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by pas 8mo ago
what do you mean? if some kid doesn't want to pay attention they can draw doodles, daydream, read a book under the table, talk to other students, and finally ... be on their phone. we did all of these! (played snake on a 3310.) up to a
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by pas 8mo ago
they increase productivity, which is one of the most important part of the real economy, separates a lot of grueling manual labor while starving (so the Malthusian state) from having so much economic surplus that we have the opposite of sta
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by pas 8mo ago
it seems you are mixing up leveraged buyouts with PE PE is investing. Limited partners give pool some money, the manager is the general partner, they also put some money into the pool, to align incentives, and that's it. Everything els
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by pas 8mo ago
nowhere near enough, unfortunately > For example, EU pension funds allocate just 0.02% of total assets to VC, compared with almost 2% for US pension funds. And this percentage is applied to a much larger asset base: over 140% of GDP in t
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by pas 8mo ago
how would it be less conservative with capital allocation?
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by pas 8mo ago
It makes sense to have separate entry points for landing pages, no need for fancy providers and heavy imports. In practice people are more than willing to wait for an SPA to load if it works well (figma, gmail/gdocs, discord's bro
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by pas 8mo ago
the relevant facts would be, whether this guy has a criminal record. the rest is (legal) bullshit. laws are a (social) technology, enforcing them blindly is just as stupid as any kind of extremism, like "just ban private property"
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by pas 8mo ago
I always wanted to talk about our lord and savior (BGP) but so far no one took the bait!
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by pas 8mo ago
how does that compare with the sitting president of the USA sharing an AI video of himself in some jet dropping shit on people? things can be bad even if they are cringe and irreverent. (and good too! for example effective altruism.)
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by pas 8mo ago
I have to say I don't feel this huge shared experience with many service industry workers. Especially over the phone. We barely speak the same language!
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by pas 8mo ago
because constrained supply leads to shitty solutions, and people spend their money on land rent instead of spending it on actual service (like making sure there are no hidden fees and cameras) that said those are not new problems, and are n
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by pas 8mo ago
not to mention that "failed" implies that somehow death is not part of life. sure, going when we prefer would be better, and our descendants eventually will have this in some shape or form (digital uploads and backups and whatnot)
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by pas 8mo ago
airBnB made a very constrained market more efficient, the downsides are classic NIMBY factors. (which are important, but also nothing has been solved in cities that outlawed AirBnB.) on the other hand Facebook made the internet hate machine
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by pas 8mo ago
... it's not at all costs though, that would be easier, because then the situation would be more obvious (legibility is important, so is plausible deniability) so of course "growth hackers" (or whatever the folks responsible
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by pas 8mo ago
Yes, but you need energy to pump heat, and that has an efficiency maximum (thx ~~Obama~~ Carnot), and radiative cooling scales with the ~4th power of the temperature, so it has to be really hot, and so it requires a lot of energy to "c
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by pas 8mo ago
likely "edited to add"
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by pas 8mo ago
you can look at a basket of goods that doesn't have your specific product and compare directly but inflation is the general price level increase, this can be used as a deflator to get the price of whatever product in past/future m
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by pas 8mo ago
that's not the technology of course it's silly to talk about manufacturing methods and yield and cost efficiency without having an economy to embed all of this into, but ... technology got cheaper means that we have practical know
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by pas 8mo ago
Density brings a lot of value increase. Theoretically replacing capitalism with something else is not the issue. (As long as there are accurate supply-and-demand signals for efficient allocation of resources). The issue is that people ideol
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by pas 9mo ago
Responsibility is a very complex topic. Sometimes it seems straightforward. People training child soldiers are more responsible than the child soldiers, right? The USA financing, training, and arming this or that group seems to be also resp
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by pas 9mo ago
That's not capitalism. That's human nature. We want a better future. Capitalism assigns a price to this, makes it more efficient. (By allowing people to buy/rent productive things (land, machines) hire people, and buy unprodu
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by pas 9mo ago
isn't that the point? the estimate is that the US has 1.2 gun per capita (compared to 0.34 for Canada) and since the US handles guns so lax they are a problem a vocal minority is making a lot of problems (but the US is not even enfor
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by pas 9mo ago
it's true, lot of money is sitting in safe assets in banks https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/inter/date/2024/html/ecb.in2... see also https://archive.md/xaiLU "Europe’s AI a
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by pas 9mo ago
that's true to some extent, but at this point it's mostly a meme (at least the 60% number was) > In 2023, 54 percent of adults said they had set aside money for three months of expenses in an emergency savings or “rainy day” fu
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by pas 9mo ago
even the fact that citations are not automatically verified by the journal is crazy, the whole academia and publishing enterprise is an empire built on inefficiency, hubris, and politics (but I'm repeating myself).
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by pas 9mo ago
yes, this should be built-in to grants and publishing of course the problem is that academia likes to assert its autonomy (and grant orgs are staffed by academia largely)
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by pas 9mo ago
grants should come with money and requirement for independent reproduction academia is too fragmented and extremely inefficient
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by pas 9mo ago
yet ... it works "ok" most of the time. not to mention that people mostly need wikipedia, the news, navigating the infuriating world of websites of big service providers (gov sites, or try to find anything on Microsoft's dark
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by pas 9mo ago
His communication deficit was too big to actually be a good manager, no? (Well, maybe not. Maybe being soul-crushingly efficient is optimal if you know most people will fluctuate out soon anyway, so your lack of ability to actually build a
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by pas 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Public_Prosecutor%27s... if there was selling of influence it's within the EPPO's jurisdiction (as far as I understand)

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