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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 3y ago
It’s wild that you blame Democrats for the failure to pass universal health care.
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 3y ago
In the past few months I personally haven given Disney hundreds of dollars for Mickey branded merchandise due to my 3 year old's love of Mickey. Mickey stuffed toys, bed sheets, water bottles, clothes, pull ups, etc. In fact, I just tu
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 3y ago
This is an anecdote. R&D as a percent of US GDP has never been higher than it has been in the 2020s. Even more than back in the 60s. The source of the R&D has changed (less federal government) but it’s not financialization. https:
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 3y ago
I don’t know how you’d squeeze extra private cars on something like the Lexington ave line which runs a train every 2 minutes during rush hour.
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 3y ago
> "Reduce US car accidents by 50%" That's not something that needs AI at all. That's a political problem, and the solutions are not ones that Americans like.
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 3y ago
Bird deaths from wind turbines are essentially a rounding error, probably less than a million a year. On the other hand, cats kill billions of birds per year.
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 3y ago
That sounds like a place not suitable for human life.
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 3y ago
I’m a Wall Street guy (well, my office is nearby on Broadway, I’m a dev, but easily able to justify an extra $20) and the thing is that driving in is almost never faster or easier than taking the train! The PATH, which starts in NJ where pa
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 3y ago
No, that's not a great approach. One overreach and you're in a nuclear war.
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
I pay $0 for Google with no delays. I don’t understand why I’d want to pay for information that’s less reliable. (I’m being slightly dense, but not really)
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
After a few weeks playing around with ChatGPT, my workflow with it has become: 0. Try to sign in, see the system is over capacity, leave. Maybe I’ll try again in 10 minutes. 1. Ask my question, get an answer. I’ll have no idea if what I got
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
It’s not a free speech issue in the same way it wasn’t a free speech issue when old Twitter did things like suppress the Hunter Biden story. Twitter is a private enterprise allowed to do what it wants with its own speech (it’s platform). It
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
Commercial real estate is next
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
If your homeland gets invaded one day, I hope to be an apologist for your invaders.
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
Remember this? > “We do have some information about the Republican campaign,” And then they never actually released it. https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/2934...
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
It was easy to do all that because he actively put his thumb on the scale for the Republicans. > “We believe it would be much better for GOP to win.” https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikil
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
The bank lost money. Where does this new money come from?
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
Yeah, it sucks because it’s going to show up as inflation.
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
So, money machine go brr?
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
There's another layer to this: many of these bullshit startups are in crypto, which spent the past 5+ years undermining trust in centralized banking and the Fed. Now this world is crying out for a bailout. It's just so rich. Like
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
Why would anyone want to work for an Elon Musk portfolio company after witnessing this?
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
Maybe I'm just a effeminate big-city lefty liberal but it seems like the stan culture for Elon is the same as for Trump, Desantis, Joe Rogan, and all the other guys who peddle easy answers for a difficult world.
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
You could either make up right-wing talking points about what she said, or you could take it from her that the deal stunk: https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1631708752737861665
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by gWPVhyxPHqvk 4y ago
How does it really matter though? What are in the Western world going to do in retaliation? Are we going to start a war with China over their bio-lab programs?