fancifalmanima

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by fancifalmanima 4y ago
I threw that poem into google translate. I think it was actually just French? It didn't actually fulfill your prompt. Is your claim that it's ability to write a poem is a sign of creativity and intelligence? A language model writi
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by fancifalmanima 4y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but if I ran a chip business (or a country with a lot of military/economic tech dependent on chips-- IE most countries), it would certainly be something you'd want to de-risk if you could. S
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by fancifalmanima 4y ago
You're confusing two different pantheons from two different parts of Europe. Zeus != Odin
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by fancifalmanima 4y ago
To the US, "winning" is basically defined as having access to local resources (including workers) at market rates without the responsibility of governing. AKA -- free trade. Global free trade exists because the US wants it to. In
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
You seem to explicitly agree with the person you're replying to, but are claiming they're forgetting something. That's the disconnect here.
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
If you look at what was actually agreed to, it seems like the US and EU are already doing more than obligated. I don't see any nuclear weapons being used, the west has respected their sovereignty, and is even economically sanctioning R
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
To say this more explicitly, even the idea of waiting for the second marshmallow being the "preferred" behavior is somewhat classist. Sounds more like the test is just testing for an adaptation that happens to be well suited to li
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
Focus is almost surely an essential skill for key performers. Even among the most famous Gen Z -- you don't think they focus on their social media presence and what they do? What is an 8 hour photo shoot if not focusing? A lot of work
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
Don't something like 65% of Americans own their homes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S... Realistically, we're in a place where significant prices increases (which has happened, o
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
"all of the other people come together to ask you to stop, thus infringing on your liberties." You've very insight-fully described the policy debate/disagreement between people in pretty much any liberal democracy. Respe
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
It would depend a lot on what time period you're talking about. I'm not an expert, but I do a bit of amateur forging and have learned a couple of things just reading about this craft. By the 14 or 1500s, spring steel had been deve
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
^ This is the reason why more folks in crypto should be worried about and enraged by tether. Inevitably, there will be a market condition that leads to tether being insolvent. And when that day comes the people that get hurt will be every d
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
I'm not going to say that the larger number of women entering the work force has had no effect on home prices, however even if it did it's not necessarily a net negative. A larger workforce leads to more economic output, more inno
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
They're lending 95% of their deposits or whatever the reserve requirement is. It's just that every other bank is too, and when they loan money it almost always ends up back in the banking system just in another account. The money
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
Money creation happens when the money is deposited and loaned again me -> deposit $100 in bank a -> bank a loans $95 to business -> business deposits $95 in bank b -> bank b loans $90.25 This loop repeats indefinitely until we&#
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
Even if all the changes that were happening were entirely natural, there's an argument to be made that we know we do well in the conditions that existed during industrialization, and that we should try to maintain the environment withi
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
if you buy (from a bakery, probably not from the grocery store) or make bread made from minimally processed to processed flour, water, salt and yeast it would probably be considered minimally processed or processed. When I make homemade bre
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
The bread (made from processed wheat, probably bleached flour, and containing bread conditioners, preservatives) would almost surely fall into the ultra processed category, unless homemade from minimally processed whole wheat flour. The ham
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
Fair enough. The point about the unbanked is pretty convincing.
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
Why would that matter to this discussion? I want x from retailer y. Retailer y doesn't accept cash. I use a card. If you have an objection to using cards, you're certainly free to decline to make the purchase. Nothing in any of th
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
I don't know that the climate impact is necessarily settled: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200218-why-working-fr... (note that I'm generally pro wfh, but on the climate side it is feasible that
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
It's also only part of the story. If the median or average income has grown at a larger rate than the decline in value of the dollar, you still come out ahead from the perspective of human living conditions. I'm fairly confident t
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
I'm definitely speculating, but I could see banks having a glut of money to loan contributing to the low interest rates that have existed for a while now (thinking of money from a supply/demand perspective). With those lower inter
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
It has great weather, beaches, great food, fun cities, an extremely wide range of biomes for nearby trips, and many extremely well paying jobs. Sure it has it's problems, but I think what you're describing is an area that's r
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
I don't think there's anything that would preclude the us government from selling bitcoin treasury bonds (accepting bitcoin with the promise to pay more back at a later date, basically). Even if the block chain didn't support
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
I don't think there's anything that would preclude the us government from selling bitcoin treasury bonds (accepting bitcoin with the promise to pay more back at a later date, basically). Even if the block chain didn't support
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
How does a 3rd party (a court) make that transaction happen without either physically compelling the criminal (not necessarily possible in other countries), or having some kind of master key (which breaks decentralization). With a bank, the
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
Sure, and it's reasonable for parents to express to twitch that if they don't actively control sexualized content (or provide parental controls), that they will lose the eyes of their child. It's reasonable for advertisers to
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/new-jersey/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/ It looks like New Jersey was hit early on (when it was also ram
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by fancifalmanima 5y ago
I have a cast iron skillet and a stainless steel skillet, and I almost always use the stainless. The cast iron almost always only comes out when I need a second skillet. When I'm searing something, I even prefer that it sticks slightly

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