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mrjay42
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- The website is https://marginalrevolution.com/about
Whose founders are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Tabarrok and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cowen
Tabarrok " In 2012, journalist David Brooks called Tabarrok one of the most influential bloggers on the political right, writing that he is among those who "start from broadly libertarian premises but do not apply them in a doctrinaire way."[6] "
Cowen " Cowen’s work spans economics, philosophy, and cultural commentary. He is known for advocating a pragmatic form of libertarianism that emphasizes strong governance, economic dynamism, and technological progress—an approach he terms state capacity libertarianism.[3] In 2011, he was included in Foreign Policy’s list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers,” and Prospect magazine ranked him among the world’s most influential economists in 2023.[4][5] "
Those people and this blog is not at all a scientific institution, editor, publisher.
And as mentioned in another comment, the person we're invited to read from Crémieux ("Earlier Cremieux showed exactly the same thing based on data from Sweden and earlier CDC data."). " He was a speaker at the 2024 Manifest conference. Eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly was also a speaker.[2] Lasker has spoken out in favor of natalism.[2][14] Early in 2025, Lasker was a speaker at the Natal Conference, which has been criticized for including speakers promoting far-right ideologies such as Raw Egg Nationalist.[2][15] "
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Those people are not scientists, they cosplay knowledge and scientific process and will use data to serve their narratives.
Yet another example that the info shared here in HN are vastly influenced by some angry teenagers with some kind of libertarian edgelord imperialist agenda. I mean, I'm assuming that's what they imagine they think between two games of League of Legends or wanking to deepfakes
- So this is about PerlMonks, which I knew nothing about until today.
I searched it, the site is down The Wikipedia article is deleted
This is pure loss of information somehow.
I and a lot of other people in the future will never know what "perlmonks" is/are, how important it was?, etc. etc.
The logic seems to be: if tomorrow Stack Exchange disappears, the Wikipedia article will be deleted? If yes, then that makes zero sense.
- I'm really surprised that in https://www.govdirectory.org/countries/ " most (all?) E.U (so yes, I'm talking about political Europe, not geographical Europe) are not there :(
What could be the reason for this?
- This article is based on this https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4451-1.html which is NOT a peer reviewed study but a "research report", which doesn't mean it's wrong or false or fake, but it means that you have to read it with extreme precautions.
Nothing in there has been double-checked by reviewers :/
- This is one of the oldest trick in the book of very very dumb people who confuse "the truth" with "what they think".
I'm sure we all met that person in the family or in a new job, or at school being so proud of themselves for being "honest", and later on you discover that their honesty is not honesty, it's just "saying whatever crosses their mind unfiltered".
- I started to follow documentation here (https://docs.inkeep.com/self-hosting/docker-local) to run things with Docker.
-> connect to the locally installed instance of SigNoz
-> It asks for an email -> when I type it, it says: "This account does not exist. To create a new account, contact your admin to get an invite link"
-> But I am the admin :'), also tried to create an account there https://signoz.io/
-> but they refuse personal Github or Gmail accounts for now.
Conclusion
So it's literally impossible to run your app for a 'normal person' running their own server :(
Or maybe I missed a step :/
- Last time I checked, Intel's MSRs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-specific_register) allow Intel PCM (https://github.com/intel/pcm) to work, are indeed used to profile, or "measure performance" (sorry if my vocabulary is not the most accurate). Last time I checked the code of Intel PCM, it still relies on hardcoded values for each CPU which are as close as possible to reality but are still an estimation.
It doesn't mean that you get wrong measurements, it means there's a level of inaccuracy that has to be accepted.
BTW, I am aware that Intel PCM is not a profiler, and more of a measurement tool, however you CAN you use it to 'profile' your program and see how it behaves in terms of computing and memory utilization (with deep analysis of cache behavior (cache hit, cache miss, etc.))
- Maybe it's a matter of time and process?, bear with me:
An encyclopedia is slow. It has to be slow. It's good (beneficial) that it's slow.
And yes, it means that it is self-correcting, slowly
Thing is, if it was fast to self-correct -> it would generate more errors and it would leave the door opened to more errors.
- Yep good catch.
To be fair, I discovered this article today, and I read it with passion.
