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by robocat 7mo ago
Your implication is that RMS was spending that money on himself for luxuries. Are you sure the money wasn't being charged by his foundations (or given indirectly - e.g. used for his living expenses)? Hard to know what his intentions we
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by robocat 7mo ago
We shamefully hear too much about the bad foundations (especially Mozilla and Wikimedia). The good foundations remain working quietly in the shadows.
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by robocat 7mo ago
Savings is an insidious lie to ourselves. It makes zero sense to an economy. X people working, and Y people not working leads to the outcomes you see as obvious. Trying to say some people are not saving enough becomes meaningless when looki
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by robocat 7mo ago
Taxation cancerously grows on all constraint edges. In this case you could calculate it as implicitly increasing to something nearer 90% ‡ (5 years retirement out of working from 20 to 80). Voters want more of everything, and our systems en
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by robocat 7mo ago
Somewhat answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520283
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by robocat 7mo ago
So what? There are also heaps of people that love getting phonecalls, or love to get a nice voice message. There's a whole other world of people that call and enjoy calling!!!! Why let a subset of people rule your behaviour towards oth
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by robocat 7mo ago
> gerontocracy It's not like you see better behaviour from 41 year old Zuckerberg or other younger founders. At least with old people, you eventually have a slim chance to be one of the old bastards in charge.
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by robocat 7mo ago
> the developers Try not to blame the people working at the coal face. Developers lack influence in most companies, they are told what to do by product managers and the rot often gets worse further up the hierarchy chain. Developers most
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by robocat 7mo ago
Rendering components is the easy part. Another goal of frameworks is to provide the model (reactive updates): https://mjswensen.com/blog/the-single-most-important-factor-... What do you use for model updates?
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by robocat 7mo ago
I figured there must be a mix of dovetails and chainsawing: beautiful: https://dovetailcabintools.com/videos
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by robocat 7mo ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gaslight%2C%...
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by robocat 7mo ago
Caged animal testing: drug chemists testing for lethality/effect on inmates that have few choices. That explains: Mr. Wilks’s team found a single sheet with 10 different concoctions sprayed onto it — a mix of opioids, depressants,
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by robocat 7mo ago
> Yes, but why build nuclear at all I wasn't suggesting that. Why did you assume that and then argue against something I didn't say?
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by robocat 7mo ago
> Particularly non-insurable and non-tax deductible liability Too often liabilities exceed assets, or the liabilities are externalised. Liability doesn't work as an incentive for many risks. For uncommon but extreme risks, it can be
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by robocat 7mo ago
Apparently further beyond "Veblen", price stops being a signal because the very wealthy have money. The signal has to change to other more scarce resources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265889
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by robocat 7mo ago
> If you combine this with renewable generation, it all falls apart Rubbish. Only true if the renewable generation is poorly integrated. Solar plus batteries can provide synthetic inertia if the incentives/regulations are correctly
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by robocat 7mo ago
You can't get an "informed opinion" by reading crap like that report. The Spanish systems have systematic design failures for stability and electricity market design. Working out the political failures that led to the design
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by robocat 7mo ago
I know what a rebuilt city looks like, because I come from one. Hurricane Katrina was 2005. Christchurch Earthquake was 2011. In my opinion, my home town has recovered better and faster from destruction than New Orleans has. I also live wit
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by robocat 7mo ago
> An example in microcosm: a local village suffered road flooding due to failed maintenance of water pipes Your example only compares against the UK past. It has zero relevancy because it says nothing about relative change against other
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by robocat 7mo ago
> it's one of those industries where price sensitivity inverts at the upper end What does that mean?
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by robocat 7mo ago
> It's wild that even renter's aren't voting for more housing. I think it's because basic economics isn't taught in k-12... Teaching economics is not the solution (see papers on financial literacy). Rationality i
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by robocat 7mo ago
Google's memetic division (~100k employees) is A/B testing AI generated memes as part of their market manipulation (step 3: profit). The A/B tests include low-effect control memes: as null-tests or for exposing information fl
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by robocat 7mo ago
You are claiming that based on information you don't have (the future). At least you could call it a prediction rather than state it as an obvious disfact.
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by robocat 7mo ago
I tried to find info on whether Norway is adding green generation capacity. Closest answer I got is that they have stopped adding onshore wind and solar is still negligible.
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by robocat 7mo ago
> massive hydro energy resources That is irrelevant unless Norway has unused capacity. If a country adds electric cars using more electric power, then what really matters is how that extra power is generated. It gets weird in Europe beca
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by robocat 7mo ago
> Unless I went a budget used Prius Take care - the Hybrid battery can be expensive to replace and they do eventually fail. Note that Toyota changed from NiMH to LiIon 2017/18. I recently had to wreck an old Toyota Hybrid because re
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by robocat 7mo ago
This can only work if the damages cost less than the business is worth. And there's plenty of examples (J&J, oil titans) escaping financial consequences by other means.
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by robocat 7mo ago
It is a shame articles like this imply that all men act this way, rather than a small subset of men. A better framing (avoiding psych words) might be "arseholes". Does the concept of gentleman no longer exist? Mind you, I have no
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by robocat 7mo ago
> motherfucker Defines most fathers. Then again, I sincerely say thank you to many "insults".
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by robocat 7mo ago
> How many die or are made destitute due to lack of affordable healthcare Healthcare costs are unlimited, and healthcare doesn't solve death. An equivalent non-partisan question would be "how many people die from lack of exerci

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