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Have you ever heard about the term "lawyer"?

That's because there are more people who drive cars than people who handle plutonium. A more sensible statistics would be the number of death per hour of usage (which might still b…

Taleb literally did say that you should never board a plane on which the pilot isn't onboard (such as a drone plane). Unless this was intended to never make you board an unethical …

"It is better to be alone than in bad company."

Working with QA analysts has shown me that quality people are totally autonomous in adding disproportionate hurdles to the way of production without needing the help of any externa…

Mainstream's reddit experience is clicking on Reddit links from Google. Many of which are dead as of right now.

No. https://twitter.com/omarsar0/status/1657413416523366403?s=20

"research on language model" lol OpenAI is where the research happens. It's like saying SpaceX not giving away rockets hinders research on rockets. Anybody is free to develop their…

TL;DR: "There’s no shortage of men who want to date you"

TL;DR: "well-cared for" Copying from one digital medium to another is a very easy operation (to the contrary of copying from paper to paper). At equal "care" I don't see why digita…

So it might actually still be the best choice.

If you follow PG on Twitter, he elevates it beyond just a blog.

What is the money efficiency of that?

As someone who started playing without having any idea about the platform landscape, and therefore chose the first Google result, which seemed to have a legit UI and domain name, a…

This raises the question: How does having your password manager breached compares to losing access to your password manager?

> careless enough to eg log into their personal email on their work computer. Can you explain why that is an issue?

You need to have a significant following for this to have any relevance. If you have a significant following, you have a strong incentive not to post the most grotesque things.

There are situations where N disobeys N+1 but N+2 knows the value of N, which makes N+1 unable to fire N.

> That is a surefire way to burn out. Any source on that? I agree with the assessment about engineers (althought it's a generalization), but I always thought it was because their "…

The low-order bits can have huge impact. This is what Nicholas Nassim Taleb calls "fat-tailed processes": processes which rarely yield occurrences outside nominal range ("tail"), b…

Contrarily to carbon byproduct, we know how to confine fission byproduct, at least short term (which is still better than neither short term nor long term).

They're designed to sustain an airliner crashing into it so I guess bomb or missile is okay, although that's another story if that would happen from inside the reactor.

Their users growth has been lowering towards 0 for a few years and it's expected that users will eventually shrink. It's just symbolic when you pass the tipping point (although thi…