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by prepend 8mo ago
No, roommates aren’t hard to come by. As evidenced by the millions who have roommates. In my 20s everyone I knew had roommates. And it was a good life. Saying a studio or 1 bedroom is required makes this metric pretty ambiguous. Thus my poi
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by prepend 8mo ago
$700/month on car+gas+insurance is certainly pretty cushy. This is a luxury for many people I know. Their cost estimates are much higher than what’s required to live comfortably and save for a rainy day.
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by prepend 8mo ago
I think I have great access. I pay $60/month for gig internet and that’s split with 4 people. I spend $20/month for mobile and buy a new $500 phone every 3 years. I make way more than a livable wage, but spend much less than their
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by prepend 8mo ago
Not dignified. As you can live a dignified life for much less. Thus my point. I don’t know what “livable wage” means with these numbers so it’s not very useful for discussion or planning or measurement.
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by prepend 8mo ago
It’s obviously not required based on the evidence of many people who live and thrive without. $9000/year is a ton more than just having a car.
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by prepend 8mo ago
I don’t think this is very accurate. In my county the “living wage” is $26.50 for a single adult with no children. Many young people I know live on much less than this. This is more like “optimal wage to live alone in my own apartment with
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by prepend 9mo ago
Yes, of course I review everything. I treat it like hiring a consultant. They do a lot of work, but I still review the output before making a decision or passing it on. Sending something with errors to my boss or peers makes me look stupid.
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by prepend 9mo ago
You’d do both because up can. Why mine in Australia when you have the US or Canada, etc etc. The idea would mine in all places where it’s marginally profitable until your capital is fully committed.
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by prepend 9mo ago
Extorting is more accurate. But definitely not invading.
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by prepend 9mo ago
It’s not invading, yet. Just buying or psyopping is more likely than fighting NATO.
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by prepend 9mo ago
I think that’s harder than just buying/hypnotizing/invading/whatever. If we exit the Antarctic treaty, then so will everyone else and there’s multiple competing claims.
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by prepend 9mo ago
It’s definitely easier to mine in Australia. But you can do both. It’s about marginal profitability, not absolute. Do people think we must pick just one place to mine?
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by prepend 10mo ago
Look at the volume of gift cards given. It’s the same concept, right? You care enough to do something, but have other time priorities. I’d rather get an ai thank you note than nothing. I’d rather get a thoughtful gift than a gift card, but
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by prepend 10mo ago
“I collected tons of money from Hitler and think Stalin is, like, super bad.” [sips Champagne] Of course, the scale is different but the sentiment is why I roll my eyes at these hypocrites. If you want to make ethical statements then you ha
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by prepend 10mo ago
He was paid by Google with money made through Google’s shady practices. It’s like saying that it’s cool because you worked on some non-evil parts of a terrible company. I don’t think it’s right to work for an unethical company and then comp
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by prepend 10mo ago
We had elections during the civil war, 0.000001% chance the 2028 elections get changes.
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by prepend 10mo ago
My mom sends me AI videos of cute cats doing the impossible (flying around the room, washing raccoons, etc). When I told her they were AI, she said “so what, they’re cute”
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by prepend 10mo ago
Brave has about 300 employees and don’t break out engineers [0]. One of them is Brandon Eich so that counts for a bunch. Their revenue is only $52M so kinda what Mozilla would earn off their endowment. [0] https://getlatka.com&#x
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by prepend 10mo ago
I found the info not actionable because it wouldn’t say what actual values were posted. I have a common name Gmail account. The password is rather complex and I would be surprised if it leaks as only I and Google know it. However, I would g
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by prepend 10mo ago
If I give my content away for free, it can’t be stolen. The point of putting up a public web site is so the public can view it (including OpenAI/google/etc). If I don’t want people viewing it, then I don’t make it public. Saying t
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by prepend 10mo ago
People are just raging and want an outlet. They aren’t thinking logically. It’s been going on forever (remember how companies were reading files off your computer aka cookies in 1999?) This seems like a total non-issue and expect that any p
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by prepend 10mo ago
While that is true, that’s only a small percentage of drivers. Most Tesla drivers do not pay for FSD at all. About 12% of Tesla owners pay for FSD in one form or another [0]. So even though paying monthly is more amenable, the vast majority
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by prepend 10mo ago
I guess males wreck more. I pay double now for myself as a single man with a car than I did for both me and my spouse and our two cars. Went from $100/month to $200/month overnight.
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by prepend 10mo ago
I get your joke. But I like paying more to ride by myself. It’s the driving I don’t like.
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by prepend 10mo ago
> This, of course, will require some kind of centralized control over entire convoys, and a way to coordinate them. Railways and airways definitely can offer examples of how to handle that. Not at all. A simple peer to peer protocol base
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by prepend 10mo ago
No, GP is right. Check out the urban/rural populations in 1900 [0]. Cars allowed for suburban sprawl but the country was already really spread out before cars. Maybe if cars didn’t exist we would have eventually consolidated into dense
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by prepend 10mo ago
Same in Atlanta. Best ethnic food is in the suburbs.
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by prepend 10mo ago
I think the point is that it’s much less than all the cars. And a hailstorm that knocks out 10,000 cars is very rare. But hurricanes or fires that knock out billions in homes happen almost every year.
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by prepend 10mo ago
Or isn’t the alternative a local AI that runs autonomously? We’d may for updates and new models, but no need for a subscription. Of course the manufacturer makes more money with a subscription and this is the reason they want it.
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by prepend 10mo ago
Would AI be better at stopping for children jumping out from a stopped school bus so it’s not as necessary to stop with human drivers? That being said, just ticket the company and make them pay. Isn’t this how it works with all moving viola

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