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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Iraq has huge oil reserves. Afghanistan, not, but Iraq yes.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
You mean your comment with the link to the claim there's no such thing as twin studies?
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Yes. There isn't any need for collusion to keep driver wages at subsistence level in this market. Driving takeouts around is a nearly zero skill required job. Anyone who can pass a driving test can do it. Labor supply is nearly unlimit
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Lyft is software. Marginal cost is almost always close to zero for software but it hardly matters, software like that has high R&D + marketing costs. It's not like Lyft just magically appeared. Uber took many years to become prof
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
He got caught because someone recognized his uniquely bushy eyebrows from the wanted photos. This is all documented, no need for advanced theorizing.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
This is clearly going to develop the same problem Beads has. I've used it. I'm in stage 7. Beads is a good idea with a bad implementation. It's not a designed product in the sense we are used to, it's more like a stream
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Though, BSE was massively overhyped by the same epidemiologists who got COVID wrong. They said it could be a huge disaster that killed millions and in the end only fewer than two hundred people died of cjv over a period of decades. Although
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
No, he wants to tie every social media account to a verified government issued ID so he or a future leader can engage in systematic oppression of the people he dislikes. That's what all these schemes have in common. Don't want you
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
None of you are evidencing your claims that he's unreliable. You just keep repeating it, even after being asked for specifics they other people cannot find. It seems more likely from these posts that Lasker is actually accurate but you
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
It's really just not. GTK is on its fourth major version. Wayland broke backwards compatibility with tons of apps.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
There's not much x86 specific about Win32 and you can make native ARM Windows programs for years already. WinNT was designed to be portable from the start. Windows/ARM comes with a Rosetta like system and can run Intel binaries ou
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
The model of patching+recompiling the world for every OS release is a terrible hack that devs hate and that users hate. 99% of all people hate it because it's a crap model. Devs hate middlemen who silently fuck up their software and le
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
The pivot point was Windows 95. Competition. In the first half of the 90s Windows faced a lot more of it. Then they didn't, and standards slipped. Why invest in Windows when people will buy it anyway? Upgrades. In the first half of the
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
The comment is a reference to a well known benchmark in which LLMs inevitably lose money attempting to run a simple simulated vending machine business.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Thanks for the excellent comment.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
They don't anymore. They introduced ID verification shortly after, but it's hard to stop completely while also scaling fast.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Of course, that's exactly what someone who keeps losing debates would say about their opponents.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Kotlin didn't target LLVM at all when it was designed, that feature came much later. The primary target for Kotlin is and always was the JVM. And Kotlin was designed with usability in mind from day one, that was the justification for i
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
The rest of the world mostly also uses subsidized private healthcare (except for the UK, where healthcare is far worse than in the US). The US system works well if you can pay the bills. It doesn't have the undercapacity issues the UK
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
That's a reasonable question with several answers. One is that US healthcare cost inflation is very high. The average family premium in 1999 was $6k, it is now $27k, for an annual cost increase of 6.1% per year. The long term rate of p
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
The health care sector hasn't seen that kind of increase in productivity. Health care productivity is notoriously low.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
No, health insurers are motivated to keep their premium payers healthy and have a long track record of funding programmes to improve the health of the population. Think about how insurance works. Where I live they paid for the creation of o
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
It's not about ideology, ffs get a grip. The US is bleeding out because its government spends so much more than its society can generate via taxes. Its has a debt of 38 trillion dollars. The subsidies were adding to that. People who sa
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Unless you were Steve Jobs in late 90s Apple, when in fact they did have to throw all the source away, start over with a new stack and new devs, with imported ideas, not exactly knowing what the outcome would be like. Then you wouldn't
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Studying history better would be a good start. The Nazis came to power because they were a far left party and the population in that era thought socialism was a great idea. Hitler himself remarked many times that his movement was left wing
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
They already represented the goals of their project clearly, and gave examples of outputs. Anyone can already misrepresent it. That isn't their true concern.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
It never fails to appear because it's correct and obviously so. Look at when China started to become rich and what they changed around that time.
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
I wasn't attempting to be extremely precise with dates. My point was only that the Soviets and the US were technologically comparable in that era. Yes, the US put in huge efforts and were able to overtake them in the space race, largel
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
At the start of the microchip age, the US wasn't that far ahead. The techniques for manufacturing microchips weren't anything special and the Soviets could do so easily. The problem was the top-down mandate to clone, not lack of i
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by qcnguy 10mo ago
Rust can't make a promise, only people can. I think it was clear what samdoesnothing meant.

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