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by pjc50 5mo ago
Somewhat higher stakes version of the Trump Aberdeen golf course: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-she... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Forbes_(farmer)
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Argentina has been a mess for decades.
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There's some documented studies of removing all the street clutter and lines from residential area intersections forcing drivers to be more careful, especially around pedestrians, reducing overall accidents. But this does reduce throug
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Youtube view/subscribe/like numbers are public. His are .. definitely in the area one can make a living off, but still below popular game streamers.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
How much of this is debt as opposed to equity, though? Can we have a balance sheet?
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Don't worry, this is portable to both vintage word sizes: 32 and 16.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
One of these days I want to do a "typesafe macro assembler" that actually is the language people think that C is.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> Some of which is not actually UB because the implementation defines it No - if something is UB in the spec, it's UB. The implementation will do something , sure, but what it does is not fixed and may even change based on compiler
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by pjc50 5mo ago
One way to view current US politics is that the broader banana republic tendency ran out of South American governments to overthrow and moved back to the domestic government, which has now taken on all the corruption and extractive politics
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> hiring petty criminals to attack religious sites or paint hateful graffiti. This turns out to have been alarmingly effective. All it needs is someone willing to hand cash to bored teenagers, and their vandalism can be redirected from b
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Paying money for a particular viewpoint is promoting it. This is not complicated. (yes, this is a serious problem with content monetization intermediaries; somehow as soon as the topic is sexual everyone immediately understands what the pro
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Rather like the Raytheon adverts in DC airport, the aim of all this nonsense is to alter the worldview of the small number of people who make the actual decisions. It does seem to have some effect - the Trump administration withdrew support
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Irish banking was bailed out at huge expense by the Irish taxpayer, a loan of the value of 40% of GDP at the time: https://www.irishpost.com/business/ireland-sells-the-last-of... (note: Allied Irish Banks and Anglo I
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> Anecdotally, I have not seen an explosion in quality/bespoke software since LLMs. In fact I've noticed the opposite to quite the extreme. Not only are new products worse in quality, but the quality of existing products is fal
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by pjc50 5mo ago
This is just the offshoring and remote discourse all over again. It turns out that the prestige of having a big office full of workers that the CEO can see is well worth the massive expense of siting it in California and paying California s
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> Quantitative easing Why though? This isn't a bank run situation. Sure, it's unwise to bet against "US President does something stupid", but the rationale is missing. The oil situation remains very concerning, and yo
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by pjc50 5mo ago
People (ab)use the flagging system for that. I've seen plenty of categories of article that get upvoted onto the front page and then instantly vaporized off it by flagging.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Tetraethyl lead is not useless; in fact, it was hugely useful to the petrol engine economy throughout the 20th century! It just happens to cause nonobvious brain damage throughout societies. In some ways things that are both useful and harm
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by pjc50 5mo ago
US inflation is slightly under 4%, so by my maths receiving $3tn in 2030 would be worth about $2.5tn in 2026 dollars.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
What is the multiplier in cost for a teraflop of compute in space vs on the ground? 100x? 1,000x? > Whether or not they succeed in their plans is beside the point No, I think that does matter eventually? Maybe for the IPO value?
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by pjc50 5mo ago
I suspect they don't really; once you give a teen a smartphone your control over what websites they visit ends. (you will reply "don't do that then") But also: cutting one kid off from social networks ostracises them.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
I suspect the counfounding factor of hundreds of other applicants makes it hard to tell whether you're specifically being discriminated against or just one of the 999 people who didn't get the job. (There are some extreme measures
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by pjc50 5mo ago
State-run prestige programs. The exact opposite of mass participation sports like soccer.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
The US sports system is especially structured around colleges; while you get named city teams in American football and basketball, there doesn't seem to be anything like the European system where there are often multiple city teams, te
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by pjc50 5mo ago
This reads like one of those jokes about "my car is so bad that when someone crashed into it they caused thousands of dollars of improvements".
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Or as mentioned upthread, a Henry Moore statue was stolen for scrap.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> people willing to damage infrastructure for everyone else Cable theft is particularly destructive because it's so value-destroying. $100k of cable destroyed for a maximum profit of $1k. Or in this particularly egregious UK case, a
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The flip side of this is that you have to be aware of the entire state of the process, including everything done in libraries, in order to correctly start a new process. Quick, what's the highest numbered open file descriptor in the yo
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by pjc50 5mo ago
This is table stakes obvious, though? Again we see the weirdness of having an almost exclusively male conversation about the subject. Women are choosing not to have children, and you need to ask them why and take the answers seriously.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
This is so obvious it's barely worth mentioning, table stakes for the debate? British TFR was about 3 when Marie Stopes got started, and malthusianism had not yet been conquered.

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