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by dpc050505 8mo ago
A good construction worker can make more money than a bad web developer and certainly more money than an e-mailer that can barely use excel.
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
Pulling out is pretty effective when you do it right, they can't really ban that. In very catholic Quebec up to the 1950s priests would get involved in couple's marital lives and apply pressure when wives weren't getting preg
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
There's like what, 15 to 20% of americans actively trying to trigger rapture? You've got a lot of religious nuts in your country, and they really are bad people.
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
I had great childcare that was subsidized such that my parents paid 7$ a day when I was a kid.
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
In Québec we have pretty extensive parental leave and we have heavily subsidized daycare (used to be 7$ a day per kid, now it's means-tested but you still get a hefty refund on your healthcare expenses come tax season). When the progra
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
The fundamental underlying value on stocks also depends on fluctuating prices for the goods and services that firms buy and sell, just like commodities.
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
The computing cost to mine more bitcoin is hailed as the underlying value by proponents of that notion. It depends on bitcoin holders refusing to sell at a price lower than the cost of mining, which isn't a given. It's also a noti
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
The 700m people suffering from starvation or malnutrition while we produce excess food would probably rather be digging in the earth with no tools if it meant they got fed. The Luddites wouldn't have been destroying machines if they ha
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
How long would it take from New York to Philadelphia, or Boston to DC? How long would it take between San Diego and SF? What about a train between Chicago and Detroit? We're building a fast train from Toronto to Quebec city in Canada.
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
The opportunity cost of the billions invested in LLMs could lead one to argue that the benefits are negative. Think of all the scientific experiments we could've had with the hundreds of billions being spent on AI. We need a lot more d
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
A very strong player would show the novice the scholar's mate once and then move on to hanging tactics and pieces on purpose so that the novice starts seeing things, probably leading to positions that are a lot more rare.
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
It took about 30 years for every geologist to reach consensus on tectonic plates and continental drift. Old heads who'd invested a lot of their credibility arguing against it had a lot to lose by admitting they were wrong, so they refu
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
I'm relearning a lot of stuff I was told visiting natural history museums as a kid reading this thread and the linked articles. I doubt I'm the only person in this forum who had a couple of educated parents who wanted their kids t
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
Animals being tasty is a trait we heavily select for. I don't think chickens have any of the traits you describe but they're certainly not at risk of extinction.
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by dpc050505 8mo ago
https://archive.is/GYoyc to get around the paywall
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
He did it because he thought it would be cool to free solo a building. He grew up idolizing Alain Robert, a french soloist who made his bread and butter out of soloing buildings. The guy was free soloing for free on his own without telling
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
You spend a ton of time belaying you partner (with whom you need to coordinate free time, which is a major hassle if you're trying to climb on a weekday as an unemployed dirtbag) or just clipping the rope into protection while roped cl
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
When I'm cleaning highrise windows I put a looot of force crimping window frames to move laterally. I haven't broken anything yet. I've also done a facade inspection on a building where massive sheets of metal had been badly
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
This is much easier climbing and you can rest on balconies every few floors. It has nothing to do with slippery granite slab or v7 boulder problems.
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
The tire dust crossing the bridge that's next to four lines of heavy traffic isn't much better than the exhaust fumes IME.
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
Don't forget murdering protesters.
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
>One bad election, everyone knows it was influenced by Russia, no big deal. They know a sane person will be elected in a few years. You're at 2 out of 3, while Biden was mid at best and your senate has been horrendous for a very lon
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
>It has been legal for sellers to ask buyers to pay more if they use a credit card for 15 years now. Not in the jurisdiction I live in. You should not generalize your local laws to the rest of the world.
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
Using my debit card doesn't force the vendor to send 2-3% of the transaction to a company that's in a country threatening to invade mine in exchange for piss poor rewards.
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
Several sectors of economic activities have the potential for atrocious externalities and it's absolutely the government's business to know about these and make sure that you're following regulation to minimize these external
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
If politicians and the people who voted for them invade my country and hurt my family and friends I will be looking at revenge.
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
Look at what's happening in Sri Lanka or the middle east (drought causing famine was a catalyst to the arab spring) for an example of what happens when people try to move elsewhere.
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
2 billion people rely on quickly melting glaciers, a lot of water tables that depend on rainfall aren't being replenished at the rate they're being emptied. You can cover your ears and ignore physics all you want. If you take out
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
It also included a bunch of women joining the workforce, an enormous baby-boom and brown people acquiring the freedom and prosperity necessary to become consumers. Demographics are always the fundamental driver of economic movements.
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by dpc050505 9mo ago
What happens to these platforms becoming insolvent on any international debt when the rest of the world abandons the US dollar and dumps US bonds?

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