itsmek

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by itsmek 4d ago
Very shallow answer to a valid question. The vast majority of people know that word btw, that's not some revelation.
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by itsmek 16d ago
As in programmer's "this"?
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by itsmek 1mo ago
I'm just addressing the text of your comment of incredulity at Walmart's building footprint. The tone of this one is different so I'll accept that as concession.
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by itsmek 1mo ago
Walmarts have more stormwater runoff than Costcos?
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by itsmek 1mo ago
You're shifting the goalposts from an earlier comment that claimed they would be "all drain". But that's ok, maybe you could compare that money to what a strip mall would provide in tax? I would find that analysis more c
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by itsmek 2mo ago
>Why do so many otherwise seemingly rational people pretend that nuclear is the answer to our energy needs? >I don't think anyone reasonable is saying we should only do nuclear. I didn't interpret the other post to imply onl
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by itsmek 4mo ago
Also a dead giveaway: >That's what matters
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by itsmek 4mo ago
It's probably Florida or some other gulf state with weather risk. Could be California with wildfire risk but then they wouldn't have tax increases. In both of these states insurance is going crazy without the property value cause
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by itsmek 4mo ago
I don't know man, I'm just telling you what I see in the conversation: OP: Complaint about taxation without representation A: Acktually it's called suffrage not representation B: This phrase has been in use forever and people
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by itsmek 4mo ago
If you want to be genuine about investigating this issue you would obviously compare countries of equal wealth and economic power, but we all know that's not your goal. Could actually be a very interesting comparison if your reasoning
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by itsmek 4mo ago
To be clear, their point is: >The facts show that just like the amount of labor is not fixed, neither is the size of the economy (fixed pie fallacy) and as more work is done, the economy grows Your reply is a glib thought-terminating cli
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by itsmek 4mo ago
The person you're replying to knows this. You're missing their point.
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by itsmek 4mo ago
The thesis of the person you're replying to seems to be that this is just another in the long line of mechanized crafts, and that it's hypocritical not to be equally anti-loom as anti LLM, for example. At least that's how I i
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by itsmek 4mo ago
It's not uncommon for free things to be higher quality than cheap things, especially when we're not talking about physical goods. Think hobbyist vs hack. Selective pro bono vs quantity over quality. The former describes old intern
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by itsmek 4mo ago
>The Math Your Finance Team Has Not Done >Pull out the napkin. This matters. Nobody writes like this.
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by itsmek 4mo ago
>The government should just regulate it, control purity and production and let people access small amounts for recreation/performance. It’s not an evil drug per se >Opioids were/are manufactured by regulated, publicly traded
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by itsmek 4mo ago
Don't put too much stock in the ENSO models until the spring unpredictability barrier is over. That said there was a huge kelvin wave a couple weeks ago which tracks with the super el nino pattern. If you look at a map of pacific equat
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by itsmek 4mo ago
Risk free banking past FDIC limits is not explicitly a cornerstone of the US economy, it is a thing that is sometimes done and sometimes not done depending on contagion risk. If it's so essential then we should make it explicit so that
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by itsmek 4mo ago
Obviously, but their implicit point is that in your scenario you can win by bluffing as long as you can continue to credibly promise the moon and keep the bet rolling but in their scenario only the final outcome wins. Dude is famous for blu
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by itsmek 4mo ago
I don't see how he's risking the future of his company by saying words that end up being false, he does that all the time and lying/exaggerating is probably an essential part of being an effective fundraiser these days. In my
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by itsmek 5mo ago
Eh, they were kind of bailed out in that uninsured deposits were made whole. Not saying they shouldn't have done it (fighting contagion is like fighting fire, earlier is prob better and potentially cheaper in the end if your confidence
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by itsmek 5mo ago
"The reason for the CA blend goes back to the 80s and 90s when smog was a much bigger problem. Better vehicle emissions standards since then as well as improvements in the blends the rest of the country uses have largely made the CA bl
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by itsmek 5mo ago
Is the problem solved by an open database license? Doesn't that make a community migration easier, putting a cap on how enshittified any given database can become?
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by itsmek 5mo ago
Source? I've always thought of Tokyo as a rare example of abundant and affordable housing among major world cities. Their rent to income ratio is like 0.3 while most major global cities are 0.35-0.4
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by itsmek 5mo ago
Ah. Didn't he threaten to destroy every power plant and bridge in the country? Do you not find this threat credible? I think the US military is capable of it and obviously that's a threat against the lives of civilians. But it&#x2
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by itsmek 5mo ago
Cool that's a nice workaround of the Geneva conventions - any threat you make while negotiations are underway is actually a negotiation strategy! The law tends not to be friendly to such workarounds in my experience, especially if it&#
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by itsmek 5mo ago
> As has been extensively discussed over the past week, hitting civilian infrastructure with rockets (or otherwise) is a war crime, and we aren't doing it. I agree, but want to add that the threat of hitting civilian targets is itse
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by itsmek 6mo ago
You must live in Europe. Not entirely sure but that's the way things are going in North America, as far as I know all the proposed legislation here is zero export. I guess one concern is local grid instability if too much power is gene
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by itsmek 6mo ago
You will still export when the grid is up if your solar generates more power than you use at any moment.
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by itsmek 6mo ago
Plug in solar must be zero export to bypass utility approval process.

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