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by ecshafer 5mo ago
Wealth and Income taxes are both wrong. What we need is to tax Land and Rents. By taxing land via a Land Value Tax system, and rent seeking monopolistic behavior, this will allow productive labor and productive capital to be exercised for e
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The fact that the model recreated the interior dome pattern is concerning and makes me think this didn't test what they think. The interior dome pattern isn't visible in either picture. So it took the picture, and the name, then e
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Newton, Tolkien, Aquinas, Descarte, Pascal, CS Lewis, Lemaitre, Bach. All famously uncritical humans.
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They show dots eventually, but those Indian dots should be there by 100AD, same with Ethiopia. Some of the dates they use the official kingdom conversion dates, and not the presence of a church.
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The book "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed" essentially argues that as being the root cause of the Bronze Age Collapse. The eastern Mediterranean and middle east were sophisticated, highly integrated cultures with a larg
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So its nothing to do with a data center, its something any large scale building could cause.
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That doesn't make any sense. Data centers just use some water for water cooling of cpus, there isn't anything to pollute. If this isn't fake, its probably a broken line.
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Interesting. So the idea is that the senses are just damages, not dead. So use a really strong scent/smell to invigorate them, get something going through them, and have that redevelop the neural pathways (not a biologist).
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Shopify is all on GCP and works well.
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Qwen3.6 with claude code works great. I get a lot better results with that than opencode and qwen3.6. Claude Code is a great harness, and good harness/tool integration makes a big difference. You just have a settings.json with your oll
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People generally underestimate the amount of damage to morale and civic pride the lack lack of police enforcement causes. People see people speeding and driving recklessly, vandalism, littering, and violent crime with impunity.
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I tried to have copilot create a powerpoint slide with some content and a rough design idea. It created an empty powerpoint slide with the default template, told me to download it, then created a separate bit of text and told me to copy and
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hmm surprising. I assumed it would be 12 since 5+5+1+1 doesn't really matter what order you do it in. But I suppose this really undefined behavior.
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Wow that is a lot faster and nicer than Github. This is a good example of large companies wouldn't send someone across the street to pick up $1M off the ground. If Google actually released that and a repo to public, they could take Git
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> Collective Shout was founded in 2009 by Melinda Tankard Reist, an Australian conservative political activist, writer, anti-abortion feminist and anti-pornography activist So close
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Concord, MA, has a municipal power company and a municipal isp. I think they run a power plant, but I know they maintain the transmission lines.
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Why are ACs so expensive in Europe? A window AC can be had from Walmart for like $120.
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The most annoying things for me about Coursera et al is that they aren't about education they are about job training . UC Berkeley (before that terrible law suit made them delete) had the best library of courses. Canvas et all has m
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I do. Its great. You can walk around, look at things, talk to people, maybe buy something you wouldn't based on cover art or whatever. You get to drive a little, listen to some music.
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Fixing housing is incredibly easy: 1. Remove Zoning / Deed Restrictions / Parking Minimums 2. Remove Red Tape (Environmental impact assessments, time cap approvals to a couple weeks, at cost fees) 3. Land Value Taxes Watch as Gent
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> How many dev teams are there without at least one furry, trans person Very weird to include social awkward geek in there. But my guess would be like 99% of dev teams do not have a trans or furry.
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Someone whose hobby is Gaming, saves up diligently to pay $1k for a GPU, now has the rug pulled from under them and its $2k. Amortizing a $1k GPU over 4 years isn't too bad, $250 a year, $20 and change a month vs $500 a year / $40
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I don't think this is abnormal. I think every family in my (middle class+) neighborhood does both Costco and Trader Joes. We don't have a convenient Whole Foods though.
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You'll note I didn't mention quality of education in my arguments. I am talking about the human experience. Though the studies typically show a correlation with grades and attendance.
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This matches with my experience. Men really don't hold grudges against authority that give them stern, but fair punishments. Think of any sports coaches that make their athletes do extra running or push ups or whatever for punishment.
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I have kids. Children are not a tabula rasa. Boys and Girls act very differently almost right from Birth, and it becomes so much more pronounced as they grow.
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Building UI in HTMX is such a breath of fresh air. I hope it kills the "React" style big complicated SPAs. Its so easy to develop in, its so fast to run, so fast to load.
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This is awful to hear. The idea that students are just half assedly streaming the lectures is really just ruining things in the long run. This is a bit old manny, but showing up to lectures is good . You go to class, you get face time with
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The complacency of American, Euro and Japanese auto manufacturers as Chinese, through domestic hyper competition and protectionism. Is going to be an MBA case study on how to fumble the bag.
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Musk was saying at the start that Tesla was going to be $80k then scale up so they would have a $10k/20k car. It looks like BYD beat them to it. I guess putting manufacturing in China, giving them all of the tricks of the trade, letti

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