savanaly

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by savanaly 24d ago
>If you really believed what you wrote, why do you think trade deals exist in the first place? What function do you think they serve? In an ideal world, we would have free trade between nations and no trade deals. In the real world, for
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by savanaly 25d ago
>so we arent being taken andvantage of For the last time...that's not how trade works! People who say this in this context mean well, but are committing the exact same category error/misunderstanding of economics that Trump and
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by savanaly 29d ago
Complete tangent, but my impression is that one glass of wine per day is "fine", but you're still statistically better off in a non-trivial way by going down to zero. Not counting the benefits of course.... :)
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I got an email about resistance(seangoedecke.com)
5 points by savanaly 1mo ago|0 comments
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by savanaly 1mo ago
>I think things like web search should probably be run on a different sandboxed AI whose task is to write a summary that is then ingested by the main agent, similar to how existing sandboxing already works, but this would diminish the us
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by savanaly 2mo ago
You have always been able to pick between voices of many kinds though? Do you find them all sultry? From the British woman to the 17th century pirate soundalike?
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by savanaly 3mo ago
Yes but the point of the phrase "apples to oranges" is that they are hard to compare. But if you comparing something they both have and is easily measurable, such as sugar, then yes you should compare apples to oranges!
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by savanaly 3mo ago
Millions? Makes me think of https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...
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by savanaly 4mo ago
>One reason the "passion tax" is possible for employers is that there seems to be a degree of labor monopsony for the kind of development done by AAA game studios. How is the existence of a monopsony necessary or even related t
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Every Magazine Piece on the SF AI Scene(astralcodexten.com)
1 points by savanaly 4mo ago|1 comments
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by savanaly 5mo ago
>how ingenious Japan’s system of zoning is I'm only barely familiar with it so I ask this in good faith: is it really ingenious or is it just more permissive? My bias/priors are that the simpler and truer statement is: it can&#
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by savanaly 5mo ago
>YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts No it doesn't. If you were hoping it would mean you don't see shorts when you visit the Youtube home page, that's not what this is. I just tried the thing mentioned in the article-- se
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by savanaly 5mo ago
Not just insider knowledge. Being more willing to put in hard work than anyone else, being better at synthesizing public knowledge, or maintaining a more clear and unemotional outlook all can also lead you to superior outcomes.
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by savanaly 7mo ago
Exception that proves the rule, IMO.
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by savanaly 7mo ago
"Bus stop reduction" makes it sound like it will make it harder to take the bus. But the point of the article is that's compensated by the buses being more useful because they get where they're going more quickly. So &qu
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by savanaly 7mo ago
Can't you also make money by making a good decision that benefits you and another party? I feel like I do this all the time, just on a relatively small scale.
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by savanaly 7mo ago
Regular Joe version as far as I know.
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by savanaly 7mo ago
I'm in the US, I never experience any of the issues people complain about. Just checked and I don't have the setting disabled that that one guy talked about up thread. But I do have all notifications off. Maybe that is why?
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by savanaly 7mo ago
Only if you choose to take it that way. All the names were like that to me when I joined years ago, but I just looked them up, or not, as I went and now the discourse is almost always legible. As is usually the case if you want to be part o
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by savanaly 7mo ago
They were needlessly inflammatory, but none of that changes the fact that something requiring you to watch a 2-min video to get started does not pass the [non-inflammatory term for non-technical person but you know what I mean]-test.
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by savanaly 8mo ago
Enjoyed your photos, thanks for explaining about how they were made.
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by savanaly 8mo ago
The all you can eat buffet analogy makes way more sense to me, because it speaks to the aspect of it where the customer can take a lot of something without restriction. That's the critical thing with the Anthropic subscription, and the
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by savanaly 8mo ago
The most effective kind of marketing is viral word of mouth from users who love your product. And Claude Code is benefiting from that dynamic.
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by savanaly 8mo ago
Cozy games where you basically can't lose are a booming industry in the last decade, so that outlook is certainly bullish for AI creative tools!
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Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter(seangoedecke.com)
77 points by savanaly 9mo ago|48 comments
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by savanaly 9mo ago
I can not like something without wanting to make it illegal to do it. Simple as that. My preferences aren't necessarily someone else's preferences.
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by savanaly 9mo ago
If they're not using the book text to train models (keeping the focus on this particular new Kindle feature), where's the room for objection? My device, my content, it's none of the author's business how I read it, in my
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by savanaly 9mo ago
I was picturing more like a sledgehammer size hole.
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by savanaly 9mo ago
The seeming paradox reminds me of a simlar flavor one: the fact that if you accidentally knock a hole in your drywall, it's cheaper to cover it with a flat screen TV than to pay someone to fix the hole.
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by savanaly 10mo ago
If you require attendance to graduate, then your degree signals conformity and grit, and thus has some value to show to employers who care about those stats but can't really measure them any other way.

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