shagmin

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by shagmin 6d ago
Part of the point in the US having a huge military is to avoid war in the first place, it's a form of defensive posturing.
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by shagmin 6d ago
There is a form of legal redress - following through in the senate with impeachment. Trump had sufficient allies in the senate when he was impeached so they dismissed it but if instead they had a 2/3 vote he could've be removed fr
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by shagmin 2mo ago
How much of Meta's r&d is spent on keeping people addicted to their apps? I'd argue Amazon and Meta were both more innovative when there was no or very little revenue. Meta essentially replaced myspace, which basically went do
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by shagmin 2mo ago
Read a thing his father died of heart disease at a younger age. The long plane ride probably caused an issue with a blood clot, would be my guess.
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by shagmin 3mo ago
Think I've heard anecdotes about Tokyo being pretty affordable as well. Quick search shows less than 1/3 of income typically spent on housing, which is much better than major US cities.
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by shagmin 3mo ago
> It reduces the debate to fighting some imagined, small class of property owners who oppose progress. I feel kind of the opposite way really. I've even known plenty of people who lease apartment units and don't want other apar
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by shagmin 3mo ago
I take it as referring to AIPAC, one of the most influential lobbying organizations in the US.
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by shagmin 4mo ago
Reminds me of something that made me cringe that I heard from an architect at a medium sized IT shop, "even Google couldn't handle our scale".
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by shagmin 6mo ago
I just kind of assumed they meant no additional snow to add to the accumulated amount they have for the season compared to 2015.
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by shagmin 6mo ago
Curious how much this varies among police. Some jobs are by their nature always dangerous. But there are a lot of cops in the USA, and plenty I'm sure have nice, cozy jobs, and then there are some who spend thee majority of their caree
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by shagmin 7mo ago
That's a bit tenuous. Corporate taxes are a cost after profit, which usually means whatever is left over after expenses. This means companies could pay higher salaries specifically to avoid corporate taxes, or invest in things instead.
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by shagmin 8mo ago
Just anecdotally, my experience was the total opposite. I didn't work in the health care industry long though and I think you're probably right in general. But you might also find there's a lot of variation between small comp
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by shagmin 8mo ago
I get what you're saying and mostly somewhat agree with your point, but it's kind of funny thinking back and feeling the complete opposite. People like to argue which states would be better off in a civil war, meanwhile I grew up
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by shagmin 8mo ago
If a person immigrates to the USA due to success with onlyfans, are they not productive members of society by virtue of having taxable & disposable income from the fruits of their labor? They don't need a PHD to be productive anymo
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by shagmin 8mo ago
Isn't this par for the course for the New York Post? I hear that name and think trashy tabloid.
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by shagmin 9mo ago
What atrophies with calculator usage is an ability to do long form division for example, or arithmetic operations with large numbers in your head for example. The way you describe AI - tell it the problem and get an easy answer sounds ident
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by shagmin 9mo ago
I guess that distinction in poor matters some to me, because when I read your original comment (budgeting to avoid staying poor) the first thing that came to mind was someone I know who often says things like poor people should just work ha
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by shagmin 9mo ago
I don't have a concrete example, but I think you can invent plenty of iterated prisoner's dilemmas with whatever modified rules and variables and find 'tit-for-tat' isn't the end-all-be-all. Like it changes things i
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by shagmin 9mo ago
Original title was better in multiple ways. Mods did a disservice here.
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by shagmin 10mo ago
I find it kind of hard to define success or failure. Google search and Facebook are a success right? And they were able to scale up as needed, which can be hard. But the way they started is very different from a government agency or massive
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by shagmin 10mo ago
You don't need to get to the 3rd age in AoE 2 necessarily, unless you're just sticking with a certain strategy or playing a certain map that warrants it. There are whole metas around going offensive in different ways at each age -
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by shagmin 10mo ago
Almost all languages have some sort of object representation, right? Classes with their own behavior, DTOs, records, structs, etc.,. What language are you working in? If you're coupled to a specific database provider anyway there'
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by shagmin 10mo ago
Age of Empires 2 has big tournaments as well, and the campaigns are fairly popular too I think.
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by shagmin 10mo ago
When I was younger and living in military dorms, I put a old throw away laptop hosting a simple website via Apache on the internet. Every time I checked the log it'd be full of so many random, wild spurts of attacks (granted I had basi
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by shagmin 10mo ago
Some would say Tesla has been over hyped as well.
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by shagmin 10mo ago
I know at least a couple times just the templating side saved me where it was convenient to just run a helm command with --dry-run to get the yaml and grab & modify the relevant pieces and apply those manually where I don't necessa
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by shagmin 10mo ago
Just curious, why should I believe this is merely neocon propaganda? I've read tidbits about this off & on over the years and it doesn't seem that straight forward, even if calling it genocide is on the hyperbolic side.
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by shagmin 11mo ago
Could take this a couple different ways. Aren't those cities flourishing today?
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by shagmin 11mo ago
Can't you just say that about any less than perfect solution? Bitcoin has been used to facilitate illegal drug trafficking, which is a problem. Yet you think more bitcoin is the solution? Bizarre. So there's already a lack of a st
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by shagmin 11mo ago
Probably a significant difference for Cybertrucks compared to cars.

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