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by fsckboy 3mo ago
the conceit of leftists is that they are godd and pure... but they never are and it NEVER works out, just makes them insufferaby sanctimonious along the way. I was raised completely leftist btw, by good people, but I saw the craven insides
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
there is no such thing as "labor share of income". It's a measurement you can calculate, but it means nothing tells nothing. in caveman times, labor's share of income was 100%. Do you want to live like that?
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> No reason to keep it on. any reason not to simply let it sleep?
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
But that's not a rule, it should be Stroustrop's Observation: For new features, people insist on LOUD explicit syntax. For established features, people want terse notation.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
You say the boomers are a problem simply because they are old and the young hate the old (ageism), and because they have money and you want it, now. Boomers created everything you like about this world, including youth culture itself, &quot
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> The poor need the rich to start a company as banks are prevented (by the rich) from lending to them. no. the banks hold the poor's money, and it needs to do so without risk because the poor need their money. lending money to star
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> Posting this in the hope that someone will feel triggered to backport Eliza, it was done in the 1960s but it's been lost :-) you can run eliza in emacs, just " M-X doctor " enter
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
at dim sum, you stack up the little empty plates.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
Original statements that led to this discussion >> Polish is the second most-used Slavic language, right after Russian and just before Ukrainian > This is not exactly right regarding Ukrainian. While it is the official language of
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
i'm not favoring any part of the spectrum, they all contribute, that's why they all exist in every society. Ideologies is where structured ideas come from, but they're usually embraced with religious fervor to the exclusion o
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> These issues are really complicated because they aren’t left versus right. Conservatives and progressives both tend to be ideologically skeptical of enhancements/sharing of ID. It's complicated within each party, but not ove
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> This is not exactly right regarding Ukrainian. While it is the official language of Ukraine, in reality... let's say that not all Ukrainian people are actually speaking it. your "adjustment" didn't propose what oth
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> How is preventing a Chinese brand from selling here not meddling in the free market? because trade balances are established by free markets, but China doesn't allow many of our goods and does not allow free market competition. Al
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
the ANSI escape sequences for screen erasing start with ESC and end in J. When you display a string on a screen including a newline at the end of it, you need to erase to the end of the line on the screen so you don't leave predecess
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> Factual statements about bad employers and how is this hypothetical website you're hyping supposed to uncover the factuality of statements random people from the internet are posting?
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> Polestar is done in the U.S. market. Its sister brand Volvo, owned by the same Chinese parent company, was spared. No one has explained why. The U.S. Federal Government is meddling with the automotive industry, the free market, and cap
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
i want a sleep app that reads me things that will put me to sleep, but i need it to track when i may have gone to sleep, or more importantly when I have not, so i can restart the next night past the point i've listened to. but it needs
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
what was that item from just a day or so ago where an opensource project had said they developed using AI, and a developer said "take it down, you copied it from us" I thought of it because this project said they used AI ( https:
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> The political compass always felt like the wrong tool to convey something as nuanced as personal politics the (I'm going to call it so-called) political compass is a very crude instrument, really it's just "are you libe
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
plagiarism, with heavy sanctions, of self is of course ridiculous, but having as a standard that you should cite yourself when doing it is not a bad standard. As a reader, it might trigger a "where have I read this before" reactio
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
companies spend money on things, but those things need to be classified as expenses or assets. Items that are not expected to have a value in the future (box of post-it notes, pencils, electricity...) are expensed in the present. Assets are
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
the wrong technology was at fault.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> That's a strange way to phrase things. no, not really, you have to order it chronologically: charging interest was verboten and in law it was called usury. later, interest was deemed ok... but charging too much interest was to
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> Their valuations are always based on expectations of huge growth, not current value. Growth predictions with an extremely low confidence level. VCs make up for it by making a lot of bets. all valuations are based on expectations of th
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
traditional usage of usury was the same, any interest charges at a rate above the lawful ceiling, just where the ceiling was 0% for christians and in a like manner for moslems.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
this statement is literally true: this dinosaur has a soar throat.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> the West was complaining about surveillance and scoring system of citizens in China free speech, civil liberties, voting, are in China all well below the standards of the west. The criticism and complaints were completely warranted an
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
I'm not aware that there is any method to dramatically increase SAT scores (and neither IQ test scores). could you point me to your sources?
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> Copyright is primarily about protecting your ecconomic rights no, copyright is about creating an economic right where one didn't exist before.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
there are many non profits that rely on volunteer labor, but they still need funds to operate, amounts of $10k can move the needle quite effectively

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