deadfoxygrandpa

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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
why not?
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
thats not true. in most manufacturing industries we produce fewer units than we did 20 or 30 years ago, and in most of those industries the total value produced has been pretty flat. this is something a lot of economists have known about al
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
did you look at the example? it's incredibly complicated
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
you're either lying or you don't understand what you're looking at. theres a reason this conjecture wasnt disproven for almost a hundred years
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
is value the same as utility?
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
it doesnt look likely that any particular ai service will have a moat. every time one of them does anything right now, theres a dozen competitors able to match it within months
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
if you don't know what you're talking about you don't have to say anything, you know
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
old people in china don't have computers, they use smart phones
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
my parents split and got divorced when i was in my 20s, and both of them had remarried within about 5 years. it didnt really bother me very much at all, i was already living very far away from home, and its good to see theyre both happier t
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
2008 did have an rise in political violence. you're seeing the results of it right now. we never climbed out of that hole and we're still living in the aftermath of 2008 and its effects on our society
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
yeah, because equities aren't generally included in "inflation". the guy you're responding to is trying to say that they should be
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
what about fat government contracts
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
both my grandmothers are dead
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
that's simply false. according to cnnic, china has 1.267 billion monthly active users of mobile internet services. that's 89.9% of the population, and about 10% of china is over 70 years old which is very likely a big percentage o
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
i think that's actually a weak part of the article. she goes on to clarify that china's social credit system doesn't even really exist. so it would have been better to say it like this: "the only difference between your
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
> And do you think American media really distorts the "other" side more than Chinese or Russian media distorts what life in the west is like? having lived for a long time in both china and america: yes. chinese people are given
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
its like what the old east german people said after the wall fell. i forget the exact phrase but its something like: "before, i could criticize my boss but i couldn't criticize the government. now i can criticize the government bu
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
you know what's really fun is that the value in US dollars of all that solar energy market in china was only about 2.5 times higher than the value of the solar market in the US in 2024 (despite total capacity and newly installed capaci
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
we have one, it's called MPS and it was used by the soviets and most of the communist countries including china until the 1990s. china has still not fully transitioned away from MPS and into SNA which is one reason their service sector
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
they don't "hate" us. its just that the people who own the business and the people that work at the business have conflicting self interests.
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
this sounds like a weirdo version of the labor theory of value that youve come up with on your own
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
well i mean, if nobody had done that then all that stuff you mentioned would not exist
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
thats basically existed at least since 1990 with band in a box
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
people in the west are getting "worked up" about it because our governments and our tax dollars are financing and facilitating these crimes! my government is not financing whatever iran is doing. i dont have any theoretical power
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
but thats the thing. it IS good for the settlers and it IS something that israel is actively promoting in its own self interest. this settler stuff isnt a mistake or an oversight
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
lol thats not the reason. you're basically correct that passive income doesnt exist at scale, but it isnt because of active management. it's because passive income is very literally getting money from other people's work. you
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
are you familiar with any famous paintings almost at all?
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
yeah man i was faking it by creating custom materials and setting vertex attributes containing the distance to a specific other object, then in my material using the attribute and the other objects info to blend between the normals at the m
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
its actually funny, the first version of geometry nodes was actually more powerful in that way. it didnt provide many built in nodes, but the nodes it did provide were arbitrary property setting/getting. the current and newer geometry
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by deadfoxygrandpa 1y ago
more than just that. the very concept of "retirees" is a modern phenomenon. for most of human history you'd have to keep working on the farm or whatever until you were no longer physically able

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