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by nostromo 8mo ago
No conspiracy required. There's a lot of money to be made lobbying against guns - in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year - regardless of efficacy.
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by nostromo 8mo ago
I'm old, so I remember saying the same thing about Google and search. I hope you're right!
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by nostromo 8mo ago
They'll all do this eventually. We're in the part of the market cycle where everyone fights for marketshare by selling dollar bills for 50 cents. When a winner emerges they'll pull the rug out from under you and try to wall o
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by nostromo 9mo ago
Until very recently, tariffs on American cars sold in China were much higher than vice-versa. The new US tariffs were an attempt to even the playing field. I think most people would agree that no tariffs would be good, but China is more pr
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by nostromo 9mo ago
That person is reportedly in jail and facing serious time. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-jails-venezuela-leaker-... Anyone with a security clearance making bets like this is not a smart person.
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by nostromo 9mo ago
I think reclining is appropriate at night only. If it were up to me, they would be locked upright during the day.
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by nostromo 1y ago
I have the same issue. I often get annoyed with ChatGPT yammering on and on, so I repeatedly told it to cut to the chase and speak more succinctly. Now it just says "I'll get right to the point..." and then still yammers on a
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by nostromo 1y ago
Here’s my hot take on tinnitus: First and foremost, ignore it. When you find yourself listening to it, distract yourself and immediately move on. Secondly, add more white noise into your environment. The best approach I find is just openin
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by nostromo 1y ago
Thankfully the constitution explicitly forbids that in the US.
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by nostromo 1y ago
You've missed the point entirely. It’s not if Google can decide what content they want on YouTube. The issue here is that the Biden Whitehouse was pressuring private companies to remove speech that they otherwise would host. That'
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by nostromo 1y ago
It's not a word salad. It says this wasn't because of the FCC. Disney made the decision. And then they unmade it.
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by nostromo 1y ago
> The decision was guided by what was in the entertainment company's best interest, rather than external pressure from station owners or the FCC, the sources said.
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by nostromo 1y ago
Reuter's reported that Disney did this to protect the company’s interest and was not due to the FCC. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/disney-says-j...
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by nostromo 1y ago
Nobody has any principles here my friend. There is a long list of people canceled for making content that displeased the Democrats, and now a few murders too. But yes, apparently everyone hates Disney and wants them to go bankrupt. So fin
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by nostromo 1y ago
The political right in this country would love for Disney to be boycotted - just saying.
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by nostromo 1y ago
If you choose to donate, know that a small fraction of your donation goes to Wikipedia. Most of your donation goes to unrelated projects. Wikipedia could function forever without another donation if they wanted to.
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by nostromo 1y ago
I'm sure this will be painful for a lot of people and that sucks. But drop-shipping into the U.S. has been absurdly one-sided for years. Americans have been subsidizing it through taxes and mailing rates our own government negotiated,
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by nostromo 1y ago
What's even sadder is that so many of those posts and comments are clearly written by ChatGPT: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkobei/openai_jus...
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by nostromo 1y ago
Thank you for the correction.
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by nostromo 1y ago
People are turning melted rocks into thinking machines and general purpose robots and you're like "it's all basically pets.com." It's hard to take your point of view seriously after that honestly.
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by nostromo 1y ago
That's pretty average (which is a good thing). Japan: 20% China: 20% India: 13% UK: 24% Italy: 26% Germany: 26% France: 30% Then there's Canada of course... 50% with a proposal to make it 66% in 2026. Let's see how that wor
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by nostromo 1y ago
Now look at economic growth rates. To be clear, I think US spending is too high. But I would take a bit more debt and thriving economic growth vs a bit less debt and zero economic growth every time.
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by nostromo 1y ago
Having billions of low-skill "prime age workers" is not a good thing in the AI era. Africa's population surge is a liability as much as it is a benefit, especially considering they already have to import a large portion of t
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by nostromo 1y ago
This isn't true. US tax revenue in 2025 is on track to be the highest ever.
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by nostromo 1y ago
Europe has repeatedly tried to soak the rich, and the results are always the same: the rich move their wealth somewhere else and you end up breaking even or even reducing your tax revenue. France: https://www.theguardian.com&#x2F
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by nostromo 1y ago
If you think the US has a debt problem, the Eurozone is much worse. At least America has economic growth along with debt growth. The EU has slightly less debt but zero economic growth and almost zero population growth (and negative organi
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by nostromo 1y ago
Defense spending, moderate taxation, and a respect for private property is what makes the dollar a reserve currency to begin with. Taxing wealth agressively and cutting defense would immediately kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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by nostromo 1y ago
The issue is that all governments are in roughly the same situation, so there is no alternative other than maybe gold. The US doesn't need to be great or even good, it just needs to be better than the alternatives. The issues facing C
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by nostromo 1y ago
> Just because you can deal with your inbox more quickly doesn’t mean you’ll spend your afternoon on the beach. The more emails you fire off, the more you’ll receive back, and the never-ending cycle continues. I've seen this firstha
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by nostromo 1y ago
Meta is struggling here for the same reason Microsoft couldn’t stop the talent bleed to Google back in the day. Even if you’re giving massive cash and stock comp, OpenAI has a lot more upside potential than Meta.

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