy stuff, knowing the loan will be devalued significantly?
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by profile53 3y ago
What’s the source on this?
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by profile53 3y ago
On the other hand, 50 calories x 365 days a year x 20 years x 5,000 calories per lb of weight = 75 lb of additional weight. > Increases in activity tend to drive increases in hunger As far as I know, certain types of high intensity exerc
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by profile53 3y ago
A lot of these systems are locally hosted on hospital infrastructure to guarantee that when internet service goes out, medical records can still be accessed. And I cannot name many hospital medical devices that are Internet connected, rathe
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by profile53 3y ago
I mean it is inconsistent and there is really no way for an average American to know how much they will pay in tax at the grocery store. A prepared sandwich has tax, but sandwich ingredients do not. Depending on which side of the county lin
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by profile53 3y ago
I haven’t looked it up, but is that true on a population percentage and inflation adjusted basis?
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by profile53 3y ago
Yes but an F250 does not use leaded gas like many planes do, has much more complete and efficient combustion, and likely produces far less particulate emissions.
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by profile53 3y ago
The blanket assertion doesn’t have to be true in every case, it just has to be true on average. Because insurance companies operate on the statistics of all people. Sure, even though Dave has 173 speeding tickets in the past, he may not spe

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