iamthirsty

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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> There’d be a lot of takers if friction is reduced. A legal process that involves the state and possible years of monitoring, age limits, etc is much more friction than the very quick ways one can do it on their own without the state&#x
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> if they could then painlessly off themselves instead of facing the consequences. I think 'off-ing' one's self is a pretty large consequence in itself. You can painlessly do it today, by overdosing on opiates or many oth
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> He paid 0$ in income tax on all the money funding his foundation It's a non-profit foundation that's main function is giving the money away, funding social and educational development in developing countries, and solving huge
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> Bill Gates pays a much lower tax rate than I do, so I’m subsidizing his economic activities. Given it's est. he'd have paid $500m+ in income tax in 2023[1], I think your calculation is off — he's subsidizing your econo
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
Technically wouldn't it be CPI lowered, compared to March?
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
Spiders don't, won't and couldn't control almost all aspects of human life. This is a false equivalence.
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> McDonnell Douglas You mean Boeing?
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> Tastes and looks like beer I have tried almost every major non-alcoholic beer in the U.S., and none of them truly taste exactly like beer.
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
Probably.
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> It was loads better than Google+, which we had tried before. Most platforms were objectively better than Google+, but it's original implementation (with the drag-able 'Circles') will always be the most missed social netw
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> You’re not free to demand changes. I mean, technically you are — doesn't mean anyone will listen.
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> They look like berries Americans shop with our eyes, not our mouths.
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
Depends on your point of view, and what you're referring to. The word means two different things, depending on your side of the spectrum.
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> Anyway, it is IMO incorrect to say that the book did not suggest Deckard might be an android, and likewise, the movie only hints that Deckard is a replicant. Isn't it kind of confirmed in 2049 that he isn't a replicant, tho
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
Bookmarks. Reading lists. Notes.
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
While I recognize your logic, and even mostly agree, the point still stands that it cannot be conclusively and definitively said (as least as far as we've been alive/can tell) that hundreds of tons of Martian meteorites fall to
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> Hundreds of tons of rock like this from Mars land every year. 277 total Martian meteorites — with the largest weighing 14.5 kg — is not hundreds of tons yearly.
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> The net change in manning between an "autonomous" drone and an oldschool drone driven by a pilot in a trailer is minimal. Well the whole point is not to reduce headcount totally but reduce the amount of people put directly i
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> This is like saying that the US President is an unelected governmental representative No, that's not how that works, ironically because in the name — Electoral College — the President is, elected. Regardless by the populous or not
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
Again, I think there is a misunderstanding of what the saying is used for. In chess, it's specifically used for saying "even with the best defense possible, you will be mated no mater what in a maximum of X moves." Computers
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> This supreme court is very much on track to eliminate any authority federal agencies have that aren't explicitly written into law. Effectively destroying federal agencies ability to make rules. Very dramatic. Really, it's a r
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> You know how a chess player will say something like "mate in 6" because their experience of all the options left to their opponent are both easily countered and will not prevent them from losing? As a chess person, saying &qu
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
> I was also way more pessimistic, figuring that they would be having company wide layoffs by 2015 to 2017 but they pushed that out by 5 years. Well in 2011 Google had just over 30k employees, and now they're doing "layoffs&quo
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
I'm aware of the why, it's just always cheeky to me to see.
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by iamthirsty 2y ago
Funny how the current distance from Earth metric on Voyager's site[0] is current going down . [0]: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
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by iamthirsty 3y ago
> they are falling into the same simple thinking that most commenters online have. Please be aware that your comment has been marked by the API as 'toxic' due to an overt generalized assumption. /s
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by iamthirsty 3y ago
> except this time, because Chromium is open-source, and there are plenty of Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, and Chrome,), it's less obvious. Wouldn't this be actual market forces at work then, since it's open source
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by iamthirsty 3y ago
> This API considers toxicity as “a rude, disrespectful or unreasonable comment likely to make someone leave a discussion”. This seems to be incredibly subjective. According to this, "toxic" content could include a serious disc
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by iamthirsty 3y ago
> It's completely ridiculous that households making 300K or whatever (which is barely enough to support a family in many cities in the nation) ...Is this /s? $300k is sufficiently enough to support a family of 4 in literally an
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by iamthirsty 3y ago
Just because you go legally bankrupt doesn't mean the debt magically disappears.

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