Doesn't have to be linear, ANY strictly increasing function for aggregating the utility leads to the same conclusion.
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Or at least, messing with the user's URL [0] to inject your affiliate code is a pretty bad, single strike kinda thing for me.
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> In the 19th century, American robber barons got together and formed trusts: For example, a group of railroad owners could sell their shares to a “railroad trust” and become beneficiaries of the trust. The trustees—the same robber barons, or their representatives—would run the trust, deciding how to operate all these different, nominally competing railroads to maximize the return to the trustees (the railroads’ former owners).
> A trust was a way of merging all the dominant companies in a single industry (or even multiple related industries, like oil refineries, railroads, pipelines, and oil wells) into a single company, while maintaining the fiction that all of these companies were their own businesses.
> Any company that didn’t sell to the trust was quickly driven to its knees. For example, if you owned a freight company and wouldn’t sell out to the trust, all the railroads you depended on to carry your freight would charge you more than they’d charge your competitors for carrying the same freight—or they’d refuse to carry your freight at all.
> What’s more, any business that supplied a trust would quickly find itself stripped of its profit margins and either bankrupted and absorbed by the trust, or allowed to eke out bare survival. If you supplied coal to the railroad trust, all the railroads would refuse to buy your coal unless you knocked your prices down until you were making next to nothing—or losing money. Hell, if you got too frisky, they might refuse to carry your coal from the coal mine to the market, and then where’d you be?
If your commitment to the cause evaporates because "a leftie was mean to you on the internet", what kind of commitment are you offering in the first place?
Should have just let them starve and be homeless, hell yeah brother. Maybe even straight to the incinerator once you retire and stop contributing to the economy. After all, the GDP must flourish!
Step 1: get in power. Step 2: make government smaller by dismantling systems made to protect the public. Step 3: grift. Step 4: "See, governments are all grifters! Never vote for people who ask for bigger governments." Step 5: goto step 1
And if you ignore the time and monetary cost of finding parking.
Do you also think donating money to the Taliban counts as merely bad-think, or is that limited to when the cause is homophobic only?
If you can't pay your employees market wage, why do you deserve to stay in business? Do restaurants ever expect to underpay their tomato suppliers using the same logic?
> They have the potential for far better edge inference and also benefits longer context windows. ... I would be surprised if the current transformer LLM paradigm is what we use in a few years.
What are the studies/evidence that convinced you? Given the current landscape, the last claim is quite bold.
Not an NLP person, so apologies in advance if I've missed any obvious papers or references.
Or perhaps there's an A-B testing going on to see how they might be able to tire people out by making the "one-click" opt out harder.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
I don't know how connected you are with Bangladeshi politics right now, but poll-hacking through extreme repression is the first trick Sheikh Hasina/her party Awami League mastered. I am not surprised to see such a high approval rating, rather, I'm surprised to see 30% people signal disapproval in an environment with extreme political speech suppression. If you doubt that, read the story we're discussing under again. This is a government that's been jailing people without trial for their Facebook posts.
If you want to know some indication of the true feeling of the people, go check out the Facebook posts of anything related to the ruling party, and check the ratio of "haha" reacts to likes or hearts. Generally, that's 4:1 in my experience.