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by r00fus 1y ago
"any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
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by r00fus 1y ago
> Massachusetts, which has the highest percentage of college educated citizens in the entire country, also shot down ranked choice voting last year, because the math was too hard. That's the ostensible reason - the reality is that B
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by r00fus 1y ago
I'm fairly sure that OpenAI has never really believed in AGI - it's like with Uber and "self driving cabs" - it's a lure for the investors. It's just that this bait has a shelf life and it looks like it's
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by r00fus 1y ago
"needs to" and "should not" are idealistic words. What will happen is either a collapse of the US economy or a collapse of the Trump administration. Even if the administration grows a brain and reverses course, we are on
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by r00fus 1y ago
Corruption incarnate.
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by r00fus 1y ago
Clearly the congestion pricing has amazing side effects as people now enjoy living in the city even more! /s On a serious note, the dollar lost about 10% of valuation, and GDP is contracting .3% in Q1. How this relates to property valu
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by r00fus 1y ago
Don't forget - they are also busy replacing career military flag officers with sycophants.
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by r00fus 1y ago
While you have a valid point, how often do people need to reroof their house? Or even repair something that is impacted from a solar install? My anecdotal understanding is that there are no such complaints from owners.
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by r00fus 1y ago
Are fiber optic cables flexible and tough enough? Fiber optic seems to be good for fixed deployments but not exactly fit for a rough&tumble environment like a car.
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by r00fus 1y ago
Every single solar installation with no reported issues.
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by r00fus 1y ago
> The issue is we have not developed a roof system that works in conjunction with solar panels. Millions of data points suggest your POV is unfounded.
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by r00fus 1y ago
You opinion is not selfish (I'm selfishly taking advantage of low solar cell costs and decent ROI). You are however, quite uninformed about the details. Go ask on /r/solar or some other forums or just ask friends who've
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by r00fus 1y ago
s/climate change/China/ The US bungled its lead in photovoltaics and politics prevented us from catching up - so like most other things, China leads the way, and we benefit.
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by r00fus 1y ago
Trump can say what he wants, but the market has moved on from coal.
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by r00fus 1y ago
It's a real job - but more in IT and less software development. IT departments in many places prefer to do the buy rather than build since build is more expensive for them.
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by r00fus 1y ago
That isn't what I'm seeing with my clientele (lots of startups and mature non-tech companies). Most are using Azure but very few have started to engage AI outside the periphery.
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by r00fus 1y ago
Gerrymandering? More like scrubbing the voters of the right to vote (SAVE act) or voter intimidation (all those militias standing ready!)
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by r00fus 1y ago
The capitalist world perhaps. Some countries properly invest in infrastructure and people because they're not captured by private equity.
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by r00fus 1y ago
DOGE is involved - do you think anything is going back to useful programs? More likely they'll just buy more SpaceX and Tesla.
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by r00fus 1y ago
> For context, Xi Jinping is very, very ethnonationalist, despite running a nominally Communist party. This is the first I'm hearing of this - do you have any context? Everything I've heard about China's policy (including
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by r00fus 1y ago
I think the mouse is critical with non-touchscreen interfaces. Smaller hit-targets, lots of on-screen buttons/menus, file manipulation, etc. The more and more modern desktop OSs evolve, the less of that is required. I want to open a f
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by r00fus 1y ago
My hypopnea (pre-apnea) is getting resolved as I have lost a lot of weight by following a program using GLP-1 meds. I also no longer have knee discomfort when hiking or doing long climbs on my bike (used to wear a sleeve beforehand to do t
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by r00fus 1y ago
There is rationality if you think like an autocrat - the goal is to crush dissent and any avenues of dissent so that people "self-censor" in fear. Combine with upcoming extra-judicial detentions of citizens (we are already detaini
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by r00fus 2y ago
> I would think it unlikely they can secure an updraft from this to keep the house. What's the plan for that? Clearly they will "secure the vote". Massive voter disenfranchisement is already taking place, it will go to the
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by r00fus 2y ago
There are some shibboleths that you absolutely can't touch or you'll be downvoted rigorously. But less than on other fora.
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by r00fus 2y ago
Tariffs are a tax on consumer goods. They will also be counterproductive to economic growth.
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by r00fus 2y ago
This is really just a "they're all doing it too" finger pointing from Le Pen's party. "The preliminary investigation - already targeting members of France's centrist MoDem party, conservative party The Republic
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by r00fus 2y ago
So Iran was a UK puppet then. Still a pawn of "the west". MI6 and Mossad were as involved in the 1953 assassination of Mossadegh as the CIA.
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by r00fus 2y ago
As long as we're speaking anecdotally, I very rarely took lunch to school in grade school (1980s). Even as a vegetarian in red-meat-eating Utah, I got a hot lunch prepared by real people and the food tasted good.
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by r00fus 2y ago
I used to think it was gluten, but then had issues with legumes (peanuts, beans). However, once I started taking an intense pre/pro biotic supplement, most of my issues disappeared. What remained was acid stomach, but with my latest w

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