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by andrepd 4mo ago
There are really only two businesses in the modern economy, fraud and gambling. Some are both.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
You make it sound like it's an absolute warzone (your demographic certainly likes to push that narrative even in the most uneventful of places!). Yes I've taken trains back home from nights out at 4:30 in the morning where there w
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by andrepd 4mo ago
No, we actually trained it on standardised tests https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-li...
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by andrepd 4mo ago
I've been sadly using too much Claude not to immediately recognize this verbal construction...
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by andrepd 4mo ago
> Utrecht to Amsterdam is 20 EUR Well that's exactly the trip I had in mind. 20€ return for a 35km trip just sounds crazy expensive to me. That's over 25€/100km; driving a car (even at the high gas prices of the Netherland
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Eh I don't think so. Commutes are as clean and peaceful as they can be in the Netherlands or Switzerland and people are no less buried in their phones with noise-cancelling earbuds on.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
That's a bold assertion. Never mind that you know what's also not "sustainable", if the definition means "costs > revenues"? Automobile roads :)
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by andrepd 4mo ago
On the other hand, no charges mean you can get rid of a lot of cruft: no tickets, no gates/turnstiles, no machines, no payments, no paperwork thereof, no ticket inspectors, etc etc. So in fact having 0 charge is unequivocally better th
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Note that 128€ is the monthly price for 100% discount, but 6€ is the monthly price for 40% discount. It brings the prices of rail travel in the Netherlands from "fucking ludicrous" to just "reasonably expensive".
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Absolutely incredible writing! Loved every word.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Regarding (1), that's on your keyboard, which you can choose. Maybe you can give Futo a try? https://keyboard.futo.org/
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by andrepd 4mo ago
That's total bullshit. Middle class families in 1976 did NOT live in smaller houses than today, and certainly did NOT eat "poverty meals"... What on earth are you even talking about. Especially silly that you mention housing
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Is there a summary of price increases?
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by andrepd 4mo ago
I disagree. When you are absolutely sure that God itself is on your side, then there is no atrocity to big to commit. I feel that religious zeal has led to some of the worst catastrophes in human history. I would put para-religious zeal
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by andrepd 4mo ago
It was also behind unspeakable acts of massive cultural destruction, so there's that.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
He should ask AI to tell him that #aaa text on #eee background is not acceptable.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
> Yet somehow we decide that the benefits outweigh the risks. More like malicious lobbying and incompetence made it impossible in many places to use any other form of transportation, despite there being safer, faster, cheaper, and health
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by andrepd 4mo ago
LLMs routinely hallucinate sources. I guess that's why some people feel that way.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
I had to re-read that twice, some how my eyes slipped over this part: I thought you were saying "in the early 2000s in California schools you'd get marked down". Which yeah of course, lazy kids would copy-paste Wikipedia (wit
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by andrepd 4mo ago
I know that "French strikes" and "French setting fire to things" is a popular American trope, but things really don't work like that. If that were the case France would be a much better place than other European cou
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by andrepd 4mo ago
> But the sickening aspect of cable news is the way the presenters talk. "Só para as pessoas perceberem lá em casa" is the standard phrase TV pundits use back in $home_country. Translates to something like "just so that yo
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by andrepd 4mo ago
The + trick is useless to protect you, obviously. Instead, use a a service like simplelogin to create unique emails for every place you sign in.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
It's annoying because I would definitely like for some internet-enabled functionality, such as youtube. I would also like to connect it to the LAN and not to the internet for other things, such as streaming from my NAS...
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by andrepd 4mo ago
The only hit I get for "non-crime cybersecurity incident" is this very thread. Would you care to elaborate what you mean?
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by andrepd 4mo ago
> Despite many flaws, the US has some damn good rights for its citizens The absolute gall of saying this, on this point in in particular, with all that has happened over the past 1.5 years in the US... Gobsmacked
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by andrepd 4mo ago
AI gives us some bad things but it's really outweighed by the good things. One one hand we have very rapid deterioration of our children's mental capacities yes, but on the other hand we have also made the internet into an unnavig
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by andrepd 4mo ago
> the military hegemony and political influence over allies and adversaries that the F-35 program provides Hilarious to say this, given the very public and very significant failures of US foreign policy these past couple decades, not lea
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Thanks, but if wanted to ask chatgpt we would
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They will drag the rest with it.
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Cutting SNP500 from you etf portfolio seems the sensible choice now. On the other hand, things haven't been sensible for over a decade, and there's still no sign the insanity will stop. The market can stay irrational longer than y

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