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by creato 2y ago
> Most Americans want legal immigration, but the Democrats took too long to do something and then Trump was able to kill the bill last minute. It looked like the Democrats wanted to simply ignore it until they no longer could. You forgot
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by creato 2y ago
> Are you going for irony? Obviously yes: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-im...
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by creato 2y ago
The prediction markets pretty closely tracked NYT's probability estimate, which seems like the best possible analysis of the available data (partial current results, complete past results, at the precinct level). Anything else would ha
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by creato 2y ago
A big chunk of that healthcare would just be under Medicare/Medicaid anyways though, so it doesn't seem reasonable to ascribe all veteran health spending as military.
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by creato 2y ago
If that's what was happening you'd be right but it isn't. Credit cards have high rates and low limits for a reason: they are unsecured credit. Loans with collateral are secured by the collateral, and it makes some sense that
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by creato 2y ago
It also says: > And no cheating by writing a law that laws don't apply to you.
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by creato 2y ago
$1m per day divided by ~400m population is essentially zero. Why even mention this? It's just using numbers with a lot of zeros to sound scary, but means nothing.
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by creato 2y ago
Why would that matter though? Google owning chrome doesn't really have anything to do with them paying Apple for the safari default.
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by creato 2y ago
But that behavior was just determined to be illegal, at least when the bidder is Google. It seems ridiculous if the sequence of events that happens here is: 1. Google is fined/broken up due (in part) to paying for the default search en
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by creato 2y ago
Are those other deep-pocketed suitors not under antitrust scrutiny themselves at the moment? Maybe they would be first in the firing line of the DoJ if they had bought DeepMind instead?
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by creato 2y ago
I agree it's dumb, but it's easy to understand why: just look at this thread. Google's being accused of being stupid because of some story about Gatorade on the moon. Dumb, but inoffensive. Now imagine the thread title when &
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by creato 2y ago
Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organization by most countries that also have airport security. I really doubt the people with these pagers would go anywhere near a TSA checkpoint.
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by creato 2y ago
If you were going to buy these, you'd find you need 20% fewer panels (of the same area) to generate the same amount of power. Sounds like the marketing team is right about this one.
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by creato 2y ago
I switched from pixel to iPhone because I was fed up with bugs. I’m going to switch back to pixel for my next phone because I’m fed up with bugs on iOS. It’s really not better, just a different set of bugs.
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by creato 2y ago
This particular alloy is specifically designed to be melted and cooled as part of its manufacturing process. It seems like it would be the easiest to recycle: just melt it back down in a different 3d printer. Maybe grind it up first?
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by creato 2y ago
Hiring a Boeing CEO must be pretty hard right now because whoever takes the job is signing up for some miserable work (like testifying to a hostile congress and dealing with criminal liability on behalf of Boeing), and is likely to be blame
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by creato 2y ago
> They try this with things like screws, “Try” being the key word, because it is useless. It maybe could work if vendors populated the metadata correctly, but they don’t, and amazon put far too many similar categories into it, so you can
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by creato 2y ago
In this thread, the numbers cited (I didn't verify) are: - $50B/year revenue - $70B/3 years in payments to creators Youtube paying out ~50% of revenue to creators seems almost too good to be true to me. That isn't their
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by creato 2y ago
A lot of people like cigarettes. The idea that no one would work in a cigarette factory because everyone would see it as morally objectionable and they could afford not to is preposterous.
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by creato 2y ago
Even if we accept this point as fact, which I think is maybe , partially true in some cases, it’s such a ridiculous argument. Do you think the average American is going to think that because their 3-10x generation ancestors, who might
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by creato 2y ago
You’re also getting the thing you bought too. Maybe it’s more expensive than you would have paid for it otherwise but that difference is the cost of the pee, not $5
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by creato 2y ago
This isn’t a solely a problem of modern economics/economists. A family or tribe would have the same problems. A primitive tribal village would struggle to survive with an inverted population pyramid too. It’s the same problem, modern e
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by creato 2y ago
I really wish the push had been for approval voting instead of ranked choice voting. I think ranked choice is theoretically good, but it's relatively complicated, and complexity can lead to confusion which provides an opening for unscr
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by creato 2y ago
I’ve certainly skied ice and all kinds of crust. In my experience true ice isn’t that bad in terms of grip, it’s rarely so smooth that edges can’t easily grip on surface imperfections. It’s not fun to ski because it’s very high impact. I th
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by creato 2y ago
You can see in this video that the interaction of the ski with the snow is much more than just the edge of the ski. I really doubt the fine tuning of the edge matters that much. I don’t think there is any objective way to settle this debate
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by creato 2y ago
The question is whether this is a good model for an actual ski on ice. What you describe might be a good model for an absolutely perfect carve, but that basically never happens in reality. When it does, it’s on softer snow where the tuned c
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by creato 2y ago
Those numbers include contributions to PACs, which was the point. It was also my point that it isn’t obvious how to limit donations to groups publishing information, such as Wikipedia. Today, PACs have a carveout that distinguishes them fro
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by creato 2y ago
Direct political donations are already limited in amount to a fairly small amount. Where things get messy is trying to limit contributions to “independent” groups making political comments. We obviously don’t limit donations to groups makin
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by creato 2y ago
> Besides, if the President declares that you must as an official act, alas you must or face the unmitigated consequences (according to recent rulings). This is not accurate. That ruling says the president is not personally liable for of
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by creato 2y ago
How much though? Somewhere else in this thread someone said 67% of their revenue is from Boeing.

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