hotspot_one

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by hotspot_one 2y ago
> If I’m employed in my home country, earning money there and paying taxes, what difference does it make if I happen to sit in another country? Why does "home country" have tax priority over "sitting in" country? How
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
You get an archer with extra mobility AND the ability to focus on hitting his target while someone else does the steering AND armor AND a bigger carrying capacity (more quivers of arrows, ...) yes, I know the stories of the amazing accuracy
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
how sure are you that library genesis will remain available?
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
> I seriously doubt there's very much highly relevant old knowledge locked away somewhere. Interesting take on what "knowledge" means and what makes knowledge valuable. If I understand "knowledge" as "inform
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
and where the information you are looking for is plastered with ads. yes I know adblocker, pihole, etc.
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
fdisk or mount?
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
Friend of mine worked for BMW in Germany. The 35 hour work week was strictly enforced. It's the law, it's the system, so of course that is what they are going to do.
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
And this is why capitalism will always win over communism :)
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
obviously you've never had children.
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
> That car is signaling an intention to merge into your lane once it is safe for them to do so. Only under the assumption that the driver was trained in the US, to follow US traffic law, and is following that training. For example, in th
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
or speech-to-text systems. The person might not be typing the text.
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
"a" vs "the". "The" supreme court, if one assumes a US-centric definition, comes with a lot of assumptions on the nature of law and the power structure of the various government branches. Which generally do not
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
yes, but... if you invested 1K USD in gold and 1K USDin a SP500 index fund in 1971, both of those investments would be worth the same dollar amount today. perhaps that's an artifact of gold's recent spike in price, but perhaps the
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieva... The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps'
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
Your view comes up every time. Basically you are claiming "Taxis sucked, so it was ok that Uber broke a lot of laws and social conventions to make the situation better". And who knows, your view might be right.
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
I'm wondering what insurance companies are going to say. I have a feeling they will be the driving force at least in the US, since they are the ones picking up the bills.
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
I would be willing to read a few chapters just on spec. There is real value in understanding how people used to think about a problem, and where the source ideas came from.
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How much I'm paying for AI productivity software(lesswrong.com)
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
I see this alot. Has always struck me as very unfair.
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
Under US law, the debts die with the person. You are under no obligation to repay your parent's debts. Now if the debt is tied to a house (mortgage) or a car (car loan), you might lose the house/car if you don't pay, but you
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
> often forbidden from doing the thing they were trained to do for a variety of reasons you forgot to add `insurance company rules` to your list.
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
need to get the electricity from somewhere. Need to feed the people who work there.
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/1205/ and https://xkcd.com/974/
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
> The argument would be that if you hire for diversity, you are no longer hiring for capability first And a counter-argument is to question the assumptions that: current hiring practices actually select for capability. See discussions on
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
The world is bigger than NYC, and even New York is bigger than NYC. you are right about Uber bringing accountability, but Europe solved that through regulation. NYC could have done that-- the right to run a cab is linked to owning a governm
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
Wait, what is the nuisance-- the roundabout of the lack of education? What happens if we replace "roundabout" with "stop sign" in your statement and assume a population that was never trained on what "stop sign&quot
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
Zebra crossing at roundabout entry-ways, and social norms which encourage drivers to respect these. The roundabout forces drivers to slow down in any case, so they are already reducing speed. Social norms is another thing, but if every driv
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
1911 is still a great design. yeah, single-action trigger, but there are draw techniques which rack the slide and the gun is designed to enable these-- and double-action requires a heavier first trigger pull, which can throw your aim off bo
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
> the number of state prisoners that have had 15 or more prior arrests is over 26% So one reading of this statistic is "incarcerating people turns them into criminals" which suggests that maybe the better way is something else
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by hotspot_one 2y ago
What would feel like something that should be regulated to you? Keep in mind that things like hurricanes do happen occasionally, and the car's AM radio might be the only working communication medium...

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