achates

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by achates 2y ago
This sounds great to me, I would love to know how much a procedure costs before I have it instead of having bills for arbitrary amounts of money show up one at a time over the course of six months.
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by achates 2y ago
I found German noun declensions a pain to learn and you basically just have to memorize the gender of each noun. Spanish grammar is simpler in comparison and the -a vs -o ending tells you the gender of most nouns. Also, like the article men
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by achates 2y ago
Plus they have ironclad job security and a pension (which practically no taxpayers get), so it's not directly comparable to private sector salaries.
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by achates 2y ago
Not true, on Fridays after lunch time can sometimes pass as slowly as 3 seconds per second.
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by achates 2y ago
The US has also lost its lead in manufacturing during the same time period.
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by achates 2y ago
Re-write McKinsey in Rust.
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by achates 3y ago
Are you sure? I'm in the US and it displays the entire price (including cleaning fees) for me.
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by achates 3y ago
The Soviet Union had chronic housing shortages. Multiple families would live squeezed together in one small apartment. The waiting list to get your own took years and years.
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by achates 3y ago
I doubt that will be a problem here. Their Kentucky plant is huge, it's been around for decades and it makes lots of high quality cars including the Camry. Toyota goes to a lot of effort to teach the workers their production system and
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by achates 3y ago
Also higher crime.
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by achates 3y ago
The user notes feature was the best thing Twitter ever did so I disagree that they can't release meaningful updates. It's hard to disentangle how many of their problems are due to staff cuts vs Musk being unpopular with advertiser
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by achates 3y ago
It's honestly impressive how productive the American economy is even with all of the shackles we put on it.
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by achates 3y ago
Eurasia is massive compared to the Americas and has a lot more domesticated animals, so there were more diseases percolating there.
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by achates 3y ago
Debugging is a lot easier when you can ask your future self what the problem was.
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by achates 3y ago
Yeah maybe I'm underestimating them in that case. Every other battery powered device I own degrades a lot faster than that but I guess car batteries are higher quality.
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by achates 3y ago
$17k before the tax rebate apparently. The cheapest one I available right now is $22,400 with 81,400 miles compared to the MSRP for a new one of $38,000. To me that doesn't sound like that great of a deal. A car, especially an electric
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by achates 3y ago
Calling it an AI team gives the wrong impression imo, these aren't researchers or engineers. >The group, which also has offices in China, India, Ireland and Spain, is responsible for improving Siri by listening to queries to the voi
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by achates 3y ago
"The weather in Nijmegen is..."
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by achates 3y ago
We even have an example of what a train wreck it is in Canada, with stagnant productivity, a housing bubble and overcrowded public services. But we're determined to make the exact same mistakes.
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by achates 3y ago
The diplomat in charge of central Europe thinks their declaration of war is a practical joke from another department, so nobody notices when their army (of about 10 crossbowmen) shows up in New York and grabs a fictional doomsday device out
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by achates 3y ago
The funny/sad thing is that western Europe didn't even get the promised economic growth.
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by achates 3y ago
If GPT could write the questions then surely it could also write the answers.
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by achates 3y ago
The NYT was telling us that the Holodomor was a lie around the same time, and their Moscow correspondent (Walter Durant) won a Pulitzer for it. So we should probably ignore them too if a paper's opinions from the 1930s are still releva
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by achates 3y ago
Plus a lot funds aren't trying to beat the market but instead reduce variance.
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by achates 3y ago
I don't really care about being "fair" to the applicant, I care about getting the most competent doctor I can. Being a doctor is position of grave responsibility, it shouldn't be a reward that we give to people who deser
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by achates 3y ago
If at first you don't succeed, double down.
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by achates 3y ago
James Holzhauer I guess, he did well in sports betting and then became a Jeopardy champion. Not that I'd recommend it for most people lol. It's a negative sum game once the house takes their cut, so for every winner there's m
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by achates 3y ago
I want them to just tell me what's happening instead of trying to tell me what to think about it by using words like "quixotic" in the opening paragraph.
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by achates 3y ago
Less than 1% even.
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by achates 3y ago
The logical reason is that if they reach the point of being safer than human drivers but we ban them for not being perfect then lives are being lost unnecessarily.

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