Newlaptop

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by Newlaptop 3mo ago
I've been surprised that the news that Strategy (formerly Microstrategy) bought 3x the total amount of mined bitcoin in the past year didn't cause bigger waves. A single corporation is issuing debt at 11% interest to buy all the b
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by Newlaptop 3mo ago
I just checked, and the SAT math section covers algebra, trigonometry and statistics. Look at this list: Quadratic equations and functions (vertex form, roots, discriminant) Polynomial operations and factoring Exponential functions
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by Newlaptop 3mo ago
Voters rejected a proposal, and your response is that the result will be more parties that support the type of thing that the majority of voters just rejected? In a sense, you may be correct, but who cares? The majority of people voted agai
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by Newlaptop 3mo ago
And the safety-focused AI lab ends up being the most dystopian one. Is that irony? Scary future, where we'll all end up increasingly dependent on AI models, but those models will hide knowledge and refuse to help with any manner of thi
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by Newlaptop 3mo ago
California has 10% income tax vs 0 in Texas. Austin property tax is 2% vs Palo Alto at 1.4%. Salary of $150k in Austin requires $282k in San Francisco to be equivalent. Source: https://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/
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by Newlaptop 4mo ago
This comment seems like 15 years outdated to me. I'm curious what you think "normal" pay and "startup" pay are. Or maybe how early you're drawing the line for defining "startup". Being in the first ha
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by Newlaptop 5mo ago
"Environmentalists" is a large, diverse group and nuclear energy has been a controversial topic splitting the group for decades. Many environmentalists are pro-nuclear, and viewed exclusively through an environmental lens, nuclear
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by Newlaptop 5mo ago
> I guess I just don't get it Imagine you liked something, then realized that thing was bad and you didn't want to do it anymore. Then somebody offered you an alternative without the ethical problems. I ate meat for like 30 yea
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by Newlaptop 6mo ago
Reservations have no federal restrictions against development. In fact, they are exempt from regulations that restrict nearby land, which is why casinos are such a common usage. People born on reservations are US citizens, with full rights
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by Newlaptop 6mo ago
> US instantly becomes a pariah state Aren't we already? The current administration has torched relationships with essentially every allied country except Israel. From Toronto to Taipei, and across NATO and BRICS, people see the US
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by Newlaptop 9mo ago
Payroll taxes on $160k salary are $12,240. Employer contribution to health insurance is maybe $6k - $20k. Retirement maybe $5k. Still under $200k. Heck of a lot of "support cost" to get to $670k
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by Newlaptop 9mo ago
Surveillance capitalism is going to swing around to full communism. Airfare, hotel rooms, now even groceries will have their price adjusted based on ability to pay. Getting a raise will have no impact on one's life, as all prices will
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by Newlaptop 10mo ago
There are ~700k h1bs out of ~157 million American jobs. So about 99.6% of jobs in America are held by Americans and 0.4% by h1bs.
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by Newlaptop 10mo ago
I'd imagine that most couples would still want to be able to close a door when they're on the toilet. I'd rather sleep in a shared room at a hostel and use a toilet in a stall in a communal bathroom than in a hotel room witho
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by Newlaptop 10mo ago
You've got your cause and effect flipped. They don't sound like AI. AI sounds like them, because this is exactly the type of content that the LLMs were trained on and tuned to replicate.
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by Newlaptop 10mo ago
Journalists really need to stop using "millionaires" when they mean billionaires, centi-millionaires and deca-millionaires. About 1 in 5 American households are millionaires. "Millionaire" as a label is mostly describing
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by Newlaptop 1y ago
8h on zoom is far more desirable than 8 hours in person shuffling from meeting room to meeting room for me. I can have the call in the background while looking at something else without it being impolite. I can eat, drink, or use the restro
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by Newlaptop 1y ago
The weapons will be used by the people in power. Do you want your country's current political leaders to have more weapons to suppress information they dislike or facts they disagree with? If yes, will you also be happy if your country
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by Newlaptop 1y ago
> housing that is income or means tested Hasn't means tested social welfare basically been proven to be bad in every way, regardless of political or economic belief system used to analyze it? There are lots of positive things that c
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by Newlaptop 1y ago
> the audience understands that it's a caricature with a lot of truth and a bit of simplification I suspect a whole lot of TV fails both parts of this test. The audience doesn't understand and there is only a little bit of trut
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by Newlaptop 1y ago
No one is risking multi-year commitments of millions or billions of dollars to build a factory in America when the tariffs change week to week. If you want to incentive domestic reindustrialization, you do it with things like the Inflation
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by Newlaptop 1y ago
"Founders" are a tiny percentage of the rich, they're just the ones in the news. The richest 1% own half the wealth in the world and the gap is getting wider. Since 2020, for every dollar of new global wealth gained by someon
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by Newlaptop 1y ago
Where does the money go though? Europe has its own problems, and US instability will magnify them. The last 20 years have shown that China is essentially uninvestible for foreigners. Japan maybe offers relative stability but without growth.
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by Newlaptop 1y ago
HFCS is a sugar. The difference between HFCS and standard cane sugar is relatively minor - a 5% difference in the ratio of fructose to glucose. There's some evidence HFCS is worse than sucrose (standard refined cane sugar) and some met
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by Newlaptop 1y ago
This is the most horrifyingly dystopian thing I've ever read. Why are you advocating for a police state where sick patients in hospital beds are harassed by police and charged with crimes for existing? I'd rather die a "John
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by Newlaptop 1y ago
Frustratingly problematic headline, I'd expect better from Popular Mechanics. The title "Oops, Scientists May Have Severely Miscalculated How Many Humans Are on Earth" is entirely misleading- it's not "scientists&qu
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
Early Reddit had a philosophically libertarian majority (or at least, a significant percentage) and a demographic of mostly STEM-oriented, bookish, nerdy dudes from 18-40. Ron Paul was a popular political candidate. "Socially liberal,
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
> Insurance fees are not high because the insurance companies are making huge profits. United Healthcare alone made $23,000,000,000 in profit in 2023. Health insurance companies have collectively made $371 billion in profits since the pa
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
> For whatever reason we don’t as a society let “tech” markets mature. We demand growth long after everyone is satisfied. The reason is tax law and it applies to all companies not just tech. Removing the double-taxation of dividends woul
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
Heh, this thread reminded me that I own Sonos speakers that I haven't used in several years because at some point they updated and I needed to install an app or make an account or something to use them and never did. So while it's

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