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Comment · 1 day ago
Binance is a very centralized entity.
Comment · 5 days ago
By this paper's own conclusion, this phenomenon explains 31.9% of the decrease in recent decades. That's significant, but also means that most of the decrease comes from somewhere else.
Comment · 6 days ago
Why?
Comment · 9 days ago
If Apple's business model requires preventing their users from using the device they bought as they want, and overcharging commissions on software built by third parties, their business model is wrong.
Comment · 9 days ago
Comment · 26 days ago

    The novice said: "I will save my working files, but not my system and application files, as they can be always be reinstalled from their distribution disks."
    The master made no reply.
    The next day, the novice's disk crashed. Three days later, the novice was still reinstalling software.
If that's your situation, it might be worth backing up applications. However, there are better solutions that make this irrelevant. For instance, using NixOS, you can literally back up a single text file describing your system setup, and you can recreate the system from it automatically in minutes, guaranteed to be bit for bit identical.
Comment · 1 month ago
You can already do that without ads.

The point of ads is that one of those services will pay openai so that their services will be more prominent than the others.

Comment · 1 month ago
There's at least one possible point, which is where the income is taxed. If data is not considered valuable, the German branch of company X can send data to its Irish branch, and the profit realized in Ireland (with very low tax rate), while this value was generated in Germany but the German state gets no income. And if Ireland raises its tax rate, send it to another fiscal paradise.

Potentially, if data was accounted as valuable, the income would be accounted for where it is generated, each country gets its fair share, and tax avoidance gets harder.

Comment · 1 month ago
> Levent having received tips that information about our progress had been passed to OpenAI

That seems like a valid reason to contact OpenAI.

Comment · 1 month ago
From Buckmaster's text:

    The route to the Clay problem through a
    smooth force, options c and d in Fefferman’s statement of the problem, is the
    route Luis and Diego opened and the one Levent and I had quietly chosen to
    attack. Almost nobody else I know of was working on it. It is not the direction
    one arrives at in a few days by giving a model the problem statement. When I
    heard “forced,” it was a bright red flag.
This is much more than the knowledge than the problem can be solved, it's also the specific, non-obvious approach to solving it. That's much more damning for OpenAI, if confirmed.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Invest in formal verification, fuzzing and property testing, and memory-safe languages. LLMs are good at writing Lean and fuzz tests. I don't care whether you use Go or Rust but for the love of god please don't use C or C++ for new code.

How accepted is this thinking in your respective domains?

Comment · 1 month ago
Moats are supposed to be obstacles for your competitors, not your consumers.
Comment · 1 month ago
Putin is under an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Rapes and killings are widely documented as part of the war he started. I don't think the parent comment was overstating the crimes in question in its simile.
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Comment · 1 month ago
Is compriate a typo, a neologism? I could not find a definition.

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