the_optimist

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by the_optimist 3d ago
The EU is not leading anything. They may as well just commit to becoming a subsistence agricultural society with EPCOT heirlooms on display.
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by the_optimist 3d ago
It is telling that most aggressive forms of “capitalism” plead for government involvement to permanently limit new competition. I own something and I don’t want anyone else to have a chance. The marginal cost of bribing a senator is tiny ti
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by the_optimist 3d ago
Completely correct. We are moving into a world where any person can have anything they want, only limited by capacity to produce it. People love information and digest great quantities of it. The marginal cost of information production is g
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by the_optimist 3d ago
All of the things it has done is just what people are already doing. Every single one. It helps, but there are already people doing this stuff. And we already have defenses against the existing attacks. We might have to defend better, but t
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by the_optimist 3d ago
It’s a bit of a self-serving argument, don’t you think? And how does that relate to the ask for oligopoly licensing within global democracy? “We must build the nuclear bomb first in order to make sure no one else builds one.” This the most
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by the_optimist 3d ago
It is an utterly silly premise that we should appoint insiders with permanent control. Megalomania is not evidence of either a problem or a solution.
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by the_optimist 4d ago
Sorry boss we live in a physical world, unplug it. Don’t grant information monopolies.
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by the_optimist 4d ago
Purest form of collusive insider trading right there.
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by the_optimist 4d ago
Somebody please stop me from destroying civilization by granting me a monopoly before my IPO!
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by the_optimist 23d ago
why?
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AlphaGenome Model Programmatic Access(github.com)
1 points by the_optimist 1y ago|0 comments
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by the_optimist 1y ago
Quite oddly in the context of all these varied comments, this key claim is demonstrated as false.
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by the_optimist 1y ago
What’s the situation where this is useful? Seems like ‘replace your remote duckDB instance—used to replace a DB server—with duckDB instance + a flight server (or a bunch of them!)’. Who has a problem for which this is the solution?
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by the_optimist 1y ago
How? The Discover network will be substantially better positioned to influence visa mastercard and amex, which are each expensive and oligopolistic. You know anything about this, or just spitballing here?
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by the_optimist 1y ago
Cool. Great company, more competition among the payment networks should result in better and less expensive products. Maybe Discover will finally achieve its potential.
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by the_optimist 1y ago
Reddit mgmt itself has significant concerns, according to anonymous sources. You heard it here first.
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by the_optimist 1y ago
The article does not define or discuss the authority of DOGE.
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by the_optimist 1y ago
I appreciate the question. The most obvious is that this is an “audit the auditors” exercise, and they do not want to leak information toward a likely adversarial counterpart. If they have the authority to so, then they do. An adjacent comp
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by the_optimist 1y ago
For those genuine actors here: this theoretical outrage assumes the premise of something immoral or illegal, and completely ignores the authority structure. This looks and smells like an info operation.
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by the_optimist 1y ago
Explain please.
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by the_optimist 1y ago
Agree with the overall perspective, but the union thing is marginal at best. Do you think swearing alliance and allegiance to a different org, delegating authority to it, and funding it is a guaranteed success? The game theory of this is ti
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by the_optimist 1y ago
Okay. Let’s say you have a compelling and coherent argument. Where can I go to read more about each of the things you write of, and share community with like-minded people?
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by the_optimist 1y ago
Genuinely, thanks for your response.
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by the_optimist 1y ago
Do you anticipate that someone is going to tell you, specifically, that they do not support rabid DEI, some of the highest tax rates in the world, widespread and severe drugs, poverty, and homelessness, endless war, vote dilution through im
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by the_optimist 1y ago
This is not a grounded critique. It is unbalanced and lacking in insight.
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by the_optimist 1y ago
I think it’s safe to say that there is severe overfitting and pattern matching behavior involved. When I come across someone who says something so broadly judgmental and unfounded, I become immediately intrigued as to how this person is eit
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by the_optimist 1y ago
You speak oddly of people like they are monolithic and lacking perceptive nuance (more like animals than any people I know). In the US, of all places, there is tremendous heterogeneity. What are the key elements that you know of “they”?
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by the_optimist 1y ago
You have remarkable authority on this. Can you tell us more about it?
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by the_optimist 2y ago
You’re looking for the logical argument here, not the statistical one. You sampled from snakes and said there is a 100% correlation with being a snake (notwithstanding the counterarg in an adjacent comment about scale-free snakes). I am not
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by the_optimist 2y ago
The story itself is a marketing piece.

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