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by komali2 7mo ago
Imo they're right, if you're faced with the option of running away from some crazy person or interacting with the police in the USA, the safer option is to run. A police interaction can escalate to ruinous heights within seconds d
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by komali2 7mo ago
It's fascinating to me that judges are elected in Texas, and what's more, run as members of a political party.
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by komali2 7mo ago
Valve's working on Deadlock, an FPS / MOBA. It's very polished, but in early access right now. Based on what I've seen when I tried playing it, and just what I hear in the gaming sphere, it'll probably be a decade-d
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by komali2 7mo ago
> move to some low COL country. So you are now alone in a foreign country, no family nearby, trying to adapt to a new lifestyle at nearly 60 lol.
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by komali2 7mo ago
> However Nintendo are a 250kg gorilla. It's an interesting question of comparison actually. Valve run the world's biggest videogame ecommerce platform, for PCs only (including handheld PCs like steam deck). Nintendo run a comp
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by komali2 7mo ago
Performance on apple chipsets!
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by komali2 7mo ago
So that it created wealth is agreed, now the question is whether it was a socialist planned economy or not?
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by komali2 7mo ago
I'm starting to think in these conversations we're all often talking about two different things. You're talking about running an LLM service through its provided tooling (codex, Claude, cursor), others seem to be talking toke
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by komali2 7mo ago
Hey again, Walter, we always seem to find eachother in these comment threads. The Soviet Union didn't create wealth? It put a man in space before the USA - that took "wealth" by some definition of the word, perhaps just not &
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by komali2 7mo ago
Are you an American? It would help me frame my response better to know. I assume yes for now, apologies if not. > The Trump humangod class is not the right IMO. Basically the problem with American education is that they started using the
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by komali2 7mo ago
> socialist, collectivist tendencies Lots of places are socialist or collectivist and have a different set of problems, so the argument that EU problems can be solely attributed to that don't make sense. I'm also not sure &quot
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by komali2 7mo ago
At least your traffic engineers set standards. In Taiwan often the standards come straight from the legislative yuan, aka just vibes laws from people who are driven around in private cars their whole lives.
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by komali2 7mo ago
> Lebanon is already annexed by Iran using Hezbollah which has more power than the official Lebanon government I invite you to argue it, despite the Lebanese army, in their own words, "happily" working with Hezbollah in fighti
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by komali2 7mo ago
> He called it his paid vacation. As a fellow CRUD writer you're kinda seconding the OP's point here... Personally I say oh well, some people are smarter and/or harder working than me. Now watch this drive -
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by komali2 7mo ago
> Unifil, the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon that operates south of the Litani, says Israel has committed more than 10,000 air and ground violations during the ceasefire. According to the Lebanese health ministry, more than
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by komali2 7mo ago
> safe distance Iranian people are being killed, so no. Cynically if you mean Iranian leadership, they're also being killed, so no. American leadership and the Americans living in the seat of imperialism, sure.
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by komali2 7mo ago
Discussing philosophy and politics is very normal in the prepper community. I'm not just waking up to strangers and doing it. This is at meetups, dinners, that sort of thing. "Oh you're a libertarian? Is that more Kropotkin o
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by komali2 7mo ago
Elections elected Trump twice, so what other strategy should Americans try next? Americans have been a democracy for 200 years and have no healthcare, no public transit, a crippling drug and homeless problem, a crippling gun violence proble
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by komali2 7mo ago
I thought it was CTRL SHIFT V. Is that Linux only? Ctrl V sends some kind of funky key combo.
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by komali2 7mo ago
Compression doesn't really explain the whole picture... Where'd you get the data itself? You sense I suppose everyone's skepticism here.
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by komali2 7mo ago
Right, I agree, basically my experience with preppers and libertarians is, the ones disgusted when you ask them if they're "leftist" are the ones with too many guns and not enough neighbors, and vice versa for those who embra
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by komali2 7mo ago
> Whether you do well through an economic transition or not has little to do with the cause (AI, digital technology, industrialization, coal), and more to do with the social and political structures which exist around you (which is a blo
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by komali2 7mo ago
> Wired up Claude for response generation — The retrieved documents get passed as context to Anthropic Claude (claude-sonnet-4-6) along with a strict system prompt: answer only from the knowledge base, keep responses short and conversati
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by komali2 7mo ago
I've read a theory that as the ultra rich divide their wealth among their descendants, eventually they capture so much of it among their families that trying to extract more from the working class is hardly worth the effort. The only o
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by komali2 7mo ago
I recently re read Walkaway and it made me yearn for an offline-first internet, where every computer is a node, and nodes are constantly refreshing each other's cache when they get the chance (the network works), but otherwise are basi
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by komali2 7mo ago
Not necessarily, basically the majority of our technology is the result of a very, very brief period of innovation. So long as we don't forget that it's important to wash our hands and clean out wounds with soap, we're alread
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by komali2 7mo ago
The most important aspect of Burning Man and why it works is the thing most preppers/American Libertarians ignore: the community. Burning Man isn't interesting because a bunch of individuals pitch tents in the desert, it's in
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by komali2 7mo ago
> Business problems are essentially neverending That feels overly optimistic. LLMs seems on track to automate out basically any "email job" or "spreadsheet job," in which case we'll be looking at higher unemploym
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by komali2 7mo ago
Plumbing doesn't harm the people in the desert. Plumbing isn't an inherent bad. The system of imperialism that enables some to starve while others eat is inherently bad and is propped up and legitimized when you act within its
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by komali2 7mo ago
Impact only has meaning per a chosen framework to measure within. For example, if I apply my ethical system to measure the impact of an EA, they have essentially no impact, since all they do is perpetuate a system that is the root of the pr

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