bluGill

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by bluGill 3mo ago
There are a lot of factors. Some things are worse than the past. However other things are better. There is no universal correct weighting of these different factors. In general I think that nobody would be willing to go far back in time.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
If you live there for 30 years - and don't cash-out-refinance - in 30 years your subscription costs go much lower. However if you rent for less than the mortgage you can invest the difference into something that will grow in value more
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Risk is why owning needs 10 years. If the economy collapses you value goes down, by 10 years it will likely either have recovered, or at least not be done much. If the economy goes down and you lose your job in the process you have to sell
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by bluGill 3mo ago
> Considering ChatGPT was released only three and half years ago ... Or are they approaching an asymptotic limit?
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by bluGill 3mo ago
The more important lesson for those of us are are "old" is to not get stuck in things that were learned in the past when they are found false. If you are not yet old, remember this - it is very likely you will old in a few years.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Anyone with money in a country with poor education will try to send their kids to a country with good education. That has been mostly the US over the past 100 years, but there are several other countries (most of the EU) that also have gre
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Both also make the assumption that owning a house is good. Renting should be just as good.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
More importantly, nobody cares about the people where renting is their ideal condition (at least for now - in different situations different ways of living are ideal). There should be nothing wrong with renting. Owning your own should be a
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by bluGill 3mo ago
That depends on the state, some do have a registry.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Most of the us has it like that. Some of the early states still do 'nw to the stump', a stump that rotted away before 1800... The newer states learned that lesson and land is to something more likely to last and hard to move. Meta
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Image is not the economy. AI is a large part of the stock market, but a much smaller share of the economy.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Does it weaken the US though? It weakens the big providers but most of the economy is in companies buying and this helps them save money.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Not in the next 3 year. However there are more elections coming up. And other things changing. For that matter even if the US does nothing, other countries doing something will forced changes. Petro cars are so cheap in the US (they are
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Last time I ran the numbers, in ideal situations a truck/trailer could generate enough power from solar alone to drive on the highway. Ideal means the truck is already at speed, it is towing multiple trailers (length is only legal in
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by bluGill 3mo ago
It has happened people I personally know. It wasn't just a truck passing, it was a truck passing with a good cross wind, which is why it isn't common. This wasn't a small tow vehicle, it was a F350 which is a large truck eve
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Those are small trailers that you can pull with small cars in the US. The US has many RVs that need much larger trucks to pull them as well. I don't have much autobahn experience, but I don't recall ever seeing a RV type trailer
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Maybe some truck drivers. However there are also a lot of trailers in the US that hang even lower than this appears to. The most common situation is trailers have a lot of space between the floor and the ground - so a forklift can drive al
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by bluGill 3mo ago
In practice if you have the VISA they will almost always admit you. If you are rejected it generally means they find something at the border.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Probably not high, but forgeries are the people of most concern. Most people are honest travelers (either on business or vacation), and will go back home. Most people only commit crimes of the type "I didn't know this thing was
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Does the EU really collect that, or only sometimes? I know the EU reserves the right to collect all that, but do they in practice? I haven't been to the EU in a decade, but last time I was there I was standing in the customs line for
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Most people don't know that the real money is food and alcohol. Buy pizza and drinks for everyone and they should throw the lane in for free.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Socks with no shoes are good enough for amateurs. Maybe even better than the worst bowling shoes. I'm not sure where the level of shoes matters is crossed, but socks gets that a lot farther than street shoes.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
There are people who care about football (soccer in the USA), and chear at all the home games even when the team is clearly going to lose every game this season. Then those who go to games when the team is winning. Then those who start goin
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by bluGill 4mo ago
There is no particular reason to think a process for silicon life couldn't exist that starts from something like our carbon based form started. We don't know what that is, but we have ideas.
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by bluGill 4mo ago
Problem is I'm not interested in insects. A new leader species of large mammal would interest me. Even discovering dinosaurs aren't extinct is neat but not something I'd care about.
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by bluGill 4mo ago
We also need to make it last. The pyramids are not very old on a cosmic scale and the things that make them last are a dead end for spacecraft.
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by bluGill 4mo ago
Often technology is approaching an asymptotic limit that it will not go beyond. Know about a hand waving will change the laws of physics. There's every reason to believe that the speed of light is a maximum that we will never be able t
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by bluGill 4mo ago
It is more than that, but even still we should as that would help the people who ride their routes. In almost all cases this would bring in more riders who find the new service good enough that they can stop driving.
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by bluGill 4mo ago
The Ukraine side has much better survival rates. I still wouldn't want to be there, but if I was forced to choose.
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by bluGill 4mo ago
More so than normal life but not horrible.

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