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by gruez 2mo ago
So going by one statistic (GDP) is bad, but going by another (population) gets a pass because... China's "special"? I'm sorry, but that just sounds like a special pleading. I don't like this because it just turns ar
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by gruez 2mo ago
Serious question: which sites have you encountered where ublock lite doesn't do the job? Even tricky sites (eg. youtube) are defeated with scriptlets, not by intercepting network responses.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>In some ways it’s better, in some ways it’s worse. Sometimes you have to flip it into “complete mode” (and give it full access to modify the current site) to get good blocking. I don't how this is supposed to be a demerit given tha
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by gruez 2mo ago
DNS based adblockers have strictly worse adblocking capabilities than manifest v3 adblockers. I mean, sure they have their uses (eg. blocking ads/telemetry in apps or whatever), but bringing them up in this context doesn't really
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by gruez 2mo ago
The telemetry and ads (on start page) didn't bother you? I'm surprised there's seemingly a contingent of people who are too lazy to install any other chrome fork (eg. Brave), but are motivated enough to up sticks and switch t
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by gruez 2mo ago
>The idea that you "need a single extremely powerful country to replace it or the US will stay in its position" just doesn't add up. I'm not fully sure if that is what you meant but I have seen that argument a few tim
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Also, sorry but the economist hates China with a passion, you really shouldn’t believe a thing they say on the topic. Note I'm just linking charts and figures, not their editorials. It's ironic that you accuse "economist
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by gruez 2mo ago
>US government is working overtime to make sure legacy technologies stay around while the rest of the world is investing into the future. "Rest of the world"? Europe isn't even a player in the AI race. China might be bette
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Using the age profile of a country with over a billion people to dismiss its geopolitical power has no credibility. The first two charts are for GDP, which correlates pretty well with geopolitical power. Moreover if we're going by
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by gruez 2mo ago
>in 50 years America won't be a world power any more. It'll be in a similar place to Canada at best. What's going to replace it? Rapidly aging China? https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=
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by gruez 2mo ago
/s? "Btw don't turn the planet into paperclips"
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by gruez 2mo ago
>it uses a lot of tokens to get work done. That's irrelevant when you use $/task as the metric, which the OP does use.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>it's that you cannot bypass it at scale. Define "scale". For any reasonable wait that you're willing to impose on your users, any PoW scheme heavily favors attackers. They have unlimited time and can be scraping even
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Indeed. Something to note is the labor force participation rate keeps dropping. We’re down to 61.4%. It was 61.5% in June 2026, 62.3% in June 2025. Yes, it's called people getting older and retiring. It's pretty obvious that&#
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by gruez 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect Any sector that's resistant to productivity growth is liable to become bigger and bigger part of the economy.
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by gruez 2mo ago
>As far as the government is concerned if you have been looking for a job for so long and/or are so discouraged that you stop looking, then you are no longer "unemployed" since you are not looking for a job. > ... >W
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by gruez 2mo ago
>So these must be local calls No, you're just reading too much into "local". The price page for US also only has "local" only, but I know for a fact that "long distance" calls work fine. https:/&#
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by gruez 2mo ago
>The last time dire news about the state of morale and food on board a US Navy ship was paraded around it turned out to be pure fiction source?
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by gruez 2mo ago
That doesn't make any sense when you look at the other options, one of which is "Mobile calls", but no "long distance" or "foreign" option. Moreover twilio operates over the internet. There's no conce
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by gruez 2mo ago
The ones that are illegal to use and stick out like a sore thumb?
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by gruez 2mo ago
>We ar perfectly capable of intelligently changing how we calculate inflation. What do you propose then? All the places where the BLS is "intelligently changing how we calculate inflation" creates controversy: hedonic/qual
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by gruez 2mo ago
>That provider is either only providing service to one country (very likely because this is separately regulated in every country), twilio can hardly be described as "providing service to one country", and has the same price li
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by gruez 2mo ago
I wouldn't take the 20% figure at face value. If you only test for antibody reaction, you get an implausibly high number. >A study of blood samples from military recruits, taken between 2001 and 2007, found that nearly half the recr
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by gruez 2mo ago
>you just substituted a worse product for a better one and our friends in the govt call it good. I agree that somewhat distorts the effect of inflation, but at the same time it has to be done for inflation measures to make any sense. Oth
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by gruez 2mo ago
Shouldn't per-capita consumption be factored in? Otherwise "the global problem" just boils down to whichever country is the "biggest" (by population or by GDP).
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by gruez 2mo ago
>Number cannot always go up. We are at the top of the carbon pulse. Financialization has taken us far from the material baseline of the rock we are flying through space on. Debt will only get us so far. Why can't it? GDP per capita
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by gruez 2mo ago
At least in the US, VOIP providers (think google voice or twilio) interconnect with telephone companies similar to how landline/cellphone companies interconnect with each other, so #1 and #4 are essentially the same. The only differenc
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by gruez 2mo ago
>I said the same thing about waiting for 24hrs before being able to use adb to install apps. I thought it was 24 hours OR use adb?
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by gruez 2mo ago
>If you are technical and want root its very easy to patch a build of GrapheneOS to include whatever mechanism you want. You can even automate this to continue to receive updates. You don't even need to patch it, AFAIK. You can just
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by gruez 2mo ago
>which is still ridiculous as such systems have no benefit to people, only to technofeudalist corporations. GrapheneOS literally has an app that uses attestation and isn't for "technofeudalist corporations". https:/&

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