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by piker 1y ago
As an American who drove for 20 years before obtaining a license in the UK, I can offer some observations. First, driving in the UK is much more a privilege than a right as in the US. You can live a complete life in the UK without a license
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by piker 1y ago
More importantly, it selects against a lot of nervous, disabled, young, drunk and other bad drivers.
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by piker 1y ago
I believe the numbers normalize a bit when you adjust for the fact that everyone drives in the U.S. and tends to be alone when driving. So it’s like accident per mile driven and you see it’s around the same. But in the UK many fewer peopl
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by piker 1y ago
I’m more referring to the fact that it’s treated like a controlled substance here and sold in limited quantities from behind the counter. It’s the same treatment the U.S. gives to Sudafed which is an input to meth as I understand it.
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by piker 1y ago
Always surprises me as an American in the UK how hostile the UK is to paracetamol. You buy it in like 300-pill packages in the US, and I've literally never heard of anyone having a single accidental over-dose. I'm not sure I'
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by piker 1y ago
And basically sucks.
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by piker 1y ago
1) Form D provides a classification response that indicates if the vehicle is a VC fund. Seems like a good fix here. 2) jurisdiction won’t matter if it’s offered into the U.S. it needs to file a Form D (or rely on other exemptions).
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by piker 1y ago
Surprising amount of discussion on work/life balance and kids/family for a game dev. Is Valve known for this or is it just relative?
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by piker 1y ago
Hey this looks really awesome. Super helpful for those of us who are building in the document space for debugging if nothing else. Here are a couple of other projects for you to develop with / on if you aren't already using them:
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by piker 1y ago
> The Santa Clara District Attorney's office decided not to bring formal charges against Babuschkin following the arrest, Cynthia Sumida, the public information officer at the DA's office, told Insider. Not even alleged by the
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by piker 1y ago
Well there are actual realizations in the ETF and mutual fund context, and the market has simply decided that structure still works for the commingled investments of US taxpayers. PFIC taxation I concede is a head-scratcher, but it's s
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by piker 1y ago
It's not that it has punitive taxes for expats, it's just that as a US citizen, the US doesn't care where you live -- you're subject to US tax. It has rules for everyone that prohibit deferring income taxes which implica
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by piker 1y ago
Absolutely correct.
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by piker 1y ago
No doubt, but that doesn't change the position.
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by piker 1y ago
Something being a product does not require a profit motive.
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by piker 1y ago
Agreed, and we can argue semantics, but many folks would consider the content in that case a product.
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by piker 1y ago
If there's no product, and it's free, why would one care about it appearing in the output of an LLM? If it's so secret that it shouldn't, then perhaps it should be behind some auth anyway.
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by piker 1y ago
Fair, if your content is your product, but I’m more than happy for every LLM on the planet to summarize my page and hype the virtues of my product to its user.
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by piker 1y ago
> a charitable foundation to promote Functional Programming in Africa Niche
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by piker 1y ago
Fantastic!
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by piker 1y ago
Do you not worry that instead it will lead to feature bloat and fragmentation? If you’re going to strike at Google, you need laser focus.
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by piker 1y ago
> "Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else." - the link under discussion
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by piker 1y ago
True, but the statement sort of implies that the models are intrinsically "trash" today, and we're just waiting for that to be revealed by the next relatively superior model.
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by piker 1y ago
Aside from the actual product, On the Metal / Oxide and Friends are really great podcasts that manage to make programming topics entertaining and educational. Bryan Cantrill is wildly entertaining and knowledgeable at the same time. Hi
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by piker 1y ago
The second sentence is revealing. The creation of the 787 didn’t make the 747 “trash”.
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by piker 1y ago
Any abstention is at best in the same column as the ayes here. Arguably worse.
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by piker 1y ago
I don't think Word will go away, no. Some times you need to write a whitepaper, some marketing materials or something that a general product like Word is more suited for. Tritium is however aiming to replace Word as the transactional l
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by piker 1y ago
Thanks for checking it out, and yes! If you type some text into one of the documents in the web preview, click the triangle and click the name of that document, you'll get a redline. That's the current industry-standard diff forma
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by piker 1y ago
> Every time someone with the finances, vision and ability leaves I think the situation gets a little bit worse, it increases the proportion of people remaining willing to put up with all of it. This is the issue.
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by piker 1y ago
Absolutely agree, and spellchecker is a great analogy. I've recently been snoozing co-pilot for hours at a time in VS Code because it’s adding a ton of latency to my keystrokes. Instead, it turns out that `rust_analyzer` is actually al

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