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541.
by Retric 9mo ago
Moving a car on public streets is a matter of law even if the car is interpreting moderately high level directions like make a U turn here. Especially as the car is already having issues when they takeover.
542.
by Retric 9mo ago
The tipping point isn’t just take home pay. Peak daycare expense is generally only for a few years. Quit the workforce for a decade and you see long term effects. Further if either parent loses their job you can quit daycare until they get
543.
by Retric 9mo ago
> The cost of coal and gas to the Australian market could effectively be covered by royalties collected from exporters of same. Or you could do the same with Solar and have more money left over. Having a subsidy rarely works out well, b
544.
by Retric 9mo ago
Car interiors are static so your brain very quickly ignores it while driving or after owning the car for a while. The interface / ergonomics on the other hand end up way more important than anything else when it comes to personal enjoy
545.
by Retric 9mo ago
> Between 1954/ 1959 PRC exchanged material for capita goods and Soviet training speed run industrialization. This wasn’t an exchange of good this was a subsidy. Loan repayments at extremely generous 1% interest rates. The use of r
546.
by Retric 9mo ago
A great deal of code on GitHub was not posted there by the original authors. So any argument that posting stuff online provides an implicit license is severely flawed.
547.
by Retric 9mo ago
You can experience things second hand. I wouldn’t object to someone saying ‘my experience with chemo’ when talking about their spouse’s disease. They can tell you not just the symptoms but what their insurance company did etc. Still while
548.
by Retric 9mo ago
Your 3 is really conflating two different things. There’s a long list of countries that industrialized more quickly without suffering such internal economic issues. The USSR and China suffered because of poor governance not industrializa
549.
by Retric 9mo ago
Between 1954 and 1959, China supplied 160,000 tons of tungsten ore, 110,000 tons of copper, 30,000 tons of antimony, and 90,000 tons of rubber to the Soviet Union. That’s how they repaid a loan not through industrial production because t
550.
by Retric 9mo ago
Even in a society of 1 person that person would prefer to live in a mud hut than outside getting rained on. Ignoring imputed rent ignores that value and therefore is objectively wrong.
551.
by Retric 9mo ago
And he’s just wrong. > what good is free energy to anyone if the retail price has only one trajectory. The underlying economics means someone is always paying for that, you can pay for more expensive fossil fuels in your taxes or on your
552.
by Retric 9mo ago
Retail prices obscure the underlying economics via taxes and subsidies. Here the wholesale prices are far more relevant economically.
553.
by Retric 9mo ago
GDP isn’t just some arbitrary abstraction it’s the amount of goods and services produced by an economy. At the low end of economic output starvation or the lack thereof is a strong indication of GDP. You do need to adjust for exports and im
554.
by Retric 9mo ago
1945 is before 1949. Chinese GDP was higher during WWII than over the next several years, the actual minimum 1959 to 1961 was well into communist rule. Literally CCP rule was worse than the anarchy of civically war, it’s right up there wit
555.
by Retric 9mo ago
I agree it’s nonsense. That we agree it’s nonsense means we agree that using LLM prompts as a high level language is nonsense.
556.
by Retric 9mo ago
Systems randomly failing is of significant concern to non programmers, that’s inherent to the non-deterministic nature of LLM’s. I can send specific LLM output to QA, I can’t ask QA to validate that this prompt will always produce bug free
557.
by Retric 9mo ago
Optimization level, target architecture, etc are just information fed to the compiler. If it’s still nondeterministic with everything kept the same your compiler is broken.
558.
by Retric 9mo ago
The responds of Denmark and or worse the EU invalidating US patents in retaliation is rather dangerous.
559.
by Retric 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist-controlled_China_(19... Starting at 1949 is overly generous IMO, but yes the purges that followed didn’t help.
560.
by Retric 9mo ago
Several experiments have shown quality of output at every skill level drops. In many cases the quantity of output is good enough to compensate, but quality is extremely difficult to improve at scale. Beefing up QA to handle significantly m
561.
by Retric 9mo ago
China’s GDP per capita fell for the first 40 years of CCP rule, making it way easier to have constant growth after that period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_China_(191... Developed countries have s
562.
by Retric 9mo ago
Democracy needs to exist before it can fail, but there’s a wide range of systems possible that will give more or less power to the general public. Representative democracy tends to large numbers of parties with proportional representation g
563.
by Retric 9mo ago
Things don’t need to be huge deals to influence behavior or be a net gain. I bet you’ve taken a shortcut to save less than 1h for example.
564.
by Retric 9mo ago
Selecting who is eligible to vote is one of the most obvious ways to manipulate the outcome. At the extreme, you can have large scale slavery in a system with voting, but it’s not a Democracy. Who gets to decide on expanding an interstate
565.
by Retric 9mo ago
It’s not democracy when you exclude people impacted by the decision making process from the decision. Preselecting the outcome before the vote destroys any legitimacy the outcome has.
566.
by Retric 9mo ago
It’s under 5 hours of GDP for Texas. It’s a big fine, but not a huge deal for either party.
567.
by Retric 9mo ago
They didn’t make $60B in Q4 2025 in Texas. 1.4B was 100% profit from Texas for years, that a big fine.
568.
by Retric 9mo ago
Note the “one horse and one seat” bit. That’s closer to a vehicle registration than a license for the driver. That example also expires in 1880, but there’s various regulations around carriages going back to England in the 1600’s. They wer
569.
by Retric 9mo ago
“I don’t want to get into a debate about the relative validity of sources etc” > Not the proven solution Yet you quote a paper saying it can work. “This impact can have a positive or negative effect depending on the climatic conditions a
570.
by Retric 9mo ago
You completely misunderstood what everyone was talking about. The point is to make people in other countries do what we want them to do. American diplomacy, foreign policy, spying, soft, and hard power etc is obviously primarily targetin

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