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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> A goods trade deficit, almost entirely courtesy of oil imports (strangely no oil tariffs have been announced, though...). When you add services it has been a wash to a US surplus for many years. I guess, but goods trade deficit is stil
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We had these and a few SUN systems in our computer lab storage room. We called them the dinosaurs. It's amazing how things changed from 1993 to mid 2000s. From technology rock stars to useless junk in a little more than a decade. The &
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> Trudeau doesn't need the midterms -- Republicans in both houses are strongly on the "Canadian" side, as are the Democrats. There are plenty of republicans and democrats who are against canada. Especially in the important
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Any headline beginning with "Robots ready to start killing..." really is unnerving.
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> Did not freakanomics come up with a famous (and to me more convincing) argument that it legalized abortion was the reason for the drop in crime? At they very least it dispels the arguments we don't have a better explanation and do
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Interesting points. Also, I've always wondered how you do prevent lying when it comes to self-reporting? Extroverts, who are expected to be happy, could just self report as being happy, even when they are not. How do we know that parti
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Thought they closed down years ago. Used to see tons of village voice newsracks all over the city. Haven't seen any in years.
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In the US, we used to have NFL blackout games. If the football game wasn't soldout, the NFL wouldn't broadcast it on TV. So local businesses or the wealthy would buy the unsold tickets so that us poor peasants could get to see the
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And the dream and hope of a free and open internet suffers a death by a thousand cuts. It seems like the powerful around the world are competing with each other to see who can censor and control the internet the most. And of course they all
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Since at least the early 2000s, every few years, we get the "why companies are leaving SV" or "SV is dying" or "tech center is moving to X, Y, Z". Northern virginia was supposed to depose a while ago. Then it w
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
There is a lot you can criticize Trump about but what he has done with the economy deserves a lot of credit. Just 3 or 4 years ago, economists were saying that we would never see 4% growth ever again and that 1 to 2% growth was the new norm
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Even in ancient greece there were jokes. Plato wrote about Thales: "Thales was studying the stars and gazing aloft when he fell into a well; a witty and amusing Thracian servant-girl made fun of him because, she said, he was wild to kn
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It's not cost effective with the rise of the cloud and broadband.
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Sure. The objective data I provided shows a correlation and not a causation. But it contradicts the study of a "huge" reduction in intelligence due to air pollution. If air pollution causes reduction in intelligence, IQs would not
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So essentially a checksum. Using that logic, blockchains have been hiding within the internet forever because tcp/ip protocol employs them.
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Sigh. Average IQs have significantly increased as pollution has significantly increased. We have objective data on this. https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution We h
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That was the relatively decentralized and competitive pre-social media internet. The problem now is that google and facebook have such a dominant position that larry page and zuckerburg can decide what to show us and what not to show us. Th
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> The quickness by the administration to attack media, promote propaganda, and now censorship is frightening. How exactly is trump promoting censorship here? Isn't he doing the exact opposite? Isn't he promoting free speech? An
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Why single out google only? Isn't it an industry wide issue rather than a company one? This is going to be interesting because recent moves by social media and tech companies have shifted them from a distribution platform to publisher
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If you are on linux, use vim or emacs or a linux-centric IDE. I prefer vim, but others like emacs/etc. But one reason why I will never use VSCode on linux is because they collect data ( or reserve the right to ). If you are on windows,
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Samsung and TSMC have large foundries in the US. And the US has the most foundries of any nation by far. I wouldn't call it a transfer, but a diffusion of technological expertise. Don't see us losing our technological expertise an
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Nah. Tech workers burnout for the same reason nurses, cops, accountants and everyone else burns out. The drudgery of the work not meeting your expectations ( cool hacker vs office code monkey ), the open-ended nature of the work ( you will
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Does silicon valley like money? Will an industry created by the military take military money? I'm no expert, but my crystal ball says yes. If not, the pentagon would simply fund a new silicon valley in virginia and the surrounding area