roenxi

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by roenxi 4d ago
> ...from a checking account. Banks ... We've got Schrodinger's money here! One minute I can go down to the bar and create as much money as I like with the bartender. Then the next we suddenly discover that yes we need a bank
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by roenxi 4d ago
> Yes. How? And what is your theory why people pay taxes from their labour earnings instead of just creating new money to pay Just-In-Time? > A lot, however, will be created through loans (new M1) Isn't M1 is currency and overnig
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by roenxi 4d ago
That's not sexist though, it is just equivalent to noting she's a woman (like calling her "her" and "she") because we can reasonably offer the same criticism about a man. A man can have an extremely arrogant de
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by roenxi 4d ago
If we attempted to pay our taxes by creating this new money, do you think we would succeed? Because I suspect that when we get to the tax office we will discover that what you're calling money is not actually money in the practical sen
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by roenxi 4d ago
> not on the article to triple its length to prove every minor claim. Yes but that is my point. They're making the article longer by including evidence that undermines its claims. They should have either made the claim and let it st
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by roenxi 4d ago
My point is the article claimed it would show evidence of something when in fact it did not. It should either not have bothered to include evidence or found better evidence
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by roenxi 4d ago
It's not a handwave - the article doesn't offer anything to handwave away. The article says that she was offered specifically gendered criticism, then quotes generic criticism. I'm sure being a woman counted against her, bit
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by roenxi 4d ago
> The double standards are evident when we consider that all of this would sound ludicrous if aimed at a man who had been proclaimed king... I don't know about that, the quoted criticisms sound a lot like those that would be levelle
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by roenxi 4d ago
> 'But Cisco did it too!' is just whataboutism. A whataboutism that makes a legitimate point. It isn't reasonable to dismiss something just because a person makes a comparison. It's valid to consider that Apple might
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by roenxi 4d ago
> It absolutely is. Similar to the way banks create money [1]. The commitments support credit that wouldn't exist without it. Making a loan/offering credit isn't automatically money creation - the amount of money in the sy
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by roenxi 5d ago
> Nestled in the lush green mountains of Central Mexico, next to a sparsely traveled gravel road... The economics of this are deliciously surreal and in many ways slightly romantic. You have this dingy little shack-like construction out
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by roenxi 5d ago
How do you expect their material conditions to improve if nobody attempts to get more stuff to them? I doubt the "HN crowd" was about to do anything, but it'd be better if someone saw some sort of market opportunity here. It
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by roenxi 6d ago
> Millions of Hong Kongers were determined to keep the freedom they had enjoyed. The CCP has won, at least for now. Fundamentally, I just don't see this frame as being a path to long term success for HK. If it is them v. the CCP: th
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by roenxi 6d ago
There seems to be a bit of a gap vis a vis solutions in the article - someone could set the system up so it doesn't incentivise tanking. The punishment for tanking should be that the teams performed poorly for no compensation. It'
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by roenxi 7d ago
It interesting because the people at the CIA probably could be fairly described as "liberal, non-violent, and honorable". That sort of thing is heavily into banality of evil territory - lovely people, just a bit thoughtless about
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by roenxi 7d ago
> The internet was about connection, but the way I see it, it’s become a great way for bad actors to... There seems to be a profound confusion somewhere in here that people come with an evil bit and we're going to toggle technology
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by roenxi 7d ago
Classifying something as a textbook whataboutism is typically itself a rhetorical fallacy. It is rare for it to be used in the sense of identifying a real problem. Normally when it gets invoked someone has an argument, often a reasonable on
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by roenxi 9d ago
> I needed like a minute to process this. Something like 1 person in 15 in the US is a millionaire, and a million dollar house + some LAN gear should be well within reach of a millionaire. Obviously they're a comfortable distance fr
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by roenxi 10d ago
> ...one of the truly baffling things from either their team or AMDs team, is how much the workstation grade AMD r9700 has been ignored. It makes a huge amount of sense after considering AMD's approach to graphics cards from around
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by roenxi 11d ago
> Risam’s own concluding words hammer home how data confers more power on the already powerful, over and over again. I think the insistence of the body politic on giving more power to the powerful is what drives this. Our ability to gath
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by roenxi 11d ago
Since when has Facebook been associated with MAGA? They were famously part of the attempt to get Trump banned [0] from social media that led to Truth Social. Their moderation team tends anti-MAGA to the point where it is an international po
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by roenxi 11d ago
The obvious link between the two maps is neither has much concept of landmass size.The Americas are unknown in the first and unsatisfying imbalanced in the later map (Belize & El Salvadore, something must be done!). With all that in min
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by roenxi 11d ago
> You can finish reading your friend's favorite book or put it down if you don't like it. Neither are you economically compelled to read it by your workplace or forced to build work on top of it that will become difficult or i
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by roenxi 12d ago
In this context "trust" is something of a euphemism. The US had a big enough military relatively speaking that if they came for your gold then it wasn't feasible to stop them unless you were part of a competing bloc. So, you
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by roenxi 12d ago
There is an element of this essay that seems a bit short on the whole rights-and-responsibilities concept that should be highlighted. On the one hand, she's right that most people would want a wife and she gives a reasonable overview o
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by roenxi 12d ago
That is logically equivalent to a serial token prediction engine. If you have a diffusion text model you can use it to implement a serial token generator and if you have a serial token generator you can use that to implement a diffusion-gen
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by roenxi 12d ago
> I honestly think most Congress people want to do good for the country. That seems wildly unlikely. Wouldn't there be evidence for it by now? Over the last decades there have been scant murmurs of the US congress sitting down and t
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by roenxi 12d ago
> It's just not predicting based on it's training data, but predicting based on RLVR & more, trying to get to the optimal solution ( as much as the solutions CAN be optimal) It is predicting based on a model. In many cases
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by roenxi 14d ago
So can LLMs. I asked one about South Wollopop and it suggested that it'd never heard of it but maybe I meant South Wollo in Ethiopia. And that's just a local model with modest hardware and no internet access. First attempt. I mean
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by roenxi 14d ago
They symptoms sound a lot like humans, so I don't see how it stems from their lack of self reference. Most people you need to keep them in areas they understand or they go to pieces. The lack of self reference just means every time the

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