FredPret

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by FredPret 2y ago
You think the market is going to collapse but you're happy about it because it'll be bad for the conservatives? You might want to rethink a few things.
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by FredPret 2y ago
First past the post is awesome. I moved from a proportional-representation country to a FPTP one (Canada) and it's so much better to have a specific individual who is my MP. Back where I was born, there's a grey and anonymous part
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by FredPret 2y ago
More Canadians approve of Trump than of Trudeau https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/canadians-want-a-to...
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by FredPret 2y ago
True but you can’t build distributed systems that rely on every single actor being a good one. Hence encryption, the police, etc.
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by FredPret 2y ago
True, but they also make it hard for a cynical exec to game the system, for instance by shorting the stock and then tanking the company on purpose.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Once you know the foundation of things, it’s much easier to build on that than if you start with a higher abstraction
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by FredPret 2y ago
Now you’re strawmanning. Read the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42596079 says: > “I'm surprised at this concept spreading in the US, since the system would generally benefit from having perpetual perp
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by FredPret 2y ago
It’s completely fair to say that private prisons have too much pull and that there are bad incentives like you point out. It’s completely unfair to express surprise that Americans would come up with a way to reduce their prison population b
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by FredPret 2y ago
There are private prisons in the US that benefit from more prisoners. But there are many more people and organizations there that benefit from fewer prisoners. For most purposes, a country is not a singular thing.
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by FredPret 2y ago
> c) ... It's crazy to me how many old people who self-identify as conservatives / capitalists have no qualms about using their political pull to get government muscle to kill competition in real estate using the building permi
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by FredPret 2y ago
If true, it would explain the massive post-covid revenue bumps at Carnival Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean. These guys are making double their pre-covid revenue, and 2019 was a really great year. They're heading to almost 3x their rev
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by FredPret 2y ago
I think you're letting your weird anti-Americanism colour (color?) your thoughts. For instance: - I'm not American - Americans don't need Whatsapp because almost all of them have enough money to just buy iPhones - Africans in
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by FredPret 2y ago
Look, every company goes through a lifecycle; tech companies go through them faster. But I’m in my mid 30’s and will probably use Facebook (very casually) for life. I’ve bought multiple products from their ads; they’ve got my profile zero’e
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by FredPret 2y ago
Exactly - social media is the perfect way to replicate that “town square” vibe our cavemen ancestors must’ve had to communicate with distant social connections, short of having an actual town square.
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by FredPret 2y ago
You mean it’s a social network that advertises exclusively to people in their prime spending years? Sounds like a roaring success to me. Looking at their financials, I’m right about that: https://valustox.com/META . Our cult
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by FredPret 2y ago
True, and regrettable; on the other hand, mobile compute is getting so much cheaper all the time. This is the driving force behind all that bloat.
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by FredPret 2y ago
The web is just a beautiful publishing platform. - no permission needed (mostly) - built-in discoverability - you get to figure out whatever payment processing you want - works on every device - update code in seconds - no copy protection n
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by FredPret 2y ago
Human nature never changes
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by FredPret 2y ago
Best show ever
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by FredPret 2y ago
I've recently been toying with the idea of turning my overly complicated weightlifting Excel into an overly complicated me-only webapp / testflight app. It can't be worse than Excel for iOS!
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by FredPret 2y ago
I always play against my phone; I guess it now has the advantage of having yet another 959 sets of openings stored away that a casual player like me will never memorize. Still, it seems like a step in the right direction.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I googled Chess960 and you just made my day. The one thing I never liked about chess was the opening memorization; what an elegant solution.
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by FredPret 2y ago
“Beware the Hun in the Sun” is apparently what Allied pilots used to say. https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/archive-exhibitions/wo...
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by FredPret 2y ago
Local public transit in the US is a very different beast to getting across the country. Manhattan may have high population density, and the public transit that goes with it; but building passenger rail thousands of miles to the other side o
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by FredPret 2y ago
One way or the other, ~90% of the homeless people I see here in Calgary are bent over in the fentanyl flop or lighting crack pipes. Some of them would need years of physical therapy to fix their limping, if that is even possible.
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by FredPret 2y ago
The report mentions that as a contributing factor.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Causes, according to the article: - High rent > Research finds that where rents go up, so does homelessness - Illegal border crossings > HUD officials say another key factor was the recent increase in asylum seekers coming to the U.S.
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by FredPret 2y ago
If brown-rats-as-a-service is as useful as it is already, then I'm excited by what the future holds. I think to make it to the next step, AI will have to have some way of performing rigorous logic integrated on a low level. Maybe scali
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by FredPret 2y ago
The cause-and-effect here is “is your home country first-world / on a similar standard of living as us, and also not an enemy”. So Japanese and South Koreans are probably more welcome than Russians, say.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I’m saying it should be the same between countries as between back yards. The same logic that justifies national government with tax-levying and rule-enforcing power also requires national borders. (ie, a group of people own this area toget

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