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by acdha 1y ago
Think about the change we saw in combat death tolls when things went from flintlock muskets to machine guns, or when battleships gave way to aircraft, and how many people died unnecessarily due to the generals who were slow to update their
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by acdha 1y ago
Both depend heavily on immigrants, however, both for staffing and in the case of education for the students paying full-price tuition and effectively subsidizing everyone else.
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by acdha 1y ago
> Just before elections the democrat/left US reporters were persuading me that US is doing fine on all metrics and that people's vibes are wrong. This sounds like something you were told by right-wing social media. It certainly
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by acdha 1y ago
> Owners have the right to let land sit. Yes, hence the point of a vacancy tax, but that’s not relevant in the scenario here where they’re not paying. Having a short period, especially for non-residential property, is a good way to disco
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by acdha 1y ago
There are complex trade offs there: housing uses more power than a parking lot but it also provides far more significant social goods, housing can be built with very different levels of energy usage and external heat emissions, and while pe
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by acdha 1y ago
A lot of that is that Americans are buying trucks, not cars. It’s easy to stay under $30k with a sedan, but a sizable group of people think they need the image of driving a full-sized pickup truck to the office and each 7 year loan on an $8
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by acdha 1y ago
We take the bus all of the time here in DC. I’ve literally never once encountered someone like that. I’ve been panhandled a couple of times (in as many decades) and there’ve been a few people yelling at each other, but they left everyone al
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by acdha 1y ago
Bitcoin is designed to make it easy for everyone to know you did that. It’d be bad if you had to convince prosecutors that you really lost it and much, much worse if you had to convince your fellow mobsters.
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by acdha 1y ago
It’s not about “smart” as much as perfect execution. Bitcoin’s design is very brittle, so he had to do everything perfectly every time but they only needed a single opening. People try various things to split up wallets but those are compli
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by acdha 1y ago
> But, the advice you are calling "boomer coping" (or similar) has some experience in there, most likely from people that suffered the 2000 dot-com bubble burst. From the accounts I've read of older friends, there were peo
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by acdha 1y ago
It’s a bit more complicated: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/comparing-the-costs-... Basically some things have gotten cheaper – TVs, gas, etc. – but things like inflation-adjusted housing or college prices hav
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by acdha 1y ago
> Ideally government administered, but if we can't have that then maybe a distributed ledger would do the trick. The problem is that it has to be government administered because otherwise you’re constantly stuck with the risk that w
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by acdha 1y ago
Constantly. They added a bunch of scripting extensions so a lot of fillable forms render a message telling you to use Acrobat until all of that stuff executes.
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by acdha 1y ago
> This current administration is trying to prevent the kinds of authoritarian excesses and illegal acts that occurred under BHO and JRB from ever happening again. It’s telling that you didn’t mention these alleged excesses or explain you
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by acdha 1y ago
> Masculinity in western societies is heavily pathologized to the point that men who aren't 6ft and very good looking have the deck heavily stacked against them I always find this fascinating because almost all of the women I’ve kno
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by acdha 1y ago
Do you have any figures on the degree of subsidy? The impression I’ve gotten over the last year or so is that China has been phasing out their subsidies, which also went to companies like Tesla and Stellantis, and the main shift recently wa
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by acdha 1y ago
You’re presenting the data for whether it’s okay to be happy about a political figure’s death, not whether it’s okay to cause one. There’s a section about this you should read starting with “YouGov's polling doesn't suggest that y
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by acdha 1y ago
His later years involved repeated strong statements against transgender and abortion rights which would be highly incompatible with being a Democrat but quite in line with the Trump supporter his neighbors described him as. He also had a hi
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by acdha 1y ago
Here’s a recent example of an American citizen having his property damaged, being tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed, held illegally for three nights, and denied access to a lawyer or a call to his family—and then they just let him go as if tha
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by acdha 1y ago
It’s worth thinking about why you’re wrong, because it explains why those comparisons aren’t valid. Modern conservatism is defined by rejecting ideas like objective truth or pluralism which are the core of academia. There’s no way to have c
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by acdha 1y ago
Their customers pay them to be the front door to their websites. Customers want a way to reduce the massive traffic from AI crawling, to block malicious traffic, and to be compensated for access. That leaves Cloudflare well positioned to im
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by acdha 1y ago
That’s certainly possible but I think it’s increasingly untrue for all but the smallest programs. The problem is that it’s hard to appreciate how many times your program didn’t crash but would have if you’d used a different language. You do
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by acdha 1y ago
> AI increases everyone’s knowledge and ultimately productivity. It’s on every person the learn to leverage it. The dynamics don’t need to change, we just move faster and smarter This is incomplete in key ways: it only increases knowledg
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by acdha 1y ago
They at least were not historically archived. This came up during the Hunter Biden laptop investigation where people were able to verify some of the messages only because the Gmail key was archived in many places because that service is so
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by acdha 1y ago
If this was correct, you wouldn’t be able to read those messages with remote content loading disabled or when in airplane mode. It’s pretty uncommon for me to get messages where that’s the case, and those are almost always marketing spam so
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by acdha 1y ago
> I know chrome tabs are a memory hog but my God this thing slowed to a crawl with even lightweight usage despite being weeks old. I told him to return it immediately. Wouldn’t it be easier to use Firefox or Safari? Chrome is a hog but i
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by acdha 1y ago
This is like saying you can study CS using pen and paper. It’s possible for certain rare edge cases but absolutely nobody is going through the process of applying for grants if they don’t need the money to work on the problems they’ve speci
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by acdha 1y ago
Elon Musk had the opportunity to demonstrate that, and his track record is negative savings once you factor in the lawsuit losses, economic shrinkage, and vast inefficiencies DOGE cost. For that matter, I note that there’s a direct line fro
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by acdha 1y ago
Consider that “works without crashing” and “works the way I had in mind” are not the same thing. Rust makes it easier to avoid logic bugs but if you think bs= should do X and there should have been a spec saying to do Y, it’s not something
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by acdha 1y ago
That’s a far more nuanced comment than you’re portraying it as, especially as it’s appearing for exactly this scenario: the new dd is working as designed, it’s not segfaulting or corrupting data, but its design isn’t identical to the GNU ve

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