Msw242

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by Msw242 4y ago
How are you going to deal with base load? We can save money on nuclear but reducing the amount of bureaucracy and increasing the volume for economies of scale.
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by Msw242 4y ago
Nah, going after the police is a death wish for all but the biggest baddies As enforcement gets more lax (criminal justice reform, progressive prosecutors, etc), victims and their families will start to turn to these tools to buy retributio
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by Msw242 4y ago
I'm savvy enough to maintain an offline password manager, but fuck that noise. It's already painful enough to use a cloud password manager; why would I burn hours more of time to maintain a worse experience?
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by Msw242 4y ago
I read about a strategy of having Webhooks, and supplementing with polling an "/events" endpoint that has a historical record of events for occasion backfilling.
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by Msw242 4y ago
This is the miracle of capitalism and markets; we harness the greed of people and groups of people for the forward movement of society.
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by Msw242 4y ago
How can anybody read this? This is bad prose. It's flowery, self-indulgent, and lacking substance.
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by Msw242 4y ago
Americans absolutely need more education on calories. If you're going to eat processed junk food, you should at least eat less of it. That's step 1.
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by Msw242 4y ago
There's a whole bad word list meant to suppress output. It's stored client side. https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1433254293352730628?t=NIpgb...
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by Msw242 4y ago
This is how things actually work. Also, small dollar donors are driving polarization of US politics, so I'm not sure big donors are really the problem.
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by Msw242 4y ago
> At some point along the continuum, there will simply not be enough new work to make up for the efficiency gains by the AI models. I don't buy that devs are going to run out of things to do. Instead I see this increasing the levera
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by Msw242 4y ago
I mostly agree with you, except I don't believe that MAD is a sufficient deterrent, or that low level conflict is unlikely to evolve into large scale war. The best way, in my mind to minimize conflict is through a global monopoly on vi
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by Msw242 4y ago
Yeah, we do a bunch of fucked up shit, like fueling the civil war in Yemen, the banana wars, and much, much more. We're less extractive than the alternative, and the US having an effective monopoly on violence has been a stabilizing fo
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by Msw242 4y ago
The world map has been mostly frozen the last few decades precisely because USA is the global hegemon and world police. Regional powers (which is what we would devolve to) are demonstrating exactly what the world would look like without Ame
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by Msw242 4y ago
They called him (in the assassination article) a "divisive arch-conservative" then revised it without issuing a correction or retraction. How it comes up in search results: https://twitter.com/jeremyreporter/s
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by Msw242 4y ago
The AP calling Abe names right after he was assassinated was stunning to me. AP news wire has traditionally been very neutral, given its wide syndication.
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by Msw242 4y ago
I can't say either way because the hacker news hug of death means I can't read it!
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by Msw242 4y ago
The more neutral/academic term (instead of techno-fascism) is "algorithmic control" Plenty of great reading: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C44&q=alg...
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by Msw242 4y ago
Does this event shake your confidence in Dropbox's helpful humans?
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by Msw242 4y ago
Dropbox has invested in infrastructure to do things like index and search the contents of your files. VPS provider doesn't even necessarily have read access to your data, and because you aren't relying on them for search/inde
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by Msw242 4y ago
How valuable are those features after Dropbox deletes all of your data and deactivates your account?
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by Msw242 4y ago
Whooooah there! Ass is a slur that is offensive to many horses' donkey partners and mule children. Let's be respectful, not negative neigh-sayers
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by Msw242 4y ago
The reason that cap gains are taxed differently is because of inflation. If you have 10000 in stock, and there's 20% inflation and the price of your stock goes up to 12000, you haven't made any real gains (no added purchasing powe
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by Msw242 4y ago
A buyback increases EPS and makes the shares worth more. Same pie, fewer slices. It is just a more tax efficient way to distribute earnings.
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by Msw242 4y ago
PayPal is profitable, SpaceX is the cheapest way to get cargo into space, and Tesla is 3x profit per car versus Ford/GM. He's not Jesus, but he's also not Bernie Madoff.
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by Msw242 4y ago
Lies and BS? If you could save a few billion wouldn't you? It's a negotiation, and with the markets turning, he's got all the cards. The cost of reneging is only 1bn, and the company would probably lose half it's market
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by Msw242 4y ago
Why this over like... Even notion?
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by Msw242 4y ago
Basically a delegate system? Sure
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by Msw242 4y ago
And the people who are good at winning elections are different from the candidates who are good at governing. So you're screwed either way. At least with parties, the members of the party get to choose the boundaries of their concerns.
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by Msw242 4y ago
This is dumb. We could just vote for parties instead of candidates, then have the party choose representatives, or have party members vote to choose representatives to fill their slots. Not everything is first past the poll, vote for your c
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by Msw242 4y ago
Cheaper bets -> More bets -> more wins -> more winners -> more bets E.g. Shopify absolutely made Ecom 10x easier, which has enabled more people to start brands catering to more niches while making more entrepreneurs wealthy who

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