nivenkos

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by nivenkos 4y ago
VAT and income tax are scams that tax work rather than wealth. So the wealthy pay far less than the hard-working working class. We need wealth tax, property tax, land value tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax, and nationalised resource
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by nivenkos 4y ago
If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
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Productivity at this scale is literally just GDP / manhours worked. So it's more likely that unemployment from lockdowns -> cheap labour -> no incentive to automate or efficient use of manpower. That said, the US economy has
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Bing Crosby's got his work cut out.
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I'm from Northern Europe, but it became popular in the stupidpol and cscareerquestions subreddits on Reddit as European salaries are so, so much lower. There was a salary survey in my company and even in Northern Europe - every single
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by nivenkos 4y ago
No, bureaucracy and crime are awful. Bear in mind this is the same country that bans Google Street View (and on the road to ban nuclear power and GM crops). People here support this ban because they think it's "harmful", but
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Let's not get started on "AI safety"...
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Hope the employees form trade unions and workers' councils to help stop this bullshit. Look at DigitalOcean - literally doing "layoffs" whilst shifting hiring to Pakistan: https://www.theregister.com/2023&#x2F
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Why? IMO we should use facial recognition, digital ID, a cashless society and everything at our disposal to stamp out crime. It's the working class who pay the price at the moment. We get burgled, mugged and killed, meanwhile the wealt
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It's not unthinkable that they'd move the transponders for a secret mission, no? Also Hersh's point about the NATO head being an asset in his late teens is definitely feasible, as that was exactly what the Norwegian governmen
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by nivenkos 4y ago
For reference - https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-p...
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Au contraire - https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-the-western-media-is...
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My point was that in the past journalists in general supported him and were against the establishment. Whereas if Watergate happened today they'd just say it's justified against Russian spies or something.
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They do. The only real investigative journalists these days - Edward Snowden and Julian Assange - face life in prison and exile. Even Seymour Hersh has been smeared to discredit him now he dared speak against the establishment. It is not jo
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by nivenkos 4y ago
This article is amazing, I had exactly the same questions when studying genetics (a decade after the Human Genome Project) of what exactly is and isn't sequenced, what can be sequenced and why, etc.
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The Hiroshima one is hilarious, like something straight off Not The 9 O'clock News.
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Yeah, mixed is really common for commercial in Europe for example. But heavy industry is still zoned for sure.
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Zoning exists outside the USA, sometimes implicit in planning permission.
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And then more good people leave too, as they're more willing to accept other offers.
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Midjourney for sure, although I feel that the real added value would come from it being able to do more specific tasks. e.g. generate 3d models of X animating Y with this exact resolution, etc. and then choose the best ones as a starting po
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Stadia was a massive lost opportunity, they had no unique games (i.e. using server-side co-locality for multiplayer, etc.) nor a decent subscription to compete with MS Games Pass.
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It's gonna be Chatbots / NFTs all over again.
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GPT3 isn't search.
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But it still took the best physicists in the world with unlimited resources almost a decade to do so... That article is a nice thought experiment, but they didn't actually build it.
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Do they even ship outside the USA? Nevermind all the chemicals, just shipping the plant itself internationally for that kit might be impossible. It's a shame, the EU is so technologically backward and anti-science.
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It's also really difficult though. Just like people building their own nuclear bombs hasn't been a major worry. The real issue is the CIA, FSB, etc. doing it deliberately.
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They were bought out and turned into another version of Tinder, Badoo, etc. - there is no commercial incentive to release it.
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The issue is the incentives are to string along those who are willing to pay (usually men due to the supply-demand situation) for revenue. Also there are just so many bots now, I've found the bots to be the main reason I stopped using
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Wish there were more details - like demos, specs, a release date, etc.
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Just to help shore up old institutional corporations like SAP, etc. The EU is basically an association for German business owners and landowners. Happy to impede technological progress if it serves their interests.

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