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by gph 5y ago
Then you'd just be optimizing even more for sociopathic politicians. It's not like caring more about your children than power is some universal behavior in humans.
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by gph 5y ago
There is undoubtedly some hardliners that want the nuclear program to continue so they can develop nuclear weapons in order to provide a reliable deterrent against Israeli aggression.
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by gph 5y ago
It's more like the middle class is bifurcating between upperish middle class and lower-middle class. In-demand tech workers, doctors, high-level admins/managers, etc. are getting higher and higher wages while other professions tha
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by gph 6y ago
But it also has property taxes and maintenance costs, which will likely be higher than inflation. So it's not a great passive investment unless you expect the value minus costs to gain faster than inflation. Otherwise you gotta live in
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by gph 6y ago
Yea but the OP was making the claim that no US government official would dare stand up to Bezos for fear of him outspending them out of office. Entrenched incumbents in non-battleground states/districts really don't have that fear
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by gph 6y ago
>(he could literally just liquidate a portion of his wealth and have someone else elected in your place through campaign contribution) That's a HUGE over exaggeration. Yes money matters, but only so much and it very much matters whe
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by gph 6y ago
The 33 vs 66 is in reference to the percentage chance that a prediction is correct. But if you have no way to tell if a given prediction is correct or not without doing the tests that you were trying to avoid in the first place then it&#x27
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by gph 6y ago
>If it got answer right 1 time in 100, that would be amazing and you'd be foolish not to use it! Except you have no way of knowing if the answer it gives you is one of the 66 right predictions vs one of the 33 wrong predictions. You
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by gph 6y ago
So who said America holds free and open trade as an absolute value that we'd uphold even when faced with partners not willing to uphold that value? You just decided to add extra constraints to my argument for no reason.
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by gph 6y ago
>If you support your "values" only on a reciprocal basis, essentially you renounce them. And you certainly lose the moral high ground when you try to get others to adopt these values. I can't agree with that at all. I hold
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by gph 6y ago
*Omniscient Though I guess it might be hard to deceive an entity that is literally everywhere.
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by gph 6y ago
But you'll notice the companies that successfully gain value through merging are typically competitors that are able to generate more value together instead of fighting for the same profits. The same does not seem to be true for any of
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by gph 6y ago
You say that with such conviction when you don't have any better info on what the future holds than anyone else. The unemployment benefits (which for many of the unemployed will actually be higher than their regular pay) last for the n
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by gph 6y ago
No you're right. A lot of people are going to make more on unemployment than they would employed. I'm a junior software engineer and I wouldn't be making that much less on unemployment than I do right now. No one that wasn&#x
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by gph 7y ago
Not technically the US, but the Confederacy did experience hyperinflation during the war. They ran the printing presses at full-tilt without anything tangible to back them up. And obviously once the tide of the war shifted things got real b
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by gph 7y ago
"In a national survey, 60 percent of homeless women and 41 percent of homeless men had at least one minor child, but only 39 percent of women and 3 percent of men lived with any children (Burt et al., 1999)" [1] Most homeless peop
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by gph 7y ago
I've seen OTPs described as being a replacement for e2e encryption before, but I just don't see it as actually usable outside of large established organizations (NSA, cartel, etc.) to use for passing short text messages. And even
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by gph 7y ago
I have to imagine the heat/humidity is just as bad in places like LA/Atlanta that have previously hosted the summer olympics. Did they just not care about heatstroke back then?
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by gph 7y ago
Was that really a coverup or willful neglect due to a cultural atmosphere that was massively homophobic? From what I understand the Reagan administration was reluctant to put resources into something that was considered a "gay mans dis
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by gph 7y ago
>Tech — the web in particular — is supposed to be an equalizing force Don't take the Google PR so seriously, the tech industry wants to make money like every other industry.
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by gph 7y ago
I don't think it's dumb for most small to mid-size enterprise companies to migrate to the cloud. Being able to outsource IT/infrastructure is quite beneficial when your needs aren't so big that it makes sense to set up y
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by gph 7y ago
Also somewhat ironic that the author mentions the internet was created/funded by the military as part of a program to keep up with the Russians technologically during the Cold War, then goes on to complain about Stuxnet and nation stat
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by gph 7y ago
I mean if the space industry/tourism takes off in the next couple decades like it's poised to, kids in this generation will have a better chance of getting to space as a private citizen than by becoming an astronaut. The title of
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by gph 7y ago
>It isn’t the geographic center of Appalachia either. Pittsburgh, 90mi north, is as much a part of Appalachia as Atlanta, almost 600 mi south. I don't know about that, that's weird logic to me. Atlanta is barely Appalachia, at
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by gph 7y ago
Maybe the author meant more in a geographic sense. Like I've definitely heard people say Austin is in the heart of Texas, but they're mostly saying it's centrally-located in the state not that the city itself is a canonical r
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by gph 7y ago
>What if you do not want to trust anyone? >Nope. Sorry. No easy to use options for you out there. Sure but to an extent that's true about almost everything in modern society. If you don't want to have to trust those supplyin
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by gph 7y ago
>And virtually none of the comments will be from people who have studied in psychiatry, are seriously engaged (pro- or con-) with pharma, or have ever run a trade show. I mean that's how internet comments work on virtually any largi
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by gph 7y ago
...hence people against UBI responding positively to this. OP never said this was UBI.
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by gph 7y ago
No it doesn't, that's the whole point of this bill.
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by gph 7y ago
AI based teledildonics will be the next multi-tril institutions in less than a decade.

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