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by overfeed 9mo ago
> that’s an example of a fixed answer to a fixed question. That's my whole point! The expected answer seems pretty obvious to you, given the context, doesn't it? Why then are you surprised that a different culture has an equall
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> Indeed, also a great example of a failing bumbling lovable loser who is frequently considered a hero to many Americans is Homer Simpson. Homer maybe the lowest version of a protagonist "loser" tolerable to American viewers, b
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> The world wasn't globalized then This may be recency bias. The current age just has more immediate, global communications. "The sun never sets on the British empire" had a literal meaning based on how globalized it was t
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> Which of course is a lot less polite and causes a lot of friction. Most cultures have this, but it goes mostly unnoticed from the inside because one can read between the lines. "How are you?" can be asked just to be polite, a
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Cave Johnson too.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Talking heads serve the interests of their wealthy benefactors who have gone all out to own/control all of news media. Benefactors whose wealth is almost entirely tied up in securities.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
In the past, the game was as played with the additional benefit of foreign bondholders and currency reserves slowing the overall velocity of money. The rest of the world has heen quietly blunting the inflationary effects of printing USD. Mo
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by overfeed 9mo ago
That's one way to invite asymmetric warfare[1] on the mainland - the border with Canada is something that mostly exists on maps. 1. As recently wargamed by the Canadian military.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> It is difficult to say. It isn't: you can still download the 2007-vintage FreeBSD desktop and run it in a VM today if you'd like. The CD image-files are quick downloads with modern broadband speeds. Prepare to be disappoint
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> Its baffling that you think the collapse of the USD would have no negative ramifications on the rest of the world. Empires rise and fall, pax Americana was not the world's first hegemony. The end of the British Empire is within
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> One I agree with in principal, but not reflected in sales figures. In the absence of perfect competition and perfect information, one cannot infer from the absence of sales that there is no demand for item X.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
You could measure this by looking at the Pensions fund performance vs US treasuries over the next decade or so.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
SCOTUS has deemed Kavanaugh stops to be legal, i.e. you can be stopped on the basis of your apparent ethnicity alone
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> It’s in your interest Explain. Hopefully with details on how that tactic was utilized by the most politically effective group in the US in the past 50 years - the Heritage Foundation.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
They may be a German-speaker betrayed by muscle-memory while typing in english.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> if you want to understand what’s going on Funny how the in-depth analysis of motivations is strictly in one direction, ratcheting the Overton window forever rightward. On one hand we had mountains of articles about "economic anxie
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> Stainless Steel Rat[ß] I read this as Stainless Steel Rat[ss], and was befuddled until I read the end of your comment.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Retraining models every time a advertiser wins a bid on a keyword is unwieldy. Most likey solution is training the model to emit tokens represent ontological entries that are used by the Ad platform so that "<SODA>" can be b
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Han chauvinism is comparable to Manifest Destiny across multiple dimensions. AFAICT, both groups believe(d), despite initial conditions, their authority is pre-ordained and they are/were taking the nation to it's rightful place
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Scraper proxying is another way to monetize botnets, and I suspect those "providers" are not expensive.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> If I run a big data hungry AI lab consuming training data at 100Gb/s it's much much easier to... You are incorrectly assuming competency, thoughtful engineering and/or some modicum of care for negative externalities. The
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by overfeed 9mo ago
For how long have WASPs been telling outgroups to go kick rocks (or much worse) in the US?
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by overfeed 9mo ago
As far as serious hobbies go, 35% of monthly electric bill is not breaking the bank. How much do people with other hobbies spend monthly on parts for their project cars, race entry fees, gym fees, "high performance" gear, Track fe
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Traditionally, hobbies cost money. I'm yet to hear anyone harangue folk on the ROI of their sourdough, blacksmithing or Storm Trooper cosplay hobbies. Perhaps this hobby is a little to close to sysadmin work for some, but I'm ye
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> It sometimes seems like it's more a game of collecting all the things than it is about actually enjoying the collection. Aren't all collecting hobbies like this? Stamps, music on vinyl, movie posters, retro computers, cars, e
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by overfeed 9mo ago
I wonder what fraction of people complaining about inconsiderate behavior in this thread, permanently use high beams when driving.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Tesla already manufacturers and exports cars from China.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Geographic proximity is mutual. If it came down to it, I doubt the US will ever be prepared for polite Canadian terror cells.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Another victory notch for the "AI Influentist" article[1]. Step 1: thought leader reveals Shocking(tm) AI achievement Step 2: post gets traction Step 3: additional context is revealed, dragging the original claim from the realm of
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> 500MB is just not enough RAM for a good HA experience Strong disagree: my experience has been great, my HA has been running on a Zero 2W for more than 2 years! I have several HACS plugins enabled - just not any if the video or AI stuff

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