Jblx2

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by Jblx2 4mo ago
Man, and not one mention of the color of the cars on the road. https://www.motor1.com/news/226932/turkmenistan-president-ba...
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by Jblx2 4mo ago
I don't think data centers need much water, just cooling.
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by Jblx2 4mo ago
I guess that means the universe is infinite in extent?
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
Machinists work at a machine shop.
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
What was their previous month's spend? How long can this remain a mystery? How many companies are big enough that this wouldn't stick out in a quarterly report? I wonder how the purchasing agreements work at larger scales. Ob
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
Has anyone tried to study how much NYC housing demand is due to having a large foreign-born population (something like 37%)? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-york-city-immigrants_n_44...
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mitra/csSummer2024/hsra/lectures/...
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
We'll they could also send your terminal a 0x07. And let me introduce you to ASCII art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
Kibicorn has a nicer ring to it ($1,024 billion).
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
What about this front page story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313048
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
>Why's there an obsession with the $1m cutoff? I think this is because the term "millionaire" is a catchy term. And that caught on in the 1800s.
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hyundai+iccu
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
People inappropriately using AI go generate comments in places like HN, or to create blog posts (to get ad revenue). If I want to get ChatGPT's opinion on something, we all know where to go to get it. Please don't waste our time
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/05/20/...
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
>a subset of people that don't want immigrants at all. Does anyone have data on what this percentage is? Seems like it could be 55%: https://news.gallup.com/poll/647123/sharply-americans-curb-i...
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
Maybe tax rates should be based on government spending? So that as government spending goes up, taxes go up, giving people incentive to try and reduce government spending.
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
You probably mean that incomes taxes should be subtracted from wealth taxes? (I don't know that "deduction" is right technical term). That sounds like a good idea, and should probably also include subtracting out capital gain
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/trading-investing/w...
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
Man, that first scenario is so bizarre. If Peter is with Maria, and they both aren't at the party, then why would Peter ask Maria if Tom is at the party? Is Peter thinking that Maria is checking on the Ring cameras? Texting someone
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?ia=web&q=bun+fork+of+zig+compiler
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
Which "volunteers" are you referring to? Bun? yt-dlp?
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
Interesting. Thanks for the example. https://arlingtonnetwork.com/arlington-mass-transit-rideshar...
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
>In the US even multi hundred thousand people cities have literally nothing other than cars as an option. I'd be interested in hearing an example or two of cities in the U.S. with populations greater than 200,000 that don't hav
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
"prove"
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
How far along the curve do you think TikTok is to replacing YouTube?
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
Looks like $6.46 per person in the U.S. >The scope of the OECD Inventory is therefore broader than conventional conceptions of “subsidy”. https://fossilfuelsubsidytracker.org/methodology/ ...so I guess we should be
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
>Zeihan Why is he even a thing? A guy wrote a couple of books with some failed predictions? Only thing I can think of is that he mostly tells people what they want to hear, with some minor bit of contrarianism to have the semblance of t
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
>subsidize fossil fuels at around US$800 B/year direct I would like to see a source for that. Usually this is from someone who thinks corporate taxes should be on gross revenue instead of profit.
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by Jblx2 5mo ago
Here is one source (with 2022 data): https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-in... - The top 1% of income earners pay 40.4% of the total U.S. Federal Income Tax receipts - Top 5% pays

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