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by scoofy 12d ago
This is not correct. LA gets its water from hundred of miles away. So does the Bay Area. So does the central valley.
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by scoofy 15d ago
Mostly crying.
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by scoofy 17d ago
Trees that evolved to survive wildfires because of the near year-long dry periods.
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by scoofy 17d ago
Most modern wealth alternative-minimum tax proposals allow individuals to effectively give the taxed percentage of the difficult to value asset to the state to be converted to a tax payment upon a liquidation event. This is being used as a
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by scoofy 17d ago
California is naturally a desert. It is only unnaturally green and lush.
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by scoofy 20d ago
>Do not presume to understand other people's concerns based on one or two sentences. Expecting to be taken seriously in a good-faith conversation while walking in throwing entirely unargued bombs like OP's comment is asinine. T
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by scoofy 20d ago
>The Economist pontificating about morality is like a vampire complaining blood tastes funny This statement is no where close to a statement that matches your concerns. It implies “we all know the Economist is an inherently unserious rag
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by scoofy 20d ago
I don't think this kind of comment is helpful at all. We should treat these arguments on their merits, rather than with some ad hominum prejudice. If your (I presume anti-liberal) views are compelling, you wouldn't need to trot
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by scoofy 20d ago
>The cogito argument is about thinking, not qualia. I generally agree with the thrust of your argument -- the article is a mess and borderline unintelligible to this former philosophy postgraduate -- but I might nitpick this. Two points:
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by scoofy 20d ago
I remember when Open AI was a not-for-profit trying to stop companies from doing exactly what the for-profit Open AI is doing now. We live in the worst timeline.
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by scoofy 21d ago
I’m not arguing policy here. My point is Trump is an absolutely terrible person who should be removed from office. It’s not the “I don’t like this policy” it’s “maybe do the policy without being an absurdly cruel person who treats others li
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by scoofy 21d ago
Right, the point isn't that "Leave to renew" is some kind of horrible policy. Such bad-fucking-faith on display everywhere. The point is maybe signal to people that we will soon be pausing all visa renewals so people who tr
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by scoofy 21d ago
I mean, anyone who is still defending this administration isn't even trying to have a conversation in good faith. I have a Republican friend who appreciates the Supreme Court Justices, and then suddenly has zero clue about any news s
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by scoofy 21d ago
Again, I would argue “very common commands” like printing text should be so unbelievably intuitive that beginners can use them even before learning what a “console” is, why there are “logs” and how dot notation works.
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Golf Course Design as Variance Transformation(golfcoursewiki.substack.com)
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by scoofy 22d ago
Again, this is a CS/Math major kind of thinking. The term __main__ means nothing syntactically. If we care about language acquisition -- thus language adoption -- it is always better to make "very common terms" in the languag
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by scoofy 22d ago
It’s only weird syntactically. Python tends to lean towards intuitive, natural language by default. I would have assumed they’d have created a syntactically straightforward alternative, like: __this_file__ == “__launch_file__” or similar. I
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by scoofy 23d ago
"Mathematics expertise is going to collapse from calculator reliance."
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by scoofy 26d ago
>Nearly a million people do This is referring to SF, not "the Bay." SF has a population of "nearly a million." The Bay Area has a population of 8 million.
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by scoofy 26d ago
You're moving the goalposts, not me. I specifically said >current rate for a two bedroom in most of SF for a reason. Yes, you can get a cheaper place if you live in a place you don't want to live, but my point is that you
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by scoofy 26d ago
26 of those units are a dorm at SF State. Most of the rest are effectively Bayview, Ingleside/Oceanview, and the Tendernob. I'm not going to argue that you couldn't live in those locations at all. People do, and I'm sure
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by scoofy 26d ago
When there is a line of 50 people to see an apartment, and there are only 10 apartments in the city this month, 40 of those people aren't going to be able to afford housing. We're living in a real life game of musical chairs here.
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by scoofy 26d ago
You can't. I'm in SF, and you need to realize that the people already here are not paying the market rates for housing, either via rent or via property taxes. The current rate for a two bedroom in most of SF is approaching $6000&#
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by scoofy 26d ago
I’ve been investing in the VC space since about 2019. I can assure you that you are just wrong. Venture capital is alive and well well in America and it represents large swaths of products. These startups take on giants everyday and win.
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by scoofy 27d ago
> If your product is that good, it'll spread the same way products became popular in the past - through word of mouth, people recommending it to one another, getting their friends to try it. Most products fail. All the products you
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by scoofy 27d ago
There is a premise in the "selling out" scenario that assumes the artist is accepting money from a company so that company can sell more of the same -- or even a WORSE -- product using the artist to market the product. This CAN be
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by scoofy 29d ago
I think Trump just wants to be able to play golf at his courses in Scotland without being arrested for his decisions to arbitrarily make war however he wants. I honestly think it's that simple. He is a simple man.
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by scoofy 29d ago
I've updated the language there a bit, but the meaning is the same. >There's a fairly good case to be made that playing by, and being able to set, international norms is in the long term benefit of powerful countries. Yes, but
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by scoofy 29d ago
The relationship between the ICC and the "great powers" is an interesting one. It sort of separates the normal alliances of "west" and "non-west" alliances, and reshapes them into powerful and non-powerful. And
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by scoofy 29d ago
You could maybe compare the Boston metro. It should resemble a European city with satellite villages connected by trains. I would be curious as to the costs/benefits there.

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