malfist

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by malfist 5mo ago
Exactly, the even say: >I bought my home in Auburn, WA for $321k, and sold it a few years later for $333k. After all the costs to buy and sell it, I probably lost more money on it than I would have spent renting an apartment. Home owners
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by malfist 5mo ago
This is nonsense. The person counts the 12 month escrow prepayment during closing as "cost to get a loan" It's not. It's the cost of 12 months of taxes and insurance on your property. Also notable is the "1 year ins
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by malfist 5mo ago
Uber would never take any immoral action like that. They've always been upstanding citizens.
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by malfist 5mo ago
I'm down to start a butleirian jihad
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by malfist 5mo ago
My other half is one of those. Works in setting up hospital pharmacies for new hospitals and he's the "excel and VBA guy" to all his coworkers. It's amazing how far just a little bit of programming can
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by malfist 5mo ago
Sometimes I step in dog poop. That doesn't mean I want to go to a dog park, find all the poop and roll around in it.
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by malfist 5mo ago
There's a question "is AI randomness like human randomness" but there is no hypothesis.
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by malfist 5mo ago
I average 800-1000 searches per month and I don't generally search for places I know the URL for (usually only when I can't spell it)
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by malfist 5mo ago
The premise is interesting, the question is brilliant, but the text. The text is a wall of ai slop saying almost nothing interesting. Fake profundity all throughout. GPT tell tells like "the hypothesis holds". The hypothesis doesn
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by malfist 5mo ago
Let be honest though. Do you really consider something like your phone "self powered"? I know I wouldn't. My light switches that are powered by the click, those I would.
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by malfist 5mo ago
WSJ Opinion Piece: "Why It'd Be A Mistake To Inconvenience Billionaires" -Some Other Billionaire
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by malfist 5mo ago
That could never happen here. We have a history of strongly regulating capital and banks. Why look at all the executives we jailed for the 2008 financial crisis!
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by malfist 5mo ago
These wealth taxes are not proposed to apply to everyone evenly, that would be a regressive tax policy. There is a wealth cutoff, most commonly proposed to be around $50M. If grandma has $50M in her house and pension, she can afford to pay
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by malfist 5mo ago
> Of course this wouldn't matter at all if more phones rotated the screens so that the display was upright even if the phone is upside down Generally I don't want to get my skin oils all over the lenses on my really expensive s
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by malfist 5mo ago
Yes it can
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by malfist 5mo ago
You should check out Stripe's dev blog about minions. Seems directionally similar.
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by malfist 5mo ago
What part of the recent history of vibe coded projects has not resulted in low quality, bug laden code? Dismissing this a "purely speculative" is just like dismissing the weather report as "purely speculative" when decid
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by malfist 5mo ago
It's just the worst version of capitalist game theory. If I don't do the bad thing and get rich, then someone else will do the bad thing and I won't get rich.
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by malfist 5mo ago
I have a script at work that writes out some config files and I'm having Claude run them after making changes. The script if it detects breaking changes will spit out a message saying what the breaking changes are, and not do anything,
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by malfist 5mo ago
> Not having to argue with devs that have their own agendas Agendas like, "let's not check our API key into a public github repo" or "Let's not store passwords in plaintext" or "Don't expose custom
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by malfist 5mo ago
"No u" isn't a valid counter argument. Arguer made no assumption about your view of the ethics of LLMs.
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by malfist 5mo ago
> There is fundamentally nothing wrong with the technology itself It is when the foundation of the training set for the technology is predicated on stolen or exploited labor.
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by malfist 5mo ago
These people are going to have a really hard time coming to grips with reality in the next few years. Beanie babies are here to stay, and they're expanding very rapidly. If you can't fight them, join them. These people are going t
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by malfist 5mo ago
Spacex is not too big to fail.
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by malfist 5mo ago
Are you trying to say that "hardware guys" don't care if they're working to advance the agenda from a Nazi?
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by malfist 5mo ago
Talking out of my ass, but I think that's only for concrete right? Same reason saudi arabia imports sand for their construction projects.
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by malfist 5mo ago
IIRC any grease is considered a contaminate. So any cardboard with grease splotching should be discarded instead of recycled. Interesting my municipality recycles glass, but like, why? Silica is the most common mineral in the crust, easily
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by malfist 5mo ago
This doesn't surprise me, almost no municipality in the US will recycle number 5 plastics. Why Starbucks says they're "widely recyclable" is a mystery but it certainly seems an effort at deceptive greenwashing.
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by malfist 5mo ago
Are you asserting that the folks who participated in a literal coup attempt were maliciously prosecuted by the federal government? Because that sounds like the position you're arguing from.
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by malfist 5mo ago
I'm sure that the DOJ, headed by Trump's personal attorney, will get right on the Trump administration to prevent them from violating the Hyde amendment. This comment has too much snark, but anybody who says the Trump administrati

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