xorfish

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by xorfish 1mo ago
This is still quite a bit away from the performance that deepseek gets on their H800. In their DSpark paper they report a throughput of 15k tokens/s/gpu. The MI300 should be able to compete with the H800 so there are probably stil
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by xorfish 10mo ago
GDP growth per capita adjusted for cost of living hasn't been that different between the US and the EU for the past 35 years: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...
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by xorfish 3y ago
If the US were serious about road safety, they would change the roads and streets to be more safe and tax 1500+ kg vehicles into oblivion.
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by xorfish 3y ago
Suburbs are highly subsidized. The quality of life only seems to outcompete cities because the quality of life in cities is lowered by the car centric culture. If you want to know how good the QoL in a city can be, you need to visit a Europ
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by xorfish 3y ago
Cars are generally not a mode of transport that makes sense in a city. There are some exceptions, but the vast majority of transportation in a city should be by foot, bicycle or public transport.
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by xorfish 3y ago
Car dependence imposes a huge cost on the poor. With good public transportation and bicycle infrastructure, poor people wouldn't need a car. Reducing car dependence is a good thing for the poor.
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by xorfish 3y ago
That is how you get to the current state of car dependence in the US. Parking costs a lot. It should not be subsidized.
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by xorfish 3y ago
VT
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by xorfish 3y ago
That is the case, but banning it just for a few weeks will change that without much disruption. Most people are aware that Signal exist and switch the moment WhatsApp stops working.
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by xorfish 3y ago
Why is finding that we are not that different from other mammals degrading and disrespectful?
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by xorfish 3y ago
> Is anyone, anywhere doing that? You can do it in Switzerland: https://www.berufsberatung.ch/dyn/show/1900?id=7671
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by xorfish 4y ago
You still have to pay the interest on the loan. If your bond 10y bond you bought two years ago pays 1.5% and you need to take on a loan at 3.5% for 8 years to be liquid, then you are still around 16% in the red. You will find that this is a
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by xorfish 4y ago
No, that is not true. Selling the bonds now at their current valuation or taking on debt and hold them to maturity lead to roughly equivalent outcomes. The MtM losses are real.
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by xorfish 4y ago
> So the obvious and sensible thing to do is have the government lend money to cover the time until the bonds mature, in addition to using the FDIC's money which did not come from public funds. The cost of the loans should be in the
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by xorfish 4y ago
Over 80% of the US population lives in urban areas.
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by xorfish 4y ago
Changes in money supply are not the same as inflation or deflation.
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by xorfish 4y ago
> which often cause, or share causes with, pornography consumption. I doubt there is substantial evidence for this statement.
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by xorfish 4y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets If everyone were to switch to a vegan diet, global agriculture land use would be reduced by 75%.
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by xorfish 4y ago
I think it is wrong to value the well-being of some humans more than others.
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by xorfish 4y ago
Which could have also been achieved by telling him not to and that it is wrong or if that doesn't work banning the use of social media. He seems to be able to follow rules very good.
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by xorfish 4y ago
Of course humans change. A state machine can also change state. Doesn't mean that a state machine has control over their behavior.
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by xorfish 4y ago
> Perhaps the better conclusion is that "free will" is merely our ability to alter our own biochemical state But isn't our ability to alter our own biochemical state dependent on our current biochemical state?
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by xorfish 4y ago
Not at all.
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by xorfish 4y ago
> Philosophers have been talking about justice and morality for æons, something so small isn’t going to turn our thoughts on justice on their head. Yes, but now neuroscientists show light on how our brain works. > we are saying that
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by xorfish 4y ago
Society also has to ensure, that this is done in a way that causes him as little harm as possible. It clearly failed here.
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by xorfish 4y ago
At the very core of criminal justice rests an assumption, that is false. > The concept of criminal justice rests on the fundamental principle that we are responsible for our own behavior. Human behavior is the result of lots of factors,
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by xorfish 4y ago
> What a horrible thing to do. His autism shouldn't give him a pass. You do understand that he doesn't understand that this is a horrible thing to do?
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by xorfish 4y ago
I think this is fitting in that context: Schindler's List | "I Didn't Do Enough" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9vj2Wf57rQ In the end, nearly everyone values their life higher than the life of others.
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by xorfish 4y ago
EA and Longtermism are not the same thing.
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by xorfish 4y ago
We have also learned quite a bit about animals and their capacity to suffer. Sorry to break it to you, but humans just aren't that special.

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