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by andriesm 2y ago
I suspect communism and socialism is usually sold with claims about how equal everyone are and how much more equal everyone will be. But then when it is actually implemented... a lot depends on how high your friends are in the government an
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by andriesm 2y ago
How to turn poor countries into rich countries? How about the Argentina (Javier Milei) model? Could be worth a shot. It's not patented, and we can all stand back and verify firsy that it works, before copying it. Plenty of well known e
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by andriesm 2y ago
I'd be curious to see it, just in case it helps with noticing something else.
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by andriesm 2y ago
People are mindless pawns? People are not free to say no thanks, ignore or tune out? That's what I do my entire life. And I actually appreciate and value highly targeted marketing messages that show me things I'm interested in and
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by andriesm 2y ago
I did. Bought it myself. Learn how to enter clinician mode by holding the right buttons for your model. It's quite shocking how controlled and artificially limited things are in CPAP-land. cpap, and more advanced machines have identica
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by andriesm 2y ago
exactly. Borland era OOP gui code was amazingly well thought out. The flaws in the flutter framework are soooo many, a lot of half baked things are made standard. Try to get 2-way scrollbars working decently (try to nest them, or go watch t
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by andriesm 2y ago
Dart is my favourite language, it is the flutter framework I'm not so fond of. People literally designed better GUI frameworks than flutter 20 years ago. They did all sorts of weird things, probably for "performance" reasons,
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by andriesm 2y ago
The imaginary crime of money laundering. If the underlying activity is a crime, we already have laws to deal with that. Why is any attempt at financial privacy deemed money laundering? Why does making any tool that help law abiding citizens
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by andriesm 2y ago
Unfortunately the original comment is now flagged and deleted it seems, so I guess I will never know what his/her snark was. Also I would be scared to comment any of my own comments here, because I've had some pretty legit questio
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by andriesm 2y ago
The only thing better than to attach your startup tech to either AI or blockchain, is to attach to BOTH simultaneously, like the wave of AI blockchain tokens!
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by andriesm 2y ago
I've been twice to Mexico, snd no mstter where I travel I have several personal devices, and I have plenty of places to pick for my travels, Mexico just got hard deleted from my list of upcoming future travels, I don't have any ap
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by andriesm 2y ago
Or being extraordinarily observant, creative and skilled in predicting trends.
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by andriesm 2y ago
Sounds to me like Sweden is doing it right! If you want very extensive social programs you have to tax EVERYONE really really hard. The fantassy that one can pay for wellfare by only taxing the rich more or by reducing their loopholes is a
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by andriesm 2y ago
Or take people who are super competent, with strong ethics and world class bravery, and catapult them into the truly heroic! Think for example, Elon Musk!
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by andriesm 2y ago
"requiring new safety assessments, equity and civil rights guidance" I think everyone is probably onboard with safety and civil rights, but why is EQUITY a specific requirement the government wants to push into all AI's? Why
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by andriesm 2y ago
I had my comment about this flagged. Commenting that it's a bit unusual to show Taiwan as a province, and yet showing it's stat seperately like one does for all the other countries on the list, and not breaking down provincial sta
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by andriesm 2y ago
I see several comments calling this piece "fluffy" without much real insight - I have to respectfully disagree - I'm 48 and wrote my first code at 8, still write code for my self at 48, have managed teams, held all manner of
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by andriesm 2y ago
I wish someone would explain to me why confiscating my clear plastic water bottle from me at the airport is such a security priority.
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by andriesm 2y ago
To "throw him a bone" you'll "let" him get an IOU for what he put in (at very high risk) to create the "initial something" from "nothing" ? I must be honest, if someone approached me with that at
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by andriesm 2y ago
First they came for the billionares but nobody spoke up. Then they came for the millionaires, and still nobody spoke up. Eventually they came for nearly everyone but by then they've become an unstoppable force.
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by andriesm 2y ago
Luckily we have discovered air conditioners, have the ability to move and even mass migrate people given enough time, build dykes and floating structures or supported platforms, and invent ever better solutions to problems previously though
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by andriesm 2y ago
This entire thread just drips of venomous, manipulative and toxic scheming. Regardless of your intended outcomes, your methods and attitudes are atrocious. This explains the research that shows why far left world improver types often have a
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by andriesm 3y ago
"Mainstream economics is in "disarray." It ignores the reality of power, it neglects questions of equity, and its policy recommendations can be "little more than a license for plunder." In other words, economics is
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by andriesm 3y ago
I tried many different diet types, keto hypetrain etc, eventually had me and my gf write down the calories of EVERYTHING I consume, used an onlinr calculator to determine my resting calorie consumption was 2500, and that if I ate 1000 calor
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by andriesm 3y ago
I also got the cloudflare block.
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by andriesm 3y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by andriesm 3y ago
I've always found evo psych interesting and it has some very serious scolars, a lot of experiments and predictions, yet a few years ago it used to be very trendy to say it is all bunk and projective stories about human behavior. Also i
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by andriesm 3y ago
Pretty good, yet obvious to a master programmer, which I define as someone that programs on the conceptual level and ubderstands the thinking about code deserves a lot more attention than the mere effort of banging out code to realise a spe
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by andriesm 3y ago
I remember 40 years ago as a small boy all the talk about 'abnormal weather' - abnormal weather happens, I guess to put any stock in subjective claims about abnormal weather, maybe it is better to bring 300 years of data or someth
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by andriesm 3y ago
Definitely gonna try it out, I've been frustrated with Gmail's inability to sub-segment it's main categories of smart labels in a good way, and it's a long term battle to not miss important emails amid the clutter of tim

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