lesuorac

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by lesuorac 6mo ago
And Jstor dropped the lawsuit when Aaron deleted his local copy. DOJ didn't drop theirs. I doubt Meta has deleted their local copy though ...
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
Why shouldn't somebody has to ask for permission before using your stuff (disk space)? It's just by default nobody really wants to give up disk space so you can do better ad tracking so the banner is necessary to convince them to.
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
Well, his argument is that he can remove inefficiencies in the combined company. GME is ~12B, EBAY is ~46B (58 total) with net income of 0.4B and 2B (2.4 total). If he boosts profit by 1.2B then it's nearly a 50% increase and probably
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
> Is this really the most likely scenario or is it perhaps the one you’d like to believe the most? You mean the companies that have an unnecessary 5 min file load wait in GTA5 are also the same companies that insert the same files into a
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
> For a long time now I've found it weird that people who like single player games on PC (and to a lesser extent older consoles which had piracy enabling mods) didn't acknowledge the long game consequences of their actions Isn&
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
> Mixing various side agendas is greatly detrimental to understanding and countering political nationalism, in fact, it helps its proponents. Look whose mixing side agendas lol. Fascism (Autocracy w/ low freedoms) and Nationalism (P
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
Trump's had 3 wives; I'd say that he's popular with the ladies. Plus every time he runs he does better with them [1], he might even get to 50-50 in 2028. Unclear who you mean by 2nd most powerful man. Musk successfully convin
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
How many unmarried fascists can you name? Also the stereotypical parental structure is pretty fascist.
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
Suppose you could wave a magic wand and change US immigration law in any way you like. What changes would you make? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164104
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
I would bet a lot. My memory is that you could make multi-level lobbies on the first floor and you'd end up with like a grand staircase. Edit: Apparently just pillars no staircase - https://old.reddit.com/r/SimTowe
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
It's just "thinking past the sale" which they've been doing forever. i.e. "I'm so worried that our capped for-profit structure will limit your returns when we make over 1 Trillion in profit".
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
I think the larger issue is the delayed ROI. You pay workers well and retain institutional knowledge it helps you 5+ years down the road. Who in 5+ years is going to run a study that shows retaining the people that created a system made it
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
It's a success. The redundant systems of 3mi meant that the 10 miles around it received the effect of a chest x-ray. I mean we allow coal plants to vent radioactive material. Surely nuclear considering it an accident is an improvement.
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
I mean what is real work anyways? Like take finance where people just email broken spreadsheets around all day. If they stop doing that then farmers can't get loans to buy crops which means crops don't get planted and so on-so-for
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
Given that US largely taxes income and capital gains both of which are related to GDP it's a fine proxy.
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
Don't you worry, Leadership will get us off this reliable Tech Island and onto the shit-infested Tech Continent that the rest of the world lives on.
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
If you're looking for a citation about this, the 1999 Dunning-Kurger paper "Unskilled and unaware" [1] is about this. People who are unskilled at a task are unaware of what that task performed correctly is. So, somebody who c
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
You don't even need to hit that many ships either. Despite there being way less than 1 successful attack per week [1] travel through the Red Sea is down from ~500/week to ~200/week [2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
Why does it matter if volatility is lower than the market? Future payments in the short term are covered by inflows. You might as well maximize the returns now so that in the future when it's not covered by inflows you've acrewed
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
Why? FaceBook largely requires an Apple iPhone, Apple computer, "Microsoft" computer, "Google" phone, or a "Google" computer to use it. At any point one of those companies could cut FaceBook off (ex. [1]). The
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
> Maybe we need to start thinking less about building tests for definitively calling an LLM AGI and instead deciding when we can't tell humans aren't LLMs for declaring AGI is here. If you've never read the original paper
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
> I dunno, he's pretty consistent as a white nationalist. > ... Fox News ... Sure but can you link some white nationalist clips when he was the host of Crossfire [1] for 5 years? Like he's just not principled. If he were to
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
Literally no principal involved. Tucker will take any position for money see his entire career! Plus the guy was advocating the administration should attack Iran for attempting to assassinate trump.
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
I think it's a bit easier to add a "Some" option so that then the App is unaware to the effective "No" answer. But also a lot of the permissions are just bad. Like I think it's reasonable for somebody to make a
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
> it's because it is a lumbering bureaucracy full of people who couldn't get better jobs elsewhere So, raise the amount of money paid to the military so the most qualified candidates apply?
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
"Almost"? Can you can name 1 with evidence? Like if I look up home depot they talk about price volatility and that's the exact opposite of what a hedge produces. I'm honestly starting to doubt if they hedge at all; like
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
Do they? Afaik, they don't [1]. > WONG: However, Gerry says most of the major airlines in the U.S. eventually soured on fuel hedging. One reason - the Wall Street transaction fees to make these hedges got expensive. > WOODS: Plus
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
You mean to tell me that the peanut butter at my store has junk besides peanut butter in it? I'm gunna call RFK right now and tell him to fix this!
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
Eh, while I do think you should go out and vote I'm not sure you can exactly say they're endorsing the status quo. Take 2024 vs 2020 where turnout dropped 4% [1] and compare it to the 2025 NYC mayoral race where more people in 202
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by lesuorac 6mo ago
> one of the chief complaints about policing over the last couple years has been the lack of traffic enforcement. Which traffic enforcement though? I really do not like the fact that lefts on red are not enforced. I have numerous times s

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