moate

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by moate 11d ago
IDK what "never worked" means here, the market cap for Impossible/Beyond alone is still over a billion dollars. You can still get an Impossible Whopper at any Burger King in the US. There's plenty of issues with selling
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by moate 12d ago
Yea, they're really hoping that the 2% will help make up an outsized share of the revenue and that brand recognition will keep them going with the plebs.
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by moate 12d ago
I have never heard of a cloud service of ISP actively taking corporate data and shoving it into other users inbox. If my company has a proprietary solution to a math problem that nobody else knows about but the AI service that we have been
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by moate 27d ago
"The 'smart but lazy' adults who stayed that way, who I've encountered IRL have been maliciously manipulative work avoiders, or straight up losers with superiority complexes." Counterpoint, the "I had to work t
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by moate 27d ago
>>Reading the material before the test/exam and then getting high enough marks that everyone leaves you alone so you can go play with computers/chess was not an effective long term strategy. Don't tell my boss, but yes
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by moate 29d ago
You're right, it's not just that people opposing it are stupid or brainwashed: Some of them, to your point, are selfish and don't want others to have access to the nice things that they have. Can you explain why those people
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by moate 29d ago
It sounds like you have issues with people telling you what to do. Would you like a pamphlet on the virtues of Anarchy as a way of building community to survive in a terrifying world? Because none of the things you said have ANYTHING to do
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by moate 1mo ago
You go far enough on fiscal tracking and you just wind up back where we've always been: barter. All currency is as useful as the regime backing it, and when that regime falls, barter always comes back in. Everything else is just rent s
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by moate 1mo ago
>> They're expenses are most likely scaling with their revenue A unique phenomenon that only exists in this industry and is clearly the reason you feel opposed to people performing the same sort of analysis they would on other bu
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by moate 1mo ago
As someone who hates the government and the megacorps, I loathe statements like the OPs because there are so many legit and real reasons to hate shit before we come up with "KFC doesn't call themselves Kentucky Fried Chicken anymo
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by moate 1mo ago
So you know how like, "the government" and "private citizens" aren't the same thing, right? Like there are different obligations for both? You do know and understand this, correct? The government has a constitutiona
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by moate 1mo ago
Since people seem to be disagreeing with a fact: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/1862/ https://academic.oup.com/policing/article-abstract/6/4/418/1... https:/&#x2
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by moate 1mo ago
You, uh, you're not from New Jersey are you? I promise you, we're not giving away land around here.
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by moate 1mo ago
so I hedged with "anytime soon" (we'll call it 5 years?) and also robot food production is not "AI" as "AI" is generally considered to be software (and the hardware that runs it I guess like the chips&#x2F
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by moate 1mo ago
McDonald's is perfectly fine food, depending on the problem you're solving for. If it's nutrition, you can do that. If it's affordability, you can probably do that. If it's availability, you can usually do that. If
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by moate 1mo ago
...that doesn't solve the actual problem, as all that guarantees is new officials. You need another step which is electing officials that are willing/able to enact policy change on this issue and who then do it. There's count
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by moate 1mo ago
"defend itself from tyranny". Burner, the tyranny is in the room and the 2A bootlickers all signed up to enforce it. Please show me the country higher on the global freedom index with more guns per-capita than the US. The "im
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by moate 2mo ago
Finding out the battle plan for your opponent and finding ways to attack their strongest points is absolutely valuable in public policy debate. I'd rather have this information available vs not if I found out my city council was about
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by moate 2mo ago
As someone who originally comes from a field that cannot be consumed by AI anytime soon (food service. AI can't actually be eaten) it's insane watching tech-dorks think "nobody actually cares about what they buy, which is why
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by moate 2mo ago
The irony here being that Netflix is currently in a massive layout to build a studio in NJ (like, 20 minutes from the old Bell Labs). Almost feels like giving that troll the finger!
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by moate 2mo ago
https://discoveratlanta.com/stories/things-to-do/atlantas-ma... Atlanta did a lot of the big ones.
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by moate 2mo ago
Whatever the conclusion of "is ICE the correct agency for..." the answer is no. But you use the brownshirts for things regular civil servants would gum up with protests and procedure adhering to the actual law.
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by moate 2mo ago
Why would you wonder that: https://polymarket.com/event/will-the-2026-midterm-elections... Of course they are.
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by moate 2mo ago
Okay, if you just want to have a conversation with yourself I can see myself out as you addressed literally none of what I said and went off on some affordability tangent about housing in general. Housing prices are too high for most people
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by moate 2mo ago
We created an extrajudicial prison outside of our borders to house "prisoners too dangerous for the normal court system", created an entirely new surveillance police force, and expanded FISA in response to 9/11. So if that&#x
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by moate 2mo ago
1- Costs of operating an larger house are higher than a smaller house 2- Yearly maintenance of a new house is cheaper than an older house (older the house, the greater this gets) 3- Easier to keep a smaller house tidy 4- Mobility/lifes
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by moate 2mo ago
Sadly, many people just want to be highly trusted in society (whilst themselves fearing most of the rest of it). It's why we flirt with/fall face first into authoritarianism every few decades.
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by moate 2mo ago
I can, we're living in it. Now imagine a world in which cops served the masses.
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by moate 2mo ago
Seriously. I'm as left wing as you can go and I still think that voting is useful to influence the system while building a critical mass of people willing to break the wheel. Saying "we'll never get class solidarity" is
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by moate 2mo ago
>>English majors seem to have banded together to crown only the most inaccessible and politically charged authors as worthy of attention Tell me you're an Engineer/don't hang out with actual "English Majors" (

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