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541.
by chii 11mo ago
> This is how we killed the USSR i doubt that - the USSR killed themselves with their poor economic policies (as well as expensive wars they cannot really afford). China on the other hand, hasn't made the same mistakes. They posture
542.
by chii 11mo ago
a contrarian needs to keep spruiking the point, because if he relents, he loses the core audience that listened to him. That's why it's also the same with those who keep predicting market crashes etc.
543.
by chii 11mo ago
> as they will not provide anymore important security update it's legitimate for their stopping of security updates. However, this is only true if there is no more security updates to _any_ version of windows 10. Except that microso
544.
by chii 11mo ago
The same way a current product advertises itself as hand-crafted, or organic, etc. Just pure trust. And if you can charge a higher price because this is considered valuable by your customers, then you get to sustain it as a business.
545.
by chii 11mo ago
> rise of the Eastern economic bloc the exact same thing was said for japan when their economy boomed. Whether china falls to the same fate, or actually sustain and overtake the west, is yet to be determined. However, trump's polic
546.
by chii 11mo ago
mattering doesn't mean you get what you wanted/voted for. Mattering means your vote was counted among the hundreds of millions, and the ultimate consensus reached, and the minority voters have accept the result of the majority vot
547.
by chii 11mo ago
> my votes haven’t mattered in a long time you vote mattered. It's just that there are more people who didn't vote the way you wanted them. But that's OK, because this is how it is supposed to work. At least, in theory.
548.
by chii 11mo ago
> They could start selling a version of Word tomorrow ... they could, but would anyone agree to this new eula? If they did, then what's the problem?
549.
by chii 11mo ago
you could have the inverse - proof that the code was _not_ LLM generated. It's like a mark of origin/country of origin for produce.
550.
by chii 11mo ago
human brains are just chemical reactions and electrical transmission between neurons too. You're comparing completely different layers of abstraction in your arguments.
551.
by chii 11mo ago
> It may produce it when asked that's not proof - it may also be intelligent enough to have produce similar expressions without the original training data. Not to mention that having knowledge of copyrighted material is not in viola
552.
by chii 11mo ago
You missed thermoelectric generators that uses the Seebeck effect to generate a current between two temperature differentials. It's terribly inefficient, unfortunately.
553.
by chii 11mo ago
That doesnt seem logical - the purchase of the NFT is a capital loss, which should offset the gains of the 30k of capital gains. Otherwise, it's an unfair tax regime.
554.
by chii 11mo ago
> But after this websites seem to work better. quite likely that the site has a mobile "mode" and a small-screen mode (for desktop), each made by different teams. some mobile mode website is fine, but others suck. Where as the
555.
by chii 11mo ago
This problem was also an issue for movies and theaters. The "fix" is to ensure theaters (the distributors) cannot be owned by, nor can they own production studios. So under this rule, if disney wanted to have their own streaming s
556.
by chii 11mo ago
> how they ruined the opportunity presented netflix didn't really ruin it themselves (at least, not completely) - the owner of the licensed content did, by wanting a bigger cut of the pie. Disney, for example, didn't feel they&
557.
by chii 11mo ago
> doesn’t have a brain behind it that can be accountable for the code later. the submitter could also bail just as easily. Having an AI make the PR or not makes zero difference for this accountability. Ultimately, the maintainer pressing
558.
by chii 11mo ago
you are not a customer of cloudflare. You need to be punishing the services you "paid" to use, but had downtime. So did you terminate any of those services for downtime, or had any sort of punishment done to them as a result?
559.
by chii 11mo ago
the root cause is customers refusing to punish these downtime. Checkout how hard customers punish blackouts from the grid - both via wallet, but also via voting/gov't. It's why they are now more reliable. So unless the backbo
560.
by chii 11mo ago
but not completely - and this is only even talking about maintenance. The initial investment is absolutely not "paid for", because the economic returns from them are privatized, and the tax collection of those private benefits are
561.
by chii 11mo ago
I find most bugs take less time to fix than it takes time to verify and reproduce.
562.
by chii 11mo ago
> A political shift could kill military funding in the US. and lose the very thing that keeps the US top dog. You're implying that political shifts could happen to shift _anything_. That's not true for things of fundamental imp
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Graphics API is irrelevant [video](youtube.com)
2 points by chii 11mo ago|0 comments
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by chii 11mo ago
but grades that are external to the school could be used as the metric - something the school cannot tamper with themselves. Grades like "international baccalaureate assessments" or some sort of university entrance exams.
565.
by chii 11mo ago
> The schools also get more funding if the students perform poorly. that's such a weird policy. The teachers can produce poorly performing students easily (without much effort i might add), but cannot do that very same for well perf
566.
by chii 11mo ago
> so they can't capture the government department so why not solve this issue directly? Transparency, auditing and public awareness etc are needed to prevent regulatory capture. Public apathy are the reason why it is currently &quot
567.
by chii 11mo ago
> anybody can sue them. who bears the costs of this suit? And who determines what makes for a good market share size to be the threshold? And by having such a rule, an industry that would have higher efficiency to when consolidated would
568.
by chii 11mo ago
but why wouldn't that used-PC simply increase in price due to the components becoming more expensive?
569.
by chii 11mo ago
The purpose and intention matters a lot. A stalker has very different intentions to a private detective.
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The cloud is slowing you down [video](youtube.com)
3 points by chii 11mo ago|0 comments

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