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This is a really bizarre take. Praying to the small, local spirits, like the one of the animal you are about to eat, is noble and beautiful, but praying to a universal god is worth…

I don't expect them not to make big bets, but this was DOA from the start and everybody knew it.

Because people like Zuck think that because they're unimaginably rich, they must have gotten that way because of their own good sense, instead of getting insanely lucky at just the…

Of course they're participating, even driving it. Notably there were large bets placed predicting imminent military actions in Iran and Venezuela. In at least one case it was verif…

Last week I was at the bank in my hometown, a small rural community. The teller took a phone call, and I overheard her say "You have $1.53 in your checking account, and $150 in sav…

SQL Injection isn't even a problem of SQL, it's a problem of the applications those databases are connected to.

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Letting AI generate your image also dances around the issues of attribution and licensing, for better or worse.

These companies are never, ever going to make their money back off of retail customers. It's not even clear if those customers would be profitable at all, let alone enough to justi…

I want advice from the one questioning whether we should, not just whether we can.

Not only benefits from it, but the very one causing it to happen.

Didn't see it mentioned in the article, but Apple also had a program called "An Apple for a Teacher" which allowed teachers to purchase directly from Apple at a big discount for pe…

This is true. It is also true that waiting until things bottom out will make things even worse. It will be more expensive and options will be more limited. There will need to be a …

The difference is that schools, crime, etc., are all what they are right now . It's there, it's verifiable. Anybody buying in has access to the full information. They can walk arou…

"The solution is parlay style payouts" I think you mean parimutuel payouts?

They say Silicon Valley was more of a documentary than a comedy, and now we have one more way life imitates art: A growing army of Erlich Bachmann's.

For those interested, Relisten is another repository of live concert recordings. It skews heavily towards improvisational music, ie jambands, but there's some indie rock on there a…

Because the "it'll create X jobs" implies it's ongoing. It's a disingenuous attempt to oversell the benefits because they know if they're transparent about it, suddenly it doesn't …

"If they require the datacenter to be a closed water system and pay for their own electricity..." This assertion is doing a LOT of heavy lifting, and when it isn't true, it can cau…

I think the differentiating feature is that capitalism used to be tethered to producing things that were useful. The current model of wealth acquisition, so called "late-stage" see…

Is there a viable career path for researchers who choose to focus on replication instead of novel discoveries? I assume replications are perceived as less prestigious, but it's als…

For one thing, yeast was in short supply, so if you wanted to bake regularly, sourdough was a good option if you could keep it going.

Billionaires are allowed to have their cake and eat it too in the form of loans backed by their stock holdings. This is how they get to have $500MM yachts without having to actuall…

> LLM-based “chatty mode” where you can talk to the AI personality of your choice I'm genuinely baffled that people would want to do this.

It's less what should he have done, than what shouldn't he have done. Specifically, he pushed conspiracy theories, demonized his health experts, and touted ineffective cures, and u…