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by hnbad 3y ago
I'm in a similar position: I'm on Windows and have a mouse that supports multiple Bluetooth connections and can be made to switch between computers with the Mouse and Keyboard Center but the keyboard only connects to one computer
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by hnbad 3y ago
I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about market incentive structures not alternative funding schemes.
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by hnbad 3y ago
Sorry, I must have missed the part where you pointed out a glaring hole because all I read was an explanation of how it's hard to change things after the fact (which I agree with) and some gesturing at human nature (which is contextual
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by hnbad 3y ago
Sure, depending on how you define poverty, how you measure it and how you interpret the numbers. For the record, the poverty line defined by most of the statistics you're likely thinking of is below starvation levels, even in many unde
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by hnbad 3y ago
I'm not talking about changing anything. I'm saying the registrar system is set up this way. It's never easy to completely rearchitect a system once it is already in place and well-established. I'm simply arguing that th
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by hnbad 3y ago
> "When health systems buy hospitals, they generally do not use borrowed money," said Song, who is also an internal medicine physician at Mass General. "In contrast, the classic private equity buyout uses a small amount of
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by hnbad 3y ago
> Domains cost money because they have to cost money. That's not entirely true. They cost money because they're market commodities and thus have market value. Making them cost non-trivial amounts of money to register is a way
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by hnbad 3y ago
> us Who's that? Last I checked the US has a sizeable homeless population, a vast amount of people in precarious working conditions and most Americans would be financially ruined by a single major accident or health issue. I don&#x2
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by hnbad 3y ago
Lately a lot of these seem to be actually generated with LLMs. You can usually tell from the high school essay structure, often ending with a paragraph along the lines of "in conclusion there are many benefits but also many drawbacks&q
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by hnbad 3y ago
Indeed. Then what is the blood being spilled for and how much more will need to be spilled to accomplish that goal - and do you think that is an acceptable amount? Does the idea of the cure being worse than the disease mean anything to you?
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by hnbad 3y ago
To be fair, there are very few actual geniuses and a lot more unremarkable assholes.
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by hnbad 3y ago
As I said earlier though, the problem with batteries is they're a PITA to extinguish if they catch fire and you don't want to have that problem deep underground unless you plan to flood entire parts of the tunnel (which brings its
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by hnbad 3y ago
Long COVID would, though. And if people who would mostly have been retired or lower productivity are more likely to die and children don't contribute to the labor force in most of the US, long COVID would affect working age people prim
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by hnbad 3y ago
It's interesting that the article is quick to blame "increased labor costs" and low unemployment (???) for the price hikes but then doesn't explain why prices for some items actually went down again. Meanwhile overall wa
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by hnbad 3y ago
If the US rail network wasn't in such a state of disrepair and freight trains weren't miles long to cut labor costs, you wouldn't even need to dig tunnels for them. That also saves the cost of digging those tunnels and actual
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by hnbad 3y ago
> very strongly autistic & doesn't understand the complex nuances of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable This is a popular framing of autistic people but this assumes the problem is complex nuances. Most of the time it
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by hnbad 3y ago
Having seen that play out in real life before, I don't think he'd be as much of an asset as a liability. The problem with white hats is they need to have an interest in following some set of rules. With this guy it sounds more lik
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by hnbad 3y ago
Hamas is a terrorist group. Israel is a state. State militaries generally have rules of engagement. They define how soldiers are allowed to behave, when they are allowed to shoot or forced to retreat, what is a valid target and so on. The U
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by hnbad 3y ago
Have you considered that you're not special and it's possible to do wrong while also being a victim? You talk about people being "evacuated from their home" and running to bomb shelters. I'm talking about dozens mor
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by hnbad 3y ago
Had the same experience with one of the prompts: Venus Flytrap to Willy Wonka with a missing link from Uncle Sam to Willy Wonka.
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by hnbad 3y ago
There is no mainstream German news site that criticizes Israel or the IDF. Even the BBC called out IDF lies when they became too implausible. Even the US suggested that maybe Israel should try to not kill so many civilians. Other countries
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by hnbad 3y ago
I don't think the two things are comparable. Germany is religiously pro-Israel and any attempt to bring more nuance into it than "Israel good, terrorists bad" is seen as antisemitism. This also nicely fits with the idea that
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by hnbad 3y ago
The reason the scientific evidence is flimsy is that this can almost entirely be attributed to selection bias: it feels important when you make predictions that are correct, it doesn't feel noteworthy when you make ones that are wrong
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by hnbad 3y ago
> I similarly like nationalism because it helps preserve distinct cultures That's not what nationalism does, though. In the sense of liberatory and separatist movements (e.g. Catalonian, Scottish, Kurdish), sure, but in the more com
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by hnbad 3y ago
But just think of how much worse you would have turned out if nobody had constantly pointed out how much of a freak you are for wearing a trenchcoat! /s More seriously, this perfectly parallels the myth around the supposed utility of &
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by hnbad 3y ago
I see you are not a linguist. As the saying goes, a language is a dialect with an army.
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by hnbad 3y ago
That would explain the wonky headline: "AVM droht ..." means "AVM is threatened with ..." but could be misread as "AVM threatens ..." ("AVM droht mit ..." or "AVM droht: ..."), especially
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by hnbad 3y ago
Can the mods please fix the title? "$x/h" is fairly common but the capitalization threw me off. With most units (especially in SI/metric but also others) capitalization can be the entire difference between two units, e.g
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by hnbad 3y ago
The requirement also says nothing about not being allowed to raise taxes or reactivate the wealth tax so the problem isn't really that they need to "reduce the budget" just that they're not allowed to add debt and the ti
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by hnbad 3y ago
But you don't make money by reducing the number of cars. You make money by increasing the number of cars. The car lobby would never approve a plan that resulted in fewer cars overall unless it can be done in a way to still increase pro

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