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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
You can buy i-bonds in the US. You are limited in how much though. They are pegged above CPI. You never hear about them because no one makes money on it. And maybe it isn't that great of an investment.
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
It is a trade off that also helps US companies be more efficient. If you want more job stability, try working in France where companies can't lay off workers as capriciously. But then they also don't staff up as fast, don't
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
Exactly- sounds great but in practice often not great. Depends on the culture. I once worked for a small but ultimately very successful start up, as a married guy with kids. Unlimited PTO sounded great. Until I planned my second week lo
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
Even better for America's well being will be if thousands of individual investors have identical or near identical bots for sophisticated financial institutions to exploit while they sleep.
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
Turbo Pascal was amazing for its time. As a young person learning programming it was a step change in functionality. Before that on PCs you were using Basic or assembly It was cheap and incredibly useful.
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
All of these arguments in this thread are essentially attacks on free market capitalism. I am not saying they are unfair, but I think you could have made the same arguments about management and investors doing the same thing in manufacturi
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
Exactly! They also have been letting the results of google search get seriously degraded by ads. Would many people prefer AI over google search circa 2010? They killed their competition and now they will give you the product that gives t
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
You should definitely listen to this podcast which is an interview with a Professor of Psychology at Columbia. He also thought what you thought-- that you can't convince a Q-Anon type-- and they were actually testing something else.
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
OK I am bracing for the downvotes.. What about when the llm is smarter than the person? Sometimes I get material that is so bad I wish they had had AI do it. Then it would be poor to mediocre. There was an episode of the podcast “Questio
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
That would not necessarily be the case in my town. We have police who don't live in the county and fireman who don't live in the state. (Los Angeles)
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
As someone (like other who have posted) who has made my living my whole life making art/ code, this is completely wrong! What it threatened is the ad based "content" models where you put stuff up for free and sell ads against
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
Another huge problem with our times is that local media is completely hollowed out. Voter awareness was never amazing but now there is no local paper to highlight abuse or corruption. Every problem becomes a national problem with no accou
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
The problem is that if elected officials are not comfortable confronting police unions about their conduct then any cost you pass on to the union or the officers is potentially just passed on to tax payers. Not that I disagree with any ide
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
I wonder why this gets downvoted. Nowadays people are aware of what they sacrifice economically and physically when they have kids. It changes the incentives.
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
The US has never been able to change a regime without a lot of help from insiders. I have read this history and it is a lot more complicated then "the US waived its magic wand." If the US could change regimes that easily don&#x2
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
Both things can be true: A lot of countries may suffer if the US is not a guarantor of their safety or an enforcer of safe passage through waterways. The USA can also suffer economically from no longer being a trusted partner and responsib
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
Perhaps because these movies were mixed for theaters with very specific digital sound setups and now lots of people see them for the first time at home.
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
The concept of fiduciary duty is an economic professors fantasy. When the shareholders of WB voted against David Zaslovs extraordinary 800m pay package the board ignored it. That's the "owners" voting to not give a crazy gi
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
When I was younger I read the book "Steve Jobs and the Next Big Thing". It was a book about Steve Jobs and NeXT, written before Apple bought Next but far enough along that it was clear that NeXT wasn't going to work out. It&
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
It seems like the fair solution to this problem is to open source server code if you are going to cease support for an online game. That way the community has the opportunity to run their own servers if they want to. I also really support
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
Bona ideo! Ni ĉiuj komencu komuniki en Esperanto en ĉi tiu forumo.
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by georgeecollins 6mo ago
Yeah, because that would be like selling packs of baseball cards to kids with enticements like chewing gum, a practice that was outlawed in the United States in the 1950's.
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by georgeecollins 6mo ago
Yes, I was there. I sat through a presentation about their original concept for selling content in Team Fortress. Trust me when I say that it turned out nothing like they originally conceived of-- which is a whole different story. The w
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by georgeecollins 6mo ago
A great practical suggestion comes in the recent book: "The Second Estate" by Ray Madoff. It is an excellent analysis of the changes to tax policy in the US that have gotten us here. (Yes, I know this isn't just a US proble
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by georgeecollins 6mo ago
I think you are blaming Valve for forces way beyond Valve's control. Valve isn't perfect, but it is a way better steward for PC gaming and PC gamers than any other American tech company would be.
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by georgeecollins 6mo ago
Right, or possibly a third factor that people who work until they are older and people that have less cognitive decline older have in common. Like perhaps the kinds of jobs you can keep doing / or want to keep doing when you are older
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by georgeecollins 6mo ago
I agree but at the same time cars are requiring less of our attention. Forget autonomous driving for a moment and consider lane change alerts for cars in your blind side, automatic braking if you come up too fast on the car ahead, active l
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by georgeecollins 6mo ago
Wow, that says a lot with data. Thank you.
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by georgeecollins 6mo ago
Yeah try some early access games! I also don't remember thinking the games he mentioned were particularly buggy at the time. They worked fine for me on my PC. Why are you so sure they were unusually buggy? Just curious. You may be
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by georgeecollins 6mo ago
You won't be able to read library books on it after it resets (which it will eventually) unless you jail break it. My son jail break'd his kindle so I guess its not too hard and you can read library books that way.

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