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by rangestransform 7mo ago
Part of living in a free society is being able to destroy your own life by various means
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by rangestransform 7mo ago
AMD APUs on PC still basically require setting up a fixed split between VRAM and RAM, instead of truly sharing memory like consoles or Apple silicon
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by rangestransform 7mo ago
Nobody is gonna buy the unlocked version if it doesn’t include the manufacturer subsidy that’s made back from users buying games
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by rangestransform 7mo ago
The right to a fair trial fundamentally requires the government to do 100% of the job of proving you guilty, and it shouldn’t force you to generate evidence against yourself while going about perfectly legal things
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by rangestransform 7mo ago
How can prediction markets be priced with continuous instead of discrete predictions?
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by rangestransform 7mo ago
Deputize prediction market providers to force people to self incriminate à la KYC/AML laws today
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by rangestransform 7mo ago
For better or for worse, the most desirable places in the US not only refuse to participate in the race to the bottom anymore, they actively pursue a vendetta against well paying tech jobs opening up (see: Amazon HQ2 in NYC)
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
I used to be a custom rom guy in high school, and I also used to develop apps for my nexus 5. Now I have an iPhone and I save the tech nerding for work hours. I definitely would not have gotten this far without my custom rom days, but now m
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
IIRC Google mountain view had to get evacuated once for fumes seeping through the ground
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
Much of the world has a primitive version of this but unionized bus drivers prevent this from being economical in the west. It’s absolute comedy that NYC has a full fleet of 40 foot buses operating on its narrow streets, obstructing traffic
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
Autonomy is necessary to get the unionized bus drivers out of the way, the cost of running a bus is dominated by staffing costs.
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
When I was at Tesla, this was the reason given for having the Fremont factory despite Bay Area labour prices
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
Not overrepresented enough given that middle America has disproportionate per capita voting power
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
Damaging structural parts on any modern car is likely to total it, just because of the labour costs involved.
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
> To make matters worse, labor unions are equally politically inactive, and most often their only political moves are endorsing candidates. This isn’t true, UAW almost got Biden to transfer wealth directly from taxpayers to them via the
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
Perhaps it was accidentally stumbling into good policy, but we all know western leaders would not be brave enough to do such a thing. The result of encouraging homeownership ideologically in the postwar era is that the west has a gigantic v
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
“Cruise” is still churning out good tech, they gave a talk recently about using a lightweight [1] type of planner to train an end to end VLA style planner [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03349
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
Too bad the rest of the world is no longer in shambles due to war and has other options than buying American
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
We could have a long term dependent visa that permanently renders them ineligible for government assistance
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
Why shouldn’t we try our best to make sure only net positives get in, and make sure they can’t bring net negatives with them?
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
I could go on a whole tirade about how policing should not scale with technology, Katz v. USA was decided when surveillance had to be done with still images and film cameras, but the horse left the barn long ago and nobody really gives a sh
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by rangestransform 8mo ago
Deindustrialization has hollowed out most American cities outside of major cities, and the corresponding anti globalism tantrum contributed to the current political situation. Because of the apportionment of House and Senate seats, these pe
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by rangestransform 9mo ago
For absolutely not a single benefit to the owner but massive benefit to society.
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by rangestransform 9mo ago
It’s only theoretically non searchable, IIRC each submitted document has to be OCRed every time a search is ran on the documents, and this is enough of a legal fig leaf to qualify it as not a registry. A sizeable GPU farm would make this ba
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by rangestransform 9mo ago
I’d put Berlin ubahn halfway between nyc and japan in terms of cleanliness and orderly behavior, the bigger problem is that there’s no ac in the summer
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by rangestransform 9mo ago
Hong Kong has started recognizing the judgments of mainland kangaroo courts
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by rangestransform 9mo ago
Lead pipes in Chicago were due to union regulatory capture and not lack of regulations
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by rangestransform 9mo ago
Orienting policy around individual home ownership just ends up eventually with more people’s voting interests aligned with landowners, and is part of the reason why increasing property values and NIMBYism is so entrenched in American govern
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by rangestransform 9mo ago
Is it morally and ethically righteous toward the people of the rich countries? A country owes everything to its citizens and nothing to anyone else, and pretending otherwise led to resentment toward foreign aid including some realpolitik ju
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by rangestransform 9mo ago
Social welfare needs to be handled at the same level that mobility exists, because otherwise all destitute people will bumrush the nearest jurisdiction that is giving out generous welfare benefits. The issue is most often seen at the city l

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