Lung @ lung @lemmy.world

Expert developer, Buddhist

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Problem is billionaires don't make "income" and it's quite difficult to even know what they own, let alone how to tax something like unrealized gains on stock holdings that they are using as leverage to get loans

He implicitly defines consciousness as an ability to step back from the particular ruleset or training to see "the big picture" and deal with new circumstances. In particular how humans are different from godel's incompleteness theorem, which constrains the function of all algorithmic systems

The thing is that you have to break the law to be an effective and even safe driver. Going way under the limit or refusing to go into the opposite lane for a moment means that you cause traffic congestion and piss people off. Waymos definitely break laws at times, I've seen it personally. And other times waymos get too "safe" and end up locked in place for 30 min at a time. The real world is a chaotic place and there's always been a discrepancy between what the laws are and how people actually drive. Lidar helps see things humans cant, but the main problem is the intelligence required, which may improve over time

That's so cool, maybe the first time in the history of humanity that we see open source tax software, that's guaranteed to be accurate to the law. For one year at least

It runs Scala / Java, and has docker configs, decent documentation. And an ominous message explaining that some parts were too secret to open source so they had to rewrite chunks of it. Overall, it seems like it was a big project just to get this published, and I am impressed they managed it, given the software team was comprised of 3 different agencies and several contractor firms

Yes, welcome

Whoa! You can get energy from gravity and spin?? Who would have guessed

Well for once I have to stand up for apple. What makes them different in the AI space is that the inference actually happens on device and is very privacy focused. Probably why it sucks

That's just any store

Idk he makes some pretty wild claims along the way

• AI is only going to become more expensive for corps with time. This has ~never been true in computing, where specialized hardware and optimizations trend costs down
• That marketing managers are dumbass easy marks who are wasting their company money. Every half way decent marketing department measures outcomes and knows exactly how much money is generated by their activities

Well...

If you follow the link to fedidb, refer to the "mau" monthly active users. Do some brief math and realize that lemmy.world accounts for about 50% of all active users

Email market share is harder, but many estimate that Gmail accounts for over 40%. Many many orgs use Google apps to make custom branded gmails with their own domains too

This is the typical "business power law" that states that the top player should control about 50%, the second player about 25%, etc. This is just kinda how the world works

Well, thanks for explaining

I genuinely don't understand why people here are railing him. All the article said was he wanted to research environmental causes for an increasingly common condition. That seems totally reasonable. Look at car pollution reducing avg brain capacity. Look at plastics pollution. Look at toxins in ultraproceassed food, many of which are banned in EU but not USA. Look at our water quality and lead pipes problem

Look, I know he has talked about vaccines before, but literally didn't mention it here. It's totally reasonable and good for all of us to tackle pollutants, toxins, environmental quality. Yes, it's likely that many health problems would be resolved if we understood this better; that's a valid theory to pursue. But yes, I know, I know "maga bad"

To this day homies don't understand the simple rule that controversy sells. It powers the brand. It keeps it in the news every day. Manage a steady drip of "bad but not soooo bad" controversy and you win. Case in point: Trump

If you want something to end, get people to stop thinking about it. I suspect people just like having something to be mad about and "belong" to an ingroup of other people mad at it too

Inb4 people are mad at me for "supporting Elon" by saying the above, right? Because obviously what he's doing is so bad and evil that "how dare I" not stand up against it? Well, I hope you enjoy the ride

No cap that might actually keep without boiling your bottles, you have on your hands a tomato shrub XD

Ah my thermometer only reads fahrenheit, so you know I'm naturally confused about temperatures

That's true, I love taking a hot water bath, and it's been completely safe so far

Today I learned that people do canning at home without a proper pressure cooker

VPNs don't help here, the website asks you for your driver's license. Tbf giving your credit card to them is typically enough for them (big tech + govt) to construct a full profile of who you are anyway, and that was the original "age gate" -- though there are some services that make CCs modestly privacy preserving -- not the case for IDs

Good question. I don't actually know. My previous statement is a lie, I've only seen them in movies

I've been lucky enough to find some women that are a lot of fun to be around, and understand my interests at a deep level. I'd describe it as kind of like friendship, but with a woman