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631.
by fastball 2y ago
If you actually read the paper, DeepMind's program ("Dreamer") is indeed acquiring diamonds.
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by fastball 2y ago
> voting for trump tells everyone in the country that you dont mind if trans people are abused It literally does not. You can vote for Trump without ever having thought of trans people a day in your life, much less thought of "abusi
633.
by fastball 2y ago
How so?
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by fastball 2y ago
Entirely wrong, and that is what is so surprising about D1's terrible performance. Using CF Workers + DigitalOcean Postgres, I was seeing query responses in the 50-100ms range. Using CF Workers + CF D1, I was seeing query responses in
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by fastball 2y ago
Or maybe having a social safety net has the opposite effect you think it does, in that anyone starting a business without one is going to try that much harder to make sure their business doesn't fail, as otherwise their life is ruine
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by fastball 2y ago
> The usual reason for low turnover rate is employee satisfaction with the job and their work environment Citation almost certainly needed, especially when the government is being presented as exceptional in this regard. And I do not kno
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by fastball 2y ago
My brief research was looking at new business registrations per year.
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by fastball 2y ago
Presumably you'd want to see that such initiatives are increasing the number of sustainable businesses created, per capita. Is that the case? --- EDIT: Some quick searching indicates that the startup rate (per capita) in Germany is abo
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by fastball 2y ago
> Government workers can take far more pride in being public servants than they would peeing in a bottle for amazon. It's no surprise there is less turnover. See, this is where you're losing me. One the one hand you are arguing
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by fastball 2y ago
And yet Germany still doesn't seem to have much more startup / entrepreneurial success than any other European country. What gives?
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by fastball 2y ago
So this begs the question why we need "stable employment" as a hallmark of the government sector in order to attract talent.
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by fastball 2y ago
The comment I replied to was holding out the federal government as an especially stable employer, as compared to the private sector. Sure, you don't want a reputation for firing people a week after you hired them, but A. that is not
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by fastball 2y ago
The argument wasn't based on a comparison to the private sector. The argument is based on the fact that I prefer people who passionate about their jobs vs people who just want a stable paycheck. However the argument also applies to the
644.
by fastball 2y ago
> Mundane government employees are some of the most dedicated workers I've met And you think the reason they are dedicated is because they mostly care about having a "stable job"?
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by fastball 2y ago
Yes, exactly. People who just want a stable job are in it for the (stable) money.
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by fastball 2y ago
Do we actually want "I just want a stable job" people being a significant part of the federal governments workforce? I generally wouldn't want those people to work for my company, so not sure why I'd want them to work in
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by fastball 2y ago
It doesn't even work well for high-read/low-write scenarios, that was my issue with it. If I'm caching everything in Cloudflare KV anyway, why would I want to use a terribly performing SQL store for cold operations? Much bett
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by fastball 2y ago
I evaluated D1 for a project a few months ago, and found that global performance was pretty terrible. I don't know what exactly the issue with their architecture is, but if you look at the time-to-first-byte numbers here[1], you can se
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by fastball 2y ago
1. That's silly. Nobody from Ohio knows exactly what Texas is going to do until Texas actually does it. Hell, someone from Texas doesn't know either. 2. Lawmakers are responsible for the laws they write and vote for. They are part
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by fastball 2y ago
I'd be happy to hear your definition of direct, which somehow includes a bunch of indirect things happening.
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by fastball 2y ago
If someone votes to "leave it up to the states", they are not then responsible for every thing every state does after that.
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by fastball 2y ago
If your "friends" were calling you or your other friends pedophiles (and you are not) then yes, absolutely, you should not be friends with them.
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by fastball 2y ago
Yes, it very much is indirect. Direct would be the "anti trans party" passing a law saying that you must bully trans people.
654.
by fastball 2y ago
That is not the point I was making. But also literally nobody is voting for that.
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by fastball 2y ago
The search/filtering is broken in Chrome as well, seems to be a deeper issue than something browser-specific.
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by fastball 2y ago
Ok, but how is that relevant? I'd much rather have a more profitable business than one with more top-line revenue.
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by fastball 2y ago
Work and raising kids are important activities that are a great way to take the measure of a person. What more do you really need to look at?
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by fastball 2y ago
Could you give an example of behavior that "directly" harmed yourself or others which caused you to sever ties? Politics is almost always indirect, usually with multiple levels of indirection.
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by fastball 2y ago
So on the one hand you admit that IG or TikTok are things where people literally consume whatever is in front of them, but when it's Netflix this no longer applies? Why? And I never suggested preventing people from watching what they w
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by fastball 2y ago
Two problems with this argument / framing: 1. Consumers frequently don't know what they want, and will consume whatever is placed in front of them. Implying the consumption of Netflix shows (or other media) is a conscious choice t

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