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by coliveira 6mo ago
The real price of gold has been deflated by paper gold/futures trading, which has the effect of multiplying the perceived amount of gold in circulation without a necessary counterpart in physical gold. Financial institutions can within
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by coliveira 7mo ago
The goal for these companies is not to extract more oil. This is the bait. They want to produce the same amount of oil they already do, but pay less for the expenses of doing anything to comply with regulations.
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by coliveira 7mo ago
Because they want to say that China is bad. When, as you say, US is the outlier in inventing strange ways to admit kids to college. I'm from Brazil and the entrance is exam is similar to China, there is a single exam and the note is us
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by coliveira 7mo ago
That was the original strategy for universities: teaching was the job, and research was the side-product of having some very smart people with free time. Until some "genius" decided that it was better to have professors competing
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Live Coding with Caffeine(caffeine.js.org)
3 points by coliveira 7mo ago|0 comments
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by coliveira 7mo ago
Not everything is a conspiracy, yes. But when we have a class of conspirators in power, and we do have, everything can be used by the conspiracy.
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by coliveira 7mo ago
While Trump is in power, the bail out is a sure thing.
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by coliveira 7mo ago
Thinking about that, a world dominated by data centers will be relatively easy do disrupt, someone just needs to destroy a dozen or so datacenters to bring everything down.
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by coliveira 7mo ago
Intonation is just the beginning. It won't solve the deeper issues with equal temperament.
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by coliveira 7mo ago
If you tune the strings in a guitar to a perfect 4th, which is the case except the 3rd between strings b-e, the lower e will significantly differ from the high e open string. There's no way to get around it.
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by coliveira 7mo ago
It doesn't matter how good the intonation at the bridge or nut. There's the mathematical fact that we cannot get pure thirds and even fifths in modern equal temperament system. If you have a good ear you'll feel the subtle di
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by coliveira 7mo ago
This was never idealism, it was much more about gaslighting. Billionaire investors have a playbook where they say something to gaslight people into agreeing with them, and then go to the opposite direction. It is already a pattern. For exam
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by coliveira 7mo ago
He's not afraid because there are countless others in congress.
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by coliveira 7mo ago
Because the way these companies make money is incentivizing the behavior of gambling addicts. It's just like asking why people will continue taking drugs if it's known to harm them.
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by coliveira 7mo ago
I'm not a fan of AI and try to avoid it, but there is a difference from AI output published by someone knowledgeable and any other AI output that you run by yourself. If an expert looked at the result and found it to be ok, then you ca
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by coliveira 7mo ago
As the article shows, the most probable result of buying Warner Bros will be another loss. Which won't stop more people from buying it again later.
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by coliveira 7mo ago
Rich people don't buy media companies because this is the best business in the world. Quite the opposite, most media companies are mediocre or lose money. They do this because of the political clout they get with the control of these m
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by coliveira 7mo ago
There is a kind of business people who do most of their money engineering failed business takeovers and mergers. A good example is John C. Malone. This guys is always involved in some takeover or merger of companies, most of the time leadin
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by coliveira 7mo ago
You probably don't realize that there are several thousands of people without a job who could work for a company that is instead just "waiting years" to find an imaginary worker. That's what people complain about. The mo
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by coliveira 7mo ago
So this is not a job that you need to fill, it is a wish you may have and that is mostly impractical. If you really needed that person, you would go find them and pay way more than they're making now or give them something else they wa
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by coliveira 7mo ago
> some specific job listings we had open for years If you need to wait YEARS to hire someone with some specific experience, I can guarantee that you really didn't need that person. You're doing this just to check some specific
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by coliveira 7mo ago
The poor education system is correct, but that is by design.
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by coliveira 7mo ago
Yes, some people really didn't expect that billionaires without any moral compass would do this...
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by coliveira 7mo ago
At this point Meta has probably the largest collection of illegal videos of underage kids in private situations on the planet. Maybe followed closely by Google with their cams that record everything even if you think they're not. If th
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by coliveira 7mo ago
He and similar robber barons are just repeating the trust-era schemes using tech. They don't even hide anymore, Meta is a trust for all practical purposes. They will buy companies and do any number of back deals to maintain their monop
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by coliveira 7mo ago
C++ is trying to make C easier to use for 40 years, and it's still not there. So I wouldn't call that easier.
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by coliveira 7mo ago
If you use Objective-C objects, operations on null pointers are just a no-op, so there is not such thing as chasing exceptions.
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AI contributed "zero" to U.S. economic growth, Goldman Sachs has calculated(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by coliveira 8mo ago|1 comments
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by coliveira 8mo ago
Only in the minds of people who make capitalism a religion. It has always been like this, early capitalism was even worse with dirty money buying every politician they could get their hands on. Just read anything about the US in the end of
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by coliveira 8mo ago
You can vote in whoever you want, they'll take billionaire money the same way. The problem is not voting, it's the system.

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