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by ethbr0 3y ago
Having seen banking stacks, I'm inclined to believe TIOBE.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The only ones judgy-er about using the "wrong" language than computer scientists are engineers and other scientists.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> Social media companies should be included also, considering how many children and teens are on social media platforms looking for sexual activity with adults. No considering. "Social media companies should be included also.&quot
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> advancing science comes from trying different things and not from reproducing someone else’s work to prove it works I'd say yes/no. Efficiently advancing science definitely leverages well-reported and -reproduced results
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Fair. But there's a difference between "openly accessible scientific information" and "trade secrets". The US military has pushed state of the art in many fields, but I don't think anyone would say it pushed st
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by ethbr0 3y ago
There's a difference between capital/operational expenditures to reproduce work, and directly paying the owner of the work. The former is science. The latter is a commercial product. Stretching their business model to its most
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Inflation is a consequence of the conditions that permit economic growth (fractional reserve banking / currency creation, credit extension / investment / speculation). We could "solve" inflation tomorrow, but we&#x2
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I'd put it is that conducting international trade in a single currency is more systemically stable . Iow, the currency's ubiquity and total amount buffer shocks to the system, in a way that multi-polar currency use could not tole
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Land or farms in the US are extremely likely to transact their value or production in dollars, so you'd still be exposed. Believe parent's comment was that you would want something where no/minimal part of its 'value eco
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The US Republican party, as with all parties even in America, has a continuum of members. Some would be fine letting the US default if their demands aren't met (e.g. Tea Party types). Others not so much. One difference this time is the
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by ethbr0 3y ago
You are really on those ad homs, aren't you?
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by ethbr0 3y ago
ACA definitely moved us closer to that model. The biggest misses were providing a government fallback plan (aka Medicare-if-no-other, which I don't think is part of it?) and regulating negotiations between providers and payers (so as t
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Minor point that you also have the non-profit Blues (i.e. Blue Cross Blue Shield) in the US health insurance marketplace, who are literally obligated to return healthcare savings to customers in the form of rates. They have their own proble
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Cotton/plantation sharecropping, ~1860-1950 in the US south. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping Generally exploitive features include: an exclusive buying right by a certain party (allowing them to set
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by ethbr0 3y ago
It takes 5 goddamn minutes, once a year to put a new registration sticker on. So that's, what, about 5.5 hrs total over 65 years of driving?
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> forcing them to match plate to car make/model/color/year (In a few years) It's amazing how many crimes are committed in white/black/grey Toyota RAV4/Camrys.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Criminality also has a sampling problem -- we generally only hear about crimes that are solved. Crimes that are solved aren't those perpetrated by the smartest criminals. See also: how annoyed the police get whenever an unsolved crime
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Air defense has had automatic targeting since the 1980s(?) due to the required reaction times. As for autonomous target/kill programs, that'd be the USAF's Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program (under NGAD). It sounds l
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I ask ChatGPT to write me a comment thread in the style of Hacker News.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
So we're talking about Nehalem and Westmere as the first two i* releases. Nehalem desktop had: Celeron P1053 (1 core HT), i5 750/760 (4 core no HT), i7 860-960 (4 core HT) Westmere desktop had: Pentium/Celeron G59XX/G110
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> Why feed yourself with potential misinformation that you don’t know the true source of and you might never double check? Because I enjoy reading HN?
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by ethbr0 3y ago
When in doubt, just throw the kitchen sink at the problem. https://www.hangoverkw.com/
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Looked up the history and got there the same time as you. Hindsight is 20/20, so I see how Intel ~2008 could have thought "Maybe SMT will fail in real world scenarios, so we don't want it on our entire product line." But
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by ethbr0 3y ago
When they were first released they were. i3: single core, hyperthreading i5: multi core, no hyperthreading i7: multi core, hyperthreading It only jumped the shark once hyperthreading stopped being a differentiating feature, and Intel tried
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by ethbr0 3y ago
In my experience there are effectively no HOAs that don't legislate lawns (and usually landscaping with them). They may not be the reason, but HOAs are absolutely the cause of outdated, environmentally unsustainable, bullshit lawn requ
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by ethbr0 3y ago
People are insane about lawns in Florida. Sandy soil that's so nutrient-deficient that you can't grow anything without chemical fertilizer. And then the damn St. Augustine that everyone obsesses about (a) still needs watering duri
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> There are never any circumstances where you can accelerate out of danger, unless you put yourself in danger in the first place. I don't know how to parse that, so I'm going to go with your base belief around acceleration. F
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by ethbr0 3y ago
This thread. >.< The kinetic energy in an accident between two vehicles is their relative speed, not their absolute speed. If you are doing 80 mph and hit a truck doing 70 mph, there's not 80 mph * vehicle mass worth of impact en
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Who does the CGI?
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Also, there's the side effect that if you faked a moon landing in the 1960s, you'd be damned sure the other superpower on the planet would have their best and brightest laser-focused on your product. Convincing fakes usually hav

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