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by leshow 2y ago
It didn't improve things for the drivers
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by leshow 2y ago
It's certainly true of the Republican party in the US. They proclaim to be defenders of freedom of speech, yet have passed the vast majority of bills censoring books in educational institutions. https://pen.org/report&#
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by leshow 2y ago
why are you "trying to remain AI hyped"?
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by leshow 2y ago
What a warped world view. Libertarianism today just means supporting massive concentrations of private power, I guess.
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by leshow 2y ago
Ask the Greeks how that turned out.
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by leshow 2y ago
> So then how do humans generalize so well from so little language data? Is “pre-training” on visual data the secret to our success? Aren't you assuming that humans are born with some kind of blank slate of a brain? What if they don
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by leshow 2y ago
Take a person with a full head of hair and remove one hair, are they bald? Remove another one, bald? Clearly not, but if you keep removing hairs at some point you have a head we consider bald. Deregulation has been working like that. It&#x2
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by leshow 2y ago
I would guess the shipbuilding industry in Finland is also built on subsidy and "protectionism" just like every other successful industry too. A cursory google search shows millions that were made available to shipbuilders: https
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by leshow 2y ago
The decline in quality of out Boeing has coincided with a collapse of the regulatory framework that kept profit extraction limited since the 70's and 80's. Now you've got the worst of both worlds, where the industry is protec
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by leshow 2y ago
> The West plays nice as much as possible. Please, tell us how you came to this conclusion
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by leshow 2y ago
which UDP settings do you usually tune?
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by leshow 2y ago
The book "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" covers lots of stories like this from the industrial revolution. The luddites resisted having their work taken over by machines. The machines produced
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by leshow 3y ago
I would bet other things your read are laden with ideological language, you just don't notice because you've already decided you agree with it.
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by leshow 3y ago
You're just saying it's a technocracy in a nicer way
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by leshow 3y ago
> Even the smartest people I know have a commendable tendency not to take certain ideas seriously. Bostrom’s simulation argument, the anthropic doomsday argument, Pascal’s Mugging – I’ve never heard anyone give a coherent argument agains
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by leshow 3y ago
You mention bankruptcy, it should be noted that Greece was loaded up with debt it could never hope to pay back to private French and German banks, and it was not allowed to declare itself bankrupt and restructure. Instead, they kept "e
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by leshow 3y ago
It's usually the opposite. In a crash or time of hardship you want to spend more. Austerity in a downturn creates a virtuous cycle. That's the insight of Keynes and what got the world out of the Great Depression. The austerity pol
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by leshow 3y ago
nice! been waiting on this one for ages. Any idea if removing the implicit box-ing that async_trait uses has a measurable impact on performance? Are there some cases, say with really big futures, where removing the boxing actually hurts per
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by leshow 3y ago
You define "open" as selling a service?
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by leshow 3y ago
are any of these points supposed to be convincing? why would I want my identity managed by a shitcoin run by a private company?
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by leshow 3y ago
> The U.S. has been booming for hundreds of years at this point. Glorifying the early US economic system is not doing much for your argument.
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by leshow 3y ago
Riiight, please ignore the existential planetary destruction we are hurtling towards, trust these ubermensch to decide what's best for you.
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by leshow 3y ago
I really wish people would drop the "explicit is better than implicit" mantra. What "explicit" means vague. Does it mean you want the code to be verbose? Noisy? Because that's silly, and Rust doesn't even have
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by leshow 3y ago
There's also an interesting story about Chile under Allende trying to implement some cybernetic systems in the 70's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn There's a book called "Cybernetic R
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by leshow 3y ago
I really liked this book on the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/da/book/show/57615568-collapse The inevitability of the USSR collapse was certainly framed that way by pro-western ideologues, but my understan
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by leshow 3y ago
Do you have any good resources for UDP tuning?
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by leshow 3y ago
It's not a labor shortage, it's a wage shortage.
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by leshow 3y ago
I've got one of these from way back and was meaning to do something similar in Rust. Yet another project that I just never got around to.
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by leshow 3y ago
It seems to me if you wanted to deliver on "economic benefits", save lives, reduce emissions, etc there is an obvious already existing option: subways/LRT. For inter-city travel build high speed rail. I just don't see dr
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by leshow 3y ago
The benefit of a coop structure like this is for the workers. Worker owned coops tend to have flatter pay scales, retain employees longer, and are internally democratic.

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