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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Who is the consumer in the context of a tax on financial transactions?
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
There was a story about a guy who trained himself to lucid dream about a hundred years ago while he was riding a train, and letting the shadows play off of his closed eyes....anyone know what I'm talking about? Having a hard time googl
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Do blind people have this same issue?
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Even the dimmest view of management should expect them to care about extremely bad PR.
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
I wonder if the author reads every safety-handicapped model released as an ideological statement as well?
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Well, who got the last DVD? Do they have to return it? What movie was it?
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Nah, the world only really cares to hear about techie stories if they make a few billion for themselves.
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Do these massive telescopes have a future, when we could just build smaller ones and use aperture synthesis to pretend like we have a really really big telescope?
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
I betcha a nickel I like those more than you do
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
What's the value proposition here for the employee? Go the extra mile, and get absolutely zero benefit, except for slightly smaller odds that your employer will sever their relationship with you? Maybe Ivy Leaguers are more used to act
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
I think, based on that logic, bisexual people could not be friends with people attracted to the bisexual person's gender.
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Sure, but we need some way of talking about it. How would you say something like "Nature intended humans to live on land, not underwater"
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
I don't think so, but I think presenting the story as "she was fired for speaking up against AI" certainly discredits it. She was "fired" because she said "do X or I'll resign", and someone said &quot
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Sextants don't track stars. They just measure altitude and leave it up to a human to line everything up, measure it correctly, time it correctly, then look up the right data in a log book.
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
My best guess in 30 years will be the killing and eating animals. Not because everyone goes vegan, but because we will only eat lab grown meat, not meat plucked from an animal carcass. Just like we see some people being cancelled now for be
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Does a monopoly make sense here? Pre starlink, there was probably a huge cost to bring internet to the island, and those doing so wanted to have some form of protection in order to confidently invest the capital to do so.
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Take the wheels off, it won't go anywhere.
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
To be clear, you need 100 million people to risk *100% of their wealth on a coinflip* 20 times in a row.
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
ChatGPT disagrees: ChatGPT can be used in arguments and debates as a tool to provide information, generate ideas, and assist in the exchange of opinions. However, it's important to remember that ChatGPT is a machine learning model and
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
A more apt analogy would be someone giving away snacks in a park, and they have an advertisement printed on the snack wrapper. However, when you take the snack, you hold it upside down in your hand so the advertisement is obscured. Are you
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
I don't think everyone agrees that this is a problem. Yes, a bunch of old people eating up resources and not contributing to the bottom line looks bad on paper, but Japan is a pretty rich, heavily mechanized society. I don't think
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
When I learned about that interior camera in my Model Y, this is exactly what I thought might happen. But, I didn't want to cover it, because I wasn't sure if that would look suspicious in the case I was in an accident.
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Would it though? The trade winds converge over central Africa, which is already quite lush, so presumably any extra moisture would just be deposited there instead of a few thousand miles to the north.
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
I would love to hear a realistic plan how West Virginia could make itself as attractive as NY, Chicago, etc.
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
This is a country that can land rovers and fly helicopters on other planets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaLxBjvqYqg
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Do people under 30 care about an extra 2 bytes in a date object?
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Do they send lower quality peaches to Romania?
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
What it would do is punish companies that do real R&D, and reward companies that have no actual talent in that area. So ultimately the field would stagnate because no one would invest in R&D.
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
Your plumber deserves higher wages. You just don't want to pay it. You want him to make as little as possible.
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by oh_sigh 3y ago
It seems extremely burdensome to do that every time you go shopping. Also, it requires people to remember the unit price of the same product across multiple trips - whereas most people who do check the unit price do so in a side by side com

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