Barrin92

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by Barrin92 4d ago
is that accurate? Here in Germany minimal Kfz-Haftpflichtversicherung is I believe 7 million in personal injuries and 1 million in property damages. So if a broke guy in the US runs you over and causes you half a million in health damages
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by Barrin92 4d ago
>There's a general malaise throughout this continent of Europe The continent is remarkably resilient, we just love to complain. The fact that we're handling a de facto war with Russia, an energy crisis, a trade crisis and about
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by Barrin92 5d ago
>It’s interesting that a lot of U.S. law requires intent. mens rea and the shift from responsibility to moral guilt is genuinely one of the stupidest legal innovations anyone has ever come up with, it's like affirmative action for i
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by Barrin92 5d ago
>And what's the conspiracy aspect of calling a big company a liar? the conspiracy aspect is alleging a conspiracy without providing any evidence, which is apparently how 90% of people function now. Calling someone a liar because you
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by Barrin92 5d ago
they've already had a very similar idea at truth social themselves, they're now selling premium early access to market moving news https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/truth-social...
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by Barrin92 6d ago
The question to me in terms of memory is, if you're writing a weather app on windows why are you not using C#. The point of these low/zero overhead languages like Rust is you're in an environment where memory management is ul
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by Barrin92 7d ago
>but there's fundamentally nothing substantial to it in terms of gameplay. to me that has become a big positive aspect of the game. The non-teleology of it, that you just run around and immersive yourself in it is pleasant in its ow
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by Barrin92 8d ago
>That does not make "traditions flexible". It's just a cheap tactic to increase followers/harvest souls. That's not mutually exclusive. You're certainly right that religions spread this way, but it's al
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by Barrin92 8d ago
I'm not knowledgeable enough about Hinduism to argue the first point but that's too reductive of a view of Christianity and Islam. There's a rich history of panentheism in both. Ibn Arabi, probably the most famous Sufi schola
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by Barrin92 9d ago
>the reason it exploded in complexity is because the pieces were too simple the reason it exploded in complexity is because the complexity is in the interaction of the parts, not the properties of the parts. It's not so much about e
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by Barrin92 9d ago
You can have a steady-state economy even under the most classical of economics like Solow, simply when capital stock stays constant because investment equals depreciation. And it's no coincidence that Saito is Japanese because that&#x2
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by Barrin92 9d ago
Kohei Saito writes about this at length in Capital in the Anthropocene. Most obvious solution is to build an economy around social labor that has traditionally been externalized to households by capital. Start collectively paying people to
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by Barrin92 10d ago
>Somebody needs to figure out how to move millions of people from one platform to other it's been solved, ban the platform. This is a collective action problem. Even if every single user on platform X wants to move to platform Y, as
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by Barrin92 10d ago
Jan 6, didn't work, not entirely sure why you bring this up as a blueprint for anyone. It was an actual LARP and as Bruno Macaes wrote resembled a bunch of people making it to the end of a videogame, then running around confused in cos
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by Barrin92 10d ago
the semi popularized physics lectures are also mindless content. It's infotainment, it might be worse than junk because it disguises itself as learning. People will consume thousands of hours of that stuff and not be able to solve one
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by Barrin92 11d ago
>use the small windows of time we look at our phone again, it's not a small window. It's six hours. That's almost half your waking day. People spend virtually their entire leisure time rotting away on low quality entertain
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by Barrin92 11d ago
only four countries in the world have private/commercial space launch capacity, and SpaceX towers over everyone else so I'd say this is doing pretty alright compared to the rest of the world
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by Barrin92 11d ago
>to comfortably an consistently expend effort on intellectually-taxing tasks that aren't perceived as directly related to their survival. the average person spends 6(!) hours a day on their smartphone, the average TikTok user spends
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by Barrin92 13d ago
>AGI has a pretty precise definition, covering only cognitive tasks. OpenAI's own charter defines AGI as "Highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". This is actually fairly sensib
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by Barrin92 14d ago
that's a friction between your philosophy and his philosophy, not between his philosophy and his practice. He lived exactly what he preached and so I don't understand in what sense he is a "hypocritical curmudgeon". He
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by Barrin92 14d ago
>Wendell Berry's writings about technology are harder to tolerate once you learn that he made his wife type up his manuscripts for him to be sent on to publishers. Why is that? In his essay (that's linked above) him writing wi
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by Barrin92 15d ago
>It isn't bots complaining about Firefox here, it's power users who are frustrated by what Firefox is turning into The problem isn't that they're frustrated it's that they don't have the theory of mind to di
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by Barrin92 15d ago
It killed a kid in my sports class growing up as well. Dropped like a stone, cardiac arrest, couldn't be resuscitated. After that they had a 'heart health' mobile ekg come to the school once a year for people who wanted a che
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by Barrin92 17d ago
Roughly half of American states have passed extensive internet regulation in the last few years to the point of entire businesses exciting their states, and that's the conservative parts of America. The American public, of various cree
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by Barrin92 17d ago
>Feel free to point to anyone doing these deep dives that specifically tackle the lost knowledge of the early decades of computer science I skimmed through the video because I don't have two hours but there's no lost knowledge
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by Barrin92 17d ago
that's not what I said at all. I pointed out that there are technologies that facilitate human development, and there are technologies that stunt and replace it, say a car. What I was asking was is: If it's true as you say that we
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by Barrin92 18d ago
I think you can argue, as the author does, whether the nature of the event has changed but Burning man attracts about 80k people at this point. That's comparable to Wacken, the largest annual metal festival in the world. I know people
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by Barrin92 18d ago
>I am arguing that the atrophied skills are compensated by new skills we develop is there a lot of evidence for this? You can broadly put technology into two camps. Technologically that, as it becomes more powerful, demands more attentio
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by Barrin92 18d ago
>people were making the exact same arguments about them. That not knowing your API to the core makes you a bad programmer. And they were correct. You're entirely right that this time it isn't different, but in the sense that th
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by Barrin92 19d ago
>US companies like Meta or Google __LOVE__ GDPR If that were the case they'd have spend money on supporting GDPR rather than sending armies of lobbyists to Brussels in an attempt to prevent it, or attempting to turn the US president

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