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by dahfizz 3y ago
I don't think so. Unless the country in question is actively at war, their military budget or weapons arsenal does not matter to me as a tourist. Its not like they are going to nuke their own cities. If anything, I want my travel desti
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Using GPI as a proxy for "physical safety" is a bad choice. Physical safety is only a small part of a GPI score. Just use crime rate. That's what people care about - "Will I be the victim of a crime if I travel here&quot
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by dahfizz 3y ago
How disappointing...
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Doing a quick google on Liquid church, which TFA is about.... They paid off $13m of people's medical debt[1] They volunteer in the community[2] They have people digging wells in Honduras[3] They send a million meals to the poor countri
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by dahfizz 3y ago
[citation needed]. Religion is as old as civilization, all the way back to Mesopotamia. I think you're right that it stems from a need to explain the unknown, which is why with modern science we have atheism on the rise. But I don&#x27
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by dahfizz 3y ago
I mean, Joel Osteen definitely does. I don't think its fair to call all large churches bullshit. Their website seems genuine https://www.liquidchurch.com/about-liquid/
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> "Church is fun"... Church barbecues, pizza and movie nights are all part of the mix. On Sundays, "it's loud. ... it's casual. People can wear flip-flops and drink coffee," Bingo! Religion has always been p
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by dahfizz 3y ago
You're not understanding. Commodity has a very specific meaning in economics. You can very easily tell that a Taylor swift song and a local jazz song are not the same song. They are not interchangeable. If someone replaced some songs i
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by dahfizz 3y ago
It's absolutely not a harm. Increasing spending gives GDP a little bump, that's why governments encourage it. It helps re-election. You guys are using "harm" to mean "slightly suboptimal". It's completely
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> But, you the author wanting to prevent your book from being copied is a _harm_ to society. I take issue with this. You are not harmed just because you don't have free access to something you want. Refusing to buy your kids some ca
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Why do my eyelashes, meant to protect my eyes, fall into my eyes? Why do my cheeks/tongue sometimes get in the way of my teeth so that I bite them? And why do they then get inflamed so that I continually byte them for the next few days
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by dahfizz 3y ago
The people who were there at the start were more proficient at C
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Do you use figure 8s or something? Why can't you just drop your deadlift vs having to dump the weights?
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by dahfizz 3y ago
I program in C (HFT) and I love it
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Conceptually simple things can be difficult to achieve. Like lifting 500lbs or running a marathon.
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Solar on roofs kinda sucks. It's way more expensive to install and rarely at an optimal orientation. And they will get covered in snow for months out of the year depending on climate. Government money would be much better spent on a re
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by dahfizz 3y ago
I/O is something that literally every program has to do. Its also the bottleneck of 99% of code running on modern hardware. Moving bytes from one place to another is essential and relatively slow. Understanding how to deal with memory
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Just imagine if those years of research went into a good language instead. Instead of expending a huge amount of effort making an inherently slow language perform reasonably, we could have taken a reasonable language like Rust and made it s
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by dahfizz 3y ago
That's not what "side effect" means in this context. Side effects are the opposite of pure functions. A function with side effects will mutate global state, a function without side effects will not (it will simply return a va
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Sure, and I said as much in my comment. Housing prices need to fall. But policy makers concerned with the "net good" would make a bare minimum effort to account for the millions of people they would harm with their policy. Somethi
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by dahfizz 3y ago
You're missing the point: people who currently own a house get fucked. An entire generation or two of people will be locked out of retirement if housing prices significantly fall. This needs to be accounted for. A majority of Americans
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by dahfizz 3y ago
But the cash you get out is also decreased by 50%. Instead of selling at 400k and buying at 200k, netting 200k, you sell at 200k and buy at 100k, netting 100k. Obviously housing prices need to come down in the long term. But OP has a point
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> The only thing people use that valuable asset is to then sell it and buy a bigger house. No? They sell that valuable asset and move into a smaller house, netting them a huge chunk of cash and rent-free living. Its called "downsi
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by dahfizz 3y ago
It goes beyond inconvenience, IMO. First, there are the direct costs. If false auto-calls are clogging up 911 resources, then the taxpayers need to pay for more operators and infrastructure. This money could be used to "save lives&quot
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Do we have evidence that this feature is actually providing benefit? So much so that we as a society can't possibly wait 10 years for it to be ubiquitous in cars? Was it common before to get in a serious accident but nobody calls 911?
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by dahfizz 3y ago
The issue is there is a 1-5 rating system, but the system is actually binary. 5 stars means the ride was acceptable, everything else means the ride was unacceptable. Which is a reasonable rating system, but presenting it as a 1-5 stars is
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Tesla also has quite the reputation for cheaply built cars that are outrageously expensive to repair
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by dahfizz 3y ago
This is my point. Tesla is good at a small handful of things, and making cars is not one of them. They could sell batteries, charging infra, software, and whatever else to the companies that are competent at building (and fixing!!) cars. Th
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by dahfizz 3y ago
You're right that the model 3 performance is still a convincing product, but cars like the Mustang Mach-E and BMW i4 are coming close. A few years ago there was no good option besides tesla, but in another couple years tesla will have
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by dahfizz 3y ago
The long term future of Tesla is a battery manufacturer and a charging network. Those are the two things they are good at. The cars themselves are quickly being beaten out by the larger players.

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