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by anovikov 2mo ago
Which only suggests that SNAP recipients drank just as much soda as Americans in general, because 12% of population are on SNAP. And it also suggests that they were not all that addicted to it since when it stopped being free, they stopped
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by anovikov 2mo ago
TL;DR: totally safe exposure. 53K people received a total collective dose sufficient to reliably kill 3-4 people or get about 10 people visibly sick.
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by anovikov 2mo ago
Around 15 years ago i was introduced to the concept of online sex/webcam sites and i was horrified. Now same thing came to food... scary.
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by anovikov 2mo ago
I'm sure it can't work this way. Govtech was designed around different incentive structure innate to government orgs, resulting products, and especially production process, will poorly transplant into private hands and even if su
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by anovikov 2mo ago
I hired people for 25 years. I understand why. Because you know the person's worth only once you see them and CV is not at all a replacement. Fair pay for same job may vary 2x or more for someone with totally the same qualifications, e
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by anovikov 2mo ago
TL;DR: they do it because they can
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by anovikov 2mo ago
This simply isn't how any addiction works. You can just as well say to an alcoholic to "just stop drinking". Humankind tried to rid itself of obesity for too long and it only kept getting worse. GLP-1 is the key.
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by anovikov 2mo ago
People's habits usually don't change. They still eat the same plastic crap, just less of it.
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by anovikov 2mo ago
GLP-1 provides the only plausible way to do so.
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by anovikov 2mo ago
No, it's a lot simpler. Governments should just have babies of their own, using donor eggs and sperm of people they consider to be high-value, using cheaply hired foreign women of any race for gestation, and raising them in specialised
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by anovikov 2mo ago
But this is not some "hard" problem, let's say in a way "peak oil" was seen as a "hard" problem 20-25 years ago: a resource limitation you can't just wish away. There's no problem with having as
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by anovikov 2mo ago
Debt to GDP ratio only increased by 1/3 in 15 years, not 3x. And this is a natural consequence of population ageing and is less pronounced than in almost any other developed country. Money supply to GDP is only 1/4 up from 1950s w
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by anovikov 2mo ago
What's the crisis? I mean, what makes you feel there is a crisis? I know social media can make anyone feel extremely anxious these days, but for real?
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by anovikov 2mo ago
It seems like any solution to the housing crisis is going to trigger economic doom?
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by anovikov 2mo ago
Oh well, it's a drone interceptor. It was never meant to be easy.
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by anovikov 2mo ago
One can formulate it a lot simpler: whatever are you arguing about, you are mostly arguing with idiots because normal people have shit to do and they don't care arguing about abstract things unless paid to do so.
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by anovikov 2mo ago
Is normal DC-DC fine? It gets ~22-25V on input and produces 5V on output and is rated at 5A. That's the way i use it and i had all kinds of problems in the project but not RPi power problems.
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by anovikov 2mo ago
So the message of it is - "if people have a lot of agency because they have liquid capital and network that allows them to not give a shit about incentives, they usually behave better and create more valuable stuff for society"? I
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by anovikov 2mo ago
My opinion of Rails as a side observer: it allowed to cut coding time/effort/skill very significantly at the expense of performance. In the era when coding is dirt cheap thanks to LLMs and CPU and RAM are expensive, i don't s
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by anovikov 2mo ago
Why? Every significant invention extracts value by putting someone out of work. Putting people out of work is the whole point of progress. Cinema, Radio -> money made by putting musicians, theatre actors, etc. out of work. Internet ->
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by anovikov 2mo ago
I was offered this a lot and usually declined because it means that someone is looking for someone who will, unlike a contractor, take ownership and keep themselves on top of what's going on, but unlike a full time employee, won't
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by anovikov 2mo ago
Exactly because everyone can do it. There is no money to be made building software anymore. Even traction or network effects don't work - it will be copied on first signs of success before network effects properly get in play.
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by anovikov 2mo ago
No, a kind of electric FPV drone.
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by anovikov 2mo ago
I have basically vibe-coded a guidance system for air defence interceptors in 6 weeks. It works. Took getting my hands dirty with soldering and some mechanical work to test, but Cursor was guiding me on even that. And i started with underst
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by anovikov 2mo ago
I agree. There is no point in hiring anyone into a technical-only role anymore. It's very valuable (and probably always will be) to be something-and-technical: a specialist in the target field who also understands how computers and sof
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by anovikov 2mo ago
Well, being harmful is the whole thing about tech. Economic and technological development happens through harming people, this is how society grows. Finding new and new ways of harming ever larger groups of people, forcing them to adapt.
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by anovikov 2mo ago
If law enforcement still does a good job, what are the downsides? I can't see crime climbing really high, after all, population ageing, and crime was on the decline for decades.
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by anovikov 2mo ago
They always have been. As an outsourcer, i observed, for decades, organisations with lots of American tech workers who did almost nothing except nodding on meetings, most being utterly incapable. All actual work was done by outsourcers - bu
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by anovikov 2mo ago
That's still McMurdo, not the South Pole. It's not that exceptional.
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by anovikov 2mo ago
This is striking. So much for the "socialist" society in China as opposed to "capitalist" in Netherlands.

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