rland

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by rland 2mo ago
Yeah guess in hindsight that didn’t read as clear as it should have. The chat bot is only even correct because of obvious, authoritative, trustworthy sources like the CDC. Makes it even more enraging to see bot tech makers meeting with the
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by rland 2mo ago
It’s so unbelievably destructive. We had a kid recently and I was looking up vaccine research. Do we have to prod the kid with the Hepatitis B vaccine at birth? I looked it up and promptly said, “well, CDC actually just came out with a thin
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by rland 4y ago
Yes, but not immediately. This is how it works: 1. There are a finite number of software engineers capable of competing with FAANG. 2. You outbid outsiders. At times, talk to your friends and tell them not to gum up intra-clique recruiting.
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by rland 4y ago
Tinfoil hat: the cuts have nothing to do with market fundamentals, but are rather collusion by the big players to drop tech salaries. Bytedance is outside the clique.
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by rland 4y ago
I didn't want to seem long winded, but the market structures you describe are common to many if not most markets we have for goods and services, at least here in the US. For example: Food, agriculture, energy, media (print/radio&#
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by rland 4y ago
This is actually a great way of looking at it. Patagonia here is the exception , that's why we're all here talking about it! I didn't want to give my bit of power to my health insurer, but guess what, I have to have healthca
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by rland 4y ago
In light of recent events, the only conclusion I can arrive at is that originalism as a legal theory was a decades-long project created with the express purpose of overturning the Warren-era jurisprudence. Roe is the first salvo, but there
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by rland 4y ago
The counter-point would be the criminal legal system, which has spectacularly failed to resist the influence of injustice, and not just historically! I suppose if you have only spent time in civil proceedings (depending on the type of proce
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by rland 4y ago
It's a valid assumption to make. Most people live in suburbia, relatively few are truly rural. A little less than one in five, according to [1] [1] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2017/08/rura
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by rland 4y ago
This is how I think of this. Think of the median income of a country that you might imagine is a "nice" place to live. I found a source that lists them all (in fictitious "international dollars", not USD). So here's
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by rland 4y ago
In the case of SpaceX that person is probably actually Gwynne Shotwell.
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by rland 4y ago
Tesla wouldn't have been capitalized in the first place without Musk (and, by extension) without Musk's twitter. If anything, Musk should focus entirely on the influencing and stop making decisions about product (see [1]) -- that
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by rland 4y ago
I would like a Kerbal Space Program esque aircraft design + fly game. We already have very sophisticated dynamical models for how airplanes fly (which are deftly integrated into flight simulators) but no way of designing custom airframes. I
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by rland 4y ago
I see what you're saying, but the violin was designed for human hands.
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by rland 4y ago
Wow, I really like this line of thinking. Never thought about it from the perspective of a competitive feedback loop.
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by rland 4y ago
The hackers will not be far behind. You can run some of the v1 diffusion models on a local machine. I think it's fair to say that this is the way it's always been. In 1990, you couldn't hack on an accurate fluid simulation at
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by rland 4y ago
I think he was using those examples because they're billionaires that everyone knows. The energy/construction/resource extraction sector is very closely tied with US foreign policy.
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by rland 4y ago
Huh? There is a very long and plainly wrong string of Supreme Court decisions which stretches all the way back to the nation's founding. The courts are very good at precisely the opposite thing that you're describing. I think mo
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by rland 4y ago
I know it’s a rhetorical example, but given how stingy the copyright regime is: yes, yes they would. You maybe could manage a 20% off credit for the child’s listening rights.
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by rland 4y ago
Tether’s operators have said the token is backed by a basket of dollar-based assets equal to the size of the tokens outstanding, but it has not released granular details of these reserves Trust me, dude! Meanwhile: Stablecoin holders cou
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by rland 4y ago
We need something to invest in. Cryptocurrency is something, therefore we should invest in it.
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by rland 4y ago
The foundation of Musk's wealth, above all else, is that he operates as a one-man marketing machine. The funding for all of his ventures depends on Musk. The magnet for ravenous, loyal, intelligent nerds (and thus, the ability to event
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by rland 4y ago
Well, that's not surprising, what with all these Covid supply chain issues and all. I'm sure it'll be resolved soon.
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by rland 4y ago
I don't particularly like cryptocurrency. It's clear that the utopian vision has not panned out: these aren't currencies, they're securities. But seeing people lose their life savings is just sad. I completely understand
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by rland 4y ago
Sortition! I really do think it is the only way. Everything else gets distorted. People say, well, most people are stupid. But I'm not so sure. Juries are a sort of pseudo-sortition, and they actually fare pretty well (far better, I wo
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by rland 4y ago
In some sense, the nostalgic "factory worker buys house" thing is quite a short anomaly in (post-agriculture) human history. I think there is something of a complacency that people have about inequality. They assume that because p
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by rland 4y ago
I agree, but not only that. The "value" of real world money comes from the physical production behind it: someone, somewhere, is working against thermodynamic equilibrium, which is why when you and I have money, it's useful.
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by rland 4y ago
> While the Linux open source operating spans 15 million lines of code across 40,000 software files, Google engineers modify 15 million lines of code across 250,000 files each week. Depressing. Can you imagine the utility to the world if
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by rland 4y ago
MacOS is full of these UI "tricks" that remain undiscovered by 99% of users because they are: - not obvious - not discoverable For example: if you hold option when you click the Wifi button, you actually can view a lot of informat
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by rland 4y ago
That is a fantastic idea. I always thought it would be interesting to have a compendium of "artists' artists." Like, ask some of the most talented people in a given genre to give their recommendations. Sometimes you get this

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