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by jjav 2mo ago
> IDK about you buy I would not work for that. Sure you would. Well, I can't assert about you , but most people in that position would. First, what is usually left out of this kind of discussion is how much work it takes to earn an
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by jjav 3mo ago
> Then why work hard if everything you need is paid by someone else? Isn't the answer obvious? So that you can afford cool things that you want. There needs to be a baseline of minimum services everyone gets (health care, education,
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by jjav 3mo ago
> The ultra wealthy will find the ways to avoid them That is only because the system (at least in the US) is designed specifically to enable this. Tax code is mind boggingly complex because there are a million loopholes and special cases
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by jjav 3mo ago
> Been skeptical for quite some time that "using AI" is a real skill/genuine field of expertise. I feel using AI (effectively) is not too far from the skillset of programming. It is still a machine following instructions (
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by jjav 3mo ago
You would not end up in the same place because then you'd be in a world without billionaires, so you would not have people who can too easily just buy every politician and law they wish for their own perpetuation. That alone would be a
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by jjav 3mo ago
> Should doctors be forced to perform abortions they don't condone? No person should be forced to perform actions they don't condone. But there is no unalienable right to be a doctor. If someone wants to be a doctor and not p
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by jjav 3mo ago
> I look forward to teaching my kids to drive stick. Same here, in only a few years! There might be no long term use for it (but near future use certainly, since all our regular cars are standard, only the truck and EV are not) but havin
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by jjav 3mo ago
> What downsides for the _average_ driver (who just wants to go from A to B comfortably and safely) does an automatic have? No downside really. But as an analogy closer to HN, is there any advantage to knowing about software and operatin
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by jjav 3mo ago
> Why would I not support a hypothetical police that enforced these rules? Because such hypothetical police does not exist and cannot ever exist. Humans are corrupted by power, basic human nature. So if a system is staffed by humans, it
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by jjav 3mo ago
> Ubiquitous surveillance will end most crime It doesn't even do that, is the worst part. So the trade is to give up all privacy, but low-level crime continues unchanged. Anyone who has tried to get the police interested in a theft
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by jjav 3mo ago
If you hate it, don't do it, sure. But I encourage everyone who likes tech and freedom to host their own email. So many reasons. Some are pragmatic, for example that way you won't ever get locked out suddenly of your entire digita
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by jjav 3mo ago
> I don’t know anyone who went electric and then went back. Seriously? EVs have many practical advantages. Don't need to list them here, we all know. But they are so, so, so boring. Zero soul, zero character. Perfect appliance, zero
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by jjav 3mo ago
> For me, I was looking for To add: - A physical switch to turn off all inputs. The older ipods had a slider switch that disables all buttons and screen inputs, which was awesome. Mostly I use an mp3 player when working on things (yard,
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by jjav 3mo ago
> supposed to be device-bound Device bound is horribly broken idea. Credentials must be me-bound, so I and only me fully own and control the credential. I want to access the site from wherever I want to access it.
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by jjav 3mo ago
> The real shocker is how little memory these systems had, amiga1000 only 256K Mid 80s my first computer had 16K and that was a lot. Later upgraded to 64K which was mind blowingly huge, couldn't imagine how to use so much RAM!
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by jjav 3mo ago
> We do this and then no one reads it. Yes, because if the whole doc is just AI slop, why bother reading? This happens way too often at work. Someone generates a massive doc full of AI slop, unreviewed, they never even read it, and expec
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by jjav 3mo ago
Kids on balance bikes are more like 1-2 year olds.
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by jjav 3mo ago
> So as soon as a kid can "glide" on it, he is a danger to himself and to the people around. Oh please. We're talking about a 1 year old on a 6lb bike going jogging speed. The benefit in learning curve is huge. I didn&#x27
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by jjav 3mo ago
> Why not just buy a proper bike with sidewheels Training wheels are the worst for multiple reasons. The kid doesn't learn any balancing since the bike stays upright on the training wheels no matter what they do. And a pedal bike wi
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by jjav 3mo ago
Depends when they start, but a bike like that would have been too heavy and too big for a ~1.8 year old. We started with a Strider which is only 6.5lbs for the whole bike, much more manageable for a under-two year old.
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by jjav 3mo ago
Strider Balance Bikes are also nice and broadly available and actualy built for kids unlike this whatever that Tesla thing is. My child started on a Strider balance bike when slighly under two years old. It was a perfect intro to cycling an
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by jjav 3mo ago
> There are two separate types of events with associated probabilities: 1) the probability of being harmed by criminals, and 2) the probability of being harmed by the government. #1 is annoying but has many solutions. You can call the co
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by jjav 3mo ago
Wait until you hear about California electricity prices... This is from a recent PG&E bill from my house: Peak pricing: 0.48575 delivery + 0.14920 generation = $0.635 kWh It seems to have gone down a bit this year though. These are the
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by jjav 3mo ago
That is surprisingly bad. My substantially larger Ram 3500 dually gets 15mpg even when loaded with 4000lb of cargo in the bed. Towing a trailer I get about 14mpg, unless there is a substantial headwind (since the trailer is much taller than
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by jjav 3mo ago
My primary home zfs server is from 2010, running 24x7 since then. It has a 4-way mirror zfs pool for data. Over the years I have replaced two of the four drives, so two are still original from 2010. Everything else on the machine is from 20
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by jjav 3mo ago
> For night owls and teenagers, who already have a hard time in society, Daylight Saving Time makes things far worse. As a lifelong night owl, I can say you have it backwards. The time used in the summer is ideal, as the sun sets later.
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by jjav 3mo ago
> The vast majority of the world uses standard time. This doesn't make any sense, "standard" is just an arbitrary choice. See India for example, single time zone. Ultimately the dumbest thing is to change the clocks back a
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by jjav 3mo ago
> An absured valuation isn't evidence of fraud. For a public company that is certainly true. The valuation is determined by the market as a whole, so there can be no fraud. But the fraud is in the profitability claims, such as 1T&#x
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by jjav 3mo ago
> Aramark is profitable and SpaceX is wildly unprofitable Yes but TSLA will be self-driving in Mars soon and therefore.... profit!
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by jjav 3mo ago
> This is shaped like more-or-less every IPO I've seen. Not even remotely. Many startups IPO with no profit (though not all), but there is nearly always a credible business plan and a semi-rational valuation. None of this is the cas

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