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by Suppafly 1y ago
>Almost every home and business is paying more for additional space that cars take up. Sure but that's not a subsidy being borne by tax payers, that's being paid by people that want cars to be at their house or business. I supp
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>In many cities half of downtown is parking. Sure but it's rarely free parking, and when it is, it's generally because the property owners are essentially paying for it.
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>That kind of code is not fine. Depends on your definition of fine. Is it less readable because it's doing the straight forward thing several times instead of wrapping it into a loop or a method, or is it more readable because of th
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>Anthropomorphizing LLMs is not helpful It's a feature of language to describe things in those terms even if they aren't accurate. >using terms which better describe how it really works is important Sometimes, especially if
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>for reasons unclear to any human alive Given how prevalent furries seem to be, especially in nerd adjacent culture, I'd say he was ahead of his time.
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>I think this is my favourite book but I think his best book is maybe Ringworld. Ringworld is pretty good, the multiples sequels get kind of out there.
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>that you have to pay-per-use instead of paying by outcome. That's still not gambling and it's silly to pretend it is. It feels like gambling but that's it.
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>None of those are a games of chance, except the first. Neither is GenAI, the grandparent comment is dumb.
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>Trying to get Image Generators to do what I want has a very "gambling-like" quality to it. Especially when you try to get them to generate something they explicitly tell you they won't, like nudity. It feels akin to hacki
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>one of the writers mentions that they would insert superfluous details into the script (i.e names of people and places) so that they could tie future story developments back to earlier episodes and seasons, making it seem to the viewer
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>but I just can't stomach the thought of it right now. Maybe in four years Downfalls of civilization don't seem so appealing when you're living through them. I'm that way with media that overly focuses on mental healt
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> At least here they require a burglar alarm and they require it to be armed when nobody is on site or they will absolutely decline the claim. Where is here? I'm not aware of that being common anyplace in the US. I'm guessing y
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>Man I wish I could get insurance like that. "Accountability insurance" You could. Insurance companies will sell you insurance for just about anything, in custom situations they figure up the risk somehow. You likely wouldn&#x2
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>In July 2002, Ton launched a campaign called "Free Blender" to raise money (100,000 EUR) directly from the community. To everyone's surprise and delight the campaign reached the goal in only seven short weeks. Seems like
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>private car-ownership is just as heavily subsidized - if not more so — as mass transit. I don't believe that's true.
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to a degree but most of those things you've mentioned, the owners do pay the full cost of.
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>Just freeing your product might not get you enough traction by itself. Plus not everyone wants to give their product away. I see that advice all the time here and reddit and other places, "just opensource it" as if that's
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The thing with these startups, and Uber in general, is that they are forcing these industries to do the upgrades in technology that should have done on their own already but weren't doing because they had the industry captured previous
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My kid was in the hospital in Chicago and there were a ton of shuttles that run routes between the various hotels and the hospital. In a big city, shuttles have a lot more flexibility than buses. While I don't know if Chicago has somet
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> the private company so inefficient that it couldn't make the numbers work even charging 5x what the public agency was charging. That's not surprising because the public agency is mostly tax supported. Fares never reflect the
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>I don’t drive, yet my taxes are used to subsidize car ownership You still rely on roads, either for cars driven by other people to take you places or to service you with package delivery and fire and medical services at a minimum.
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>Most US public transit systems are funded by taxes in addition to fares. As a homeowner this is abundantly clear by looking at your tax bill, and something that I suspect renters don't think about. I don't grumble much about p
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Nothing you're written disproves that no one wants it, if anything the fact that nothing really supports it implies that it's not a valuable feature that people are clamoring for.
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>Idk, Dickens and Melville are pretty hard to get through. If you're reading for just funsies, sure. But none of their works are particularly long, even reading a few chapters here and there, it'd take a week for each at most.
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>My opinion is that reading hard books at school simply turns people off reading completely. The thing is, most of these books people are complaining about aren't actually 'hard books', especially when read at a chapter or
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>This reply rings true, but also had me thinking. If rereading those books when you're old enough makes you appreciate them, are they ideal for high school? Possibly, good books hit different at different ages and can be appreciated
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Plus now a lot of doctors are requiring drug tests to make sure you're taking it, but not too much, and not taking other drugs, including legal ones.
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>What free time? If teachers ever heard of a kid having any they'd make sure to assign more homework. It used to be like that, but it seems like teachers now hardly assign any homework at all.
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>Homer and Shakespear at least have the advantage of being referred to all the time elsewhere. That's true for most of the works in the canon of works that are commonly taught in schools, people that didn't pay attention tend t
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>may not have the life experiences to understand That's one of the things about reading though, it lets you experience life experiences you might have been exposed to on your own. You still have to met things halfway by using your b

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