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meowkit
·10 hari yang lalu·discuss
It’s not contrived and starts to touch at the root of the issue: taxes on transactions.

I’m not against taxes to be very clear. Tax something else.
meowkit
·15 hari yang lalu·discuss
One way of thinking about that is higher order even powers just reduce down to two.

For the purpose of inverting a negative vector, you can think of squaring as rotating the vector around the unit circle, 180 degrees, to make it positive. Higher order powers just keep rotating that vector back and forth- from this perspective the other even powers are the same transformation. Obviously with the magnitude being different.
meowkit
·25 hari yang lalu·discuss
I mean this kindly, but this is so “engineer brained”

Maybe the game has changed with LLMs, but its been a running joke that engineers will build a startup/product/library/thing only to then realize they can’t get any users and that marketing and sales are hard.

Attention and mind share are more valuable than ever. If you can’t answer “Why should I care about X?” then you are fighting an uphill battle.
meowkit
·bulan lalu·discuss
I see this line of thinking a lot but lets look at it a different way.

Changing peoples behaviors >cost money<. Using your number here, taxis had a 25% value prop. That was just the cost of getting people to change.

I don’t care for Uber, but many many many businesses give people initial discounts and then full price later

The whole argument is moot though given self driving cars are going to wipe out the industry.
meowkit
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Copilot is the name for the harness / wrapper of MSFT products

The CLI can swap to whatever model (/models) based on your subscriptions.

The copilots on desktop or Office Apps are likely just GPT5 nano or other tiny models with cheap inference
meowkit
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I don't think its innate though - most people I've met can think of higher order consequences or at least understand them.

The real issue is actually measuring results. I think we have to design society to factor higher order effects in. That means a fundamentally new approach to things like voting and tracking accountability.

Is it even possible? Who knows. Sometimes I think our problems have outstripped individual life spans which makes them intractable.
meowkit
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
What are the fatalities for e-bikes vs SUVs in the US per year?

Your comment is irrelevant otherwise because last time I checked cars are the real problem, and concerns over e bikes / delivery bots is just another lame extension of “safetyism” and ignorance around public transport failures that just misses the mark.

“Riding in traffic” is half the issue here. Like trying to explain water to fish.
meowkit
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Yesh go to literally any other industrialized part of the world and see how ** backwards the US is on trains

I’ve become quite radicalized on trains after visiting Japan and Switzerland myself.
meowkit
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
You cant compare qualia of suffering. At least not with our current technology. Thats the point - they both involve suffering but that doesn’t mean one is inherently worse than the other. The details and experience matter which got glossed over in these stupid debates- hence loss of perspective.

Honestly I had to read the wiki page of false equivalence and you’re not asserting the fallacy correctly.
meowkit
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Zero Knowledge Proof schemes

Applied ZKPs are being actively worked on in the blockchain sphere.
meowkit
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
We are not talking about inference.

The prompts and responses are used as training data. Even if your provider allows you to opt out they are still tracking your usage telemetry and using that to gauge performance. If you don’t own the storage and compute then you are training the tools which will be used to oppress you.

Incredibly naive comment.
meowkit
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Spotify only streams 16-bit lossless as far as I have seen (though they claim 24 bit in this post). Might require artists to reupload the audio?

Tidal has much more 24 bit options when I did an A/B.

The dynamic range difference is very material on quality sound setups.

As a side note Bluetooth (at least for Airpods) only does 16-bit!
meowkit
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Your example assumes there would be sufficient liquidity on that bet. The existing platforms aren’t houses or market makers that just provide functionally infinite liquidity on any bets. The “win” criteria on this example is so specific that verification becomes its own problem.

In theory a fun example, but practically it doesn’t play out the way you’re describing.
meowkit
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Wheres the wooshing joke jpeg when you need it
meowkit
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
That is not where trust in the dollar comes from.

It comes from stability. Predictability.

Courts and law enforcement certainly provide these things, but they are not required. The inherent design of blockchains makes them trustworthy (an oversimplified statement), which is even better.
meowkit
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The prediction algorithms are so good that indirect behaviors and data can be informative.

You might also be profiled by Google and bucketed into a group of similar people who leak their data. They also went to this website and their YT recommendations became a signal to inform your own.

Not claiming any certainty here just possible ideas.
meowkit
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I was a bit peeved by the title, but I think its a fair use of clickbait as the article has a lot of little details about acoustics in humans that I was unfamiliar with (i.e. a link to a primer on the the transduction implementation of cochlear cilia)

But yeah there is a strict vs colloquial collision here.
meowkit
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Google zero knowledge proofs for verification
meowkit
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
https://docs.ens.domains/learn/protocol/

Supporting DNS all up should be possible but organizing the other decentralized services (compute, storage) is the hard part
meowkit
·tahun lalu·discuss
Because they own the now hardware, and MacOS iOS run exclusively on their hardware

Source: I work on windows power management and I know system engineers at apple.