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throwaway598

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    Comment #40396209

    That OpenAI are institutionally unethical. That such a young company can be become rotten so quickly can only be due to leadership instruction or leadership failure.

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    Comment #40396183

    I'd expect these series to be cointegrated. A chart or OLS isn't going to prove chicken or egg.

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    Comment #40384680

    I find the 'hero' photo fascinating, of the aircraft lined up quite closely under construction. The closeness, the apparent temporary nature of the equipment nearby, the lack of th…

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    Comment #40377855

    The child doesn't choose their parents. The parents can be mistaken. If enforcing the good habits of good parenting is not a problem, then 'apps' wouldn't have a problem with it. B…

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    Comment #40342994

    Silos don't collaborate. They emu head in sand, burn with fire or molasis those that come close to shining a light on their deliberate opacity, and/or push cost of complying with t…

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    Comment #40342013

    My domain: 24 years registered to me. A .com. My email address: Listed at the top of the front page. In a H3 tag. This email address's spam problem: Not a problem. 15ish per day ge…

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    Comment #40341835

    I tried in Sublime. But settled on Zettlr which is designed for knowledge bases and academic writing: markdown, Zettelkasten, tags, directory structure, text search and bibtex - Ja…

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    Comment #40328865

    I do get along with my colleagues.

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    Comment #40328818

    I wrote a short reference book as an educational reference. Very niche. Released under Creative Commons. When interviewing someone, they presented pages from it and claimed themsel…

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    Comment #40262742

    Rationality and imperfect information are different things. Neither of which fit your example which is search cost. Not everyone knows a lot of things, it is impossible to know eve…

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    Comment #40261907

    Both the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal censor their own news, so I suppose this is news that they've done the work and effort reporting on that they deem not worth kn…

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    Comment #40261867

    Perhaps an insight into vulture humour: George the turkey vulture: It's a nice day to hang out circling. Rambo the turkey vulture: Hey George, let's hang. Pappias the turkey vultur…

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    Comment #40261549

    Not a core competence so vendor solution is used. That's financialisation. That's maximising value. Right?

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    Comment #40255692

    My teeth fell out reading this.

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    Comment #40254847

    > The law, Senate Bill 478, set to go into effect on July 1, prohibits the use of “drip pricing, a practice in which companies advertise only a portion of what a customer would act…

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    Comment #40223780

    If you asked me to be right 80% of the time, I'd probably be right. So I'd be right on average 110% of the time.

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    Comment #40223658

    If it's visual, is it headless?

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    Comment #40211219

    Autocorrect's nice and stuff. Snake was a great game on my Nokia. Who texts with autocorrect when they can speech to text? If hands are too busy to type, talk. Re-engineering the p…

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    Comment #40209180

    > It's as if you called someone on the phone and said "Hi!" and then put them on hold! Typically you both say a greeting then a conversation starts. > Instead of being polite, you …

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    Comment #40208645

    The root of the problem is sudo, and su more generally. This derives from *nix, or mainstream versions today, requiring a super user, a manifestation of the problem with monolithic…

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    Comment #40205295

    I was linked to a paper on this just yesterday. > The Economics of Orbit Use: Open Access, External Costs, and Runaway Debris Growth (Rao, Rondina, upcoming 2024). https://www.jour…

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    Comment #40198667

    We're 16-158 years away from the collapse of easy orbits.