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- Comment on Pizza Party and Casual Fridays 1 day ago:
Is this meaningfully distinct from measuring monpolization/oligopolies? I can’t recall how we filter out small businesses + self employed folk (and how that plays against companies eating other companies.)
- Comment on Any politician who disagrees needs to go 6 days ago:
Yeah… innumeracy really isn’t helping anybody here.
Confused at where the 1.5 trillion comes from, but maybe I’m just not following closely enough.
- Submitted 1 week ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 1 week ago:
See an extended version of this take from Bruce Schneier. (He’s also going to spend awhile arguing for a public option on AI; something using the technology in an open way, respecting IP, and distributing the benefits.)
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 weeks ago:
Do we have data on how much free time and external costs the poor have been burdened with over time?
I could see it going either way (and this is presumably monstrously tricky to account fairly). My lived experience is that many folks have things they’d prefer to do than organizing (I’m looking at phones and social media), over and above the impositions on their lives. But I’d like to know that I’m wrong.
- Submitted 1 month ago to videos@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on ‘Hundreds of job applications’: young people on their struggle to find work 2 months ago:
Good to see anecdata that actually include the people they are about, instead of what an old person thinks their lives are like.
Getting started today does seem bleak.
- Comment on Praise Helix 2 months ago:
and I for one am very happy you’re here!
- Submitted 2 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 22 comments
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
source on the size of the effects of lobbying vs flight risk?
I would like to agree with you, its just very not-obvious which influence dominates.
- Comment on wage theft 2 months ago:
There’s something I don’t understand here. See the wikipedia article, which shows billions in losses, and (eyeballing) a ratio of ~20-200, not 3. Anybody know what’s up?
- Comment on Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine 3 months ago:
I admit to hoping it was more… nix?
- Comment on Being Difficult 3 months ago:
good bot
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 3 months ago:
Sorry but such a screencap requires a source. This is almost surely misinformation.
- Submitted 4 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Anyone know where I can buy or get books by the pound to start a new library for our local jail. To help them read and prep them for a GED? 4 months ago:
^^ This is very good. Also schools! I had a highschool giving out literal trucks of books a couple times.
- Comment on Anyone know where I can buy or get books by the pound to start a new library for our local jail. To help them read and prep them for a GED? 4 months ago:
Pallets, often of mixed books, get sold via auction at the post office reclimation center. You must arrange pickup and shipping. www.govdeals.com/en/asset/145908/4703
Something I really wish I didn’t know about. Hope it’s useful.
- Comment on You are being misled about renewable energy technology - YouTube 5 months ago:
For a lot of folks, the algorithm offers nothing else. If you’re flagged as vulnerable to any of a few dozen brands of content, you’ll never be offered anything else. And very few folks are vulnerable by choice.
Also, idk if you’ve tried youtube search for things you don’t already understand. It is not great.
- Comment on You are being misled about renewable energy technology - YouTube 5 months ago:
The data don’t support this take. The reach of this kind of content is pretty small still, and there’s far more money and effort spent in keeping most people too busy, distracted, or enraged at other things.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 7 months ago:
While I had similar concerns, I do think about this a fair bit now. A nontrivial math problem was proved by Aristotle (in Lean, a proof assistant, so we’re relatively sure it’s correct). Alpha Evolve then generalized. GPT pro did some writing and visualization work.
It’s basically the quality of work I aspire to. Slightly cheaper, and substantially faster. Not the strongest PhD, but a solid graduate student.
- Comment on Utah repeals labor law considered one of the most restrictive in the US 7 months ago:
Note that this law was new as of this year, and very poorly received. Quote from article:
He [Jordan Teuscher, the original House sponsor] maintained that it was a “good policy” that has been “overshadowed by misinformation and unnecessary division.”
So watch for this to be proposed in a state house near you.
- Comment on all the proof i need 7 months ago:
important repository of similar content here. Thank you University of Utah.
- Comment on Powdertoy: FOSS falling sand 8 months ago:
This made my day
- Submitted 8 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 16 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
When possible, I like asking them to show me. That way you at least get to skip one work task.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 8 months ago:
I see a lot of people answering what the Republican leadership seems to believe and do. This is very different from what the average Republican voter believes.
Let me cover just a couple issues that drive an otherwise functional person to vote Republican:
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abortion. There are a shocking (and tragic) number of otherwise reasonable people who get a strong ick response to the idea of abortion. They rarely research the issue. This is an opinion so immediately visceral that they believe it is a moral law (and there are many communities that strongly reinforce this belief). I know of many folks who see the Republican corruption and the damage it’s doing, but can’t get through their anti-choice gut feeling to vote blue.
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economic interest. There are a nontrivial number of people who could lose a lot of money depending on how democratic policies are implemented. The left is a fractured mess, so no particular implementation is guaranteed. But if you keep the system around, historically you won’t get harmed specifically (we all get leeched to death slowly instead). Think rent control for a family whose retirement depends on 3 rental properties. The grandkids will vote Republican to, they believe, keep Grandma solvent. (This wouldn’t be an issue if large sweeping reforms were on the table. They aren’t. Also these calculations are often vibes based, because who has this kind of data.) See all the incentives around NIMBY Democrats. Some previously union areas fall under this; globalization policies felt like they destroyed their communities.
There are more. And polling will tell you about them. No need to ask other leftists (we call this an echo chamber).
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- Comment on What's the main device to hammer in a nail? 8 months ago:
My favorite indication that someone is using a word in an unusual way is that their question has no answer if you interpret it as usual.
- Comment on What's the main device to hammer in a nail? 8 months ago:
… I… I literally talked about this. It’s the first words.
They don’t say that the random answer is chosen uniformly (though that is the norm in the field). If we relax that,…
What more was needed?
- Comment on What's the main device to hammer in a nail? 8 months ago:
They don’t say that the random answer is chosen uniformly (though that is the norm in the field). If we relax that, then we’re putting a distribution on these where we want:
P(correct with distribution (a,b,c,d)) = some value shown on A,B,C,D
I don’t see any assumption that we will pick using that distribution, so I think this avoids the recursion.
Unfortunately this has too many solutions. If you put a total of 0.25 weight on A and D, then the rest does not matter. If you put 0.5 weight on C, again the rest is irrelevant.
- Comment on Research shows research is the leading cause of research 8 months ago:
Have begun? We’ve got philosophers of science going back millennia, and history of science for at least half a century.
