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by ralfd 3mo ago
Optimal corporate taxes are zero (or close to it) anyway, same as tariffs. Aside from that the link explains that the BBB traded tax income for „accelerated depreciation of assets“ aka economic growth. Asode from that, even if one disagrees
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by ralfd 3mo ago
> No solar panels required. No need to own your home. You just need a smart meter and to opt in through your retailer to have access to free daytime electricity. The scheme is called the Solar Sharer Offer. What is then the incentive to
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by ralfd 3mo ago
> suggesting an origin from the live attenuated oral polio vaccine Without immunizations that would’nt have happened though?
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by ralfd 3mo ago
This dystopian thought is wrong learning from dystopian fiction. I know it felt clever writing it, surely many found it clever cynicism, but in no way does it reflect real life kidney donations.
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by ralfd 3mo ago
> "goodness of their hearts" (which may be related to avoidance of public pushback) I hate this cynicism in everything. People didnt work there 10 years ago to be millionaires in a far away IPO, they worked there because they a
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by ralfd 3mo ago
Interesting: > The AI workflow was as interesting to me as the retrocomputing work itself > A coding AI can only hold so much in its context window … The solution was to make the project’s documentation the durable memory that the AI
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by ralfd 3mo ago
what was the game pass catastrophe?
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by ralfd 3mo ago
> Defense attorneys, in particular, used biological evidence like brain scans to argue that their clients should receive lighter sentences. Counterintuitively people want negative traits be rooted in biology. That the soul is a victim of
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by ralfd 4mo ago
SpaceX will swing wildly in future, also exploding/successful Starship flights and enthusiasm for moon landing/Artemis missions.
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by ralfd 4mo ago
Context?
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by ralfd 4mo ago
SpaceX is too with the Anthropic/Google deal
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by ralfd 4mo ago
> It takes over 30 years Only because it is overengineered. Parents pragmatic protocol would have been adopted faster
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by ralfd 4mo ago
> CIE 2015 Does that look like 3d?
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by ralfd 4mo ago
Doesnt Dr Grant scare a kid in the beginning with the Velociraptor and say there that T Rex vision was movement based? I wonder if Chrichton made that up or if it was a real theory by paleaologists?
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by ralfd 4mo ago
Why did Apple start the problem?
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by ralfd 4mo ago
To be fair, food is the smallest bucket of my monthly expenses. And there are many people here on hacker news who pay more for their AI tokens than for their food. How does argrar industry and tech industry compare as share of gdp in the US
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by ralfd 4mo ago
Paul Graham is the skating coach himself, as from 6000 startups financed by y combinator quite a few were unicorns. it is olympian level, but it there is a system to it.
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by ralfd 4mo ago
What happens?
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by ralfd 4mo ago
Closed Source AI at least can be controlled. See the directive of the US government regarding Fable (even if one disagrees about the directive there is no doubt that it is effective in shutting it off) or the safe guards by a corporate stru
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by ralfd 4mo ago
If you take AI risk seriously then Open Source AI should not and must not win. Both by evil actors (biological weapons research) and the danger of unaligned AGI itself. There are some people who would never work for the military or Anduril
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by ralfd 4mo ago
> Most reptiles could be alive for thousands of years How so? Snakes only live like 30 years. Tortoises are long lived, but it is low hundreds years, not thousands.
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by ralfd 4mo ago
It is noteworthy that this is a German source and German culture is by default pessimism and malaise.
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by ralfd 4mo ago
> Sidenote: 3 is actually high. Do you mean low? AAPL has a ps of 10.
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by ralfd 4mo ago
What? Can you explain?
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by ralfd 4mo ago
Yes, the Onion satirized it long ago: https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that... > Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation > Local man Paul C
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by ralfd 4mo ago
Raskin also died a month later at 26. Februar 2005 (cancer).
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by ralfd 5mo ago
This trope has to die. SpaceX Starship design is optimized for Mars (instead of Blue Origin NG) and the gigantic Starship Factory and multiple launch pads under construction in Texas, Florida and Louisiana (plus potentially foreign countrie
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by ralfd 5mo ago
cmd-W closes windows and cmd-Q quits the App. That Apps can stay open without having a Window is actually useful (at least it makes sense to me). @screenshot Mac has always been kind of amazing for the granular options you get to take scree
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by ralfd 5mo ago
You can use Google services on a Macbook and have installed apps.
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by ralfd 5mo ago
> despite a few twists at the end: the Princess does not escape her fate Which is? What fate?

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