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by bequanna 29d ago
Won't happen, that's what campaign contributions are for. They will get periodic slaps on the wrist, but this is purely for show. There is too much money to be made and spread around.
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by bequanna 1mo ago
Generations before Boomers crafted policy that considered the future beyond them (children and grandchildren). Boomers do not follow that tradition.
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by bequanna 2mo ago
Not TOO much loss tho, right? I thought the cooling tower design helped maximize cooling and minimize loss as steam.
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by bequanna 2mo ago
Beyond Gen X, does anyone younger consider BMW a luxury brand?
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The Cattle Empire That Turned Out to Be a Giant Ponzi Scheme(wsj.com)
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by bequanna 4mo ago
Exactly. This is not a law to protect people, this is a law to protect entrenched special interests (Reservation and State-owned casinos).
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by bequanna 5mo ago
Post-Jobs Apple seems paralyzed and unable to commit to any big moves. It is impossible to overstate the success of the iPhone, but there are so many recent examples where they dipped their toes in only to fail or be left behind (autos, VR,
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by bequanna 6mo ago
It sounds like you don't use Oracle, Oracle uses you.
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by bequanna 6mo ago
Costco's genius is in building and maintaining trust with their members. In the age of private equity takeovers and the MBA-enshitification of pretty much every product and service, Costco appears to be the only retailer that will stan
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by bequanna 6mo ago
I’m completely against factory farming, confinement barns, etc and always avoid meat produced this way. But I do wonder what you mean when you say “cruelty” in the context of cattle. Having lived in/around rural livestock production mo
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by bequanna 6mo ago
Are new H1Bs a thing anymore? Since the fee went up to $100k, I’m not aware of any companies still sponsoring hires who need a new H1B
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by bequanna 6mo ago
I'm not trying to downplay their accomplishments, but how much of their scientific advances from the 40s-60s were due to capturing ex-Nazi tech (and scientists) or stealing from the US via their incredible intelligence efforts?
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by bequanna 6mo ago
So in this version of the future, everyone lives in government housing?
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by bequanna 6mo ago
> I don't know what comes after, but when you combine this with the Iran war it's going to be closer to economic depression. I follow your extrapolation in the first part, but this is where you lost me. Why is the Iran war guar
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by bequanna 9mo ago
Ah, bingo, yes! I should have been more specific in my comment. Perceptual hashing allowsfor higher similarity scores between similar looking images. Lots of cool techniques to experiment with. Highly recommend playing around if you’re inte
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by bequanna 9mo ago
The actual screenshot isn’t sent, some hash is generated from the screenshot and compared against a library of known screenshots of ads/shows/etc for similarity. Not super tough to pull off. I was experimenting with FAISS a while
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by bequanna 9mo ago
How are you monitoring the meeting minutes? Would you open source this?
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by bequanna 9mo ago
Are you thinking of “The Iceberg Hermit”? I read that book as well in my early teen years.
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by bequanna 9mo ago
Not necessarily wrong, but I suspect people likely don’t like that you cited a ChatGPT response.
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by bequanna 10mo ago
I’m not sure I follow. So, are you saying that wealth will become completely concentrated at the top and the rest of us are obsolete, out of work and broke? That seems unlikely. What is the point of an economy if there is no one who is actu
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by bequanna 10mo ago
How do we know this is the bottom?
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by bequanna 10mo ago
Offshoring (India + LATAM) with a side of h1b. Offshoring is by far the biggest culprit. Plenty of Jr/Mid roles hiring…but not US based.
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by bequanna 10mo ago
The h1b program can essentially be eliminated tomorrow. Trump could theoretically make h1b visas non-transferable, charge a high annual renewal, etc.
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by bequanna 10mo ago
> Not even proper healthcare is guaranteed. …except it is. Health insurance is available on a sliding scale based on income and essentially free for most low income people.
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by bequanna 10mo ago
Well said. I’ve often been able to trick myself into thinking I’ve learned something, especially if it is somewhat intuitive. But unless I practically apply what I learned, my retention is quite low.
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by bequanna 10mo ago
Said another way: “being too early is the same as being wrong”
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by bequanna 10mo ago
It seems like they are using a more sophisticated way to determine location (App Store download county, etc) not just IP.
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by bequanna 10mo ago
No, you simply are unable to reap the benefits that are available to high trust societies.
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by bequanna 10mo ago
Totally agree. However, this only works in a high trust society, which we no longer have.
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by bequanna 10mo ago
> Donald Trump and the Republican Party are damaging our economy and threatening our democracy. The very first words in the very first sentence illustrate the problem. Since ~2016, the Democratic party has (mostly) defined itself as anti

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