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by _bin_ 2y ago
actual question, why bother? if they are domiciled in the UK, sell it to someone outside it or move the company elsewhere. let the britons kick and scream; the fun thing about the internet is they can't really do anything about it.
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by _bin_ 2y ago
“just” one percent is quite a lot given how many things the feds do. i’ll take the hundreds of dollars back on my taxes over paying for transsexual operas in south america or food for people who chant “death to America” you are, of course,
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by _bin_ 2y ago
the only thing this suggests that brexit was the wrong way to extract adequate value from the leech nations of europe. it doesn’t negate the basic point that the EU consists of many countries relying on net contributions from only a few. br
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by _bin_ 2y ago
you are the one guilty of either fundamental misunderstandings or willful ignorance. producing enough lithium-ion storage would be insanely expensive at anything even close to current prices. and lithium-ion batteries suffer from wear, more
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by _bin_ 2y ago
how else would you prefer to frame America footing a bill for a benefit to everyone? we benefited, sure, but everyone else received the same benefit for zero cost. we spend a lot of our GDP on healthcare. part of this is due to other countr
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by _bin_ 2y ago
cool theory. McKinsey estimates a transition like that would cost $275 trillion and take until 2050. that's a lot of money. not only that, we all know the global south will, true to form, come calling with their hands out, demanding th
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by _bin_ 2y ago
wrong. many of the energy options that are claimed to be extremely cheap and that they lean on - wind and solar particularly - aren't as cheap as they're made out to be. e.g. people love to cite Lazard's LCOE projections, whi
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by _bin_ 2y ago
yeah this is not atypical in finance orgs. sounds like it's a culture clash of "analyst in tech ops" getting the first-year IB associate treatment. apologized and offered to buy him a beer, seems fine to me and hardly worthy
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by _bin_ 2y ago
right, like most terrorism they were flashy but ultimately low-impact. the stat given about frequent hijackings is true but does not mean there were attempted or successful terrorist hijackings so regularly.
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by _bin_ 2y ago
things i have had confiscated: the blades for my twin-blade razor, pocketknives, leathermans, bottles of water, supplements, liquids that are slightly over 3.4oz. this is retarded. there is no good reason to do this. if there is a good reas
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by _bin_ 2y ago
stupid question: isn't starlink effectively beyond the reach of tiny countries' governments? why comply? they can't do a thing about satellites, physically can't touch them, and America owns the payment rails the company
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by _bin_ 2y ago
> price gouging this is a crazy way of describing a lack of competitive pressure leaving prices high. compare this to the other alternatives that existed. it's not gouging.
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by _bin_ 2y ago
i get my hair cut by an unlicensed guy. he works out of a spare room in his house. good churchgoing man, upstanding member of the community, and gives the best haircuts i've ever had. he makes more money even though he only charges $17
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by _bin_ 2y ago
bureaucracies essentially never reform or reduce themselves through their own processes and by their own hand. they have not the incentive, perspective, nor means to do so.
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by _bin_ 2y ago
America is the only nation that currently has consolidated global power behind an even vaguely free nation. and yes, America has done that for the "pax Americana" period. unfortunately we were short-sighted and allowed people too
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by _bin_ 2y ago
- you assume this will turn America into a dystopia. more likely it contributes to restoring and maintaining uncontested American overmatch, especially in the long term, where effectively no other nation can challenge us. - 1mmTC is enough
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by _bin_ 2y ago
correct. this is why i support maintaining the American-run world order by all means we have at our disposal. it's both the best outcome for our citizens (therefore our government should pursue it) and the best outcome for the world at
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by _bin_ 2y ago
is this evil, actually? a well-made autonomous system might go a long way towards improving accurate targeting and reducing civilian casualties. if you're mad about the existence of weapons then please review the prisoners' dilemm
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by _bin_ 2y ago
those are mostly drawn on how difficult it is to manage their effects. chemical weapons are hard to target, nukes are too (unless one dials the yield down enough that there's little point) and make land unusable for years, and biologic
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by _bin_ 2y ago
Wikipedia collects, synthesizes, and displays such information, and provides a references section for further exploration. How the heck can anyone justifying something that does that but in a chat format? The threshold to building any of th
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by _bin_ 2y ago
Q2'23: 343mm MAU Q2'24: 393mm MAU They have 114% the users and paid 111% the royalties. Seems reasonable.
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by _bin_ 2y ago
it doesn't actually define unacceptable risks. could be used for the development of biological, chemical, or nuclear agents? sure, an intelligent general-purpose model could be. so can wikipedia versus having to trawl through old libra
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by _bin_ 2y ago
surely EU courts will not unfairly penalize US-developed models...
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by _bin_ 2y ago
something like a long-term weather forecast could lead to declining to issue an insurance policy for someone's home or automobile in an area. it could significantly impact the price. make it publicly available, and an insurance company
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by _bin_ 2y ago
i'm trying to interpret in a way that looks favorable but the only way i can read it is "marriage and children are harder and sometimes people fail, therefore they're less valuable." i don't think that's true.
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by _bin_ 2y ago
man you work for high flyer or something? i know that's not really a fair question but oai still seems to lead the pack. i know it's a hype-y area but responding to one (1) model that's comparable to o4 but cheaper with &quot
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by _bin_ 2y ago
what about a full refresh of the page or perhaps jump into the dev tools and check "disable cache" could also be aggressive caching from cloudflare. could be they're just trying to announce more stuff to maintain cachet and c
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by _bin_ 2y ago
it tests syllogistic reasoning: Jason's mother was Tyro, whose father was Poesidon, whose father was Kronos. it also tests whether it "eagerly" rather than comprehensively considers something: a maternal great-grandfather cou
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by _bin_ 2y ago
let's be real for a sec, i've done consulting and have a lot of friends who still do. three times in four, your mckinsey report isn't super well-founded in reality and involves a lot of guesstimation.
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by _bin_ 2y ago
they're not giving it to us lowly $20/month users yet :( gotta take out a second mortgage and throw them 200/month if you want it now

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