FredPret

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by FredPret 2y ago
It’s not racist and you know that. They also would not want a white person without authorization. Also, in your border-free dreamworld, how far does this go? Can anyone / everyone in the world come live in your country? How about your
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by FredPret 2y ago
Apocalypse (written in Rust)
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by FredPret 2y ago
If you can do an undergrad in physics and also hold a conversation, your path is open to getting to the top 0.1% in terms of problem solving ability
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by FredPret 2y ago
Moat building is why we need disruptive innovators to come along every now and then and shake things up. Moat busters.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Standardization will be great... for 1-2 years. After that, you'll start losing out on lost innovation that wasn't allowed to happen. "Dozens of companies independently spending millions solving the same problems" only s
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by FredPret 2y ago
If you add all Latin words with Greek origins, most European languages are really forms of Greek
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by FredPret 2y ago
I wonder if you can use atmospheric drag to pull you into the Sun / a different star / Kerbol. Long ago, playing Elite if I remember correctly, you could fly close to a star and scoop up a load of hydrogen for later resale. I&#x27
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by FredPret 2y ago
It's only the v0 you start off with from being in orbit already that makes it hard. Earth (and Kerbin) orbit at a very high speed.
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If KSP is to be believed, this is shockingly difficult to do
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by FredPret 2y ago
There must be a good balance between the grow-up-quick-or-die-horribly of the pre-technology world and the my-cats-are-my-kids life of the post-danger world
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by FredPret 2y ago
It could be that OP expects Social Security to be kaput by the time he gets to be old. Looking at the population graph, that’s a valid concern. There’s a ton of boomers and a ton of millenials, but very few babies to pay for our retirement.
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I get this. You’ve got me wondering how to get this project Wife Approved Status
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by FredPret 2y ago
The hot water was considered unsafe initially because early hot water cylinders over there were open tanks subject to incursion by vermin
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by FredPret 2y ago
If you think they're being dishonest by betting on future app revenue from iPhone users... buy an Android.
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by FredPret 2y ago
A legitimate business created an asset. There’s no good reason to believe they should cede ownership simply because 16 years have elapsed. > But Apple owns none of the iPhones, so why do they get a say? This is an interesting point. But
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Of course they do? Just because they created a platform long ago doesn’t make it public property all of a sudden? The value of their platform is in both hardware and software by the way.
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You forgot the sausages! Compare and contrast to the "continental" "breakfast" which is usually a muffin.
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That would be splendid although it seems to have been a controversial choice until recently
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"Catch a guillotine"? (!!) Collapsing the birthrate? Human welfare? We're talking about the App Store my friend. You need to take it easy on the ideology.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I agree it’s tragic but out of all the ways a culture can strangle itself, museumification is the least horrible
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by FredPret 2y ago
But Tony Soprano sucks the blood out of pre-existing economic activity while Apple created a brand-new playing field for billions of $ of new activity, complete with the hardware platform and app hosting.
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by FredPret 2y ago
As an aside, the UK is a great tourist destination, especially if you leave London right after landing. Beautiful landscape, the best breakfast around, really nice people, tons of sights to see.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Politicians should take a mandatory one-week training in: - very basic macro economics - very basic game theory - very basic statistics Come to think of it, kids should learn this in high school
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by FredPret 2y ago
All you can do now is to go to the source data. If you want long term trend data, it’s easy to get good data for free. It’ll be boring and most trends will be positive (thank our lucky stars we live in the technological era). Unless you hav
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by FredPret 2y ago
Fat + protein = happiness, at least for me
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by FredPret 2y ago
Other interesting kinds of orange (International Orange and friends): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_orange
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by FredPret 2y ago
Windows Update once borked my overnight ML job to install “critical updates; reboot required” on my desktop. I bought a MacBook the next day and put Linux on that desktop. 100% happier.
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On the one hand, it looks like they're getting MBA'ed slowly: the product lineup is getting more tangled every year (just try picking an iPad) as they search for more ways to slice and dice the market. On the other hand: they crea
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by FredPret 2y ago
I learned English and honestly the only thing that happened was my life got 100 times better socially and professionally. My thinking is exactly the same. The only cognitive skills I've noticed improving is my ability to play word game
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by FredPret 2y ago
How did you get to a tablespoon of butter? Also, calories is why you're eating in the first place. The butter is part of the breakfast. If you're getting fat, that's not the fault of the butter per se, but of all the calories

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