amy214

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by amy214 1y ago
Having a government payment processor I'm sure would be quite a nightmare as well. Imagine your credit card is the DMV. The reason these credit card companies wield so much power is the modern duopolistic system. "Monopolies are
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by amy214 1y ago
dude is saying it's even worse than laissez faire it's laissez faire towards monopolies, let them be but not laissez faire when a company is about to collapse, then the government rescues them. laissez faire would be less sympath
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by amy214 1y ago
the best kill switch is to write a slop codebase only you understand. no intentional evil little mechanisms, no intentional breaking, just the slop, slop written in good faith. now that is legal
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by amy214 1y ago
dude is saying the bubble will burst when people least expect it. if there's people expecting it then that's not the right bursting condition
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by amy214 1y ago
have you taken the maryland test? no road test. an obstacle course
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by amy214 1y ago
to take this one step further - go back one infitesmal back in time and adjust position one infitensmal, thusly, a fixed time machine
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by amy214 1y ago
He's not a bully, hell is other people and the phantom aerial farter speaks for all of us
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by amy214 1y ago
> > In sane units: 3.8 kW > 5.1 Horsepower 0-60 in 1.8 seconds
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by amy214 1y ago
tylenol is the one that's hepatotoxic (spanish for harmful to the liver) - ibuprofen is nephrotoxic (italian for harmful to the kidney) maybe you are mixing up your very similar painkillers. in kiddos it's common to go back and f
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by amy214 1y ago
this piece de resistance swan song is only 35% fish but then my fish tank is like 90% various formats of blackface fish, nazi fish, and swimming penises
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by amy214 1y ago
> Cars, dogs, and water. Just to go off of this, springs as well. Usually it's garage door springs or suspension of a car springs. People will DIY thinking it's a small thing but they can easily decapitate you. Some garage d
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by amy214 1y ago
>In practice, no one donates like this with their own money. They just vote for the government to take incremental money from others via ever more taxation. In practice they throw piles of money at Trump - knowingly that it will lead to
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by amy214 1y ago
This a wonderful summary of the unfair dystopia that is the Bay Area real estate market. I would also add, the forklift driver who bought the house for 40k in 1971, by state law (Proposition 13), is still paying 1971 valuation property taxe
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by amy214 1y ago
Yea, exactly. You pay for healthcare in -any- system, even a completely communist/socialist system. Healthcare costs resources which much be allocated to a greater or lesser extent. Problem with the US system is WHOM do you pay. Ult
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by amy214 1y ago
> I'm not going to waste my Saturday doing a writeup on the dirtiest city in America. It can be said easily, what happened to Baltimore is it got Detroit'ed
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by amy214 1y ago
>I don't think corporate election influence or mass media really have anything to do with it. Is any particular group overrepresented there? Hairy, long hooked nose? I'm talking about white cishetero men of course, this is al
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by amy214 1y ago
don't think of it as a prompt sharing site, thinking of it as a vibe artist gallery, and you don't want vibe artists to go hungry do you?
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by amy214 1y ago
>The challenge is that clearly stating things is and always has been the hard part. I state things crystal clear in real life on the internets. Seems like most of the time, nobody has any idea what I'm saying. My direct reports too
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by amy214 1y ago
The issue is the representation went from 1:999 to 1:99999999999 representative ratio, so no voice is heard. It's like being in a class of 30 people vs 300,000 people. The answer is common sense abstraction, for example, I am writing
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by amy214 1y ago
Yup, that's a thing. Mostly along the lines of "CPU memory is cheap, GPU memory is expensive, if CPU performance is made good enough we can run really really big models for much less because of cheaper RAM"
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by amy214 1y ago
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by amy214 1y ago
medical information is not this, this is addresses. also the us govt did pay the hospital to treat these people
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by amy214 1y ago
>Per the Wayback Machine the username used was danikpapas. As far as Google and duckduckgo know these are the only packages theat username ever uploaded. I mean... ... if this was a malicious actor who is to say they don't have 15 a
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by amy214 1y ago
It's not that people troll too much with low effort comments. It's that low effort comments are followed by troll-lighting the original commenter as the troll, downvoting their post, upvoting ones own. That is - often the biggest
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by amy214 1y ago
It's like this >go take a flight >demand your photo be taken >"as far as I know it's mandatory" >"I assure you the image is deleted" >"fingerprints derived from the image, what are those&quo
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by amy214 1y ago
>This is a one-man lab, with simple services, all on docker. I also work in IT. TBH your mistake was only running one layer of virtualization. What I do on my home setup is run a docker in a VM in a VM in a docker in a docker in a VM in
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by amy214 1y ago
forget that - suppose ozempic, blood pressure, cholesterol meds were made OTC I would wager cardiac and arterial disease would plummet.
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by amy214 1y ago
>This has a mode where it communicates with the solar system, I just find this so cool. We have projects like SETI where the solar system tries to communicate with us. Here, you, just one person, have set up a machine talking with oute
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by amy214 1y ago
>We have a housing shortage. As long as it looks like the shortage will continue, investors--people--will buy depreciating assets in the hopes that population growth will cause them to be worth more tomorrow than they are today This is t
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by amy214 1y ago
>Completely agree. For all the hate Mozilla gets on HN, I’ve been using Firefox every day Completely agree, Mozilla and Chrom is a lot like a president election, they both suck hard, you're kinda stuck choosing the lesser of two evi

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