YokoZar

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by YokoZar 4d ago
"Create money" here doesn't mean literally fluffing the balance sheet like when the fed prints money (which would have accounting differences), it means spending the same money more rapidly than otherwise. This is NVidia&#x2
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by YokoZar 2mo ago
A fun hack I remember was that Windows internally used two left-to-right control characters in a window title as an indicator that the entire window should have its content flipped right to left, images and all (imagine a clock animation ru
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by YokoZar 3mo ago
Real (inflation adjusted) wages are up, not down.
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by YokoZar 3mo ago
If companies have been "depressing wages for decades" how come they're at an all time high? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N People make stuff like this abroad because wages are too high
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by YokoZar 3mo ago
The property values are up, the rates are down.
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by YokoZar 3mo ago
That means is called property taxes. Datacenters pay a lot of them, and in Loudon county specifically residential property taxes have fallen as a result.
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by YokoZar 5mo ago
Ticketing in California generally results in revenue going directly to the enforcing locality, not the state. It's an important difference, and why you tend to get things like speed traps for passing motorists
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by YokoZar 5mo ago
"Buying grants to pollute" is literally how cap-and-trade systems work, and they've been extremely effective at reducing pollution. We don't hear about "acid rain" anymore because of cap-and-trade of sulfur di
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by YokoZar 5mo ago
Those requirements are all facially illegal and unenforceable though. In the US you have federally protected labor rights that you cannot contract out of. The right to discuss pay and working conditions with other workers and the public i
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by YokoZar 6mo ago
> neither one has any interest in supporting non-game applications. I don't know how much of their business it is today, but CodeWeavers spent their first decade or so supporting only non-game applications. Their product Crossover
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by YokoZar 6mo ago
Yes, California has long been a "donor state", ie one that pays substantially more federal tax revenue than gets spent there. This shouldn't be too surprising as it's much richer than average and the tax system is appro
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by YokoZar 6mo ago
Why can't they impact insurance? Are CA insurance companies prohibited from using non-criminal information when deciding who to cover or set rates? Given that they insure cars more than drivers, it seems kinda reasonable that they be
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by YokoZar 6mo ago
What's the base rate? Even a very healthy economy doesn't have all sectors growing simultaneously, so I'd be very curious to know if this is a matter of going from "normally 20% is shrinking and now it's 80%"
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by YokoZar 6mo ago
The author complains about country selector drop-downs as part of the address flow, but if you're collecting zip codes you are already assuming United States. I don't think there's a country-inferer from completely generic p
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by YokoZar 7mo ago
You may be interested in "Do Morons Make Prediction Markets More Accurate?" - https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/do-morons-make-predict... Essentially the argument is that more dumb money in a prediction m
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by YokoZar 7mo ago
Elon very publicly killed brand safety efforts. Advertisers care a lot about the context that their ads appear in.
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by YokoZar 7mo ago
There's still Uncyclopedia, though apparently there are 3 forks of it now?
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by YokoZar 7mo ago
> No amount of salary would have made me able to afford housing near work in sfbay I assure you there are people who live there who can afford to do so because they make enough money. Switching from startup salary to bigco at the same e
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by YokoZar 7mo ago
I thought "vibe coding" had come to mean "I used an LLM to generate this code", but didn't really imply we'd given up trying to review and read the output. The author is taking it one-step further by suggestin
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by YokoZar 7mo ago
Forgive me, I was responding to the original claim that "it’s a safe bet that labor will have lower value in 2031 than it has today".
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by YokoZar 7mo ago
What you're forecasting is a scenario where total output has substantially increased but no one's hiring or able to start their own business. Instant massive recession is by no means a "sure bet" with technological impr
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by YokoZar 7mo ago
> * it’s a safe bet that labor will have lower value in 2031 than it has today If AI makes workers more productive, labor will have higher value than it has today. Which specific workers are winning in that scenario may vary tremendousl
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by YokoZar 7mo ago
> On the insurance front - expect your insurance to decline this forever unless you are at serious risk of diabetes. It would make you cost them $3-6k/yr more. Insurance premiums would rise for everyone if insurance was subsidizing
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by YokoZar 8mo ago
These forums still exist. Typically with much older and mature discussions, as the users have aged alongside the forums. Nothing is stopping you from joining them now. My Something Awful forums account is over 25 years old at this point.
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by YokoZar 8mo ago
In general free open-source Wine has been developed with the philosophy of of not allowing application-specific code. Crossover (and presumably Photon), however, allows such patches for supported applications. Patches can be motivated by s
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by YokoZar 8mo ago
It was definitely not just balancing rules patches for gameplay purposes - there was a clear deliberate intent to force people to buy new models. Complete with arbitrary changes to the game lore itself that accompany those updates: when I
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by YokoZar 8mo ago
> From the article: “Uber has said it is one of the safest ways to get around, with the vast majority of its trips in the United States — 99.9 percent — occurring without an incident of any kind” Another way of phrasing this is that if y
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by YokoZar 8mo ago
This reminds me of a bug I reported in 2007 Ubuntu where the default "easy" chess difficulty was too hard. It was eventually fixed in 2014 by using different chess engines. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/
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by YokoZar 9mo ago
I hear FIFA makes new awards these days
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by YokoZar 9mo ago
The developers never thought you'd make it this far.

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