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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>living where there is more density and public transit to reduce social friction. Anecdata, most people seem to move out to less dense and more private parts of the country as they get older and accrue more agency in their lives. I imagi
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I think you completely missed my original point to begin with. People can still afford cost of living, the American economy just chuggling along despite criticism is proof of that. The question is whether people are happy about spending
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>I'm not sure gas and eggs is the problem here. When people say cost of living, most of it is just rent or mortgage. Rent/mortgage is just one part of the cost of living[1]. Even if you have a place to stay and sleep, you still
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>So much for “wildly inaccurate caricature”. You're flaunting your ignorance (or naivety) of America for all to see, though. Most stores, even in internet-stereotype "hellscapes" like San Francisco, don't lock up bott
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Any reasonable argument should classify retirement savings as an ordinary expense, since those savings come out of your income stream and become inaccessible until retirement age unless you either pay hefty penalties or qualify for very spe
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The American economy keeps on chugging despite critics, but that doesn't mean the critics don't have a point. Costs of living (read: gas and eggs) are high, many would argue "unaffordable" even though most will still pay
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>anecdotes Just so we're clear, I'm talking about cold hard data and the rate is "too many". https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/09/10/okinawa-gover... https://thei
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>BTW, the US Military was pretty thorough in making sure US personnel and military families behaved like guests in Germany, as they were invited guests. Ever since the Berlin Airlift, the US was friends with Germany. All the more sad tha
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I would wholeheartedly agree with you if my tax dollars were going to keeping the US semiconductor industry alive. Instead we fed however many CHIPS' and other grants' billions of tax dollars to Intel and all we got were five digi
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
That is still better than seeing my (our) tax dollars thrown down the figurative drain.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Never bet against Win32.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>If you hand China all the technological cards, They already have all the cards, thinking that we still hold the cards is delusional. The changeover of eras hasn't caught up yet, but it's only a matter of time. No, rather tha
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
That news came out after I wrote my comment, but that vindicates my apprehension towards Intel's ability to execute. Only believe them after they deliver.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I think the way the US would win wars is by figuring out how to win wars (and ideally not start/join so many fucking wars in the first place) instead of manufacturing national crises out of nothingburgers that nonetheless catch the att
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Look: If the American casualty count is bigger than zero then we fucking failed, let alone if we outright lose the war too. Why? Because we are supposedly so fucking advanced that we are worried about silicon toys that we don't even us
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Every person who has ever programmed a computer or worked in any complex system knows they can't be relied upon 100%. I know I can rest assured the Excel spreadsheet for my monthly and annual budget is perfectly accurate and reliab
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Go fight a war with 1960s technology against a modern adversary and find out. Not a great argument considering Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen (read: Houthis), and further back Vietnam and North Korea all wrecked the US military one way or
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
As far as the rest of the tech world moving ever forward is concerned, it is "some inefficient bullshit workflow". I don't necessarily agree with it, but that's certainly the wider consensus.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>and all signs point out to it working out well. Intel has always had great "signs" but fell completely apart once the time came for execution. Which is to say, I'll believe it when I see it. I say that as an Intel fanbo
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Let's be real here: Most of us detest forced upgrades because it is Fucking Inconvenient(tm) . We don't want to move away from Space Bar Heating[1] once we've gotten established, and screw everyone who tries taking it away.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>With yearly iPhone releases it is harder to justify upgrades. It might be helpful to think of them like cars: New models every year, but customers only "upgrade" every 10 to 20 years.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The headline suggests a very broad subject while the contents proper only concerns Kessler Syndrome specifically. Quite misleading. Nothing to blame the poster, mind. The author went for clickbait, so may he be tarred and feathered for it.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Your genes aren't your brother's or cousin's and vice versa. Imagine a tree, if you fail (or choose not) to reproduce then your branch will be a dead end. Other branches who did successfully reproduce will continue the tree.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I think you're misunderstanding what "replace" means. Given a long enough time span, everyone alive will be the children of those who reproduced. Generation B will be composed of Generation A reproducers. The world of tomorro
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The elderly vastly outnumbering the working population is a symptom of sudden and drastic population count decline and is a different problem even if it is correlated. Biology and evolution by definition is determined by those who reproduce
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
That almost all my comments here got flagged says a lot about how putrid our society (and the specific subset most of HN's audience hails from) is. Sad, really.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Maybe you don't realize it, but we're on the same side. Japanese entertainment isn't In Your Dumb Face about things unlike western entertainment, it respects your intelligence and sheer common sense. You're not being t
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
That is about as uneducated a take as one could possibly have. Keep in mind "isekai" as a genre also exists in western entertainment; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and The Chronicles of Narnia are some promi
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I'm a millenial myself (36 years old next year... I'm getting too old for this), and while I can think of some "popular" names of my generation like Linkin Park, Dragonforce, Emma Watson, Brittney Spears as you mentioned
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Retired people by definition are not working, but that aside... Are you saying that programmers don't create software because they just "prompt a compiler"? Are you saying authors don't write books because they type into

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