throw__away7391

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by throw__away7391 1mo ago
Worth reading rather than reacting to the title. The author is basically arguing that "some people are too stupid to be worth the effort to employee them", not the more familiar way this phrase is used.
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by throw__away7391 3mo ago
> As a non-US citizen Opus 4.8 is the best American LLM I will ever have access to No, we are all just waiting for Dario to get scheduled for an Oval Office press conference where he can present a gold trophy to Liberace Hitler and extol
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by throw__away7391 3mo ago
I see what you're saying, but I don't agree that it works this way. Parents' concerns for their children are far more self-serving than most parents claim. Consider that every "for the children" political agenda eve
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by throw__away7391 3mo ago
Well they happen in schools and children don’t vote. If this had been a wave of senior center shootings, something would have been done a long, long time ago.
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by throw__away7391 3mo ago
No, this is about the fragile ego of the President taking petty revenge on a company the didn't go along with every whim of his administration.
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by throw__away7391 6mo ago
Not sure what you mean exactly. In the jurisdictions I have experience the utility is legally obligated to provide service to any residence within the territory. That resident can then decide to use 100% solar with batteries and pay us noth
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by throw__away7391 6mo ago
The situation with the electric grid is pretty crazy. The cost to supply power to houses in sparsely populated communities is orders of magnitude higher than urban apartments. Not just the power infrastructure itself but all sorts of little
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by throw__away7391 6mo ago
I worked with a large number of these so called "legitimate" charities and after what I saw I will never give a penny to any non-profit. You will have far, far more impact figuring out something you care about and directly spendin
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by throw__away7391 7mo ago
I basically agree here, but I would add that the framing here can sometimes sometimes be better described as “extortion”. Politicians have tremendous power and influence over many industries, I’ve seen the inside of a few situations where t
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by throw__away7391 7mo ago
This is not a cynical take, it is blindingly obvious. Right now, governments around the world are watching, salivating over what is effectively remote control over the literal thoughts of and total surveillance over their entire population.
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by throw__away7391 7mo ago
I am not an expert here, but I have spent many vacations in Spain as it is one of my favorite countries, and I distinctly remember it being in Europe.
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by throw__away7391 7mo ago
There were stories floating around at the time of people who were interested in buying it, having no idea what it was, not owning a computer and not realizing you needed one to use it.
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
> the size of the US economy relative to the global economy is shrinking This is not true, not at all, it dipped as China grew initially, but looking at the past few years this trend had reversed and the US was again growing as a percent
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
You can watch the screen and see what it can detect, and it is impressive. On a dark road at night in Santa Monica it was able to identify that there were two pedestrians at the end of the next block on the sidewalk obscured by a row of par
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
Every government in the world right now wants to get their hands on the controls and put their thumb on the scales here. Modern social media has proven to be effectively remote control for their citizens, nothing like this kind of power has
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
The basic problem there was that salespeople were viewed as the ones who actually made things happen, engineering and building the actual product was just an inconvenient necessity.
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
Some time ago I had my 10 year anniversary forgotten once in a company (where I had written almost the entire codebase for their core product myself) and I did feel slighted. I had felt invested in the company, to me this day was a big deal
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
And the US still uses Arabic numerals in spite of banning visas for basically every Arab country in the world.
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
Exactly. A whole lot of people have been sold this idea that "taxing billionaires" is going to solve all their problems and provide endless spending for all the free things they want, but this is simply not the case. First off, th
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
A) I'm aware and B) so what? Markdown is popular enough now that even people who aren't very technical and don't know that they're reading/writing Markdown are familiar with it. This is incredibly valuable and not s
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
We do not need another competing standard here. Markdown is adequate and more importantly widely adopted and growing.
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
This is the entire problem. This is possibly the single problem in the modern world. When social media first appeared, "feeds" were based on explicit subscription by the users and ordered chronologically. Later "likes" w
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
People are always looking for an outside villain in this story. Over the years it's been "Chinese buyers", AirBnBs, private equity, or "the rich" generally, but the thing is that the system is working exactly as it
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
You're overthinking this. These are just stupid people. Think of the dumbest uncle you have ranting online over some ridiculous story. These are the people making these decisions, and they're putting about the same amount of plann
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
This is fairly normal these days, no?
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by throw__away7391 8mo ago
This article claims that that FEMA’s buyout investments “pay off” at roughly $4–$6 saved for every $1 spent. It includes a link to a study, but nowhere in the study does it say this. Instead this is an aggregated estimate for hazard mitigat
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by throw__away7391 9mo ago
That's because the WWII generation who created these institutions and laid the groundwork for many of these change were still around for all that time. Around 2016 the last remaining members passed away. Now we have the boomers in char
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by throw__away7391 9mo ago
You seem weirdly worked up over this. Blinken made no public statements on this until he was asked about it. He did not come out and say for example, "For too long, the vision impaired community have been discriminated against by the s
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by throw__away7391 9mo ago
I read the title of this and as I could not wrap my head around the idea of "Rubio" here actually meaning Marco Rubio, I assumed this was a font name, but also laughing to myself just how hilariously absurd it would be for the Sec
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by throw__away7391 9mo ago
That is literally where I thought he was going with this initially, that programmers are stuck in the single dimension of their own favorite language.

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