fl4regun

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by fl4regun 8d ago
There's multiple advantages to making money from equities that people who make money from ordinary income simply do not have, favourable tax rates, the ability to choose when and how much to realize, the ability to loss harvest, compou
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by fl4regun 9d ago
Not as dystopian as the ability to get wealthier without working and pay no taxes (and even IF you sell to realize gains, your tax liability is still lower than someone who made money through labour)
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by fl4regun 9d ago
then they would sell some of the bitcoin and pay the taxes. If they don't have the wallet anymore then they don't pay any taxes.
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by fl4regun 10d ago
Until you have a unit and a method to measure this field, and a way to experiment on it, it is not scientific theory. And, if it WAS the EM field, then surely transistors (or some other fundamental component of electronics or combination th
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by fl4regun 10d ago
so someone with more money should have more influence over an election? you really agree with this?
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by fl4regun 10d ago
Not sure if you are familiar with this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk This sounds like your statement.
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by fl4regun 10d ago
consciousness is irrelevant to said agency
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by fl4regun 10d ago
And most people wouldn't eat cats, but would eat some of pig, cattle, chicken, what's the difference between those exactly? My point is consciousness is not it, if it were, we (as in a majority) would still eat cats and dogs, or w
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by fl4regun 10d ago
So it's 100% correct for corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money in support of whatever political campaigns they like?
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by fl4regun 10d ago
The guy cofounded deepmind.
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by fl4regun 10d ago
Ostensibly animals appear to be conscious, yet we still eat them, and the vast majority are not bothered by this. So being "conscious" isn't really the moral line in the sand many people are drawing in response to this articl
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by fl4regun 10d ago
does a hydrocarbon have feelings? what about a mitochondria? a cell? a neuron? what about a collection of neurons? how many neurons before it has "feelings"?
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by fl4regun 16d ago
Almost all of these big phone companies are also the ones selling tablets and some of them laptops, so if they did do that they would start eating into their other business units.
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
Then they aren't doing a very good job of it. >Firefox makes up about 90 percent of Mozilla’s revenue, according to Muhlheim, the finance chief for the organization’s for-profit arm — which in turn helps fund the nonprofit Mozilla F
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
GPUs and laptops and memory and storage are all crazy expensive
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
I think it would be helpful if you could show a counter example of a scenario when someone is angry without a cause or target. On the face of it, that description seems accurate to my experience with anger.
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
You become a person who knows more, by studying more about the things you need to know.
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
I think there is something distinctly unique between dozing off from reality by letting your mind wander or twiddling your thumbs, and scrolling short form video.
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
I don't think it's straightforward at all. What's considered "short form content". Just video? Does just audio count? Does a gif count? What if I make a website that uploads videos at 1/10th the speed, and the
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
This is not a good comparison, because the brain doesn't only do "being smart" - it has to do things like innervate muscle and other tissue through the body, elephants will require more neurons given their larger size, just t
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
This is very fun to play with and design different drums. I was able to make one that had 4 connected but distinct regions giving different pitches, then within each of those regions (which look like 4 lobes of different sizes) where you ta
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by fl4regun 2mo ago
mass investment in renewable energy across the globe. You can't do much for the people of today, but you can do plenty of good for people 20+ years into the future. Something about planting and sitting in their shade.
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by fl4regun 2mo ago
would you make the same argument against heating homes during winter?
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by fl4regun 2mo ago
Seems likely that within our lifetime multiple countries in europe may turn into deserts, and there is little we can do against it except for maybe attempt to terraform the climate by seeding clouds or changing ecosystem flora to something
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by fl4regun 2mo ago
perhaps if you read the comment chain you would realize I'm not the one who introduced this into the conversation. Sorry that you disagree with my position.
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by fl4regun 2mo ago
IME many big companies are filled with mediocre morons, or at least people who just don't care enough to do better than mediocre. Still not the fault of brown people either way.
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by fl4regun 2mo ago
Economics would have always created this downward pressure on demand for software engineers regardless, either companies would replace the number of engineers they need with AI, or with low paid offshored workers.
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by fl4regun 2mo ago
Indy devs are professionals too. Just because they aren't gargantuan megacorps doesn't make them amateurs. See: Expedition 33, made by formerly Ubisoft developers. Same people, different company, the devs themselves will still be
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by fl4regun 2mo ago
are you referring to this section? > Verification is different from generation: Models scoring 98 can solve problems but can't always explain why their approach works at the level a human mathematician would. It doesn't say it
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by fl4regun 2mo ago
Not sure what point you are making, it is more prevalent now, but it would be wrong to say this is because mars bars are more expensive and smaller.

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