You're mentally stuck in 2009-2015. The world has moved on and Spain is now significantly outperforming Germany in growth (obviously not yet in wealth, which is the integral of growth over much longer time periods).…
I think it's likely that both the blog poster and the maintainer are being perceived as more negative in tone than the intent / reality. They both included disclaimers "I must be doing something wrong. And if I am, I'm…
But the OP did implement a fully featured app as the Nue comparison half of the benchmark. I have never used Nue and don't know if I ever would. I just think to be fair to the OP, even if incremental cost declines as…
Walled gardens are good because if you insist on picking your fruits only from the wilderness due to moral principles you're gonna get mauled by a bear some time. Sure, you might prioritize feeling morally superior, but…
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/01/elon-mu... "Like, the same font, right? And she points this out to the HR manager, and they’re like, Yeah, that means that this person’s the most qualified, because…
You greatly overestimate the quality of the will of the people. Just because you don't like certain outcomes because they are stupid doesn't mean that those outcomes aren't what people wanted. Democratic institutions…
"Health care should be strictly preventative and diagnostic" runs into the problem that not everyone agrees what that means. For a while most Europeans thought that leeching yourself was preventative medicine, or…
It might not be enough for you, but maybe you're not the target audience. His blog is quite popular so clearly it's enough for a lot of folks. What is "good" communication depends on the social context of the…
https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0702396 is a very thorough answer to this question by a very well respected mathematician
Too much bureaucracy is often at fault, but seems very unlikely in this particular case. Are all the other countries mentioned in the article less bureaucratized or regulated? There seems to be a strong correlation…
"A base of 2 is useful because there are several small positive integers whose base-two logarithms are also integers." What? No! Base 2 is natural in exactly the same way that base e is natural, except for discrete…
The stock market represents a tiny and shrinking sliver of the overall economy. https://businessreview.studentorg.berkeley.edu/why-your-favo.... In many cases there is no distributed class of shareholders, just a…
The reason that pay transparency laws (which probably don't apply to this position, but exist in other states) require salary ranges and not a specific number is precisely to account for the fact that different…
I don't know what OP is referring to here, but from discussions like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4417485 It seems like circa 2010 folks were referring to JavaScript as "fast" because it was more performant in some…
"And even then, they had to feed the tool portions of the very articles they sought to elicit verbatim passages of, virtually all of which already appear on multiple public websites." Getting OpenAI to spit out part of…
Actually, gain of function research that's been criticized has been criticized mainly for increasing virulence. The post you're responding to here is asking about in vitro research to decrease virulence.
You're mentally stuck in 2009-2015. The world has moved on and Spain is now significantly outperforming Germany in growth (obviously not yet in wealth, which is the integral of growth over much longer time periods).…
I think it's likely that both the blog poster and the maintainer are being perceived as more negative in tone than the intent / reality. They both included disclaimers "I must be doing something wrong. And if I am, I'm…
But the OP did implement a fully featured app as the Nue comparison half of the benchmark. I have never used Nue and don't know if I ever would. I just think to be fair to the OP, even if incremental cost declines as…
Walled gardens are good because if you insist on picking your fruits only from the wilderness due to moral principles you're gonna get mauled by a bear some time. Sure, you might prioritize feeling morally superior, but…
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/01/elon-mu... "Like, the same font, right? And she points this out to the HR manager, and they’re like, Yeah, that means that this person’s the most qualified, because…
You greatly overestimate the quality of the will of the people. Just because you don't like certain outcomes because they are stupid doesn't mean that those outcomes aren't what people wanted. Democratic institutions…
"Health care should be strictly preventative and diagnostic" runs into the problem that not everyone agrees what that means. For a while most Europeans thought that leeching yourself was preventative medicine, or…
It might not be enough for you, but maybe you're not the target audience. His blog is quite popular so clearly it's enough for a lot of folks. What is "good" communication depends on the social context of the…
https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0702396 is a very thorough answer to this question by a very well respected mathematician
Too much bureaucracy is often at fault, but seems very unlikely in this particular case. Are all the other countries mentioned in the article less bureaucratized or regulated? There seems to be a strong correlation…
"A base of 2 is useful because there are several small positive integers whose base-two logarithms are also integers." What? No! Base 2 is natural in exactly the same way that base e is natural, except for discrete…
The stock market represents a tiny and shrinking sliver of the overall economy. https://businessreview.studentorg.berkeley.edu/why-your-favo.... In many cases there is no distributed class of shareholders, just a…
The reason that pay transparency laws (which probably don't apply to this position, but exist in other states) require salary ranges and not a specific number is precisely to account for the fact that different…
I don't know what OP is referring to here, but from discussions like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4417485 It seems like circa 2010 folks were referring to JavaScript as "fast" because it was more performant in some…
"And even then, they had to feed the tool portions of the very articles they sought to elicit verbatim passages of, virtually all of which already appear on multiple public websites." Getting OpenAI to spit out part of…
Actually, gain of function research that's been criticized has been criticized mainly for increasing virulence. The post you're responding to here is asking about in vitro research to decrease virulence.