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by Herring 11mo ago
Is this guy actually trying to justify racism?
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by Herring 11mo ago
It's hard to predict the future. For example this was a popular article not that long ago - https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...
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by Herring 11mo ago
That's the Baumol effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect 1) Two-Sector Economy: In Baumol and Bowen's observations, the economy is divided into two parts: - A Progressive Sector: Productivity gro
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by Herring 11mo ago
Language is a lot deeper than that. It's like if I say "we speak the same language", it means a lot more than just the ability to translate. It's talking about a shared past and worldview and hopefully future which I&#x2
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by Herring 11mo ago
Bro. Listen. Digging through a garbage can and finding half a cheeseburger doesn’t mean you’re smart. It means you’re a raccoon.
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by Herring 11mo ago
If age is your biggest concern, you should go fight vaccines. Most of them are less than 100 years old too. No telling what the long term prospects are on our DNA. Go ahead, ping me when you’re done.
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by Herring 11mo ago
It's important to be fair and balanced. For example did you know Hitler was actually a really good painter!
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by Herring 11mo ago
Athenian democracy ran into two successful coups because of those internal flaws, and ultimately didn't last that long. It's better viewed as a "v0.1-alpha" than a final version I wouldn't quite say "democracy
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by Herring 11mo ago
What do you mean median values? Trump 2020 won the most votes of any sitting president ever. Then he won the popular vote in 2024. Honestly given US history (slavery, individualism etc) I'm surprised democracy has lasted so long here.
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by Herring 11mo ago
In my opinion too many people have opinions where they shouldn't. Just import a working system, like Estonia successfully imported from Finland. You don't have the skills to roll your own.
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by Herring 11mo ago
Study your history, because that’s an old story. The Puritans who fled England and settled in Massachusetts Bay did not try to establish religious freedom in the modern, pluralistic sense. They just wanted freedom to practice their own reli
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by Herring 11mo ago
I don't know why you're surprised. This place is primarily about making money. Businesses are set up like tiny little fascist dictatorships. They are always trying to pay less taxes, evade regulations, layoff workers, monopolize,
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by Herring 1y ago
I think they know and this is a hail mary. Windows market share has been gradually eroding. They don't intend to go quietly.
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by Herring 1y ago
I was reading about Austria recently. It's a nice place, but it turns out they have their far-right Nazis in rural areas too. It's pretty common around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%E2%80%93ru
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by Herring 1y ago
No system is perfect. Germany still has a bunch of work to do, sure, but I'd still very much prefer having a firewall to no firewall. Nazis in the US are entrenched - filibuster, gerrymandering, fptp, electoral college, supreme court,
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by Herring 1y ago
Yeah I hope to never say this again, but I'm pretty sure Goebbels was right. Germany took those lessons to heart. Speech and expression related to Nazism is heavily regulated and subjects you to imprisonment. Demonstrations/rallie
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by Herring 1y ago
54% of American adults read at or below 6th grade levels. If the bot understands climate change, I can't see how dating it would be worse than dating most of my neighbors tbh ...
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by Herring 1y ago
EY says > Overall, underlying economic momentum remained steady in the first half of the year despite mounting policy headwinds. But with the impact of tariffs and policy uncertainty becoming increasingly visible, slower US growth and h
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by Herring 1y ago
https://www.ey.com/en_us/insights/strategy/macroeconomics/us... https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/adv/insights/... EY forecasts 1.7% GDP growth, mos
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by Herring 1y ago
Read the article. The world moves on & paths around damage. At the end of the day Trump won the popular vote. This country has been headed that way for a long time - http://web.archive.org/web/20210723035356/ht
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by Herring 1y ago
Did you ever find it weird that it's the pro-gun pro-rights republicans that are attacking the courts? Americans have some very weird thinking over guns. I think if they were taken away, they'd have to work harder at getting along
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by Herring 1y ago
Yeah multiply this situation x1M and you understand why a balance of power is unstable. To make a civilized society work, people can't pull out guns when they disagree. You sue, or you figure out how to communicate/negotiate, or y
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by Herring 1y ago
Who runs your local police force? What do you do if they suck? It's really not that hard to implement a good setup, but yeah the hard part is convincing multiple countries to give up a bit of sovereignty. Might take another world war.
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by Herring 1y ago
I'm not praising anything. Yes US foreign policy sucks. I'm pointing out historically a balance of power has been even worse. There are too many possible points of failure. Discuss with your favorite frontier LLM. Ideally idk I&#x
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by Herring 1y ago
I’m the last person you can call a fan of US foreign policy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_U... But for global stability it’s best if there was some kind of entity with a legitimate monopo
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by Herring 1y ago
That irritation you feel is your conscience/soul. Try saying hi.
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by Herring 1y ago
Everyone understands Trump is the racist president who will screw over "those people" for you. Even rural Mongolians get it. It was clear from day 1 when he came down the stairs calling Mexicans rapists, almost 10 years ago. The
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by Herring 1y ago
It's an old strategy https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santa...
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by Herring 1y ago
Yeah this is probably the only metric where Rikers island beats SoHo.
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by Herring 1y ago
I"m not sure I agree with the setup. He's weighting clutter types based on his personal experience, eg a newsstand (=3) is weighted 20 times higher than a tree (=0.15). It's very subjective, and like the model implies a desol

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