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- Comment on *Jarvis, arm the valediction* 2 weeks ago:
Saying it before something that is not disrespectful would be redundant at best and very confusing at worst.
“With all due respect, how’s the weather today?”
“I’m not racist but I prefer tea over coffee.”
“I’m not a pedophile but I think terminator 3 is a bad movie” - Comment on Billionaires are extremists 2 weeks ago:
Those 3,028 people, or 0.000036% of the global population, hold more than 99% of all wealth.
The actual number is closer to 9% than 99%. This is probably a broken telephone from “the combined wealth of billionaires is larger than the GDP of 99% of countries” where notably yearly income and wealth are not directly comparable.
Better (and true) things to say are “The global top 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% combined” or “The richest 0.01% in the US have tripled their wealth in the last 30 years, while 90% of people have been treading water”
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 3 weeks ago:
Probably
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 3 weeks ago:
So I wondered a bit how much it actually affects the economy.
“S&P 500” companies’ market cap is about 57 trillion dollars with a P/E ratio of about 30. So openai by itself is dragging down the total s&p 500 earnings by only about 0.5%. The bigger problem is that there are multiple companies like openAI, and a large chunk of the entire economy’s valuation is tied to the promise that all the AI companies will somehow become profitable sometime soon.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 3 weeks ago:
No, it was found in november 24 2021, publicly disclosed in december 9 2021, and only used by 2b2t players on december 10 2021.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 3 weeks ago:
That’s definitely not how GPL specifically works, and the small amount of sales of doom 2 today is not at all comparable to the massive amount of minecraft sales and minecraft-related microtransactions that microsoft is raking in.
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 3 weeks ago:
There’s a million illnesses that can make you dumber. It’s hard to think when you have constant back pain. It’s hard to think when you’re constantly tired for no reason. So on and so forth.
- Comment on Just in time 5 weeks ago:
If you hand wash your clothes and process all your food from scratch you’re probably a pretty big exception to modern lifestyles
- Comment on Just in time 5 weeks ago:
That is mostly a myth. They may have worked less than people at the height of the industrial revolution, but even a laborer who was paid a salary had to spend at least several hours per day on average on “not work” things like food preparation, home maintenance, feeding livestock, gathering firewood, repairing and cleaning clothing. Many tasks that are trivial today were highly arduous.
Then to top it all off it was fairly common for the local lord to force them to do extra labor without pay, like maintaining roads or training in a militia.
- Comment on Can't argue that. 1 month ago:
Taleb’s mind just isn’t antifragile enough. Or maybe too antifragile. Idk I didn’t read his book
- Comment on Can't argue that. 1 month ago:
Neuroplasticity does drop with age, but the drop is smaller than it was previously assumed to be, especially outside of early childhood (you may note that eg. this graph starts at 20 years old)
- Comment on Can't argue that. 1 month ago:
wtf is up with that confidence interval(?) though
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- Comment on Etsy Curse 2 months ago:
They got multiple different witches to cast multiple curses, but the one specifically called “POWERFUL HEX SPELL” with 2-3 weeks delay seems to be this one by “UrsulaSpells”: etsy.com/…/powerful-hex-spell-direct-energy-focus…
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- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 months ago:
But orbiting a point 1 meter outside the sun is not orbiting the sun?
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 3 months ago:
I remember tab groups showing up one day maybe a week ago, and then I quickly clicked about two buttons and now they’re totally gone and I almost forgot they were a thing. But likely if I had summarily clicked 2 different buttons it might have been turned out without realizing it, and that would cause the model to be downloaded and the CPU cycles to be spent (at least if I kept the tab groups on)
- Comment on Habit tracker 3 months ago:
Finland never recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, and covid + the end of trade with russia has damaged the economy badly and made public debt balloon heavily. Right now unemployment is about 10%, the 2nd highest in the EU, and the far-right coalition goverment that won the last election is trying to privatize healthcare and disempower unions.
Finland’s birth rate dropped below replacement levels about 50 years ago and has been in freefall for about the last 10 years, and now the population pyramid is starting to be in really bad shape, which means the economic situation is likely just going to get worse and worse.
The retirement savings system is designed like a (partial) ponzi scheme due to aforementioned population dynamics, and participation is mandatory so it is effectively a hidden tax on all workers. Due to old people having the majority of the votes, it’s the one thing that is immune from budget cuts, which forces the government to sell publicly owned infrastructure and dismantle public services in a futile effort to compensate.
- Comment on spicy one 4 months ago:
this would actually be achieved by a team of 20 thousand oompa loompas with small shovels and 500 thousand megatons of cocaine
- Comment on Art imitates life 5 months ago:
openAI tried to remove the mexico filter but they just can’t. The AI is hopelessly addicted to that sepia tone
- Comment on Some local LLMs tested on an average gaming PC 7 months ago:
64 gigs of ram costs less than $200 these days
- Comment on Think about it 7 months ago:
stoning is a particular method of public execution, not just any death caused by thrown rocks
- Comment on Friendly reminder 7 months ago:
fact checked by real enlightened atheists: ❌FALSE❌
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- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 7 months ago:
the US constitution specifically has a carve-out that allows using prisoners as slaves
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 8 months ago:
to be fair, I may have gotten a bit lucky with the exact search, any other section of the lyrics would most likely not find it
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 8 months ago:
The first one is “Go green” by Mitch Benn
found it just by googling the lyrics in your comment lol
We’ll go green when you go green
You’ll go green when he goes green
We’ll get as far as aquamarine or so
But we’re still gonna call it green - Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 11 months ago:
is that spot inside an active volcano?
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 1 year ago:
also the person apparently spent 2 million dollars to find the number. and the money is probably from stock compensation from nvidia
