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by sobkas 9d ago
prompt> Make as much money as you can, starting now. Sell two of your kidneys, as far as I know humans have at least three of them
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by sobkas 17d ago
Because there is still time. We might not stop what is already happening or what will happen, but we still have time to make it less severe than it would be if no action would be made. We still can save lives, not all of them but some and f
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by sobkas 17d ago
So you can prepare for what is to come.
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by sobkas 18d ago
CO2 capture produces more green house gases than it captures https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/24/shell-ccs-facility-in-canada...
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by sobkas 23d ago
Things that are plenty and cheap to replace are easy to hack because if you broke them, you could always try again...
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by sobkas 2mo ago
Water: https://www.dw.com/en/danube-water-levels-hungary-romania-cu...
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by sobkas 2mo ago
Not doing anything is also an alternative, theoretically it can be worse than other alternatives too...
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by sobkas 2mo ago
> It's easy to say these anti-capitalistic platitudes, but do you really want to live in a society where the concept of private ownership is not supported by the state? > There is a country that allows police to just take your st
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by sobkas 3mo ago
> I don't get it. > > Qualcomm has almost no products in the high-end inference/training market. The industry standard is the NVIDIA Hopper H100/H200. > > What could they possibly get from acquiring Modular? Do
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by sobkas 7mo ago
Just because something is in do-or-die situation doesn't mean that they have some kind of magical advantage over fat cat. Being in that situation means there is very real possibility of doing "die" part and we have lots of ex
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by sobkas 7mo ago
Also Theranos was do-or-die and we know how it ended.
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by sobkas 7mo ago
Easy way is not doing charter schools. Why are they bad? Charter school can choose what children they will teach when public schools don't have that choice, then people point at charter schools as having higher outcomes. In essence cha
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by sobkas 7mo ago
And how many people would have been saved if he didn't forcibly extracted that money from society to begin with? Because it's almost impossible to not help someone if he just throw wads of money at random. What important is how ma
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by sobkas 7mo ago
His "charitable" contributions are only in place to charity wash his awful actions in the past and now. And it worked, everyone thinks of Saint Bill and his supposed good deeds while forgetting what he actually did or doing right
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by sobkas 7mo ago
>They've admitted the US education work was a mistake. They are hardly alone in making that mistake, improving education in the US is hard. It's only hard if you don't want to help anyone and your only goal is to push char
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by sobkas 7mo ago
He uses philanthropy to force his ideology on everyone and his ideology doesn't work. His philanthropy makes things worse not better. At some point it stops being a philanthropy when it makes lives of people he tries to "help&quot
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by sobkas 7mo ago
>The kind of piece of shit who donates basically his entire fortune to charity? So he is no longer a billionaire? And donating to what charity, The Gates Foundation? The one that he controls? The one that he uses to push his ideological
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by sobkas 8mo ago
Language or the way we use it is often used to exclude "undesired", so there is a point in using them. Not a very nice point, but a point nevertheless.
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by sobkas 11mo ago
> I am surprised no one has started a go fund me to make a fund just to bribe politicians to fix tax filing. > > It would be cost effective VS paying for tax prep! It will not work, part of compensation is being hired as lobbyist a
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by sobkas 1y ago
You mean free speech zones...
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by sobkas 1y ago
Proper term for it is Computer Assisted Plagiarism, CAP for short. Also, I really hope that Google doesn't claim it created sites it crawl for search their engine.
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by sobkas 1y ago
Point of friction is to have it as a filter against people who really need your help. Helping people necessitates taking some action, spending resources, potentially making some errors that can be taken against you. But on the other hand, r
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by sobkas 1y ago
Google doesn't provide "entire operating system source code", it provides some parts, while other they keep closed. Also they are continuously removing parts that are essential from AOSP (that are either open or closed). Remo
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by sobkas 1y ago
Licence also prevent you from modifying generated code.
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by sobkas 1y ago
First you can download specifications in either PDF or doc(x). Second doc(x) are simple enough that simple doc(x) to ASCII/text is good enough to produce working ASN.1 definition. Copy&paste is also an option.
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by sobkas 2y ago
> A homelab with an useable uplink can be sufficient for many services like blog, DNS, mail. I always felt like you are painting target on your homelab when you allow outside access.
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by sobkas 2y ago
If death is a suicide it doesn't automatically means that third parties weren't involved. It's possible to push (temporally) vulnerable people over the edge, even if when helped/left alone they wouldn't. Especially
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by sobkas 2y ago
How about government is paying for treatment of people too poor to pay themselves and everyone is paying their share to finance that spending? And as a bonus everyone else will also get their medical treatment financed this way?
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by sobkas 2y ago
> Why non-LTS out of curiosity? Based on my experience, more recent kernel versions have more fixes/better support for recent hardware(or sometimes not so recent). LTS doesn't backport everything from later releases for obvious
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by sobkas 2y ago
> Qualcomm showed Linux working in October 2023 yet here in October 2024 Linux does not work. I don't get it. Curse of Android, Qualcomm lived for so long with permanently forked kernel, that there is no pressure on code quality, on

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