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by bluecalm 4y ago
Unfortunately the hustle gurus usually spend it on making the world even worse: more scams, content promoting scammy lifestyle, paying scam buddies, paying off politician to pass scam friendly laws etc. I don't really care (that much a
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by bluecalm 4y ago
I get bailing out depositors. It's not like you have that many options with our current system. You have to keep your liquid assets somewhere, banks are the only option and they are going to do risky business with your assets. Maybe yo
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Why do we have this system that to be able to use your money in convenient way you have to deposit it in a bank that can then lend it out? Lending and keeping deposits should be completely separated things. There is no reason whatsoever for
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by bluecalm 4y ago
People in big cars kill thousands of pedestrians and cyclists per year. Let's not water things down please. You seem to not understand big cars in cities are really dangerous and actually cost (not hypothetical might) lives every day.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
I don't know why you accuse me of elitism when SUVs endanger exactly people who aren't rich and can't afford to drive a car let alone an expensive one like a SUV. Cheaper options (walking, cycling, taking public transport and
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Yeah, I don't like people choosing oversized vehicles and endangering lives every day. Idk why you compare temporarily immobilizing dangerous vehicles to destroying art. If art was killing people every day they would get more support I
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by bluecalm 4y ago
The argument is that SUV and truck drivers already endanger lives of unprotected traffic participants by driving those vehicles in cities. It sounds like a cause worthy of some aggressive activism to me as the regulators are deeply in car i
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by bluecalm 4y ago
For me it's because SUV drivers see less and are more dangerous to unprotected traffic participants (pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter riders, motorbike riders). As long as you don't bring this vehicle to cities it's fine in m
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by bluecalm 4y ago
It's not about morals. It's about wanting to get somewhere in cities in reasonable time, not breathing poisonous air and without fear of getting run over by a 2 ton SUV. Cars are just too inefficient (because of their size) and to
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Do you know any programmers who think it's cool to work for German car companies or that they at least offer a decent pay? I think that's the answer: those traditional German industries don't care nor understand IT. These day
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Git was already quite popular before GitHub at least in technical circles. I was using it as my first version control tool when I was learning programming. I asked some programmer friends and the answer was: "use Git, it's 10x bet
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Let's see how many of his current positions (Stanford president, boards of directors, advisory boards) he is going to keep. It seems to me lying is a great strategy in today's society as you rarely face harsh consequences and you
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Those people can still ride mobility scooters, e-bikes, small electric vehicles (like golf carts) but often can't drive. Car centric world means exclusion for those groups.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Maybe wonder how it would look like if car owners actually paid for the cost (environmental, killing pedestrians and cyclists, huge areas of valuable land dedicated to parking, cost of road maintenance). Cars are the most subsidized mean of
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by bluecalm 4y ago
It's true you often need a car but it shouldn't be the case. Cars are terribly inefficienct way to get around. They are more expensive and slower (once there are enough of them) than alternatives. The anti-car sentiment is about c
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Let's hope the trend continues. Cars are terrible for us. They are bad for health because we don't walk anymore or at least easy way less than 30 years ago. Children can't walk to school safely anymore. We can't play on
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by bluecalm 4y ago
They are on the side of hosts on many other things. Removing reviews, not caring when the place booked is completely off in comparison to the description. It's by design they want your money and keeping many dishonest hosts on the site
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by bluecalm 4y ago
I stopped using Airbnb after being scammed by it two times in a row. Both times the property rented was unliveable and completely different than the description. They said they couldn't do anything about it. I asked if I can at least r
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by bluecalm 4y ago
What is interesting is that current state of the art comes from another place: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficiently_updatable_neural... Lc0 is based on AlphaZero ideas and is significantly weaker than NNUE based
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by bluecalm 4y ago
You don't need to demonstrate ability to blow up your own pipeline close to your own territorial waters. If it's Russia (which I don't think is very likely) I find it more believable that it's the result of internal poli
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by bluecalm 4y ago
I wonder if Google is going to be as successful as Intel selling their "turn around" story when their monopoly was threatened by AMD. Intel managed to make media run with it even though it was based on nothing and turned out to be
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by bluecalm 4y ago
It might be but it isn't. The promise of clever modern language beating C in performance is almost as old as C and we are yet to see one.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Don't short it. Buy long term put options and roll it. It's a better way to bet on a collapse. As to it going up today, it's still a 20b company with huge operational costs and no profits operating in funny money world full o
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Bet against Grayscale, MicroStrategy or any other publicly traded crypto company. Hell, even Coinbase is good enough. All will face very difficult times once Tether collapses and takes most of the crypto "economy" with it. That&#x
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Yup. "Commercial paper" claimed by Tether as backing of their token was long known to just be IOUs from various buddies of the scam company that runs it (online poker cheat, child molester and proven fraudster if I remember right)
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by bluecalm 4y ago
Or you know, "the classes" have nothing to do with real life performance as per usual in our school/academia world.
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by bluecalm 4y ago
We still allow smoking in public and cars in cities including poisonous and carcinogenic diesel. No wonder we also don't care what kids breathe at school. It's just a result of convenience being valued higher than health even if t
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by bluecalm 4y ago
It's not like inventing most convoluted, complex reasoning to delude yourself on a simple matter is a sign of high cognitive capabilities. Quite the contrary. An intelligent addict will say: I realize it's terrible but I am losing
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by bluecalm 4y ago
It's not true at all! Most of the forces you have to overcome when cycling are from air resistance. At around 10mph it's already majority of resistance and at about 18mph it's more than 80%. This is the reason the best upgrad
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by bluecalm 4y ago
E-bikes are fine. My point was that bikes are not very efficient because of shitty aerodynamics. A light, low and narrow electric vehicle would be more efficient and more palatable to a lot of people than bikes.

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