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> Africa is fine in Mercator here's a reality check: https://licensing.visualcapitalist.com/product/how-many-coun... or just find a globe, or zoom out in google maps. also, what yo…

i didn't spend much time with it beyond noticing that africa was tiny.

> If you think that the American Left is anything like communism no, you completely missed my point. why would i talk about communism if in the same comment i'm saying that the lef…

another modelling problem with it: ceiling effect https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38416412 How much can your top performers overestimate their performance? The opposite proble…

publishing auto-correlation is not a 'data artefact', but a mistake. and a rather ironic one at that. The #Dunning-Kruger Effect is #Autocorrelation https://economicsfromthetopdown…

the fact that the useless left/right divide is still so widely used shows that manipulation is working well even pre LLMs... when it comes to the important question, then both "sid…

it's a good idea, but it uses the distorted Mercator projection, and then cuts it so that you can glue it back into a somewhat globe-like shape. it's distorted, twice.

re TB: you think i wouldn't know? and it was found because it was active. re eradicating measles: the terrain is much more complicated than presented. first, because the vaccine fa…

i believe the reasoning behind this is of legal nature (copyright/copyleft, etc).

in short: our social sructure has built out so far beyond the Dunbar's number that it has become a haven for psychopaths.

also note the exponential function here... and an exponent of 2 and 12 are very different animals.

don't forget that untreated TB runs for years, sometimes for many years. measles heals in weeks (and 99.9% non-malnutrished survives without lasting damage; see France prior to 198…

> TB is also shockingly infectious let's keep HN as a place where people usually do at least a cursory research before they state things with such confidence... or inject a few wor…

if you are pondering about that, then i think you'll like this: https://ngnghm.github.io/

random note: it's possible to incorporate C libs at compile time, e.g.: https://github.com/sionescu/sbcl-goodies

i'm a lisper, and i don't hate nix. i prefer guix, for sure, but i don't see this hatered you're talking about among other lispers either.

the problem with pitching Flock as "the triumph of technology over criminality" is that because of all the bogus edicts, an average american commits three felonies every single day…

he's just dogfooding us all...

> It requires, second, regulating the supply of the weapon. [...] i guess even local models can do this now, especially in non-interactive mode. so, i have a hard time reading this…

it'll be great for the GDP, too!

at least this way i spent my reputation to show a mirror, instead of shouting pointlessly into the abyss...

the rest? they comply, or get labeled a criminal. innocent men cannot be ruled over. authoritarians want a population of such "criminals", because then their power becomes the choi…

Simplex https://simplex.chat/

except it's hardly safe or secure anymore...