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by davidw 1y ago
I bailed on Prime as well, after the whole Washington Post debacle.
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by davidw 1y ago
Personally I would be willing to accept a slightly lower salary to get off the merry-go-round. I'd like to be in one place for a while where I can do some good work without so much of the craziness.
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by davidw 2y ago
We're more at the level of him looking at the chess board and trying to snack on the pieces.
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by davidw 2y ago
People keep acting like there is some plan or higher thought process. Sometimes, people are just morons. Look at how Bessent had to sneak in and try and get the tariffs paused: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/t
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by davidw 2y ago
Apologies, but this reads like one of those net.kook manifestos from the 1990ies.
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by davidw 2y ago
> dialect changes every 20 miles or so When I first lived in Italy, this was mind-blowing for me as an American from the west coast. I went on a bike ride with the local team I had joined and they stopped for espresso in a nearby town, a
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by davidw 2y ago
It works pretty well, but it took me a while to give it a go, because the name sounds like the scammiest thing ever.
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by davidw 2y ago
Erlang, because of its architecture, has something of a habit of people rewriting various protocols in Erlang itself, rather than calling out to some C library. This has pros and cons.
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by davidw 2y ago
"Gilgamesh's Island"
610.
by davidw 2y ago
How are markets going to figure anything out with tariffs changing every day, depending on the mood of dear leader?
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by davidw 2y ago
Given that tires produce a lot of particulate matter, even EV's contribute to pollution significantly.
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by davidw 2y ago
Tailwind feels like the bad old days of style="........". And it looks like some weird dialect of Forth code.
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by davidw 2y ago
People are likely to start suffering real, personal pain because of all the garbage coming from the White House. If you lost your job at the factory because of the tariffs, and hear some loud Americans next to you at the bar... maybe you do
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by davidw 2y ago
If you give a bully your lunch money, it's not like they leave you alone the next day. They come back for more.
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by davidw 2y ago
That was part of the entire purported purpose of this lunacy. They went on TV and everything about having people operating robots screwing in iphone screws and stuff. Whether anyone bought into it is another matter, but opening factories is
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by davidw 2y ago
The media outlets are part of the problem. Lots of sanewashing and "both sides". Many of them also love "CEO says a thing" articles where they act as stenographers. You see that with a certain car company's wild pro
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by davidw 2y ago
One thing companies love is lots of uncertainty like this. It keeps their accountants entertained! "Maybe we should build a factory in the US" ... 24 hours later ... "well, not today". What's really amazing is all t
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by davidw 2y ago
Likewise. I thought the last third was kind of fun science fiction. The first two thirds were a huge downer.
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by davidw 2y ago
Someone didn't read Neal Stephenson's book.
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by davidw 2y ago
> Looking at it another way, the cuts are actually decreasing overall efficiency since they're cutting things that deliver decent benefits given that they only cost a small fraction of federal spending. And especially when they&#x27
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by davidw 2y ago
Most countries have some small tariffs on this that or the other thing. Not massive tariffs on a huge range of goods. A bit of salt on your steak might be good, but if you emptied the entire salt shaker on it, it would be gross.
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by davidw 2y ago
Economics is a great way of looking at the world as long as you acknowledge its limitations. I think you're conflating an economist with economics. Economists are human with all that entails.
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by davidw 2y ago
Alex is a better straight up libertarian-ish guy. Tyler has been on this "but ... what if this CONTRARIAN thing....?" for a long time and I am done with it. I may not agree with Alex on this that or the other thing, but it doesn&#
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by davidw 2y ago
One version of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP-7GNoDJ5c https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellerman
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by davidw 2y ago
Flightaware, at one point, had a lot of Tcl code https://www.flightaware.com/about/code/
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by davidw 2y ago
For an example, look at the Fox News home page today https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:42jq5uvg6p2shi5gqifor22e/po... Barely mentions the stock market crash.
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by davidw 2y ago
People are oblivious in this country. Totally clueless. A big part of that is the 'information ecosystem' where even the supposedly left-leaning outlets sanewashed everything that's happened and both-sidesed it, even if their
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by davidw 2y ago
These are generally state races with less money involved in them. I agree about systemic reform, but until that happens, you deal with the system as it is.
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by davidw 2y ago
Yeah I was being a bit sarcastic. Those are cool bikes for sure - I used to work right next door - but I can't afford that.
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by davidw 2y ago
Well, yes, it's for campaign donations so it doesn't do those other things. Perhaps others can recommend groups that do a good job of those. Their algorithm is basically just targeting close state races, if I recall correctly. So

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