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by pydry 3mo ago
>The critical clue people miss is that everyone claiming that has very clear financial incentives to convince people that's the case even when they know it isn't. Social media is flooded with bots pushing this narrative - codin
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by pydry 3mo ago
If you find a topic where reality lies outside of the overton window for western elites at the time theyll reliably get it wrong. There are a number of examples of this (e.g. the Afghanistan and Iraq wars). They usually use a lot of hedgi
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by pydry 3mo ago
Your comment made no sense to me whatsoever.
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by pydry 3mo ago
Nobody cares about code quality /s They only care about the things which you can only get with good code quality like reliability and speed of development.
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by pydry 3mo ago
Im wary about having my PII hosted on vpses which I suppose makes me a privacy nut. I just host immich on an old laptop and use the VPS to establish a wireguard tunnel. I think it's ridiculous to expect immich to rearchitect everything
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by pydry 3mo ago
You can host a family and friends' instance on your own hardware. I have a small vps which just tunnels into a laptop running at home. Half of the features of immich would become 10x harder to implement if encryption needed to be done
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by pydry 3mo ago
because campaign financing laws permit bribery
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by pydry 3mo ago
Except it does because the money saved on generation can be used to pay for extra transmission capacity and storage. Solar and wind aren't 20% cheaper than nuclear power they're 20% of the price of nuclear power.
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by pydry 3mo ago
Our ancestors also had an infant mortality ratio of 4/10. Determinism is way undervalued.
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by pydry 4mo ago
>Are you sure? It's about the only place in the world where the philosophy of degrowth ever managed to get a toehold Yes, I'm sure. I think you might be confusing something some obscure academics have discussed and something th
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by pydry 4mo ago
There is no "altar" of degrowth in Europe. it's interesting that Americans take such an "I told you so" attitude towards disasters they had such a disproportionate hand in creating.
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by pydry 4mo ago
An American decided to be smug because Europe suddenly passed the threshold where aircon went from a nice to have to a necessity.
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by pydry 4mo ago
systemd desperately needs competition. it isnt just that it became a dependency for every low level service and a potential vector for privacy invasion, it's also janky to use.
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by pydry 4mo ago
This is quite normal. Most billionaires spend their life surrounded by people who flatter them and indulge their every whim and agree with their every prejudice.
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by pydry 4mo ago
How high is sky high?
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by pydry 4mo ago
>The first is that real estate is more the exception than the rule in being subject to property tax to begin with. If foreign investors want a store of value that minimizes "property tax" then they could just buy stocks or bond
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by pydry 4mo ago
yes, heavily constrained by sophisticated guardrails. this is definitely where things are going. the enormous "eat the world" models have extreme diminishing returns by comparison.
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by pydry 4mo ago
When property taxes are higher housing is built more densely. This is because the store of value quickly becomes a millstone around the owner's neck if it isnt being used efficiently. That's a feature if you want a healthy city an
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by pydry 4mo ago
That's partly the effect of prop 13. When land (or its proxy, property) is detaxed then property becomes a valuable commodity to hoard and guard the value of jealously. So, it attracts the foreign investors looking for stores of value
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by pydry 4mo ago
European fealty to the US has existed for decades.
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by pydry 4mo ago
So they want a bailout when the inevitable happens.
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by pydry 4mo ago
Defeatism is easy
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American
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by pydry 4mo ago
Probably won't be too long before the government decides to block deepseek's website based on "security" concerns.
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by pydry 4mo ago
I remember reading an interview with a fireman who described a time when his buddy evacuated a team because he "felt" that a floor would collapse imminently. He couldn't articulate why but they trusted his gut and it did coll
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by pydry 4mo ago
>you're basically making fun of people for having high aspirations. I'm recognizing that some people have aspirations to become CEO and own a company and thus represent those interests in a class war, instead of their real inte
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by pydry 4mo ago
I remember a few cases when asking an LLM to do something in the early days yielded not only the code but an author and a COPYRIGHT license. Naturally LLM technology has moved on since then. I don't remember any recent word for word re
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by pydry 4mo ago
zdragnar, not you.
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by pydry 4mo ago
Singapore is actually a great example of somewhere where communists and trade unionists fought and won a lot of concessions (especially in the 1950s) and where that contribution was airbrushed out of history. The HDB building program was
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by pydry 4mo ago
How much do you hate for time off at weekends, paid vacations and medical leave?

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