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by roenxi 8mo ago
> Affordability requires something to exist. Ok so jumping back to applies, say I have an apple and Mr A and Mr B want it. I'm going to give the apple to the person who pays me the most money. To keep it simple, this is the only app
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> Energy is definitely a better example than food. They're the same thing. The point of food is to provide energy and the constraint limiting food availability is energy.
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by roenxi 8mo ago
That is quite hard to marry up with > Not being afford something is a 'pretend' state that only exists because everyone agrees to go along with it. though. If there are n people who want things and (n-1) things, then someone be
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> Resource allocation is entirely a social construct. Not being afford something is a 'pretend' state that only exists because everyone agrees to go along with it. That can't exactly be true, because scarcity is a physical
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by roenxi 8mo ago
Did he claim war was peace and slavery was freedom on the way through? When I say that sounds incredible, I mean that in the sense it is difficult to link it with credibility. That argument's conclusion is that keeping troops in an act
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by roenxi 8mo ago
That sounds kinda stupid. These days when someone says something ridiculous but pro-war it generally turns out they are just lying through their teeth and just not being honest about their motivations (eg, getting kickbacks or they're
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by roenxi 8mo ago
Extracting an 80 year old from their house is a bit harder than you might expect. Even if their stubborness is going to get them killed. I personally have difficulty believing Iran didn't know that war was inbound, everyone I talk to w
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by roenxi 8mo ago
That isn't to their long term benefit. A similar argument would be that consumers should be aiming for an economy like South Sudan. GDP per capita of around $400/annum. Consumers like to minimise spending and so if the South Sudan
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by roenxi 8mo ago
Bit of a tease, they don't explain why New Zealand are seeing an exodus in over-30s. I suspect there is an elephant in the room here that isn't being discussed. Particularly in that age range I doubt people are getting a sudden ur
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> It marked the biggest monthly job loss since October, when the US government shut down, and came amid concerns that a jump in oil prices sparked by the US-Israel war in Iran could threaten growth. It seems like a stretch to say anyone
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> If I invent a fridge and it become commercially available or cheap enough so that people previously not able to purchase it can buy it, it's fairly easy to see it as value being created. When you think about it, it actually isn&#x
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by roenxi 8mo ago
I see you submitted that as a link, it deserves a lot more than the current 4 upvotes I see. What a fascinating article. It gives me much hope that dead old games are not in fact dead. If there is still a binary somewhere and current trends
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by roenxi 8mo ago
I'm sure the actual theory goes in to a lot of detail in academic papers and whatnot, but the Wiki summary is to vague to be interesting. There is a key question left unanswered. Who are the elite? Are the elite: - billionaires? - top
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> Do they kill over a million people a year worldwide? How many orders of magnitude fewer people are killed by E-things? On a per meter basis I'd expect bikes to be much worse. I've had more injuries on bike than in car, and pe
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by roenxi 8mo ago
E-bikes and e-scooters kill people daily, accidents on those things can mess people up and there are none of the safety mechanisms like crumple zones or seatbelts on a bike. If you search "e-bike deaths" you'll get hits.
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by roenxi 8mo ago
No they don't, if we're going to start saying that we can't use any technology. If someone is mentally ill to the point where they are on the verge of suicide nothing is safe. If they're going to curtail LLMs there'
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by roenxi 8mo ago
Yes, exactly. Someone is going to moderate the platform, and in the US that is an entity which owns the space - an entity which at its core wants people on the platform. That dynamic is why we'd expect to see all the major social media
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by roenxi 8mo ago
... I'm just going of Wikipedia here but it seems to have been a standard small city [0]. Attempting to educate Iranians in Iranian cities isn't really trying to shield armed forces. Is the expectation here that Iran should send t
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by roenxi 8mo ago
While this is a minor point; whether or not it was an Iranian misfire doesn't move the moral responsibility away from the invaders. Unless the IRGC took advantage of the chaos to purposefully hit the school (seems unlikely) then the en
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by roenxi 8mo ago
It is too early to know what "Venezuela-style cooperation" looks like. It hasn't even been 6 months since the US kidnapped Maduro; the base case is that Venezuela's leadership does more or less what they were going to do
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by roenxi 8mo ago
I think more than FIRE people should just focus on FI. You still have to do something with your day after becoming financially independent and a job is still one of many good ways to contribute to the community even if you don't techni
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by roenxi 8mo ago
The operation in Venezuela could be characterised as an enormous success in the sense that it didn't seem to do anything and therefore was a big improvement on most times the US activates its military. But it was still a misstep in the
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> Is the not X it's Y in large frequency not an AI tell? I doubt it. The AIs are statistical models, if they've picked up a habit of saying "not X it's Y" then that is probably the most likely thing for humans to
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by roenxi 8mo ago
I didn't reply to the comments talking about the AI tells. I replied to the comment that is making a bad argument. It doesn't matter to me whether the article is or isn't LLM assisted.
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> So I guess our national security is significantly at risk for the next six months? That does seem to be what Hegseth is arguing, yes; and that is presumably his justification for doing something drastic here. Although I assume he is ly
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The old people's tolerance for general problems is why the general problems persist. A realistic dynamic is the old people are comfortable with the general problems and have positioned themselves to benefit from them. Indeed, they solv
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> So we don’t have professional legislatures with long-term electability incentives or leadership goals Raises an interesting question of who is less popular, the Californian government or the US Senate. The experiments with long-term pr
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by roenxi 8mo ago
Deciding whether A is an X or a Y is a really basic part of why we're all communicating. Suspicion of em dashes is one thing, but once you start getting nervous on seeing "It’s not X. It’s Y." then you're just going to g
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by roenxi 8mo ago
And Asia is mostly peaceful right now while war has returned to Europe on a scale not seen in 50 years. Those crazy Chinese, eh? Massive failure of their foreign policy establishment. Total inability to engage with Russia. > and undermin
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by roenxi 8mo ago
> Ah, the master of bad takes is at it again. Peace and love to you too, brother.

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