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by stripe_away 1y ago
why stop at 7?
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by stripe_away 1y ago
maybe for some of the same reasons that discussion of computer science likes to quote Knuth? or big-O notation? The political theories/philosophies developed by the founding fathers remain foundational for reasons.
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by stripe_away 1y ago
I'm less sure that there is an endgame. Seems more likely to me that it is being run as a reality TV show where the idea is to maintain a high level of viewer engagement. And no-one is thinking that the only reason reality tv shows don
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by stripe_away 1y ago
huh. Can your theory explain then the difference between San Francisco/Bay area and the rest of the United States? Perhaps it is California's generous tax policies compared to say Texas?
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by stripe_away 1y ago
and to be blunt, I learned similar things building analog synths, before the dawn of LLMs. Like you, I don't like watching videos. However, the web also has text, the same text used to train the LLMs that you used. > When something
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by stripe_away 1y ago
> took thousands of years to accept brain as the seat of thought because “heart beat faster when excited, means heart is source of excitement” So what you are saying is that beings without a central nervous system cannot experience &quot
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by stripe_away 1y ago
JAS 39 Gripen can land on roads. Might have been a better choice.
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by stripe_away 1y ago
> there is a massive influence operation that seeks to destroy knowledge, science, and technology in the United States Agreed. Started with big tobacco by discrediting the connection to lung cancer, playbook copied by many and weaponized
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by stripe_away 1y ago
My wife is diabetic, which means she is at higher risk from covid. My parents are old. I have a duty to my family to protect them, and if that means wearing a mask to reduce my risk of getting covid, then their safety overrules my own comfo
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by stripe_away 1y ago
how does this compare to the depreciation cost of their datacenters?
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by stripe_away 1y ago
inflation was double-digits in the 70s. and the S&P was flat at 1.6% for the decade despite some pretty amazing technical innovations pocket calculator and microcomputer (Altair 8800), first email, pong, floppy disks (they were the stan
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by stripe_away 1y ago
octopuses learn by observing other octopuses See for yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQwJXvlTWDw or if you prefer, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B97801...
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by stripe_away 1y ago
Which doesn't take away from your main point. A liturgically oriented church does build community.
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by stripe_away 1y ago
> in "medieval" times people also went to church a lot where someone lectured you from a book, The idea of church as "someone lecturing you from a book" describes only a few christian denominations, few of which were
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by stripe_away 1y ago
sounds like you dodged a bullet. You qualified for the interview, but did they qualify for you?
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by stripe_away 1y ago
I guess you never worked at Stripe.