FredPret

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by FredPret 1y ago
YAML has given me eye-twitching ever since I went on an ill-considered quest of setting up wifi on a Debian server years ago. I never figured it out by the way - just bought a really long LAN cable.
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by FredPret 1y ago
I've never felt keener to limit my explorations to the great indoors
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by FredPret 1y ago
Me too. I bounce off of any product landing page that has "AI" slapped on it, which lately is ~99% of them. On the other hand, if I saw a product labelled "No AI bullshit" then I'd immediately be more interested. Bu
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by FredPret 1y ago
SpaceX IS doing lots of important things for the first time.
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by FredPret 1y ago
I noticed that two things make my DOMS disappear like magic: - eating an shocking amount of spinach (works much better than a magnesium pill) - some sort of light cardio of the affected muscles after lifting
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by FredPret 1y ago
If you had a $100B asset, like Starbucks Inc, how much would you pay to search for and keep the right guy to run it? The Venn diagram of people who have the diversity and depth of skills to pull off a major CEO role has a very small overlap
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by FredPret 1y ago
But the reason I hammer on about this point is precisely due to the hysteria. In the popular imagination, we spray x million gallons of water onto a golf course, and it just evaporates, never to be seen again. It is the alarmism that alar
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by FredPret 1y ago
Doesn't pass the sniff test: From what I can glean from Google, the sun moves 1500 cubic kilometers of water from the ocean into the air every day, around 500,000 cubic kilometers a year (ie, a stupendous amount). Apparently around 10%
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by FredPret 1y ago
I don't think they're uneconomical. Fresh, clean water is astonishingly cheap; of course people are using it to grow almonds and alfalfa in the desert. Just charge people what the water is worth and they'll stop, or water c
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by FredPret 1y ago
This is a point always missed in debates about CEO pay. The money doesn't rain from the sky onto his yacht. Shareholders have to shell it out, and they'd prefer the CEO works for free. That CEO has to add billions to their bottom
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by FredPret 1y ago
You're not asking this in good faith, but I'll give my answer anyway: companies have an interest in paying workers market wages, not more, and not much less. Too much over the market rate, and you're not maximally efficient a
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by FredPret 1y ago
If it's the same molecule but downhill and mixed in with some other ones, it's just x number of joules and y number of dollars' worth of infrastructure away from being among its own kind and uphill from your tap again. We get
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by FredPret 1y ago
> How much water is wasted on golf courses... Zero. You can't waste water, it goes in a cycle. I mean unless you transport it off-planet. You can waste the energy you spent cleaning it and pumping it around. But between nuclear an
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by FredPret 1y ago
Neither is dictating what others can own
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by FredPret 1y ago
The day I bought my first car, my personal freedom skyrocketed. Same when I later moved to a transit-heavy big city (Toronto). I tried to tough it out for years, but buying a car completely transformed my experience of living there.
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by FredPret 1y ago
I do not have any insight into Unity besides looking at that plummeting profit graph. But if they have a great product and a high price, then maybe they're just using way too many resources as input. It's easy to see that happenin
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by FredPret 1y ago
Unity has been losing money for years, not sure I would incorporate them into anything business critical. They're going to feel all kinds of pressure to monetize users harder, and if they fail at that, they go bankrupt. https:/&#
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by FredPret 1y ago
These high PE's imply an expectation of further profit growth - by rational investors. There's a strong element of less rational investors with FOMO jumping on as well. Index funds offer some defense against crazy PE's throug
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by FredPret 1y ago
France is the country with the most surprising shape. Most of it is in Europe but the rest covers many timezones and several continents.
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by FredPret 1y ago
I love that you can set the date. Apparently I'm looking at where the "plateau fishers and hunter-gatherers" were at 1 BC.
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by FredPret 1y ago
If you think that's remarkable, look at major non-tech companies. Banks, mines, energy, rail, telecoms - companies that are making big profits right now and will be with us for decades to come, all priced like they're going to eva
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by FredPret 1y ago
Adobe stock has been heading up and down but there can be many reasons for that. Revenue and profit has gone absolutely nuts since subscriptions started and is clearly the way forward for them. This model makes a lot of sense for software b
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by FredPret 1y ago
Going to bat for Das Kapital shows how shallow your understanding is. It's a dry and boring book that latches onto the real frustrations of the working class to push an economic ideology that is so incompetent and disconnected from r
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by FredPret 1y ago
Even so, Mein Kampf and Das Kapital seem to inspire and excuse killing on large scale, no?
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by FredPret 1y ago
Short-sellers sometimes publish real or made-up negativity about a stock so as to push the price down. Then they can close out their positions at a profit regardless of whether the underlying business is any good. In fact, it's kind of
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by FredPret 1y ago
Let me say first of all that the card networks do great work enabling commerce by being lightning-fast and generally secure. I can securely complete transactions and subscriptions with ~anyone on the planet in mere seconds. But holy cow do
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by FredPret 1y ago
We're running a deficit because huge promises were made to entire generations of people when we had a pyramid-shaped demographics, but now we have a population candle. If you tax rich people even more than now, you risk simply slowing
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by FredPret 1y ago
...which is what's happening now, and for the past however many decades
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by FredPret 1y ago
Why? The important thing is funding the state, not making a personal sacrifice. The economy is based on value, not pain.
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by FredPret 1y ago
Argue for higher tax rates and more enforcement all you want, but the fact is that the current setup results in a situation where the bulk of actual taxes collected come from the rich. This situation has persisted for as many decades as I&#

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