laszlojamf

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by laszlojamf 3y ago
Also, as a friend noticed when he bought a ver nice apartment next to the railroad is that they have to (at least in Sweden) maintain the tracks once a month. They do this by going very slowly with a special train that basically runs with t
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
Huh. My first question is whether it was the tap water that killed them? Fentanyl is pain medication right. You'd think people would notice something was up before they _die_... EDIT: nvm, says infections.
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
1. Anonymizing PII data is way harder than you first might think. 2. Users will do _anything_ you let them do 3. The customer almost never knows what they actually want
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
Google tracks most users by them simply being logged in everywhere. I was working in this space a while back when FLoC was the next thing and the joke was that FLoC was just for the rest of us. Google always holds all the cards
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
TIL So is there like a flat imprint of all the biological residue or is it more like a shell, if you know what I mean? Also, what kind of crystals are w usually talking about?
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
Also, I feel there is an inherent flaw in democracy that hasn't become obvious until we became hyper-connected. Or rather it's the combination of democracy and nation state. The US is the most obvious example of this but I bet tha
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
That's assuming western countries let refugees in. Right now, that's not on the political agenda. That might change if the housing market forces their hand but between xenophobia and greed, I'm not sure which one wins out in
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
Yeah, I don't know about the housing thing: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/23/business/china-too-many-h... Also Germany is an interesting comparison since their population is _also_ in freefall and
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
At the same time, their population is in freefall, they have a massive housing bubble, and they import most of their energy and foodstuffs. Not saying that you're wrong, but it's definitely more complicated than what you are maki
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
Seems at a glance that most of the data is based on U.S Gen-Z:rs. Does anyone know of this phenomenon holds up worldwide?
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
Nevada has _no_ income tax? How do they pay for anything? In Sweden, income tax accounts for 60% of the entire tax base. Do states in the US have other revenue streams other than taxes? Because I just assume that corporate tax is also a non
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
Although it's nice to hear an optimistic perspective, I can't help but think it's overly optimistic. 1. I don't think moderation works for most people who struggle with addiction. I think this is fairly incontroversial.
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't bet against it XD but it doesn't follow that it will stay irrational _forever_
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
I think the parent was thinking of the US. There, natural gas is an abundant predictable, and cheap base energy source. Not so much in Europe. In Sweden the mix is nuclear, water, and the rest, but we're still suffering from the rest o
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
And also didn't it just turn out that people weren't really interested in spending a lot more money to get to where they were going a little bit faster?
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
I agree that housing prices are somewhat decoupled from local population trends, but at the end of the day _someone_ has to live on the property for it to be worth anything. In order for the speculation to pay off, somebody, at the end of t
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
Isn't that the thing though? If they credit the source, it's fine, but ChatGPT usually doesn't
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
On the other hand, not wanting to insure someone who obviously likes to go really, really fast isn't such a crazy idea when that person is about to go out on a public road rather than a race track, with regular other drivers, rather th
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
Could have been worse, hehe. Finland had a (in)famous nuclear power plant project which went years and billions over budget only to be effectively terminated after the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Rosatom was a major investor) https:/
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
What school did you go to? We played this _a lot_ at Norra Real, Stockholm XD
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
Plus no tests, no original developers, and most of the time - _but just most of the time_ - it "just works"...
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
Reminds of a non-techie friend who had a shirt which said 503, which apparently was a brand name for some vaping liquid. Wasn't my first guess.
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by laszlojamf 3y ago
100% agree. A tangent to this which I’ve found striking when talking to friends in other professions, is how spoiled I’ve been as a developer. I’ve _never_ had to apply for a job. Whenever I’ve been ready to move on I’ve just flipped that “
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by laszlojamf 4y ago
Actually, found it: https://www.klgates.com/The-Federal-Reserve-Pushes-Back-on-N... But my reading is that their problem is that having all your deposits with the fed is risky too, since it's over-exposed to interest r
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by laszlojamf 4y ago
I also had a start when I read this but I can't find another source for this. Anyone have one?
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by laszlojamf 4y ago
Had to google it. Made my day
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by laszlojamf 4y ago
So once we all live forever we can spend our days improving gadgets just because it's fun?
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by laszlojamf 4y ago
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/diaeresis/ Could have googled that first I guess...
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by laszlojamf 4y ago
A bit tangential to the actual article, but this is the first time I've seen preëminence and reëlected in writing. Is that a correct spelling? Does that work for all vowels?
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by laszlojamf 4y ago
I agree with you about all of this, but I have one problem: Does this mean no more awards? Like, will the Nobel prize always go "to the institution" that made the discovery? Should biographies be titled POTUS: Period X-Y? You see

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