Apes

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by Apes 6y ago
As inaccurate and untrustworthy as deepfakes are making video?
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by Apes 6y ago
git was designed to be used decentrally. Every clone of a git repo is technically an equally valid source of truth for the repository. In practice though, pretty much every project has a single git repo that is used to synchronize all the o
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by Apes 6y ago
Is this just saying that Intellectual Property (IP) protections stifle economic growth, but with more steps? I think it's pretty well understood that IP protection helps innovation to a point, but if you go to far it actually stifles g
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by Apes 6y ago
I like iostat -x for checking disk IO capacity
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by Apes 6y ago
The current risk free rate is absurdly low, which would suggest a much lower sustainable draw down than 4% for the next 10-30 years, probably only around .5 to 1.5% at most.
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by Apes 6y ago
What is with this consistent gas lighting? These articles mention Chrome Incognito, and the laser focus gas lighting is consistently that "of course you can be tracked in Chrome Incognito, why are these people SO STUPID?" This has
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by Apes 6y ago
While I'm sure you're feeling pressure from the CCP to make an argument like this, I hope you at least realize your argument is largely undermined when it's made in the context of Huawei literally lying about - and trying to
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by Apes 6y ago
The situation is far more nuanced. If you said instead "The government can be a tool used to suppress competition," I think most would agree with you. The distinction is that there are plenty of other tools companies can use to
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by Apes 6y ago
A disclaimer that a technical vulnerability exists isn't some kind of implicit invitation for a company like Google to use that vulnerability for their benefit. It's true that it's technically possible to track users using a
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by Apes 6y ago
There are the data privacy laws that mandate users be able to opt of tracking, and it should be pretty clear to a non-psychopathic company that a person using the private mode on their browser is opting out of any tracking. Google is one of
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by Apes 6y ago
I'm not sure RedHat is a good example any more, since they were aquired by IBM.
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by Apes 6y ago
Your theory only works with a perfectly efficient market. In practice, even without commissions, there are many other sources of inefficiency in the market that act to reduce your returns every time you trade. The bid/ask spread is an
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by Apes 7y ago
I find your implied assumption that starting a company should in normal circumstances be seen as a get rich scheme that pays out in under 10 years as completely toxic, but that's an aside. The point is large companies shouldn't be
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by Apes 7y ago
This article is no way reflects reality. There's a reason the "money printer go brrr" meme is blowing up. There is already significant outrage about the moral hazard of what's being done by the fed, and the sentiment is
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by Apes 7y ago
I really don't get what the point of your argument here is. It's such a bad comparison. The US came out of WW2 with an amazing economy. Also this isn't a war. And your augment is openly self defeating, since it takes 5 second
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by Apes 7y ago
There haven't been any bailouts issued yet. Congress is still in the process of working out what the stimulus bill is going to look like. You're referring to overnight loans made by the federal reserve to facilitate liquidity in t
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by Apes 7y ago
There's no free win option here. Every choice has its cost. That social support system has to come from taking a slice out of the economy. And who is going to be paying for that social support system while the economy is shut down? The
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by Apes 7y ago
It's too late for extensive testing. The US is analogous to someone who was just exposed to a massively lethal dose of radiation, but still mostly feels fine for now. The damage is already done, and it's going to start showing up
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by Apes 7y ago
You seem to be aggressively avoiding any critical thinking, so here's a thought game for you to play: You have two choices: 1: 0% chance of dying from Covid-19, but you lose your job, you're evicted from your home, and have no cle
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by Apes 7y ago
I get you're excited, but old school CRTs can easily kill a person with the discharge off a capacitor, even when they've been unplugged for a while. It may not be a good idea to casually encourage people to go start hacking on the
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by Apes 7y ago
End the landed gentry by repealing Prop 13, and I'll take arguments like this seriously. Otherwise it just sounds like the priviliged wanting to have their cake and eat it too.
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by Apes 7y ago
If the majority of people in an area experienced the negative effects of rapid growth -- doesn't that imply most of them caused the growth by moving there in the first place? Talk about locking the door behind you on the way in.
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by Apes 7y ago
Do know evil.
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by Apes 7y ago
Life for those in the 25-35 demographic is extremely shitty when compared to the four generations that came before. Millenials entered into an economy where Boomers had accumulated the majority of all assets at bargain basement prices, and
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by Apes 7y ago
It's backwards compatible with a new and not yet widespread USB format. How does that help me connect my existing monitor, or my keyboard and mouse that are still using the old USB connector?
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by Apes 7y ago
Apple is no longer a product company - they haven't focused on their product quality in years. They've become a cult, and customers like you have become their true product. Here's some highlights from that list of great dev m
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by Apes 7y ago
Well, let's break it down: healthcare costs, lifespan estimates, mass shootings, addiction rates, and cost of housecare are all basically just the same thing from different angles: the healthcare industry The healthcare industry is ext
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by Apes 7y ago
Consumers using grocery insurance would have no real say or insensitive in what groceries they get - it doesn't matter if all they need is some chicken and a cheap wine. All the grocery store sells are filet mignon and Dom Perignon, an
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by Apes 7y ago
Your analogs are poor fits: The solar system is an extremely stable system, while our economic system is not at all stable. Your proposed money cycle is based on the concept of a closed system, which the US economy is definitely not. If the
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by Apes 7y ago
It's always great to see an extremely intelligent person try to rationalize a core belief that's at direct odds with the cold, hard, and unforgiving reality they live in. The amount of mental gymnastics done here are Olympian, and

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