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by anovikov 2y ago
Pretty soon virtually everything will be paywalled. Ironically, it will provide us with a good metric that lets us find out whether AGI has arrive or not: when it does, paywalling will stop working because AGI could derive more value from a
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by anovikov 2y ago
Surely we suffer for the lack of a single, centralised power. There has to be a working mechanism to swiftly coerce any wavering member from falling in line.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Again i'm comparing with two-wheel two-stroke mopeds, not with cars... Using cars for delivery is all but impractical anyway because they stand in traffic ESPECIALLY in a city "not like mine", i'd hate to get my food ord
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by anovikov 2y ago
Simply put, "because their normal egg prices are much higher than American due to their agribusiness being a lot less efficient". But as a consequence, unexpected events hit American system harder.
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by anovikov 2y ago
No one is going to ban gay marriage. This is the ultimate no-go that will alienate every undecided voter, almost as bad as a nationwide abortion ban. Republicans want to stay in power and they know they won't stay in power if they do t
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by anovikov 2y ago
Compared to non powered bike maybe, but it's only practical in a very limited set of scenarios. I'm comparing to a two stroke moped that's still used by majority of deliverymen down here. These days a two-stroke moped costs a
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by anovikov 2y ago
I wonder why is still anyone NOT using e-bikes for delivery. This is the lowest hanging fruit ever. No charging issues (just a normal wall socket is more than enough), no range issues - trips are short and battery can be swapped by a person
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by anovikov 2y ago
I think it's a big big question - how is democracy related to growth rates. Certainly democracy is a necessary, but not the sufficient, precondition for growth of capital. Because capital is ownership. In a dictatorship, a dictator&#x2
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by anovikov 2y ago
I have a feeling that the tweet itself was actually written at least partially by an LLM.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Well, the point where continuing to incur obligations with no chance of ever repaying them (resulting in escalating interest rates as investors price it in more and more), will become untenable, may arrive. What if debt reaches 200% of GDP?
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by anovikov 2y ago
It's hard to argue with the observation that government really blocks progress in so many directions. Sometimes for noble causes like preventing inequality or environmental abuse, but those are usually eventually hijacked by bad actors
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by anovikov 2y ago
Google sort of charges for Gmail (Google Apps). Maybe solution will be to fill the free version (Gmail proper) with spam, ads, and other shit to the brim so people start seeing it as a demo version, then offer them a personal/family sp
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by anovikov 2y ago
Now electric car transition there is done, too: they won't buy Teslas, but Chinese electric cars are banned, and European one are incredibly expensive, lose money to their makers, and just plain suck. All hope is for "european&quo
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by anovikov 2y ago
Cities don't work like that. When you have less traffic, people start to squeeze in (real estate is rarely a limiting factor), and you get more people and more traffic. People want to live densely, and they will.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Surely horse-centric was a lot better.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Somebody should tell them about Hetzner Cloud
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by anovikov 2y ago
I don't speak Polish but i know Russian, Belarusians (especially), Slovaks, and Ukrainians all do it. Czech women don't seem to be concerned with men or getting married overall so i doubt they do. True, i have no direct exposure t
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by anovikov 2y ago
https://peopletalk.ru/article/pochemu-zhenshhiny-otkarmlivay... use google translate :) and yes it's a cruel but workable tactic. just like everything Slavic.
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by anovikov 2y ago
This is Poland. It is customary for Slavic women to intentionally overfeed their men so they are less attractive to other women, to increase the chances of keeping the marriage/somewhat limiting the imbalance that naturally develops as
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by anovikov 2y ago
Easy peasy, famines were commonplace in Spain during the Middle Ages (not sure how about part of it that was controlled by the Muslims though, but i don't think it was much different). During the Middle Ages, famines (and epidemics) we
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by anovikov 2y ago
I think polling these days is all but useless just because a very small proportion of people actually respond to pollsters and it's next to impossible to statistically account for "what would the other 80% say if they did't t
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by anovikov 2y ago
2002 was already past the dot com bomb, but as for 2008 recession, SURELY getting a custom dev job in 2008 was easier than now, and in 2009... well maybe about as hard as now.
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by anovikov 2y ago
2002
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by anovikov 2y ago
So far sadly it seems to be in deep shit. Worst i can remember and keeps getting worse. The top point in my perception was reached in late 2022 and it keeps getting worse and worse ever since.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Sure now they are slowly but surely taking/retaking territory. But until late 2023, they were on the defensive. It took almost 2 years for Putin to turn things around after a botched initial invasion. And at the rate of the worst month
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by anovikov 2y ago
Yes! Because their socialist-ish or simply paternalist/statist governments made things illegal to prevent "inequality" or simply to keep things under state control as much as possible, but the people want to save for retireme
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by anovikov 2y ago
Not really, US has barely 16% or so. Trick about USA is that it is really open for business and private ownership and investment into anything. Unlike almost any other sizeable country. Entire world can't avoid the US if they want to s
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by anovikov 2y ago
I don't think they are concerned with finding new ways of spending money to show the wealth off. It's kinda stupid and anyone who stumbled on some cash gets over it in a year or two tops, or otherwise they are so stupid their cash
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by anovikov 2y ago
Transmission losses are not high, but AC/DC conversion losses are significant. Whenever there's a chance to avoid an extra conversion it's inefficient to miss it. While as other commenter said, this is only pertinent to solar
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Question must be, what's the point of uber large storage sites? Storage is essential, but where is the economy of scale of large sites, how are they more economic than small - say container-sized, a ~1 MWh - ones? Having smaller system

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