Dalewyn

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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>This discussion would be much easier if you responded to my points directly I can't because you're talking nonsense. You are essentially saying that guns commit murder, not the user who shot the gun. You are saying that the
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The flaw in your faulty logic is that you are attributing intent and purpose to a tool rather than the user of the tool. Additionally, you might also be attributing a persona to a static and mindless tool which is also nonsens
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Something that's been talked about every so often is that there aren't representative (generational) pop icons for the past few generations (probably from millenials onwards). One theory from Japan, that I still remember and think
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>AI tools that spit out prompt-based songs are enabling people not to create music, What level of mental gymnastics is this? This is like saying that cars enable people to not travel. Music is in the ears of the beholder, it doesn't
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Not sure what's wrong with your feed, if I go to that account the top post is from 3 hours ago concerning this outage along with two replies at 2 hours and then ~48 minutes ago located right under it.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The incentive to raise prices is pressured down by customers' desire to not spend more money than they have to. If businesses can get away with raising prices that means the price was too low to begin with, tariffs or no tariffs.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Tariffs are a surcharge on imports added and demanded by the government, paid by the people or entities importing. As an example, if an American buys a Chinese coffee maker priced at $100 and there is a 50% tariff, there is a $50 tariff tha
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Isn't that essentially the stock market trading floor scene?
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
For an objective/scientific reasoning behind this, I once read somewhere (no citations handy, sorry) that humans can't really "associate" at a personal level with more than a few hundred people or so at once. This means
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
When everyone is special noone is, as the old saying goes. There's nothing herently good or bad about everyone getting access to or becoming capable of something.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
As a Japanese, I'm flagging this because "AI Fukushima" is an actual case of cultural appropriation. The Fukushima #1 Nuclear Accident was the result of a combination of Mother Nature turning the dials up to 11 and the incumb
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
It's also not a misconception that "AI" PCs are for creative/technical professionals when the vast majority of the marketing is about shitting out creative(?) or technical(?) works(?) to reduce and ultimately democratize
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
For Trump it was chiefly about winning re-election in the face of absolute adversity. For everyone else, it was namely about getting rid of Trump but also attempting to normalize the regulation of speech and assembly, commerce, and healthca
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>that was not a promise from medical experts What part of Fauci (and many others) being a member of the Coronavirus Task Force do you not understand?
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Here you go: https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/15-days-slow-s... https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/st... https://www.npr.org/2020/03/3
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>the chopping block is all rocket R&D and forcing NASA to contract out that work. Nearly everything NASA does outside of operating the missions themselves is contracted out, especially the SLS which is all of it: * The main stage (
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Department of Galactic Exploration
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
NASA and most of the unmanned space exploration programs will probably be fine. It's the manned space exploration programs and all the space-as-in-vapid programs that could and should be cut with extreme prejudice. And in case I need t
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>The end result will be the loss of trust in new banks. The people that would benefit from this effect are established banks Distrusting new banks in favor of old banks is generally a good idea.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
US Bank[1] which is the second oldest and fifth largest[2] US bank currently has 3.5% on their Money Market account which is basically an HYSA. [1]: https://www.usbank.com/bank-accounts/savings-accounts/elite-...
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
If there's one thing that 2016 (really 2015) onwards has taught me, it's to give absolutely zero of my damns to "experts". Unless I am paying them cold hard cash or some other incentive to work for me, and even then I wi
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
In the interests of kicking awake one of the stagnantest economies known to man: Drill, baby, drill!
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
A man's desk/workbench or an equivalent is a glimpse into his thoughts; everything exists and is where it is for a reason. Any time I look inside my SSDs and HDDs I am satisfactorily horrified.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/06/us/politics/p... >Of the counties with nearly complete results, more than 89 percent shifted in favor of former President Donald J. Trump in th
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>some of main reasons of its decline. Also Youtube, and justifiably so for once. NicoNico was simply obnoxious to use even in its heyday, while you could just open a Youtube vidja and watch . Once Youtube incorporated livestreaming an
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Musk wasn't "pushed away", Consider that most of the country shifted Right/Republican this election, which is another way of saying ex-Democrats turned Republicans. Kind of ironically, the Democrats also became the
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Artemis has not produced anything of value, literally: * The SLS is a rehash of Space Shuttle components with no new technology. Arguably, it's a regression since we will be using reusable SSMEs as disposables. * Orion serves no valuab
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
This comment exemplifies that this whole narrative stems from political disagreements with Musk rather than anything to do with SpaceX's technological and commercial merits. As an aside, Musk was once upon a time aligned with the Left&
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>is it improved to the degree that's it's worth giving up Artemis? Considering Artemis has produced quite literally nothing of value? Yes.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>They can not do experiments that might result in the destruction of a launch tower for instance. Or even the failure of a rocket. They can, or at least they could once upon a time.[1] NASA's problems are all self-inflicted either b

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