Newlaptop

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by Newlaptop 2y ago
> if you're eliminating meat why are you trying to mimic meat food Because it's tasty, convenient, familiar and versatile. Beyond burgers and sausages taste good, are high-protein and can be cooked quickly and easily at home.
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
Copyright has always allowed for educational usage. Writers read other author's books. Artists study other painters and sculptors. Actors and directors watch other movies. Musicians learn to play other artists songs before they ever st
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
Is comp below market? There are many people "on the market" who are either A) employed but looking for something better or B) not interested in taking a lower salary than their previous job. Salaries skyrocketed in 2021 (along wit
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
I've been a bit disappointed by the podcast. I read the newsletter daily, and the podcast often feels redundant to things previously covered in the newsletter during the week.
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
A) Many of the people supporting this are current residents of SF B) Yes you are allowed to push for policy changes in SF, even if you have been pushed out to other parts of California or the USA. Desegregation was pushed by "outsiders
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
You're underestimating the reach of Fox News by a couple orders of magnitude. I think you misinterpreted an instantaneous measurement as an annual number. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" was averaging 3.2 million live viewers every
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
> Monopolies are entirely consistent with free market economics Not in the least. Literally in the first semester, Economics 101 type class that any business/economics/etc student would take, it would be covered clearly that mo
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
Two minutes ago you posted "Childcare is a necessity". Parents want their children to be safe, healthy, happy and nurtured. They will pay for services to provide that, and whether we label that service daycare, babysitting, school
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
The funny thing is, we already do eat bugs, we just don't call it as such. Lobster, crab, shrimp, crawfish, mussels, clams. If you go to very small bugs- the yeast that ferments beer, cheese, kimchi, pickles, saurkraut, yoghurt. We als
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
Don't believe the hyperbole from the social media outrage machine. 1 in 3 Texans is either an immigrant themselves or the child of an immigrant. The border issues and illegal immigration are concerning to some in the state, but critica
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
There is nothing evil about this at all. People on HN constantly talk about how useless a large chunk of the FAANG workforce is- unnecessary projects just so someone can get a promotion, initiatives that are reinventing the wheel, managers
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
Not just Asian, but also straight-while-males. If you're a poor white male student in America, you're kinda screwed from both sides. America is divided by class, but responds by addressing race. The end result is that poor white k
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
It's not like the kids at Ivys or Stanford are really smarter than a random STEM student at the University of Texas, Iowa State or Georgia Tech anyway, the difference is mostly just privilege or luck. Did the kids parents live in the r
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
So ridiculous. Every author ever has learned from, been inspired by and influenced by the books they've read before. Same for every poet, painter, musician, sculptor. So much so that it's a common interview question to ask such pe
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
The article itself explains the censorship angle: "I almost wonder if this is a product of the kind of guardrails they’ve had to put on these tools so that they’re not offensive; maybe, somehow, their parameters suggest that it would b
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
Serious question- my understanding is that when Americans say "reproductive rights" that's a euphemism for easy access to elective abortions for unwanted pregnancies. Compared to moving to a new state, wouldn't it be far
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by Newlaptop 2y ago
That was true 10-20 years ago. Today, you're often still the product even if you're paying.
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by Newlaptop 3y ago
> I think it’s more that we routinely see very poor and mentally ill people in the US get zero support? The state of California alone has spent $24,000,000,000 on homelessness in the last 5 years. The government spends about $50,000 per
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by Newlaptop 3y ago
This is not a USA perspective. This is a conspiracy theory perspective from spending too much time in liberal/progressive echo-chambers that repeat fearful, hateful myths about their political opponents.
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by Newlaptop 3y ago
Not sure if you were making a joke, but 0^0 is often defined as 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_to_the_power_of_zero
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by Newlaptop 3y ago
The challenge is that many people who have covid are asymptomatic, or have sufficiently mild symptoms that they never take a covid test. At this point, I'd imagine that lots of people who think they've never had covid, just had mi
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by Newlaptop 3y ago
Nuclear is only expensive because we've spent decades bureaucratically strangling it with red tape. The technology exists to safely do nuclear at low cost. We just need to remove the billions of dollars wasted in intentionally-bad regu
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by Newlaptop 3y ago
You should live in a country without a culture and legal framework for competitive markets, or try to talk to someone first hand who has such experience. I suspect you're a good person who just misunderstands how markets and individual
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by Newlaptop 3y ago
Using the term "energy" here is suboptimal because it's mixing grid electricity with gas power. A/C tends to be powered from electrical grid. Heat is often from propane or fracked gas. More energy overall is used to heat
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by Newlaptop 3y ago
I don't believe you're right, but that would be the greatest outcome imaginable to me. If AI means the freeing us all from living under the thumb of the current copyright cartel, I'd be dancing for joy. The tiny handful of po