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by rafram 4mo ago
In both cases, it’s true . Higher taxes will drive some New Yorkers to Florida! That’s why the state government has to research the impact of a tax increase and set the brackets at a point where the amount they bring in, after subtracting
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by rafram 4mo ago
I can only reread your initial comment so many times. You’re still incorrect. Yes, a small subset of games have downloadable server software; the ones that do are able to do so because it’s self-contained and unencumbered by proprietary com
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by rafram 4mo ago
Because the alternative now costs more. That is just a basic function of human decision-making. If there are two options, and one becomes more expensive, it will become more common to pick the other. It very slightly tips the balance toward
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by rafram 4mo ago
It doesn’t excuse Trump’s behavior in any way, but it does a lot to contextualize it and explain the systemic weaknesses that make it possible: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/the-truman-show.html
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by rafram 4mo ago
> Technically the online services are still functional - the match queue times would just be very, very large. That would violate the law.
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by rafram 4mo ago
Because the law specifically exempts subscription-based revenue models, so they become more attractive than they currently are by definition.
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by rafram 4mo ago
LLMs are already bad at reusing existing logic/resources/components, even when they have obvious names. Unreadable code only makes it worse.
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by rafram 4mo ago
Blame Harry Truman, the original presidential grifter.
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by rafram 4mo ago
Commodities, not securities. The CFTC doesn’t regulate securities.
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by rafram 4mo ago
> untraceable, anonymous and yet high value enough to be worth it Literally none of these is true of Bitcoin.
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by rafram 5mo ago
Clickbait title. Should be more like "Box founder Aaron Levie says CEOs should use AI more and learn its limitations." He's essentially saying that C-suite people overestimate how effective LLMs are at one-shotting hard probl
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by rafram 5mo ago
Lingua franca actually comes from the Mediterranean Lingua Franca [1], which was mostly derived from Northern Italian languages, not French. French eventually became the "lingua franca," but it wasn't widespread (or even cl
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by rafram 5mo ago
In the US, generally one hour no matter whether it's domestic or international. In Germany, like three hours because security and immigration is insanely slow and inefficient. In the UK and other countries I'm less familiar with,
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by rafram 5mo ago
> Marius Husnes, the Head of IT Platform at the library (Nasjonlbiblioteket) discussed the project at Huawei’s ID Forum 2026 in Paris, saying that no commercial LLM provider was developing a local (Norwegian) language LLM. He asserted th
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by rafram 5mo ago
I can’t recall the last time I received an automated SMS that I’d say was “consented.” Not that that’s an adjective I’d ever use.
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by rafram 5mo ago
Really? Obviously it varies by country, but there’s no customs/immigration when leaving the US, and security usually takes <5 minutes with PreCheck. Sometimes immigration takes a while on the other side, but it’s quick at airports w
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by rafram 5mo ago
Emirates just dominates long-haul flights to Dubai overall. Other (mostly flag carrier) airlines handle other airports in the region. Qatar Airways through Doha is also a big player in flights between the US/Europe and Asia.
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by rafram 5mo ago
Cost of living is the only message that seems to work in the Trump era. I understand why they’re using it.
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by rafram 5mo ago
Why are you writing about / thinking about the things an AI model said to you? It’s an LLM trained heavily on Elon tweets and pro-Elon internet content. Of course it’s going to say nice things about Elon. It’s an LLM, not some kind of
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by rafram 5mo ago
https://nypost.com/2025/07/04/us-news/nycs-famous-subway-bab... > The process actually ended up being surprisingly quick, thanks to a short-lived pilot program that was meant to cut through red tape a
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by rafram 5mo ago
The US alone spends 1.5x as much on consumer goods (yes, adjusted for PPP) and nearly 2x as much on R&D as the entire EU. It’s very sweet that the EU is trying to decouple itself from the US economy, but I highly doubt its ability to be
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by rafram 5mo ago
Maybe it does close that loophole, but the effects are much, much broader and more harmful: https://www.cato.org/blog/dhs-quits-granting-green-cards-alm...
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by rafram 5mo ago
None of those have anything to do with robustness.
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by rafram 5mo ago
No, they can't, unless they're set up with an incredibly reckless harness.
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by rafram 5mo ago
It does, though.
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by rafram 5mo ago
Of course we need infrastructure. It’s annoying when a project that seems like a net good is held up due to environmental concerns, but this planet is very beautiful and I’d like to be able to continue to enjoy it.
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by rafram 5mo ago
> "Environmental activists" are scum of the earth, as a rule > Tactics like this are a part of why US is a lousy place to build infrastructure in. I suspect your definition of a lousy place to build infrastructure in might o
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by rafram 5mo ago
If only it were that simple! UPI One World isn't an app, it's a system that apps can implement, and the implementations, like Mony and Cheq, all have high fees and require you to go to random offices in inconvenient locations to v
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by rafram 5mo ago
The standardization process requires implementations before standardization. And the most recent comments on the WHATWG issue are from Jake Archibald (Mozilla) and Anne van Kesteren (Apple). This isn't a unilateral Google project.
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by rafram 5mo ago
UPI would be even better if it were easier for tourists to onboard and use it while traveling in India. The general mindset seems to be that there's enough domestic tourism that making things easy for foreigners isn't that importa

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