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by dools 2y ago
Yep, the "everyone else has BLAH" argument is a strong one. If we collectively take action through government to set a standard it is MUCH easier to shut down those self-fulfilling claims.
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by dools 2y ago
The only reason people vote for conservatives is because they're selfish or ignorant. This is obvious because there are 2 things in the economy: labour and capital. It is no coindence then that democracies invariably develop 2 parties.
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by dools 2y ago
> A lot of "tin-foil hat" things seem pretty real. Yes it's tragically ironic that the people who believe most in outlandish conspiracy theories vote for the people who are openly involved in the most outlandish conspiraci
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by dools 2y ago
> As an Italian I'm stoked that my country has given up sovereignty on money printing, it would've been a disaster otherwise as it has been for decades before. My point is that sovereignty over issuing currency is synonymous wi
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Maastricht and All That (1992)(lrb.co.uk)
2 points by dools 2y ago|0 comments
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by dools 2y ago
It's handy to have the same currency, but it's a terrible choice economically because it limits the sovereignty of each nation. "But there is much more to it all. It needs to be emphasised at the start that the establishment
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by dools 2y ago
All countries in the Eurozone monetary system are hamstrung by the fact that they don’t issue their own currencies. There is no fiscal authority at the same level as the monetary authority so they’re like states rather than countries but wi
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by dools 2y ago
When my Aunt was diagnosed with MS in the 80s it was a crippling and degenerative ailment. When my brother was diagnosed with MS ~30 years later, it was a nothing burger. He gets an infusion monthly and suffers no significant impact on his
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by dools 2y ago
> But the overall 'subscription everything' model is not really justified by costs Probably shouldn't subscribe then ...
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by dools 2y ago
Same with Workflow/shortcuts
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Russia has fined Google more money than there is in the entire world(abc.net.au)
2 points by dools 2y ago|2 comments
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by dools 2y ago
Bender: Now Wireless Joe Jackson, there was a blern-hitting machine! Leela: Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns!
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by dools 2y ago
Also I went to a local Viking fair and it was like walking around Hyrule.
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by dools 2y ago
> But the idea of letting an LLM write/move large swaths of code seems so incredibly irresponsible I heard a similar thing from a dude when I said I use it for bash scripts instead of copying and pasting things off StackOverflow. He
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by dools 2y ago
> I'm actually very curious why AI use is such a bi-modal experience I think it's just that it's better at some things than others. Lucky for people who happen to be working in python/node/php/bash/sql&
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by dools 2y ago
Best use case I can think of is replacing the die roller in the board game trouble. “You can pop a lot of trouble in the pop o matic bubble”
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by dools 2y ago
It's logically impossible for a government to borrow the currency it issues. What we refer to as borrowing is just swapping one government liability (reserve balances) for another (treasury bonds).
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by dools 2y ago
This isn't some accident, it is the stated aim, and result of systematic academic capture by Austro-libertarian economists and right wing libertarians.
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by dools 2y ago
Or is the REAL punchline the fact that Musk has optimised his entire empire to tap into the hacker ethos/ideals as the world's biggest pump n dump scheme? He seems to just do things that have the biggest wow factor because growth
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by dools 2y ago
Not really, if there was no tax there would be no money. The most succinct way that I have found to express the relationship between taxation and spending is that spending at the federal level is constrained by aggregate spending this year,
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by dools 2y ago
Haha I had never heard of that dude, but I like the look of his content thanks! BTW you can tell I'm not Thunderf00t because he says that "the taxpayer" paid $3 billion. I would never use "taxpayer funding" language
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by dools 2y ago
I think the "step towards being an inter planetary species" as a result of catching a re-usable rocket might have merit in that it makes construction of things in outer space easier (although that's probably a charitable inte
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by dools 2y ago
The problem of identification is a real one for hundreds of millions of people and it has nothing to do with AI. What's shocking to me is how much people aren't pizza gating these eye scanning orbs when the Bill & Melinda Ga
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by dools 2y ago
She’s right in one way: it’s not the future of coding it’s the present of coding.
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by dools 2y ago
> They were smart and educated, but they were English majors or studied agriculture or business. “Are you at all concerned about an uprising?”
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by dools 2y ago
No, if anything it’s an anti intellectual conspiracy
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by dools 2y ago
My daughter is 14. We will get her a mobile phone next year. She has an iPad and a laptop. She has issues with youtube shorts taking attention away from school work on her laptop. We will be maintaining screentime controls, and won't a
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by dools 2y ago
Code name: Danielsan.
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by dools 2y ago
Because people are reflexively averse to government spending unless there's a billionaire making profits on the way through thanks to 100 years of academic capture by Austro-libertarian economists.
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by dools 2y ago
How's that "please keep this between us" request working out for them? Also I think this is a good reminder that using sequential IDs for anything public facing is almost always a bad idea (or at the very least something you

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