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by pavlov 2y ago
You sound like those old-school communists who insist that it's a very good idea in principle, but the proletariat has always been betrayed by leaders who didn't have enough faith.
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by pavlov 2y ago
These titles don't exactly sound communist to me... It's a long way from "Flat Tax Maybe Not Good" to "Proletariat, Seize the Means of Production Now!" By your logic, Eisenhower's America was communist bec
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by pavlov 2y ago
You see, the “fb” in fbcode stands for “fierce & beautiful”.
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by pavlov 2y ago
You’ll notice that I qualified it with “the kind of nationalism that…” I don’t have a problem with the kind of nationalism that gave European minority languages pride in their own culture and literature in the 19th century, for example. I d
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by pavlov 2y ago
Mankind seems to forget every lesson after two generations. Holocaust survivors are still with us, but the kind of nationalism that put them through that ordeal is on the rise again and is gaining popularity with teenagers. Technology could
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by pavlov 2y ago
And the point isn’t that they should actually vote a particular way. The point is that they should start feeling that it’s inconceivable to become a whistleblower, regardless of what they see on the job, because the implied punishment is so
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s a funnel for foreign bribes. That’s literally the only utility of these Trump coins.
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s not rare for entire business units or country offices to get shut down. That’s the easiest way to do a layoff because it’s mostly isolated from the rest of the company. Executives can meet most of their layoff target without having to
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by pavlov 2y ago
Yep. I think Hims & Hers is the very rare SPAC that was a new company at time of its listing (founded in 2017), and has managed to deliver both profits and shareholder value. Perhaps it's even the only one.
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by pavlov 2y ago
I maintain a little de-SPAC portfolio to track their progress. Many of them are dead, there's about 50 companies left in my tracking now. The only companies on this list with stock prices over the original $10 SPAC price are: - Oklo (m
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by pavlov 2y ago
Hippo stock has lost 90% of its value since the SPAC. They did a 1-to-25 reverse split at one point.
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by pavlov 2y ago
IMO that’s not a zombie because it has an expiration date (when the money raised runs out). A proper zombie is a lifestyle company without the lifestyle — enough revenue to maintain an eternal startup crunch and trying to make a product wo
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by pavlov 2y ago
There’s a tremendous market for gambling disguised as something more intellectually and morally palatable.
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by pavlov 2y ago
#define SDK_VER 1.2.3
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by pavlov 2y ago
Donald and Melania Trump recently launched crypto coins whose only utility is that buying them is effectively a donation to the token’s creators. This allows foreign entities to give money anonymously to the president and his family, yet wi
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by pavlov 2y ago
The US constitution increasingly seems like the principles of the Roman Republic after Caesar — a quaint relic that gets regular ceremonial lip service but provides no checks and balances on the leaders. Presidents of both parties abuse par
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by pavlov 2y ago
True, it’s not any of my business. Maybe superhuman AI will have humans do this kind of work to make us feel useful. “Oh, you’re right, does look a bit like a duck! Fun! You’re doing so well helping me discover the secrets of the universe!
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by pavlov 2y ago
Maybe there's a prime number that makes a mildly interesting picture when rendered in base-2 in a 8*8 grid. Should somebody spend time looking at all the primes that fit in the grid? Absolutely not.
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by pavlov 2y ago
The crown prince of France spent his entire life surrounded by courtiers who would fulfill his every whim. He barely needed to lift a fork to his mouth himself. Maybe he had depression from this kind of passive lifestyle.
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by pavlov 2y ago
> “he might still be fine with transgender identity” How extremely generous!
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Puzzles are to adventure games like frosting to a cake. It’s expected to be there as a convention, but you want to keep it to a minimum because too much spoils the whole experience. The story is the point and the puzzles are just an accepte
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by pavlov 2y ago
Congress writes laws and the president is supposed to implement and enforce them. It’s like Americans have completely forgotten about this part. The TikTok ban was upheld by the Supreme Court only days ago. If Americans don’t want this law,
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by pavlov 2y ago
We ban chemicals that are designed to be addictive to humans. The exception are substances that are addictive but also have high medical utility. Those are carefully controlled (sometimes less carefully of course — see OxyContin). It doesn’
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by pavlov 2y ago
True, yet it’s still a jolt to see it laid so bare. Public communications by corporations were like this in 1930s Germany and Italy, and more recently in 2020s Russia.
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by pavlov 2y ago
To save you a click, the message displayed on TikTok reads: - - "Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now. "A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now. &q
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by pavlov 2y ago
I meant the display. The Daylight Computer has a monochrome LCD which updates very fast compared to e-ink screens.
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by pavlov 2y ago
I paid 680 euros + shipping for an early batch last summer. It has Android and the Play Store, so all those apps work.
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by pavlov 2y ago
I have the Daylight Computer mentioned in this article. I like it quite a lot (though the price is still high enough that it’s really an indulgence only justified if you can buy gadgets through an employer or your own company). The physical
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by pavlov 2y ago
I think the co-op structure makes more sense if your business is local. For example, I’d love to have a local alternative to Uber/Doordash that was a co-op owned by the drivers and the customers together. 95% of my taxi trips and food
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by pavlov 2y ago
Your boss is presumably a high-value employee at a prosperous company. They will have good health insurance, but that’s not the norm for most people. When I worked for Facebook in the US, it was conspicuous how doctors would run extra tests

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