msgodel

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by msgodel 1y ago
Growth in wages is meaningless if inflation consumes it. My opinion is that inflation is generally a bad idea but the thing that really matters is inflation volatility. The market will adjust for whatever the inflation rate is (unless its e
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by msgodel 1y ago
Every online service is compelled by law to answer subpoenas. You're supposed to assume the collaborate with the state.
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by msgodel 1y ago
I don't know, maybe it's because I read the book on the side in highschool when I was supposed to be doing something else but I really loved Linear Algebra. Once I understood what it was I used matrix operations for everything. Ve
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by msgodel 1y ago
The enforcement penalty of the constitution is the state's ability to rescind delegated powers from the federal government. No one seems to think it's bad enough to be worth having a real conversation about that.
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by msgodel 1y ago
Just using Guix requires a pretty substantial amount of administrative work. I'd imagine maintaining it is even more intense and that's why they're running into issues like this. You have to be pretty slow to be outrun by De
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by msgodel 1y ago
Regardless dealing with this would be a luxury. The rest of the economy has to function first and then we can talk about this. If you intentionally sabotage the country with these ideas it doesn't even matter if you're right, th
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by msgodel 1y ago
> by people grossly violating the constitution I'm sorry what was that? You want rules after all?
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by msgodel 1y ago
Also features that people assume are part of the OS, like push notifications, but are really a service run by Apple that your phone is locked to using cryptography don't work with self-signed apps.
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by msgodel 1y ago
She was another software engineer and needed VMs too so I thought I'd just let her use some of my spare compute.
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by msgodel 1y ago
I'm 100% self hosted so it's just power, I had to upgrade my solar array so I suppose I could amortize some of that but I was planning on it anyway.
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by msgodel 1y ago
I used to say "oh yeah just run qemu-kvm" until my girlfriend moved in with me and I realized you do legitimately need some kind of infrastructure for managing your "internal cloud" if anyone involved isn't 100% on
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by msgodel 1y ago
The domestic situation in the US is also a real issue. Israel gets unreasonably favorable political treatment compared to every single other country, it's a real issue from the isolationist right as well.
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by msgodel 1y ago
Language matters. I actually really like what Stallman does. You need this kind of thing to counteract repeated exposure to marketing material. It's similar to the Dave Ramsey situation IMO. Dave Ramsey's advice is objectively ba
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by msgodel 1y ago
Apparently they just can't live without Netflix and its even worth their freedom.
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by msgodel 1y ago
Part of what makes 4chan 4chan is the lack of politeness. Politeness is nice and really important but sometimes it gets in the way and you want the honesty. You don't want that all the time but you need it occasionally.
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by msgodel 1y ago
I wrote bingeblock.com to deal with stuff like this. It kicks you off sites by domain name with no opportunity for snoozing. You set a daily limit in minutes and then you get exactly that. That way you can still access useful sites from tim
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by msgodel 1y ago
America? the Anglosphere? the improvements to India? The almost complete eradication of slavery? The web? The British Empire arguably has a greater legacy than the Roman Empire.
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by msgodel 1y ago
The people who fall for these scams will just get tricked into buying giftcards anyway. There's nothing you can do for them if you don't want to institutionalize them, stop bothering the rest of us.
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by msgodel 1y ago
It looks to me like we hit the end of the debt cycle. The market was predicting this by the end of the fall last year before Trump was even elected. I don't think not doing tariffs would have had much of an effect.
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by msgodel 1y ago
Variance in income is more highly correlated with IQ. But hey if you don't like it we could have it my way and bulldoze the public schools since personally I think they're a huge waste of money.
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by msgodel 1y ago
Slowly building up context with people like coworkers and classmates over years.
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by msgodel 1y ago
That's very recent while this started quite a while ago.
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by msgodel 1y ago
Children from low income families tend to do poorly. Being able to measure their IQ helps demonstrate when it's more environment than genetics which strengthens the argument for improving their environment. Without this educational opp
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by msgodel 1y ago
Microkernels are normally pretty slow. It takes a lot of extra effort to make them fast. Realistically there's no reason Linux wouldn't be fine on its own for AR and in fact I'm typing this on Linux on some AR glasses right n
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by msgodel 1y ago
The constitution is ultimately enforced by nullification/secession. If the states don't want to do their job the violations will likely continue.
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by msgodel 1y ago
It's used a lot in formal writing (academic papers, books etc) which are probably a large portion of chatGPTs training. If the HRL was done by professional writers then it was probably additionally biased toward using them. People are
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by msgodel 1y ago
Historically these "tax for the common good" policies have only been abused. Most of us are suspicious of/frustrated with them. If you want to improve the common good kill the income tax.
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by msgodel 1y ago
Tariffs definitely weren't illegal in the past, most of the federal government's revenue came from them up until the IRS was created.
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by msgodel 1y ago
ISPs are supposed to disconnect abusive customers. The correct thing to do is probably contact the ISP. Don't complain about scraping, complain about the DDOS (which is the actual problem and I'm increasingly beginning to believe
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by msgodel 1y ago
None of this even needs a phone call, they could have a highschooler spend a weekend writing an HTML form. It's amazing just how inefficient large corporations are.

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