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by flir 8mo ago
I avoid hateful people and pub bores in real life, too. If you use the web without an ad blocker, more power to you, I guess.
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by flir 8mo ago
Do you think you should have full control over the web browser on the computer you own?
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by flir 8mo ago
My wife was complaining about far right knuckle draggers turning up in her feed. I assume the algorithm was shovelling more of them at her because she was rubbernecking. I told her to try a "block every time" approach. It took abo
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by flir 8mo ago
Suppose it depends how many serfs they've got. /cynical
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by flir 8mo ago
Acceleranco is looking rather prescient right now.
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by flir 8mo ago
Very similar pattern here (UK): circa 1900, ice skating on the local pond every winter. The ice was thick enough to walk on the pond twice in the 1980s. For the last decade, the pond hasn't completely frozen over once. We got about two
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by flir 8mo ago
A $2k/month model, should it ever arise, won't need you .
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by flir 8mo ago
I think OP is talking about decoupling tax and government spending, Modern Monetary Theory-style. In this model government just prints all the money it needs in order to function. Taxation isn't used to fund government, it's use
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by flir 8mo ago
So it would fix false valuation shenanigans too? I see that as a win/win.
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by flir 8mo ago
Then you're against democracy. Think about what the word means.
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by flir 8mo ago
That's the best theory I've heard. Or at least, it's the one that fits with my usage. I'm mostly-backend, and I'm mostly-GPT. (I'm also a "small steps under guidance" user rather than a "fire and
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by flir 8mo ago
Some cultures hold a lot of household wealth in that format (predominantly-gold jewellery). South East Asia, North Africa, Middle East...
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by flir 9mo ago
That's how the mummy of Ramses II was treated - gamma radiation. I imagine an inert atmosphere was part of the process too.
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by flir 9mo ago
Changed "make a thing" to "describe a tool" and got a raft of text back that I couldn't be bothered to think about, because it's not my space. This jumped out though: "## Existing things that almost do thi
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by flir 9mo ago
Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire by Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback. But like I said, I'm not a historian.
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by flir 9mo ago
> The US saw 60% real wage growth from 1860-1890 with no empire whatsoever. Um. Weren't they carving one out of the American West? I mean, there were people there beforehand... it feels like a not-dissimilar situation.
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by flir 9mo ago
One could argue that they privatized the profits and socialized the costs. The costs being the army, navy and to a lesser extent an army of colonial administrators. You can see a similar shape in the decision to end slavery in 1833 by, esse
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by flir 9mo ago
Probably no worse than mine. But you've got to admit, it's a heuristic that saves time.
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by flir 9mo ago
Every discussion about wikipedia, everywhere, now attracts comments from accounts with a poor history claiming it's biased. I assume bad faith.
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by flir 9mo ago
Feels like you're talking about pseudocode?
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by flir 9mo ago
There's competition, too. Even if everything else remained the same, you'd expect more entertainment options to result in fewer pub visits.
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by flir 9mo ago
Sometimes I get the spine guillotined off and replaced with a ring binding. Any print shop can do it for you, and you just lose the gutter plus a little margin. Easier to work with at a desk, and you can even split into two "books&quot
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by flir 9mo ago
You won't find any argument from me on all those other things. But pubs are a weird place to draw the line.
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by flir 9mo ago
Pubs are dying. Have been for years. Many deaths were postponed because their taxes were reduced due to Covid. Those taxes are now returning to normal levels. This will result in a glut of deaths, as pubs that were just hanging on go under.
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by flir 9mo ago
I honestly thought it was a "hey, we're still here, you should log in" dark pattern. (My account's been unused for years).
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by flir 9mo ago
I would definitely give up my seat to Don Knuth.
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by flir 9mo ago
There was a study that found that, in radiology, human-first assessment resulted in worse outcomes that human-alone. Possibly the human's letting borderline cases through, on the assumption that the machine will catch them. There'
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by flir 9mo ago
Free speech on the internet is the nerdiest of political issues, and this definitely plays to it. I'm not saying you're wrong about it being brigaded by PR bots, I'm saying it's still political. Hell, everything's p
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by flir 10mo ago
A grown-up ;)
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by flir 10mo ago
I knocked up a browser plugin that, whenever I land on / redirects me to /?filter=all&sk=h_chr It's a much less sticky place, now.

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