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by carlob 11mo ago
There was an interesting plot I saw somewhere reversing the old thing about Halloween being the deadliest day for kids by dividing the number of dead kids by the number of kids on the street on a given day. It turns out that Halloween ends
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by carlob 1y ago
And ricotta, how can you forget ricotta!
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by carlob 1y ago
The problem lies squarely in the fact that some fundamental thing is getting contracted out to some company.
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by carlob 1y ago
Usually the medical part of it all is strictly worse in the private sector (at least in my country) because the public system has a pretty strict competitive exam to get in, whereas profit driven private companies hire the cheapest doctor t
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by carlob 1y ago
I've always wondered what the market rate for parking would be if you allowed for things other than parking like restaurant tables, a shed, a tiny skyscraper...
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by carlob 1y ago
> just be paid on the individual side by capital gains When you are rich enough you can just borrow using your wealth as collateral and never incur in capital gains.
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by carlob 1y ago
Of course, for example me, the person you are replying to. I am an LLM vegan.
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by carlob 1y ago
Because they are given a sweetheart deal to attract them to that specific area. And that deal happens behind closed doors.
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by carlob 1y ago
You are not taking into account the fact that data centers tend to be pretty concentrated geographically. If I live in an area that is trying to attract data centers by giving them sweetheart deals, my electricity bill is going to go up by
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by carlob 1y ago
The point is not whether or not it makes sense. The point is that it is fairly natural for a capitalist system to have r>g and that causes concentration of wealth. If you look historically the increasing concentration of wealth only real
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by carlob 1y ago
Yeah, pretty much this. But the law in Italy defines cheese as something made directly from milk, whereas ricotta is made mostly from whey (you can add some milk, but it's secondary). Similarly things like mascarpone and yogurt which a
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by carlob 1y ago
Company selling AI Reviews says its AI Review of AI Reviews concluded AI reviews are great! In other news water is wet (as assessed by more water). FTFY
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by carlob 1y ago
> A calzone should have ricotta cheese not mozzarella. It typically has both. And ricotta is legally not a cheese in Italy (because it's not made from milk).
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by carlob 1y ago
Beautiful! But those are not the petals of bougainvillea. The actual flowers are white and much too small to be folded.
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by carlob 1y ago
> I will yield that culture is nurture, but others are not. If my twin was adopted and raised in China, they will not be Chinese. They will still be European. That's only true if you are racist. To me anyone who grows up fully immer
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by carlob 1y ago
> If they don't share my lineage, how are they my people? my nation? my culture? Because all of those things are a product of nurture, not nature. If your twin was adopted, raised in a different country and didn't speak your la
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by carlob 1y ago
You are racist because you think that only the people who are born near you from people who share some lineage with you can participate in your culture, your people, your nation. I also want all of those things to survive, but I really don&
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by carlob 1y ago
Yes. Nothing about this needs to be modeled for adversarial agents.
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by carlob 1y ago
You are being too harsh, not everybody is under 40 with perfect vision. My mother tends to struggle with her android phone with all the font sizes to the max and high contrast mode.
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by carlob 1y ago
Do people if any gender actually sit on public toilets? In my neck of the woods you are expected to hover unless you are at home...
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by carlob 2y ago
But what you are saying is only true if your measure of poverty is GDP per capita, which is not very good when comparing different levels of inequality or different public policies. Are you sure your claim stands up when you look at things
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by carlob 2y ago
Because once the government is not able to provide certain things like education or public transportation they can profit by selling you private religious schools that further their agenda or tunnels filled with Teslas (see Las Vegas).
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by carlob 2y ago
your point being?
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by carlob 2y ago
Bitter almonds contain amygdalin which is cyanogenic. You can't make a number of preparations without them (some types of marzipan or almond pastries and Disaronno come to mind).
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by carlob 2y ago
I didn't say don't tip, I said don't use Uber and use a taxi instead (and keep tipping if you want). I don't know what the situation is in NYC, but the last time I visited the US in Illinois, my taxi driver told me he al
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by carlob 2y ago
> I go out of my way to tip much larger than 20% when I use Uber because I'd rather risk getting ripped off than a driver not getting paid a fair wage for the work they do for me, even if it's at my own expense Honest question,
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by carlob 2y ago
I disagree, if anything we need to know what the distribution is before we make such sweeping claims. While pretty much every country has an income tax, which means that we knows fairly well who makes what, there is no equivalent for wealth
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by carlob 2y ago
The great depression in itself wasn't, but the combined effect of WWI, GD and WW2 was. We razed Europe rather than redistribute.
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by carlob 2y ago
I'm pretty sure wealth doesn't follow an exponential distribution. Power law, log normal or stretched exponential or maybe some sort of generalized Zipf.
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by carlob 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick_rotation

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