runako

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by runako 5d ago
> Water vapor? The stuff we drink? This is really obnoxious coming as people are still missing after historic flooding in Asia (via lots of concentrated water vapor, I guess).
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by runako 9d ago
There are a couple of statistical errors in your argument here. First is frequency. Even using Pangram's claimed numbers, the University of Georgia should expect to see several false positives every week. Remember that the metric is #
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by runako 9d ago
> ~98% of students flagged by pangram actually cheated That 2% is a large number! Of people who will have their integrity impugned for no good reason! That's not okay! Your calculations also are mixing assignments and students. The
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by runako 11d ago
Disclaimer: I do not like to read LLM-generated text any more than anyone else. IMHO a big problem with Pangram in particular is that they market it as a reliable tool that can be used to catch students cheating. This can obviously have dis
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by runako 12d ago
This seems like it would be an altogether different experience than the common experience of using an LLM, which is characterized by the person spending a lot of time waiting on the machine.
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by runako 13d ago
> If it's cheaper they should say I think you would be pleased at the very first selling points on their website, as well as on the product page. It seems they have at least considered the most obvious issue in their product space.
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by runako 13d ago
> 500 miles with hybrid system > the grueling two hour drives What country are you in, and perhaps more importantly, what roads are you driving on?
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by runako 14d ago
Taxes are not just money taken from people in the abstract. They are, quite concretely, used for specific purposes. In the US (because the OP is about the US), property taxes in particular are used to fund local services like schools. So if
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by runako 14d ago
> stay-at-home wives that do nothing but watch TV all day > include pensioners, kids The word "unemployment" has academic and colloquial meanings that overlap in places and diverge in other places. Neither of those include a
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by runako 14d ago
> from about 1945 until around 2000 in the USA there really wasn't such a thing as "a job that doesn't pay enough to live on". Also, this is flatly wrong in that the wage laws were crafted specifically to enforce cert
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by runako 14d ago
I'm saying that the "low paying jobs" have never been included in "unemployment." That is not how academics define "unemployment" nor how the term is colloquially used. The OP is trying to change the defin
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by runako 14d ago
> That may be the case in the US The subhead from the post: "The percentage of the U.S. labor force that is functionally unemployed"
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by runako 14d ago
A popular comedy skit in the '90s was around the notion that people had more jobs than they wanted. 1999 was basically ~full employment in the US. Most people who wanted to work had a job.
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by runako 14d ago
> How do you tax wealth on unrealised gains? The US does this in most jurisdictions. Homeowners pay tax on the current assessed value of the property, even if that property was purchased when the property was much less valuable. It would
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by runako 14d ago
> If I bought $100K of stock in 1999 and sold it in 2026 for $200K This is because you invested incredibly poorly. The S&P is up ~500% over that period, plus decades of dividends. Long-term capital gains are taxed at a lower rate bec
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by runako 15d ago
Anybody who believes ~30% of the workforce was functionally unemployed in 1999 does not know what those words mean, or was not an adult in 1999. I get what they are trying to convey, but the stronger message is the more straightforward: the
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by runako 19d ago
> Binance, FTX, BitMex, Silk Road founders all went to jail BitMex didn't go to jail, they all got probation/ankle tag, for not running a clean money org (allegedly no KYC, registering US accounts from offshore, etc.). CZ got c
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by runako 19d ago
> Kalshi is just hoping to be treated like Uber was. This is not a bad strategy for a company in our asymmetric regulatory environment. Fortunes were made in crypto on exactly this one-way bet. Go on breaking the law until you get a favo
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by runako 20d ago
> Most of us are only citizens because someone up the chain was born under this rule. This understates the situation. All of us who are not naturalized citizens are citizens only because of the birthright clause in the Constitution. The
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by runako 22d ago
A hypothetical operational space data center will cost a multiple over a similar terrestrial facility. It would be cheaper/more efficient to offer a municipality or its citizens a fraction of that multiple to secure approvals, now that
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by runako 23d ago
Isn't it true that Euro 7 starts taking effect in a few months, but doesn't cover most cars until late next year?
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by runako 23d ago
It's really not. No serious analysis reduces the complexity of markets to a single number in a single sector. In particular, it takes willful blindness to look at subsidies in the EV market and ignore other energy markets. You're
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by runako 23d ago
Every country distorts its markets in different ways. It's still silly to pretend the US is free of these kinds of distortions.
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by runako 23d ago
> dishonest to say it’s the same. I literally didn't say that it was? In any case, the point is that the US also subsidizes markets, including the auto markets. China is far from unique in this. As you say, free market capitalism is
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by runako 23d ago
I'm sure even some companies who plan to sell in the EU will have to update their models to address regulations that haven't taken effect yet.
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by runako 23d ago
> The total subsidies make up half of the market cap of their entire EV industry. Didn't Tesla essentially stay afloat for years via government subsidies (e.g. government-mandated carbon credits)? Didn't the US only recently en
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by runako 23d ago
This would make sense if the US only had two major coastal cities, but that's not the case. From another of my comments: A realistic HSR network in the US will also involve changing trains in the midwest because there are too many pair
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by runako 24d ago
> dangerous or polluting IIRC more than half of cars sold in China are EV or PHEV. I am receptive to learn that there are PHEVs that are too polluting to be sold in the west, but I would love to see the data.
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by runako 24d ago
You're agreeing with me. Mythos was locked down to a few customers. Fable went wide. USG told them to stop selling Fable. They tweaked Fable to appease the USG, but it clearly refuses/downshifts more requests than e.g. Opus 5. (I

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