megaman821

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by megaman821 18d ago
Was there a time when an oak dresser was much cheaper in inflation adjusted dollars? Furniture that lasts forever is an anti-feature for some. They want to change their furnishings about as often as cheap furniture lasts anyway. I mostly bu
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by megaman821 20d ago
No, people should say accurate things. If Flock was not actually invovled then it is just useless clickbait. Give your time to someone else who can report accurately.
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by megaman821 24d ago
AIs have no concept of time. If they wanted to wipe out humans they would release a virus that increases infertility by a small amount, and wait a few hunderd years for population collapse.
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by megaman821 1mo ago
Having your cereal crushed and then not eating it is more wasteful than dozens of cardboard boxes. Increasing food waste to decrease packaging waste doesn't make sense; food is way more energy intensive to create than packaging.
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by megaman821 1mo ago
I was in a city that did a bag ban. Informally I observed a lot of perfectly fine reusable bags being discard. I believe later on this was confirmed that the total amount of waste from bags actually went up since the bag ban was enacted. Th
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by megaman821 1mo ago
Can a reconstruct distinct areas of a larger area with a "fog of war" in between, or will it hallucinate the unknown areas?
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by megaman821 1mo ago
That makes litteraly no sense. All the biggest companies are driven by middle-class purchases. Rich-only companies are boutique and are order-of-magnitude smaller than mass market companies.
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by megaman821 1mo ago
I use it for tabbed content. That way search will reveal the tab and content on page search match.
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by megaman821 2mo ago
I think a lot of people want to decouple insurance from employment but the mechanics would be tricky. Ideally all business would take what they pay for insurance and stick it in the employee's paycheck and then the employee would buy i
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by megaman821 2mo ago
This is less about private healthcare and more about how employer-provided healthcare is tax advantaged. Credits and tax breaks should go to the individual so they can choose and keep their insurance through different jobs.
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by megaman821 3mo ago
It's not just the chargeback process; it is that fraud actually removes money your account potentially causing other payments, like your mortgage, to default. With a credit card you have a month to get things straightened out before a
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by megaman821 3mo ago
That is orthogonal to the point. Shipping is considered a hard industry to reduce CO2 emissions, like aviation, but unlike aviation, 50% of the distance ships are traveling are just delivering fuel. So solving non-shipping fuel use solves n
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by megaman821 4mo ago
RemindMe! -20 year
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by megaman821 4mo ago
Polls like these always remimnd me that I need set up a investing strategy that does the opposite of public sentiment.
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by megaman821 4mo ago
The idea that the AI data centers would depreciate in just a few years is plain wrong. The argument was that new chips would be so much more powerful and efficient that it would be cheaper to buy and operate the new chips than to just opera
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by megaman821 4mo ago
Trivially yes, for any locations with summer energy use peaks. The solar output will be the greatest when the demand for cooling is at its greatest. Yes, for places with sizeable hydropower. You simply hold the water for longer. Probably ye
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by megaman821 4mo ago
A lot of the world is a free-market and labors can absolutely own the means of production. Is there some government regulation in particular that you think is preventing this?
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by megaman821 5mo ago
That's why planes should be flown using direct democracy. Passengers (correctly) feel like they have little power over the maneuvers planes make and affect them moment to moment. Representational democracy is far superior. Decisions ne
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by megaman821 5mo ago
I wonder how accurate joint positions and muscle activations can be from just a POV camera. Maybe it’s not crazy to think someone could get tens of millions of hours of well-labeled training data.
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by megaman821 5mo ago
Well anything can sound dumb, when you simplify it to something dumb. We have multiple airbags, anti-lock braking, seatbelt pretensioner, collision avoidance, crumple zones, fuel pump automatic shut off, backup cameras, rollover testing, ..
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by megaman821 5mo ago
Almost nothing can make labor-dominated services drop though. I guess you could have guest worker visas that pay half the going wage, and there would be a lot of people that take that deal, but most Americans would hate that. Grocery inflat
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by megaman821 5mo ago
Americans just won't buy these "cheap" cars. Almost every American car-maker, and most foreign car importers too, have dropped passengers cars from their lineup year-after-year leaving only SUVs and trucks. Look at what Ford
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by megaman821 5mo ago
You're right, a 4 year loan in the 80's basically didn't exist.
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by megaman821 5mo ago
Some things yes and some things no. It is not and cut-and-dry as you think. Look up the inflation adjust prices for a computer or a "big-screen" TV and realize almost no one pays anything near those prices for any consumer good. O
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by megaman821 5mo ago
Even with these cherry-picked examples, plug in how things actually were. That $8,200 station wagon with at 48 month loan and the terrible 80's loan rates of 10-12% would be like $750/month now. Most of those cars wouldn't ma
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by megaman821 5mo ago
Between the ethanol and the animal feed, we are encouraging growing way more corn than is needed for food security.
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by megaman821 6mo ago
Gross man, get help. Living with your family isn't using them as a sheild.
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by megaman821 6mo ago
I was looking at this yesterday and wondering if it would play nice with design systems. AI loves making localized changes and when playing around with spacing I tend to just bump up and down values until they look close, so when this sends
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by megaman821 6mo ago
Thanks for the comment, I was trying to parse the meaning of "time needed to earn $1" for a bit. This just boils down to what countries have the highest floor for their poorest members.
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by megaman821 6mo ago
Yes, ice cream palors are famous for only using shades of gray and never adorning their products with things like sprinkles.

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