Because, even though I'm 43yo, I'm too young to have worked professionally with other OSes than Windows and Linux. And it's super interesting for me to discover that astronomers had software solutions which were discarded and when they tried to protect what they had, they faced the "priesthood" mindset that is so well described in this article.
I'm not trying to troll, but I feel that this priesthood mindset is exactly the same as the one used when people destroy anyone who dares to criticize git. I think this quote from Douglas Adams and from that article fits perfectly: "their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws".
- Asking about the logic here: this is a form of fallacy...kinda?
His "interpretation" or guess, wasn't worse or better than yours.
Therefore, his statement about a misleading title is not invalidated because you guessed in the opposite direction.
Let's say
Hypothesis 1
Article is negative (ChatGPT gave bad medical advice and that led to the E.R.)
Then * His guess -> is correct
* Your guess -> is wrong
Hypothesis 2
Article is positive
Then
* His guess -> is wrong
* Your guess -> is correct
Conclusion:
In any case you had NO way to know beforehand
So, in what ways pointing out that this is "his interpretation" invalidates anything he said?
Of course, it is his guess and based on the title alone, it's at least an equally valid guess as yours.
I say "at least", because it's not unreasonable to think that an LLM might have hallucinated some medical advice and that could lead someone to have an unhealthy practice which led them to the E.R.
- Just an observation, not a mean critique about the project or even the conclusions.
There's 180 participants.
There's 26 people marked at "very liberal", which is 14% of the sample.
There's 39 people marked at "very conservative", which is 21% of the sample.
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Then we have 31 people marked as liberal, which is 17% of the sample.
And we have 63 people marked as conservative, which is 35% of the sample.
That already I would say is kind of an issue: more than a third of the sample are conservative people and 17% are their liberal 'counter part' or 'equivalent' (sorry for my wording, I'm not native speaker).
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If we do a little additions we therefore have:
39+63 = 102, which means that 56% of the sample is conservative
31+26= 57, which means that 31% of the sample is liberal
The rest of the sample are centrists or "neutrals" (whatever this means)
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I am NOT saying that the study is invalid I am not saying that it's poorly done
However, I think it's fair to say that the sample is skewed towards people with conservative views, by a HUGE amount, not just "a little bit".
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Aside from this: amazing UI design, I'm jealous and admirative of the results ^^
- Could it be a case of "unwanted fallacy"? (bear with me)
I mean: At almost any point in time, when fascists are NOT in power, it's because they were, one way or another, stopped.
The logic would be: fascism is a systematic/automatic force that wants to seize power, usually by basing its ideology on anti-intellectualism, glorified past, enemies of the nation that must be eliminated/deported, imperialist motives (conquest, war, etc.).
This systematic force always exists. It always exists because there are always people who wants to dominate, oppress, express violence against this or that group of people.
Therefore, the few times fascists reached power in any country around the world it's because of a combination of factors and that's what we KNOW about.
For instance, this movement https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulangisme never reached power. BUT it for sure planted the seeds of future hatred, extreme nationalism, etc. and they were VERY determined to take the power, and they didn't. But we don't 'count' it as "fascism that was stopped" because there was no clear, obvious, big event that we can pinpoint as fascists being stopped.
In my case, I administrate a small server at home, where I self host many services that are made available to myself, friends and families, over the internet.
In that context, IPv6, is SADLY (please note that I have NOTHING against IPv6), a limitation, even a nightmare to use.
Some programs do not handle IPv6 at all. Game servers for instance, do not support it, the one that I think about is: Arma 3. But there are many others
In 2025 (and 2026 too?), 4G (5G?) operators do not all route over IPv6 -> which means that if your domain only has a AAAA record, some people using 4G will not be able to access ANY of your services. This issue forced me to beg my ISP to obtain an IPv4 "fullstack" as they call it.
Without that IPv4 you have to go through some kind of tunneling (like Cloudflare) -> and guess what? Cloudflare sometimes crashes (it happened super recently remember?) and in that situation -> ALL your services accessible through the tunnel are "down" for your users. Plus, it is EXTREMELY unsatisfying to rely on an external private-owned service for a selfhosting project.
In almost ALL context IPv6 is seen as optional, additional, additional configuration and is NEVER the default. NEVER. Which means: more configuration, possibly more struggle.