matrix87

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by matrix87 3y ago
> I'd have to relocate to the bay area to continue advancing. Why the hell do they push this so hard? Is it just some ponzi scheme to prop up the housing market or something?
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Just don't live in the tenderloin. Or Bayview-Hunters Point, apparently that one is even worse... /watch?v=FXLD6wn2VBQ
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by matrix87 3y ago
This is the danger of having shitty gop candidates, then the dems can roll with some uninspiring, corrupt, hillaryesque candidate like Hochul and manage to hold onto power. When one party gets shittier, it allows the other one to get shitti
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by matrix87 3y ago
> is used to transfer money to individuals with, on average, significantly higher net worths than those paying the tax I mean, no shit. People at retirement age will have more in savings than pretty much every other demographic Somewhat
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by matrix87 3y ago
Oh cool, maybe I'll go harvest some and save them for later
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by matrix87 3y ago
Don't forget how Hochul sabotaged the right to repair bill right before signing it [0] > and the bill as signed by Hochul contains even more conditions and exceptions, ostensibly added to address the governor's concerns about &
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by matrix87 3y ago
Insurance companies are probably already doing something like this anyway
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Law of Jante(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by matrix87 3y ago|0 comments
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by matrix87 3y ago
I used to get really upset about this, but not as much anymore. I don't think the solution is sitting around and hoping for compromise. It's better if we stop trying to make it sustainable and let it suffocate itself so that the s
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by matrix87 3y ago
> According to Axel Springer, Eyeo’s business model constituted: ... a violation of freedom of the press Wah, cry me a river. Some corporation making hundreds of millions of dollars thinks it has a right to run malware on people's c
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Thus begins the arms race. Except, the one side has to pay for the dev work on their own proprietary system, the other side is a horde of volunteers. At a certain point it isn't worthwhile, easier to just accept that some people a
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by matrix87 3y ago
Maybe use android then? Then you can use newpipe, AdAway, FF with desktop add-ons. I use it and don't have the same problem
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by matrix87 3y ago
> If we banned tiktok (or any other social media company) someone will make another in its place. That's the point, make another in its place, but make one that isn't affiliated with a hostile foreign government. There are enou
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by matrix87 3y ago
The benefit is if you show people what war is actually like, people will be more averse to it
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by matrix87 3y ago
I don't think it makes sense to equate English speaking Wikipedia (I'm assuming that's what you're referring to) with a different language Wikipedia. Different cultures, most likely fewer people sitting around spending e
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by matrix87 3y ago
> The couple, who earn a combined $400,000 a year, are putting off big vacations right now. Rasool says if someone had told her a decade ago she’d feel financially overextended making this much, she wouldn’t have believed them. If someon
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by matrix87 3y ago
This is just a sample size of n=1. I personally don't use these but worked with a guy who leaned heavily on LLMs for a group project. He was really good at quickly shitting out boilerplate but couldn't actually explain any of it
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by matrix87 3y ago
All of a sudden, mental health is now a thing. So the FAA needs to change their policies and support the current thing Since mental health became a thing, have we become more mentally healthy as a society? Has it actually accomplished anyth
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by matrix87 3y ago
I don't think there's a monotonic curve where more development leads to lower fertility. Both Sweden and New Zealand have higher HDIs than SK, but their fertility rates are higher than many countries which are considered less deve
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by matrix87 3y ago
This makes me wonder: if the north goes to war with the south all of a sudden and enough people die, the corresponding demographic collapse could be enough to leave the south empty within a generation
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by matrix87 3y ago
They allow you outside of Pyongyang? How did you manage to do that, were you under some kind of govt supervision?
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Ads are noise. Not necessarily, maybe as a general rule If the ads are high effort enough, people will actively seek them out, just the effort won't scale
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by matrix87 3y ago
It isn't a "price" that you pay for some reward down the line, or at least that's a pretty shallow way of approaching it, and assuming that is kind of reductive
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by matrix87 3y ago
I'm pretty sure they anticipated this attitude in Revelation 3:15 Indifference is worse than extreme atheism or fundamentalism because those two options are actually concerned about others The indifferent person could care less whether
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by matrix87 3y ago
I initially thought above comment was about on call because of the "things catch on fire part", I guess not > where extra hours are silently worked prevents being forced to pick up the slack that shouldn't be there in the
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by matrix87 3y ago
They have a responsibility to the population as a whole, a majority of which rent their own housing
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by matrix87 3y ago
> There are so many heroes out there casually looking at work while eating cereal in their underwear at 1am. They're no more stressed than anyone else. I personally know several people from amazon, pretty much all of them acknowledg
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by matrix87 3y ago
> people who are falling behind frequently work more after hours? From my experience it's the opposite, the people who are falling behind aren't the ones working irregular hours
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by matrix87 3y ago
There's a really good Yale lecture on this, kind of long but interesting nonetheless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcIuAJ-jaSg&t=0 He makes an interesting point in a subsequent lecture on Islam. Because Christian
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by matrix87 3y ago
> It is not advisable to take even close to this dose without significant experience and an ultra-safe, comfortable setting. 5g+ isn't advisable, period. It seems odd that whatever organization this is tries to present itself as pro

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