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by mertd 3y ago
Where would you go from HMB on one of these? It's not like they would let it rip at 180mph under the Golden Gate Bridge.
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by mertd 3y ago
Yes. There are two kinds of people, Erdogan voters and "Not Erdogan" voters. If the latter has less too choose from, that's not good for Erdogan.
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by mertd 3y ago
I had to read that sentence thrice but I don't think it's in conflict with op. The Guardian is suggesting Ince's votes will be split between the main contenders. Then KK who is in the lead will have a higher chance of clearin
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by mertd 3y ago
If you are puzzled by weird economic positions of people don't read the threads about SVB's collapse.
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by mertd 3y ago
I disagree. There is a lot of good and information dense content on YouTube. Shorts as a format though mostly tends to be dopamine rich garbage.
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by mertd 3y ago
Shorts is the digital content equivalent of cigarettes. I'd love an option to hide shorts forever.
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by mertd 3y ago
You can delete your watch history after every session or have something automated do it for you. That will work fine if you only want to watch the content you subscribed to. If you want better recommendations though you may have to tolerate
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by mertd 3y ago
I have YT premium and it is easily the best money I spend most months. I'll just play devil's advocate. Maybe people are imagining a pay per view type of experience?
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by mertd 3y ago
To be fair, human drivers don't do terribly well on that front.
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by mertd 3y ago
Counter point: a non human won't gossip with your neighbor about you bringing an overnight fling.
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by mertd 3y ago
That's amazing. Very cool.
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by mertd 3y ago
The loophole enabled car makers to produce SUVs but ultimately the consumers who still had a choice between fuel efficient sedans and SUVs, overwhelmingly chose to buy SUVs.
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by mertd 3y ago
Remember when it was a very big deal when a certain company pre installed a certain app in their OS?
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by mertd 3y ago
> The amount of just totally irrelevant ads we get these days blows my mind, > even with aggressive pihole on our network plus adblockers on every device. Please don't take this as snark but these two statements are not uncorrela
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by mertd 3y ago
RWD is part of the brand identity for BMW.
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by mertd 4y ago
That's bit of a dramatic hot take. LLMs, for instance, won't drive your car anytime soon.
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by mertd 4y ago
They really tried hard to make it sound like SF is leaving "the" Salesforce tower.
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by mertd 4y ago
The post is somewhat incomplete without also discussing the cost of the wrong decision. You obey the smoke alarm because the cost of ignoring the alarm when it is a true positive is potentially infinite (you die). You ignore the car alarm b
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by mertd 4y ago
Trophy hunting has to be one of the most bizarre "fun" activities. How is ending a life fun?
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by mertd 4y ago
People are very good at creating work. Every time tech creates a paradigm shift and people cry that there will be not enough work, the exact opposite happens.
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by mertd 4y ago
Substack has an app?
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by mertd 4y ago
> With birds eye view, parking sensors aren't really needed anymore, so they didn't place an order for new sensors. Sorry but that's a large logical chasm you just casually leapt. How does bird's eye view magically de
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by mertd 4y ago
You are thinking of drop.com and even Kickstarter to some extent. Those serve hobbyist niches, where the margin of the "good stuff" tends to be very high and it makes sense to drop that through a group order. I wonder if we have o
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by mertd 4y ago
In the 90s the predominant fear of overpopulation used to be that we would run out of food. Now we know not that making food is easy, but we wreck the environment along the way.
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by mertd 4y ago
"Hondas are reliable". To many people this is true not because they independently concluded the brand makes reliable vehicles but someone else told them so. This line of "reasoning" is also how LLM functions.
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by mertd 4y ago
So much of human "reasoning" is also just automated reflex. We ping pong back and forth the same sequence of sentences all the time. The fact that an LLM can do this as well is a little unsettling.
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by mertd 4y ago
We need to realize that publicized healthcare is the only option. Then we can focus on how to make it more efficient.
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by mertd 4y ago
I agree but part of me is also starting to think that for many people having a big chunk of their wealth tied up to an illiquid asset is not a terrible thing because otherwise they would "invest" it in JPEGs.
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by mertd 4y ago
Isn't the mortality because of SIDS? It has not much to do with germ transmission.
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by mertd 4y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the explanations. NYC has similar limitations but there are plenty of large breeds. Maybe the first bullet about weight limits is the key differentiator.

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