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by dron57 3y ago
FT is not the Economist.
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by dron57 3y ago
Why are they evil if they're just following the incentive structure? They want to make enough money for themselves and their families and to send their kids to college. Is that so different from non-execs? Besides, most of us here on H
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by dron57 3y ago
Chinese fishing near Costa Rica? Way to defect blame from Westerners. I guarantee you we're capable of overfishing, oil spills and other environmental disasters all by ourselves.
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by dron57 3y ago
China and Rome for sure. But Turkey is a terrible example of your point. Byzantium (or the Roman empire as they called themselves) was absolutely conquered and replaced by foreigners.
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by dron57 3y ago
A child wanting to be a streamer is no different from wanting to be a professional actor or a soccer player. This story as cute as its folksy wisdom was didn't mention scalability or the long tail of jobs. Some jobs scale, some do not.
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by dron57 3y ago
I just want to watch Ukranian drone videos with glorious full sound Russian explosions without the annoying Ukranian techno.
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by dron57 3y ago
I'm not a neuroscientist, but as I understand it losing a particular ability is usually a sign of brain damage. It is likely that she learned English as an adult (or older than a toddler at least) and it was being stored in a more spec
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by dron57 3y ago
Lowercase m - milli. Uppercase M - mega.
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by dron57 4y ago
The wind and the posture aren't as much of a problem as the mental strain of riding a motorcycle. It is simply more difficult than driving, the constant gear shifting, cancelling turn lights manually and always being in a kind of defen
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by dron57 4y ago
Another explanation could be that African mega-fauna evolved in close proximity to hominids, making them less susceptible to the pressures of being over-hunted. That could by why Eurasian, American and Australian mega-fauna went extinct sho
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by dron57 4y ago
Being prepared for the problem style ahead of time isn't cheating, it's just studying. If your claim is that this style of studying isn't preparing students for the real world where the problems cannot be easily predicted the
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by dron57 4y ago
Most of the past century's gains in quality of life were tightly correlated with rising labor. If the population crashes, then who will do all the specialized work? Another thing to think about is excess capital and investment. With a
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by dron57 4y ago
Out of interest. Why don't you like a land value tax? To me it seems like a great market based solution to American's lack of housing - which is a huge drag on our total economic growth.
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by dron57 4y ago
Your employer is not your partner, come on. The employee - employer relationship is just business. Why should you feel grateful for getting your market based compensation?
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by dron57 4y ago
Atheists don't have scriptures. Religious people love thinking about atheism as just another religion and will bring up all kinds of examples like Stalin and Mao commited attrocities in the name of religion. In reality atheists don&#x2
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by dron57 4y ago
That's such an awesome use case! Do you have any examples you can share?
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by dron57 4y ago
Hardly rogue. In his own words - his job was to supervise the radar system and make judgement calls. He judged the detection of a single "missile" to be a false positive sincea a NATO would have consisted of a massed first strike
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by dron57 4y ago
Renewable energy is great, but sun and wind are intermittent. Grids cannot base themselves on renewable energy without some sort of impractical battery storage scheme or major advancements in creating renewable Green Hydrogen for fuel cells
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by dron57 4y ago
Since this is HN and we're playing the tbf game... To be fair he'd only have to hit the FTL goal and then FTL can be used as a time machine.
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by dron57 4y ago
Everything useful has certainly not been made. There wouldn't be any jobs in software development if that was true, would there? Myself, despite being really good at coding, I don't much like it. But I do like solving problems and
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by dron57 4y ago
> About 80% of that time is debugging The same is true for most other people. In the Free Software community the efforts of an individual that is willing to contribute back to the community would mean that the (current) issue would be fo
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by dron57 4y ago
America is arguably the oldest political system today. Being ~250 years old makes it an extreme outlier. The median life of a political system/regime is much lower, so saying up to 200 years from now is a pretty safe confidence interva
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by dron57 4y ago
> Don't people argue that basically all Star Wars movies and recuts post-1983 have basically just served to dilute the brand? Some of the expanded universe Star Wars is quite good. I personally loved the KOTOR game and the Yuzhaan
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by dron57 4y ago
Sure it does. The Russian government is paying Wagner members and leadership on a contract basis. Is your argument is the fact that Wagner operations seem to be closely tied to the whims and wishes of the Russian government? Thats true for
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by dron57 4y ago
I haven't run the numbers on game consoles or PCs, but in my day job of machine learning it absolutely makes sense to buy expensive hardware. Even accounting for the costs of electricity, full time system administration and hardware de
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by dron57 4y ago
That's absolutely an S-curve. Any animal population will eventually run out of resources.
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by dron57 4y ago
I really doubt anyone needs 300 sqm (~3000 sqft). I've never seen places like that where the majority of the space wasn't simply collecting dust.
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by dron57 4y ago
I know what you mean, but in legal terms Chinese citizens still have a "right of entry". In reality of course there are no flights and there are onerous rules about quarantines and "Green Codes". De-facto they are preven
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by dron57 4y ago
If the (0, 0) GPS coordinate became a "black hole" it would not affect anyone with the exception of the Navy, maybe. What's so bad about this idea?
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by dron57 4y ago
Look into the Google Voice app. You can get a free US number that works with both SMS and calls. It routes calls through Google's VOIP I believe. I use it as a burner for any website that requires a phone number. I figure it will be ea

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