ZoomerCretin

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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
> hoarding of real state and making it a miserable investment. Homeowners are a powerful voting bloc and do not want this. Many EU states also have excessive rent control, which creates another powerful voting bloc who also is opposed to
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
> and those who are, aren't paying anything worthwhile. That is the entire goal of interest rate tightening. To impoverish the masses until much lower wages are finally considered "worthwhile." Look at the incredibly stron
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
> But I don’t think this is something groundbreaking isn’t it? The vast majority of employment-related issues do not occur to elites and policymakers. These issues are completely invisible to them. Articles like this make real issues leg
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
It was sold to the insurance industry so they could more accurately gauge the risk they face. It came to light because some particularly dangerous drivers found their insurance premiums rise to $500+/month. The counter-example is the w
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
I'd really like a Khan Academy-like site, maybe with explanations from different textbooks for each concept. Of course then you'd need a good set of diverse problems or a way to generate such problems.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
It's easy to see the market producing a lot of cheap renewables now and think the government was never necessary, but without the government's early and heavy investments and mandates, we would have reached this point much further
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Could you talk more about HuggingFace's new benchmark for LLMs? When did it become obvious that the old benchmarks were no longer sufficient:
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Date (MM/DD/YYYY)- (tab) Task (tab) (tab) Details etc
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
I've always done this. My coworkers have been frustrated with me in the past for asking them to write things down, because some of them overestimate my ability to listen to them speak for 5-10 minutes and remember every detail. It&#x27
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
The first example is a bit confusing. Example: input: a = [[1,2],[2,4]], b = [1,2] output:[5, 10] reasoning: 1 1 + 2 2 = 5; 1 2+ 2 4 = 10 Which 1 and 2 correspond to the 1 and 2 from a and b?
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
> Trying to keep barriers for entry low seems worth while. With Section 174 (increasing business taxes on SWE salaries) + high interest rates, this is a big ask for US employers who loath hiring at the entry level in the best times. To m
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
> There will be four ways in which ISA systems will work to slow the vehicle down, and it will be up to the manufacturers to pick which one they want to use. The EU regulations permit a system that can use a cascaded acoustic warning, a
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Do you understand the implication of the answer to that question being "No, and it cannot delegate those powers"? Congress would have to vote on giving approval for each new drug, not the FDA's bureaucrats. Congress would hav
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
The constitution very explicitly grants Congress the right to strip jurisdiction from the federal courts. https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIII-S2-C2-...
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
How long until you grab something that has a price of $5 and it's already $7 by the time you get to checkout? We need better pricing laws. Already, half the gas stations I go to don't have any price tags at all. And of the stores
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Like a lot of anti-monopoly laws, the harmed party is not the consumer but other businesses. No, you cannot simply refuse to give Apple their 30% (unless you are yourself big enough to negotiate an exemption; including waiving a 30% fee of
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Why should speeding ticket funds not go to local governments? Noise may be damaging, but to a much lower degree than a violent death by car crash which speed limits reduce.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
It's one of those "yes, obviously" situations that are surprisingly controversial if you mention it in conversation. There are a lot of people (likely the already heavily hearing-damaged) that have zero problem with road nois
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
60% of new infections are women, yet they had a completely women-only trial?
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
The question may have been why the TRC and not the company that drilled it.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
> I think it's time to require this on a national level. This is getting ridiculous. How would you have known to opt out from your data being retained? Were you aware of this site before reading this article? I know I wasn't.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Nit: the hummer EV is 4.5 tons. The average SUV only has 2 tons of mass.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
And what's the next sentence you didn't quote?
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
"Through an interagency process" of people handpicked by the President is not meaningfully distinct from what I said.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
And the fourth says nothing about computers and hard drives. And yet, they are safe from search without a warrant.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
The sale must be personally approved by the President of the United States. Every buyer will be blocked until they find one that is sufficiently hostile to the idea that Palestinians deserve human rights. https://slate.com/n
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
The "national security" argument was BS in 2018, and it's BS now. The only difference is now it's a real thorn in the side of the establishment in the US, because it's the only source of news and videos of Gaza that
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
You clearly did not look at any of my sources. >I think my suggestion that finance is the most significant factor here is a stronger argument than a supply shortage. You have zero evidence for this claim and cited zero sources. >The n
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Vancouver has obscene housing prices because the city and the politically connected spend tens of thousands of hours fighting against any new housing, and any new supply. Just look at what happened when the Squamish Nation decided they were
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
This is akin to denying the existence of climate change or evolution, or that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Yes, housing prices are determined by supply and demand. This was found to be true by a California Circuit of Appeals: https:&

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