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by hollerith 3mo ago
Because they've been living where they're living now for about 1500 years, speaking the same language or more precisely speaking a group of closely-related languages, descended from the same small initial population.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
I've been living in the US for over 60 years and don't recognize the country you are describing.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
We should try our best to improve our society. Sometimes that will mean doing things that are economically inefficient. Your example of Stanford professor Nir Eyal is an excellent illustration: by advising corporate managers and product des
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Our society has a finite capacity to do projects and to run industrial processes. We want that finite capacity to provide as much quality of life as possible (and as much expansion of our capacity to do projects and run processes as possi
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Our society uses return on investment (which is correlated with profit margin) to decide what projects and what processes our society's workers will focus on. So for example, if I can make twice as much money as a software developer as
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Still, there is a difference of degree. The engineering cost of making one city's electrical grid compatible with the consumers of a different city's grid were much lower (even if one grid was AC and the other DC) than the enginee
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Do you mean raising sheep for wool? The UK has never grown a significant amount of cotton.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
The UK for one. By the time it became a democracy, it was already stable, peaceful and the wealthiest country per capita that had ever existed.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
AOSP is just as open-source as desktop Linux (and desktop Linux subsystems reconfigured for use on a phone) is, and has vastly better security. People sometimes say, "maybe desktop Linux lacks in security, but its privacy is first-rate
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by hollerith 3mo ago
The police erased fireworks explosions in my neighborhood in the Bay Area. Two years ago, I heard thousands of explosions in the month of July, same as every year. Then last year, the police posted signs reminding people that fireworks are
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Why not just retract your "we really need to renormalize beating up nerds again"?
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by hollerith 3mo ago
You're assuming that history has proven the rock music and video games weren't harmful to kids, which I do not grant.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
In addition, even sending it to Mars would be extremely expensive.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
Also, radar technology has been under export controls of various kinds by Washington continuously since WWII.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
George Friedman disagrees with you: he's been saying for years that US trade policy towards China had to change no matter who won the 2016 election (because an economy cannot rely on a trade partner it might go to war with, among other
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by hollerith 3mo ago
I think I understand now. Don't do it for me. In fact, I'd rather you found something else to do.
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by hollerith 3mo ago
>I can train insainly powerful models on my laptop Explain. The labs have been spending about $100 million in compute to train a model.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
True, and also DV rates should be higher for the type of person who chooses a job where one of the requirements is to run towards danger .
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by hollerith 4mo ago
For AI data centers? Depreciation on the GPUs and AI accelerators is a bigger cost than electricity. Now it might be that a new data center will find it more difficult to obtain a reliable supply of electricity than to obtain GPUs, but your
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by hollerith 4mo ago
I'm guess you consider the US a low-trust society. I would disagree.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
It certainly does.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Also, property taxes are famously high in Illinois.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
He is 75 years old, so he might indeed have slowly become incompetent (or just inflexible and stubborn).
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by hollerith 4mo ago
The name of the site you are writing this on is a usage of this "esoteric" meaning.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
>Without immigration, the wheels fall off completely. Do you recall the criticism that a blind commitment to economic growth at all costs is a social pathology that (among other adverse effects) prevents us from addressing climate change
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by hollerith 4mo ago
The economic opportunities are not something in the soil, but rather effects of the laws governing the place and the people that chose to live and work there. It might not be possible to make the change you want without changing who wants t
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by hollerith 4mo ago
>Atheists range from 4-6% in USA Just because in polls only 4-6% will identity with "atheist" doesn't mean the rest are severely impaired by superstitious beliefs.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
"this isn’t possible anymore because of property prices"
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Traumatic brain injury.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
And you've tested this in a textarea in Chrome or in vscode?

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