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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> The Spanish attempted to coopt and convert the local population, Population densities in Mexico and throughout much of what is Latin America were considerably higher than in the North. Also IIRC the number of Spanish colonists who came
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
He’s certainly talented. However again that has almost bo relationship to being able to have meaningful discussions on highly complex topics.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Why did he have a job hosting fear factor. A job hosting UFC That has no relationship with someone being able to have meaningful discussions on complex topics. Probably even the opposite..
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
There is a higher demand for a certain kind of consultants (let’s call them “good”) and fairly low supply. There are plenty of people who call themselves consultants but nobody needs them since this is a bit of a winner takes all market (.e
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
They of course will likely do great, that doesn’t mean their stock price can’t be massively inflated. current valuation is pricing in both massive growth and insane (understatement) margins. Which basically means that they are expected to h
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> The Model Y is the best selling other manufacturers ship dozens of different models and then you have companies like VW or Stellantis that havd many different brands that basically sell the same model with slightly different chassis, s
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Or it might have been a conscious choice? If you’re building a new app duplicating your frontend just to appeal to a tiny insignificant minority seems wasteful?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> 30% > Assuming you were at some decent compensation Assuming your compensation was well above average and you lived quite frugally and well below your means. There are countries in Europe where you can claim unemployment even if yo
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
It’s not ; ) (or are you mixing it up with brutalism?). IMHO it’s the best looking architectural style from the 20th century (not that there is a lot of competition besides maybe art deco) > degenerate The was another group of people in
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> €10k/y you can afford a house+food+bills in most of Europe I don’t see how that can be true if you want to live alone. Maybe in some of the poorer countries outside the EU.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
If we’re talking about support for external displays this all seems entirely tangential. > When they design a product they don’t start from the specs, they start from how people use the product. So they impose arbitrary limitations that
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> It’s not on Apple to make sure their cheapest consumer-targeted computer is good enough for enterprise use. Except they crippled it on purpose as a form of market segmentation. Claiming anything else is beyond absurd.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> roughly equivalent to a Macbook Pro M2 Pro for $3500. Besides the horrible touchpad, screen (did you really get > 1080p for $1050?) and the plastic body > I could have paid 3 times as much for a similarly spec'ed Macbook I c
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> a Thinkpad P1 To be fair it’s not exactly fair to be comparing this to a MacBook. Dell XPS, Lenovo X1/Z/? series would be closer equivalents, of course AFAIK while the battery life is much better fans/temperature are sti
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> This is desktop only So no laptops? Isn’t Steam Deck really just a generic PC with a different form factor? Could (and should they even) StatCounter easily filter out the data coming from it
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> but not so much when talking about Africa, which was in constant contact with Europe Sort of, but it wasn’t exactly direct and straightforward, the Sahara was close to impassable and following the Atlantic coast was infeasible until th
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> conquistadors were largely illiterate, and they were facing bureaucratic, administrative imperial states that ran on record keeping That seems like a weird (pointless?) thing to say when a lot of what we know about the conquest comes f
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
To be fair they don’t seem to like most popular historians, podcasters etc. and big picture/all encompassing theories which over simplify complex systems. Which I guess is reasonable, if you’re a real historian deeply specialized in a
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> given our treatment of whales Almost infinitely better than back then?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> the notion of individuals donning AR/VR headsets. What changed? It’s still far-fetched and not due to technical reasons
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> especially on smaller teams. Having a few people from a smaller team in the same room is certainly not what people mean when they say open office. IMHO If you only had to share it with your team it wouldn’t be half as bad
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Windows 8 was also designed by professional UI designers…
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Both? I’m leaning a bit more towards HW though. CUDA isn’t exactly that exceptionally hard to replicate (if you’re willing to spend billions of dollars anyway)
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> are still partially outsourced to TSMC Isn’t that just their GPUs?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
No micro plastics though which is quite nice.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Precise time really started with the railroads Yes, counting hours and minutes and synchronizing them between distant locations, not dates.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Van Helsing being Dutch must have been a Catholic though? No way he was a Calvinist
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> If the market was, hypothetically, choked by regulation then they'd be in a great position to charge absurd prices. There are countries in Europe like the Netherlands and Switzerland where the healthcare systems are almost entirel
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> You're talking as if there is a way to get an 'unbiased' AI. There isn't. It is inherently biased by its training, it hallucinates, and it is further biased by its prompt. Certainly. Doesn’t mean that we still shoul
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
To be fair comments from the people on the opposite end (not that I agree with them) seem to all get flagged very fast. The points they are making don’t seem to be any worse, just somewhat less eloquent..

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