Detrytus

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by Detrytus 11d ago
The cynic in me thinks: most of the things on that list are most easily acquired if you have money.
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by Detrytus 18d ago
Yes, but the size of community matters. In a 100 people tribe everybody knows everyone else. In 1M city most people are strangers, a.k.a. competitors, enemies even.
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by Detrytus 19d ago
and why would he do that? It is an actual title of the linked article.
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by Detrytus 24d ago
Well, if a person has a good story but can’t write, for example some civil rights activist, or war/catastrophe survivor, they will often use a ghostwriter to help with the actual writing.
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by Detrytus 29d ago
This is a top-level example but you do not have to look at the top, really. The whole private insurance system is a scam at every level. I mean: I immigrated to US couple years ago, and I can tell you that any hospital visit, or a diagnost
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by Detrytus 1mo ago
The problem is: average person is bad at counting calories. They overestimate number of calories burnt, and severely underestimate number of calories consumed. Once you get your math right and get into real, not imaginary calorie deficit yo
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by Detrytus 1mo ago
The main thing they should correct for is "how much China and Russia want them dead, and can they make it look like a suicide"?
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by Detrytus 3mo ago
Isn't this tool directly violating NVIDIA license terms? I thought they disallow running CUDA on non-NVIDIA hardware. Or is it just because there's no money for NVIDIA in suing poor, Eastern European programmer?
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by Detrytus 3mo ago
> 4. Congress may regulate money in politics; This one is completely useless. Congress may regulate, but why would they? They directly benefit from more money in politics. If anything this should be more direct, and read: "Political
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by Detrytus 3mo ago
Everyone seems to miss it but the article also says that M5 Ultra Mac Studio is coming out later this year. Yay! I wonder how much the rumored 768GB RAM version will cost.
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by Detrytus 3mo ago
Taller players do great in soccer, to a point. I mean, goalkeepers are the tallest, typically, about 6'4, 6'5. For field players, they usually max out around 6'3, but that's only for certain specialized positions like a
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by Detrytus 3mo ago
Well, nfl/nba are focused on big guys, 6’3 and above. In soccer your height/mass doesn’t matter much so the talent pools don’t overlap. And baseball is the old man’s game that does not require any athleticism at all.
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by Detrytus 4mo ago
> We have a good example with incandescent light bulbs. I don’t know anyone who has attempted to violate the ban on home incandescent light bulbs. Funny, because I remember that when this ban was first introduced in my country there actu
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by Detrytus 4mo ago
Well, I can give you Russian oligarchs - they came to their wealth during time of chaos, and mostly through stealing. But Texan oil billionaires? They won their wealth fair and square, if not for anything else then for just recognizing an o
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by Detrytus 4mo ago
Yes, and the contributions from those parents were so valuable that the society still owes them, even long after their death. That's why we pay our dues to their children and grandchildren.
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by Detrytus 4mo ago
>If a child is "folded in half" by someone looking at their phone, no one accepts that as "good enough" But of course we do. Yes, we punish the individual driver that did it, but we still allow humans to drive cars. W
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by Detrytus 4mo ago
So they are going to buy their own products to boost sales? Shouldn’t that be illegal or something?
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by Detrytus 4mo ago
Airplane cost to operate is fuel consumption, and, by the laws of physic, aerodynamic resistance scales as a square of speed, so you can’t really work around it unless you invent some new laws of physics.
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by Detrytus 4mo ago
Building supersonic passenger planes was never a technical problem (see Concorde), the problem is: they are too expensive to operate to be profitable. I bet this thing will never see any commercial use.
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by Detrytus 4mo ago
Well, we have to remember that the mankind natural state is slavery, a 200-year period of democracy was an anomaly that is now self-correcting.
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by Detrytus 4mo ago
Let's not allow this to distract us from Epstein files :)
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by Detrytus 4mo ago
Common market is overrated, and the negative impact of EU-imposed taxes and stupid regulations is real. As I said: Polish GDP grew faster before joining EU. I would be first to vote "leave" if it ever comes to it.
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by Detrytus 4mo ago
I actually owned quite a bit of Intel stock bought at $19, but was forced to sell it. Then I bough some for $45 last year, and sold couple weeks ago for $60, just a day or two before it took off. Lucky me....
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by Detrytus 5mo ago
Well, it seems to me that the liberal left agenda was kind of hijacked by big corporations. It used to be that Democrats cared about things like equal pay, labor conditions, education costs. Now it is all about abstract things that don’t ma
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by Detrytus 5mo ago
Funny that you say that, because LNG exports from Persian gulf being blocked will result in fertilizer shortages and potentially a famine.
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by Detrytus 5mo ago
That's interesting, because recently China is definitely trying to paint themselves as the reasonable, stable partner, commited to upholding international law (unlike the US, which is ruled by a madman) . Trying to block this aquisiti
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by Detrytus 5mo ago
Well, how about downtown Chicago? Or any big city in the US for that matter?
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by Detrytus 5mo ago
You cannot do a parallel construction if the telecom operator refuses to share data with you in the first place. And if SCOTUS makes the right decision here they will have legal grounds to refuse.
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by Detrytus 5mo ago
It is kind of ironic that the two Windows applications I missed the most in both Linux and Mac are good text editor and terminal emulator: Notepad++ and MobaXTerm
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by Detrytus 5mo ago
I grew up watching my grandmother butchering a chicken for a Sunday dinner. Or my uncle butchering and skinning the calf. Knowing how the sausage is made does nothing for me. I can understand someone being vegan because they believe eating

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