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by _bin_ 2y ago
I tend to agree with you. There's a valid point that we shouldn't be consigning young Americans to die in foreign wars, but I do believe we should still maintain foreign bases and a global military. I think the past several admini
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Every nation tries to influence her neighbors to be more accommodating of her wants and needs. We just happen to be bigger and better at doing it. Speaking historically, and relative to other past and present world powers, y'all are fa
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If you're under the impression we are highly dependent on foreign producers for petroleum energy, you are mistaken. The import numbers are skewed by the fact that we directly import a lot of heavy sour stuff from canada, mexico, venezu
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by _bin_ 2y ago
China's trade abuses are insane. Firstly, china has better than 80% marketshare. Most people agree that a monopoly of this size is net corrosive to innovation and competition. What's more, china massively subsidizes industries she
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by _bin_ 2y ago
It’s a crude term, sure, but sums up a potential future where total dependence for critical materials leads to one nation being able to do relatively whatever she wants while the other is stuck taking terms as given. If you’d prefer “highly
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I think you are misguided because of a true belief in "the system". The problem is systems often fail to handle bad-faith actors who intentionally abuse them. Absent a higher system, we lack good means to address this. But the sys
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the big issue with enron was semi-fraudulent accounting, not market manipulation. the stuff they puleld in cali was pretty slimy but i don't think something nearly thirty years old needs mention. any more than it does if a company want
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Because we cannot afford, geopolitically, to have a hostile rival nation with whom we may in the next decade be at war control our energy. There is no if, and, or but about that. Of course, most of said solar and battery tech was originall
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dogs get worms all the time unless you keep them on dewormer. these days the issue is more eating droppings from rabbits and squirrels and other wild vermin but absolutely happens.
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i didn't maliciously paraphrase, that's a sentiment a reasonable number of extremely online types seem to share. if you're saying i didn't seem to favor that sentiment, well, obviously.
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right. with the availability of early voting, that implies that most of that 69% didn't care enough either way. it was a pretty close election, probably with a slight edge going in for Harris, so that would tend to cause more would-be
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by _bin_ 2y ago
i didn't quote you that way. you said you do not think that all anti-tesla actions are justified. "actions" in this case heavily implies not picketing their HQ but the recent spate of vandalism and destruction. you didn&#
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by _bin_ 2y ago
this is probably because teslas are 1. poorly built, and 2. not very repairable. they're crappily constructed cars, honestly, probably none more than the cybertruck. like whistlindiesel found a washer resting on a piece of duct tape. i
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a majority of the American people voted for the guy who explicitly and repeatedly campaigned with him. that's a pretty solid citation.
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what else do you believe the appropriate outcome includes?
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wrong. the people in question are not "protesting" anything. they are committing violent destruction of property against random people who happened to buy an EV. calling them "protesters" only does a disservice to those
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they are responsible when a company makes a profit or a loss. that's a pretty fair trade-off. the core difference is you can't attribute a profit or loss solely to one person, not hardly ever. you can, however, attribute criminal
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by _bin_ 2y ago
BS. they exist to accept some level of responsibility but it's impossible to make them anything except scapegoats in orgs of a certain scale. if you disagree, you are either misinformed or simply hate them and want an excuse to jail th
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by _bin_ 2y ago
it's more like because governments have started to try to assign criminal liability to seniormost execs, not just to the people responsible. this is a response to the wink-and-nod cases that do exist but glaringly fails to account for
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tons of trades have been filled for a long time by IBing your buddy down the street. i don't see how this is particularly different/worse besides maybe improving efficiency.
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> Jefferson proposed to let the constitution expire every 19 years. This is a terrible idea, actually. The risks of opening the door to majorly modifying the Constitution are very, very high. There are a lot of core freedoms (speech, arm
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it might help to add 99th percentile numbers to the landing page; would do a better job of showing GC impact.
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entirely aside from where value accrues relative to where it's created, it's just true that universities aren't building what are pretty interesting and promising new technologies. you're mistaking a positive statement
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"big large language model" renminds me uncomfortably of "automated teller machine machine"
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you can complain about "parasitic billionaires", and some probably qualify, but academic institutions aren't majority-responsible for LLMs. transformers came out of google and, although some academics toyed with them, most of
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together, india and china's consumer spending is about 42% of just America's. number of consumers isn't worth squat; dollars spent is.
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it's never going to 100%. can't play 8ball with an android
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America is the world's biggest market and most hackernews live here. So it's pretty relevant here.
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i notice the same thing. there are a handful of big rw accounts i've muted and no longer see but big lwers there always seem to be more. i also muted musk but periodically find my account has magically re-followed him, so i concur that
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by _bin_ 2y ago
why'd your parent comment get downvoted? 33mm users, <2mm daily likers, <1mm daily posters. as stated, less than a tenth of total user count. bluesky is a pretty niche bubble-y platform. so are mastodon et al. they're fine i

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