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This is an awful and really ignorant take. The manner in which the problem is “solved” matters a lot, and these AI solutions are about as poorly-done as possible. That a solution exists closes the door on almost any sort of support for finding another, better one, which is the real problem. If this continues, we wind up with a field with no open problems, no practicing mathematicians, no future mathematicians, and no way to come up with new problems (this latter being much more important than solving existing ones, in the main).
Re:War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready? on Friday September 18, 2026 @10:45PM (#49762812)
I like that you said genocide and not me. But what I like more is enjoying the long slide into irrelevancy of opinions like the one you expressed in your original comment. I look forward to the day we can have constructive discussions about capital investment and migration which feature no mention of such puerile and ignorant notions of ethnicity and nationalism.
Re:War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready? on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:27PM (#49761092)
Remind us what happened last time Europeans got too obsessed with cultural unity and shared identity?
Re:Mathematics in the Age of AI on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @11:09PM (#49369939)
This hasn't been a remotely reasonable characterization of math since at least Hilbert's time.
Writing that mathematics is a waste is such a hilariously ignorant comment to make on a programming forum.
You’re definitely happily collecting the proceeds of those sins, though, I’m sure.
Were we living in the same city? There were multiple heatwaves in the time I lived there, one so severe that Noe Valley got to 107.

And this isn’t to mention the wildfires or inevitable water issues.

These days, I’ve been separating the poop from the food before I eat it.
Good thing all those roads aren’t planned, built, and maintained by the government!
Re:FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:44PM (#35105447)
right, which is why this is a liquidity problem and not a solvency one. The assets cover the liabilities--you just have to wait ten years or whatever.
Re:FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:53PM (#35105088)
The liabilities are the same currency and the same amount in 2023 and 2033. They’re solvent.

The asterisk is that the liabilities are generating interest, but this is fine because (one very safely assumes) that’s covered by the interest on the long-duration assets SVB bought.

Once-in-a-century weather patterns happening multiple times per decade, that sort of thing.
> I find that especially important because to every appearance we are a machine learning algorithm.

Speak for yourself.

You might wanna check out some of jason hickel’s writings in the topic. As someone from such a “place with a lot of poverty” I’ve always chafed at the idea that capitalism (and thus colonialism) led to an improvement in living conditions, when really it meant mostly murder and looting.
Competition in its recognizably modern form only recently became the foundational organizational system for civilization, and civilization “won” because (in part) a) it generally has no problem deploying incredible levels of violence and coercion, against people and the environment, and b) it promotes continuous population increase, even beyond what may be sustainable.

There’s about a million places to source this, but I might start with something like James C. Scott.

Re:GitHub to Layoff 10% on Thursday February 09, 2023 @06:34PM (#34733315)
even if that were the case, the only place you're getting prolonged proximity to a (relatively) fixed group of people is your workplace? that sounds super not good.
This is really not a great time to rest an argument on the principle that exchanges function well with regards to dollar cashflows.
huh
right, except that nobody is buying stocks with tether.
Re:Tether ownership and company weaknesses revealed in documents on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:29PM (#34634151)
…what

Look at a tether volume chart vs a btcusd chart

Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:51PM (#34602772)
Where in Boston did you live? That’s definitely the case in the fancy parts of Boston and definitely not the case in the minority ghettoes like roxbury, JP, and dorchester
Re:The YC Founder Directory on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @12:01AM (#34320741)
neither category should be inhabited, so yeah.
Re:The YC Founder Directory on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @12:00AM (#34320735)
I would not, but I know some people who would consider a deal like that. At $12k/yr and your stage you’re basically hiring a cofounder, so four points is… not a lot. You sound like you probably still have most of the equity left, so I’d expect more.

And a cliff? Nobody does cliffs these days after big tech axed them.

Miners mine the longest chain for a given coin. This poster is proposing just making another coin, not forming the existing Bitcoin chain.
Re:The YC Founder Directory on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:42AM (#34271424)
The sorts of men who are thrown into cages are different sorts of men than those who are handed enormous sums of capital.
Re:The YC Founder Directory on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:39AM (#34271408)
> You could retire tomorrow, but you weren't put on this Earth to just be idle.

nice

> Your startup is "Ramen profitable" - that means you're making around 7k/month revenue to cover 2-5k expenses. If you start saving 100% of profits NOW you can afford 1 of those engineers in (checks notes) just under 8 years! What's your next move?

Offer the engineers meaningful equity rather than the one or two points they might ordinarily expect.

Re:America’s Forgotten Crisis on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:28AM (#34036744)
Never thought I’d see quillette on the front page
Re:FTX Contagion on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @05:31AM (#33877800)
FTX had enormous crypto holdings and made investments in companies you’d definitely consider crypto companies, notwithstanding that there aren’t any “pure” exchanges in the crypto world anyway—they all get their noses in it.
Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT on Saturday December 03, 2022 @08:08PM (#33849412)
It sounds good, except that there’s no results for “screechings” or “only cure” in the books, and Ron doesn’t encounter Voldemort in Goblet, only Harry and Cedric do.

Again, it has no semantic comprehension, it doesn’t know that certain strings of words are valid in certain contexts because they refer to actual events, objects, or concepts, it’s just putting letters together.

Probably some of its training material included Harry Potter fan fiction or other non-canon stuff, and that’s why it said what it said.

Most of the now-deep, now-interesting areas were once shallow and uninteresting.

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