sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
15d ago
You don't see why making it impossible to operate as a small business online is a big deal?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
15d ago
"Maximum lethality and authority" by definition trade off against other things (for example, avoiding war crimes).
sarker
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15d ago
An instant classic in the PvC (player versus camera) genre.
sarker
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15d ago
You can't be preyed upon with tricky overdraft fees
Most banks will let you overdraw your account.
sarker
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16d ago
two weeks three years to kiev sovl
sarker
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16d ago
Code review has a paper trail. It's easy to make a paper trail for reviewing your teammate's performance too.
You're not thinking outside the box.
sarker
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17d ago
Evidence that you have been asked to judge the work of others, either individually or on a panel
This one's basically a free space. Reviewed coworker's code? Check. Gave your teammate feedback on their performance? Check. Etc.
sarker
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17d ago
prīnceps merely means 'first' - the prīnceps senātūs ('first of the senate') originated during the Republic, and later Augustus took the title prīnceps cīvitātis ('first of the citizens') to pretend that he was merely first among equals rather than a king.
sarker
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17d ago
The architecture behind her is fucked up too.
Would have been too spicy to make her a white woman with soot on her face, I guess.
sarker
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19d ago
Sure, but that was an economic divide, not a divide based on artistic qualities
It is based on artistic qualities because Beethoven got big appealing to the 1%. Taylor Swift got big appealing to the 99%. They are not the same and comparing them is a mistake.
sarker
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19d ago
The music being a major point of pop music goes back centuries: For example Mozart and Beethoven were "pop" artist in their time.
The top answer suggests that a much larger fraction of the population has heard e.g. Michael Jackson than Beethoven or Mozart in their time. Beethoven and Mozart were "pop" for the upper crust of society. Has music popular with the 1% gotten worse? I don't know, but certainly mass media has transformed who you have to appeal to in order to have mass success.
sarker
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19d ago
The question of the hour: Is that really different than most songs produced by human artists?
Possible, hence why I called it replacement level slop.
I do find Spotify's algorithm shows me recent songs that I like with some regularity (and no, these aren't from the Spotify ghost artists/ais), so I'm not as negative as you about today's music.
Music is perhaps not the point of pop music, it's the admiration and parasocial relationship with the artist. It's not clear to me if people will be willing to do this with an AI, but perhaps.
sarker
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19d ago
I suspect that's just result in there being no more sales on such items, demand would probably smooth out substantially.
There's probably some variance in people's willingness to buy in bulk. Costco exists but that hasn't resulted in everyone matching Costco's prices. Maybe more websites will start offering bulk discounts (kind of like subscribe and save).
sarker
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19d ago
Or just do stuff on its own. If I could have Gemini monitor websites XYZ for sales on some consumable and order ten when there's a sale, that would be pretty convenient.
sarker
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19d ago
If we dragnetted everyone guilty of these and prosecuted them to the extent that John Q Public thinks reasonable, it would cripple society.
That or we'd get Singapore.
I mean, maybe we'd need to cane them on national TV rather than incarcerate them, but you get the point.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
19d ago
I can't really put my finger on what's wrong with it but I wouldn't want to listen to any of this again despite liking some of the genres it's aping.
I guess I agree that it's succeeded in producing replacement-level slop and to the extent that people thought this was impossible they should probably eat crow. But I see no indications of SOVL.
sarker
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19d ago
The municipal government argues that the grocery store's below-market rent of 0.77 $/ft2 results in valuation of 2.3 M$ for the two properties at issue. The couple argues that the market rent for the grocery store was 8.5 $/ft2 and on that basis the proper valuation of the two properties is 4.8 M$
Huh? Why is the valuation only ~twice as much after the square foot price is 11x bigger?
sarker
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21d ago
You got arrested for felony assault for calling a cop 'fuckface'?
sarker
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21d ago
Wiki says 12-18.
sarker
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21d ago
Is the implication that Hemingway is not easily digestible?
sarker
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22d ago
Bro, they've got wandshit #1 on the nyt bestseller list these days.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/quicksilver-callie-hart/1145866827?ean=9781538774205#
sarker
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24d ago
Do you realize that the entire windfall from Trump's tariff nonsense would be an order of magnitude less than those quarters, even as it destroys similar value (hundreds of billions)?
Yes? You'll never catch me defending the tariff retardation.
If they're selling stuff to foreigners who aren't completely inept and subjugated, that's also bad, because then those foreigners may develop and get richer, and for an American, the world is zero-sum, so the only Deals Americans are now willing to make are that which make the other party poorer, like the humiliation rituals you subject "NATO allies" to.
The world is positive sum. Abetting your enemies, however, is likely negative sum. At any rate, it's negative for you.
Trump's rhetoric around coercing South Koreans and others to "invest" (he apparently understands FDI in very childish terms, "they give us moneys because they're our bitches") completes the picture.
Yes, this is also retarded. Two retards don't make a right.
sarker
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25d ago
OK, you're slowing them down alright. They will not have as capable models, as quickly or cheaply, in the next 4-6 years. Then what?
In the pessimistic view you seem to hold, maybe the horse will sing. In the optimistic view, then nothing and China never catches up to the western SOTA.
Let's turn the question around. We let American companies sell chips to America's geopolitical rival for less than 4-6 years until, apparently, indigenous Chinese capabilities match American capabilities, at which point China tells Nvidia to GTFO. We benefited our rival for... What? A few quarters of sales for a couple of firms?
Your inclination towards China makes it hard to take seriously your opinion on how America should conduct itself with China.
Have you read The Baroque Cycle?
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