cool_dude85

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by cool_dude85 2y ago
What if you're a green card holder and say "Palestine" in the privacy of your own home? We may not be there now but it's not far.
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
Where was this proven in Colombia?
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
Money is fungible and exactly this trick is common. Best to think of the education funding as a minimum below which funding cannot be cut. In Florida, where I live, it actually funds a specific scholarship program, so it really does have th
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
As far as I am familiar, considering the actual cash flows, state lotteries do very strongly tend toward screwing poor people out of their money. Do you have some evidence otherwise?
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
It's tough to draw a clear bright-line rule for this, but the line sits somewhere between "buy 10 tickets" and "buy every ticket". You can write a law saying not to run this kind of operation and let the jury decide
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
The risk here is that you buy your lotto ticket and hit, and have to split the jackpot you won playing the "right way" with an arb corporation. Also, not a risk as such, but it ensures that the jackpot will only ever reach a certa
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
I have a very different experience. I did all the right things, more or less, got into a good field with a secure job in the broader tech industry, and indeed I make very good money. Despite this, I can not afford to buy the house I grew up
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
I wonder if you'd say that developing a free web browser is a "public work".
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
Quoting the article: "Designed by North Macedonian architect Janko Konstantinov" Confusingly, the demonym for people from North Macedonia is still accepted to be just Macedonian.
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
That all may be so, but it's mighty coincidental that we are reminded of the need for rehabilitation and humane treatment and so on exactly when the convict happens to be famous and rich.
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
So you bought a place with no parking spot, now there are a bunch of other people in a place without a parking spot, but you were here first?
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
That's pretty crazy, almost the opposite of my own experience. The very desirable neighborhoods where I live are the streetcar suburbs near downtown that were built before the prominence of the car. A lot of on-street parking because t
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
An excellent book I strongly recommend about PIE is The Horse, The Wheel, and Language.
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
Sure, I agree. 40 years ago you would have been playing Feels So Good in those same places, and that's not lofi either.
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
I mean, I don't disagree with you, but nobody should have to compete with AI on the biggest market out there. If the genre was dying because it isn't cool anymore, whatever. If more people are listening than ever, but they're
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
It's probably better to say that lofi is a genre or type of instrumental hip hop. You wouldn't listen to e.g. Endtroducing... on the lofi girl stream.
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
Imagine an s-curve relating capital expenditure on compute and "performance" as the y-axis. It's possible that this does not change the upper bound of the s-curve but just shifts the performance gains way to the left. Such a
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
No, this is true for most random people. My net worth is largely tied up in assets like my car and house - if everybody else decides these are worthless, because I live in a "bad neighborhood", or if they decide that they prefer n
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
Give the stock to the government. Maybe to destroy some USD if you want you could make companies pay tax half in stock and half in cash.
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
Is this accurate in all cases? Isn't Jenny Nicholson one of the bigger YouTubers, with videos coming out maybe once or twice a year?
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
The main possibility, I'd say, is that organizationally there's a push and pull of wanting to have the fear of secret weapons programs existing (for funding) and not wanting to seem incompetent. For example, if the CIA doesn'
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
Nobody, not this article or any other reasonable person, thinks that claim denial is the reason healthcare is expensive. Rather, they think it is fundamentally fraudulent that someone can pay their premiums, etc. and then when they need tre
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
He's one of a few extremely high profile players to publicly support (and maybe financially back / have a stake in?) Freestyle Chess, which may or may not be a venture capital-backed attempt to force a schism in the FIDE World Che
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
Maybe the World Blitz Candidates Tournament but Magnus was practically eliminated from contention in Rapid before this.
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
But that's not true. Dorner's manifesto, Breivik's manifesto, the Charleston shooter's manifesto are all broadly available, I believe through mainstream media. Heck, there's a purported review this guy posted on goo
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
So, they can't even get the Romanian Intelligence Service to make a specific claim that some aspect of voting was affected, instead that they were "targeted by" cyberattacks? And this is enough to cancel already-held election
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
This is weak stuff - the allegation here seems to be that Georgescu bought fake followers on tiktok.
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
Is there any English reporting of the concrete nature of these cyberattacks? The report linked in the article is obviously in Romanian, but I am very curious if the report has specific allegations about e.g. phony votes, hacked results, etc
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
It is still their fault - Amazon is the entity which is capable of changing this policy. It may also be wise for the customer to stop paying, but Amazon is clearly responsible here.
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by cool_dude85 2y ago
The first set I generated had a main pawn (that looked like a regular pawn, more or less) with two little tiny side pawns next to it.

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