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by dmoy 1y ago
> How many other projects on Google Code became part of a news cycle because people misinterpreted them as being written or endorsed by Google? Was that part of why Google Code was shut down? I don't remember the exact details, and
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by dmoy 1y ago
How would sortition work with the US's modern lobbying setup? Wouldn't that tilt the balance even farther in favor of career lobbyists than it already is?
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> Nearly forgot that they heard the explosion on the surface ship, 2 miles above the sub... that kinda screws with my head tbh! Water carries sound really well. Whale songs can still be detected what, thousands of miles away or somethin
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by dmoy 1y ago
> 59% of Americans can't cover an emergency expense of $1000. Economically disadvantaged people developing emergency funds and basic financial solvency is not going to destroy consumer spending. Agreed, though in this thread I don&#
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by dmoy 1y ago
Right, exactly. And that consumerism is no small part of what fuels stock growth. If that disappears, then paradoxically your investments won't get you as far.
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> . If we are seeing slowing growth, or even population decline, can we expect the markets to contract right a long with the population. What will that mean for everyone’s retirement accounts? Shit, the bigger scarier one is housing and
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by dmoy 1y ago
> If everyone just understood what you're pointing out here--just really "got it"--I feel like the world would be in a much better place. It's not dire (I don't think?), Maybe, but it also is predicated on a mark
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by dmoy 1y ago
$1 billion dollars looks like $20-$35 million dollars a year of indefinite spending, inflation adjusting, depending on the exact form of the billion dollars and the tax rates involved. So, spending 100% of the after tax income of like 75 (w
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by dmoy 1y ago
Yea or really, people just go to the beach and chill without playing anything
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> Play volleyball on the free net at the local park instead of signing up for pickleball and buying great. Coincidentally, my neighborhood just put up its first volleyball net a week or so back. It was stolen within two days lol
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by dmoy 1y ago
> activist judges Wait what? What activism is the judge doing here? The jury is the one that comes up with the verdict and damage award, no?
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by dmoy 1y ago
Presumably it was sent to both corporate and personal email addresses?
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Three general categories missing: 1. The core stack of internal (or internally created but also external) - protobuf, gcl, etc 2. Some more well-known languages that aren't as big in Google, but are still used and people wrote indexers
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by dmoy 1y ago
> There's no better prosumer option - good, bad or otherwise Mikrotik maybe? I run both ubiquiti and mikrotik stuff. The mikrotik definitely has... a learning curve, but you can do some stuff with it that's pretty difficult wi
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by dmoy 1y ago
We used gvisor in Kythe (semantic indexer for the monorepo). Like for the guts of running it on borg, not the open source indexers part. For indexing most languages, we didn't need it, because they were pretty well supported on borg s
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by dmoy 1y ago
I'm not sure anyone really knows uptime institute publishes some good numbers from survey, which puts on prem + colo still at >50% last I checked. And still some additional 5% in like... on prem in closets. Last year Amazon said it
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by dmoy 1y ago
I would totally put a goat back there if I was able to. Probably would have to own the goat though because it'd just come back every few months.
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by dmoy 1y ago
I've seen it and then seen the resulting dead tree fall on my house. Tree was already dead from ivy by the time I bought it. When I finally went back to cut it out, the biggest ivy were like 14cm diameter or bigger.
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by dmoy 1y ago
I would settle for a robot that can kill blackberry bushes. Blackberries cut me so much, every time I go do maintenance on another noxious weed, English ivy which is busy killing all my trees
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by dmoy 1y ago
Lean fire on $600k-$800k is taking an extreme gamble on the cost of health insurance continuing to be subsidized way beyond Medicaid levels. Which you might be fine with, but it's a pretty big risk. Unsubsidized healthcare in a lot of
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by dmoy 1y ago
> look up the statistics https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/ascii/vdhb.txt As of 2010, about a million home invasions per year in the US, 250k of which end up with the occupier (owner, renter) being a victim
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by dmoy 1y ago
iirc DST was never about farmers, and always about energy usage (lighting, etc) in the evening Agree I've never met a farmer who cares about DST. Though also, for non-ag farmers, sometimes "crack of dawn" isn't early en
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> Glocks, two built-in safeties internally that would prevent misfires. The only way they would fire is if the trigger is pulled. Period. Two built in safeties, plus a half-cocked striker instead of fully cocked like Sig. Another big di
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by dmoy 1y ago
> England is an homogeneous country in terms of geography. There is no 40C degree temperature difference between north/south clubs. Playing in weather conditions one is not used to can affect the away team Also pretty flat. No 1000
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Also, even if you did hypothetically spend 100% of your money, and all of it was taxed at 10%, with a 50% effective income tax rate you'd be having a 55% overall effective tax rate - the money taxed for income isn't also taxed for
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35% effective, 50% marginal. You take home more like $325k+. Assuming we're talking MFJ with a family
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It's naked forwards, except with even less regulation. Matt Levine has a good rundown here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-06-26/any...
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> the days where degree=job were dying To be fair, the previous iteration of "degree=job" that was dying 20 years ago was the older definition - broad enough to include "degree in literally anything", which was closer
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> LLMs literally do explain contracts in natural language. They also allow you to create contracts with just natural language. (With all the same caveats as using LLMs for programming or anything else.) I can't generalize, but the l
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> European It's not restricted to European languages. 贝果 is bagel, just sounded out phonetically, and 三明治 is sandwich. Idk if there's anything super odd about it. Of course, English is the worst offender of loan words. As som

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