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by oblio 14d ago
France is moving away gold, Germany is, look at the trend. Also Japan is selling US bonds. Everyone is moving away from the US as best it can.
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by oblio 14d ago
Thankfully I'm not a 6 year old, and you're not my dad. If anything, yours is the kind of retort a 12 year old would find clever.
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by oblio 14d ago
> The US is no longer a credible negotiator. The US isn't even negotiating. Fairly sure they don't have a full negotiating team and they're doing it via 1-2 Trump flunkeys and Pakistan intermediating.
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by oblio 14d ago
They are divesting. Moving gold away from the US, selling US bonds, the EU creating an investment mechanism meant to pull EU investment away from the US and into EU companies, etc.
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by oblio 14d ago
> Trump sure is an idiot, but it seems somewhat likely that Netanyahu pressured him to perform this particular idiocy that is also against his previous anti-war attitude - one of the few things that was good about his first term. Turns o
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by oblio 14d ago
Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness by Kenneth M. Pollack It's not a perfect book, but it illustrates a lot of military failures that haven't really been encountered much in the West in the
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by oblio 15d ago
Awesome, now balance that out will education levels dropping like a rock, due to various factor but also due to LLMs, and things will be balanced out by also democratizing stupidity, until we live in Idiocracy.
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by oblio 15d ago
Ușor, Burebista :-)
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by oblio 15d ago
The funny thing is that... POSIX ed is composable :-) You can do a gazillion edits with it in one shot. Of course, LLM edit tools are probably small bits of their custom code, I just find it funny. I wonder if it's a desire for certain
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by oblio 15d ago
The compiler argument is great, if we turn it on its head. To create professional products, compilers are great, when used by professionals or passionate and technical amateurs. They're useless if you're neither. LLMs are the next
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by oblio 15d ago
Why even offer the edit tool in that case? Also, what kind of editing could they possible do what wouldn't be possible with POSIX ed?
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by oblio 16d ago
If you live in the US, it's not worse. If you live anywhere else in the (developed) world, it is worse. My hope is that the bottom-of-the-barrel US approach isn't shoved down the throats of everyone else just when we're final
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by oblio 16d ago
Do you realize the order of magnitude in difference? If we end up having as many self driving cars as taxis, they can just terminate Waymo tomorrow, what's the point in investing tens of billions? The goal is to replace many or most of
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OECD education report: sustained math and reading decline since 2012(oecd.org)
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by oblio 16d ago
Look up status quo bias. People are very adverse to change and worse, they're very vocal about it.
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by oblio 16d ago
Demand is based on time of day/week/month/year. Where do all those cars needed during peak demand go? They're going to be parked somewhere and it's not going to be in the middle of nowhere, because that's an aw
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by oblio 16d ago
> And, if you want people to stop wasting city space on parking, self-driving taxis are exactly the right solution. Self driving taxis have to be parked (or cruise around continuously), I guess, and that parking better be close cause ain
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by oblio 16d ago
No. That's false. Riders will want a car to be at their location ASAP, or they will try to call another company. So the incentive will be to put/drive cars very close to where people are. That whole "cars will be stored at th
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by oblio 16d ago
> I’ve never used any of these tools. You probably should. It costs you about $20 and you will have an informed opinion on them.
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by oblio 16d ago
> Generally gets about a third though different boroughs have different numbers > But you can't really say overall for the city that transit is how people get around. It is 27%, but that's because of COVID. It used to be aro
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by oblio 17d ago
At least for Android that's not a big deal as most of the system lives in independent applications.
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by oblio 17d ago
In Europe that's the law. 7 years of security updates.
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by oblio 17d ago
If they were "obvious design choices" we wouldn't first have 2 other different designs (long and narrow, clamshell). They are good design choices, which is different.
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by oblio 17d ago
A very niche and growing market that 5 years from now will be 80% of all expensive phones.
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by oblio 17d ago
Whiskas? Do you mean Cat Snickers?
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by oblio 17d ago
> And most of the pollution happens in the other part. Where does it happen exactly? > All for naught too, because when the orc armies come (attracted by our weakness to even defend ourselves) they will do the the environment what the
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by oblio 17d ago
LOL. The average Instagram user for sure doesn't know the company behind it. Also, "mathisfun", you might not be the typical person on this planet. Quick test, who makes Mars, Twix, Snickers?
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by oblio 17d ago
You're grossly overestimating how many people care about big companies, at least on a daily basis. Most people don't invest in anything and will never get a job at a big American company. They do know about ChatGPT but that doesn&
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by oblio 18d ago
You're probably a techie so statistically an anomaly. Also WhatsApp is absolutely huge around the world and wherever I go it doesn't seem like it's slowing down.
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by oblio 18d ago
There have been many successful predictions about the future. In my personal experience probably 100 out of 10 million predictions.

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