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by routerl 4y ago
Not for Russia, no. But that's not whose program this is, now is it? The ideal situation for the American ruling class is to simply import highly skilled workers from other countries, rather than produce them at home. This alleviates t
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by routerl 4y ago
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
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by routerl 4y ago
Okay, but it turns out that people will pay whatever it takes to keep food, water, and shelter. So if price analysis were as simple as you seem to think, everyone will eventually be completely emiserated by spending the entirety of their in
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by routerl 4y ago
> The owners here are alpha testing a complex and dangerous system and they should expect nothing less. This is the part of Tesla's business that upsets me. Their marketing department is being allowed to do what marketing department
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by routerl 4y ago
I was shocked that wasn't one of the points on the carousel, but then realized that it is , in a "show don't tell" way.
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by routerl 4y ago
> the misfits to band together and form a counterculture. They do, but they do it online, and across the entire globe, rather than by finding common cause with other local misfits, which leads to more social isolation, and the wheel keep
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by routerl 4y ago
Rent yourself a workspace. There, your problem is solved. "My home life sucks" is not a reason to send everyone back to the office.
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by routerl 4y ago
He's not making an argument, there's no conclusion. It's a lament.
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by routerl 4y ago
Only if that's the only source of food. The point is, contrary to this article, government food deliveries are nowhere close to enough.
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by routerl 4y ago
> Did you know that only residents with official permission to be in Shanghai are getting food? And even those are only nominally getting food. For every account of the Shanghai lockdown that includes regular food delivery, there are 5 a
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by routerl 4y ago
Yeah, that's the point.
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by routerl 5y ago
This is playing out currently, quite openly, as the FTC investigates whether companies have raised prices more than costs have risen from inflation. It's becoming increasingly clear that the academic economic consensus is, simply, disc
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by routerl 5y ago
13. Watch videos in a video-overlay on mobile, without a membership , using Firefox on Android. 14. Listen to audio with the screen off, without a membership , using Firefox on Android.
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by routerl 5y ago
Let's clear this up: a lie is intentional. "Saying something false" doesn't count as a lie, only if you believed the falsehood . Given this clarification, the original point is fair.
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by routerl 5y ago
I mean... if you can't be a good example, be a warning?
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by routerl 5y ago
Once you have self-reference, these are pretty easy to create. I'm quite fond of such sentences that use no self-reference. E.g. "is false when preceded by its quotation" is false when preceded by its quotation. The above was
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by routerl 5y ago
ROC and PROC don't recognize each others' passports, since both states hold the official position that the other state does not exist (and that travelling between the mainland and Taiwan does not, therefore, count as "interna
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by routerl 5y ago
It's a long and fascinating story that involves China firing missiles to affect the outcome of Taiwan's first democratic election, as well as the largest American military action in Asia since the Vietnam War. In summary, the KMT
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by routerl 5y ago
I think you're using "fascist" when you mean "authoritarian". I.e. Communists can be "authoritarian", but absolutely cannot be "fascist".
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by routerl 5y ago
The KMT ("blues"; historical ruling party of Taiwan, and main opposition to the CCP during the civil war) was indeed an authoritarian party; Taiwan was a dictatorship until 1996, under the guise of "martial law to prepare for
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by routerl 5y ago
> pro-KMT, which is about as anti-CCP as you can get This isn't a binary issue. Historically, the KMT was the main opposition to the CCP, but both of these factions claim control over the mainland of China. The DPP (the greens) ar
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by routerl 5y ago
Green is the color of the Democratic Progressive Party (currently in power, and the historical anti-KMT (read: anti-authoritarian) party)[0]. Green has thus become the color of the Taiwanese independence movement (i.e. not "Republic of
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by routerl 5y ago
tl;dr: Python concatenates space separated strings, so ['foo' 'bar'] becomes ['foobar'], leading to silent bugs due to typos. I've been bitten by this one at work, and can't help but think it is an in
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by routerl 5y ago
Yes, and therefore bad troubleshooting. Don't blame systems for bad input; garbage in, garbage out.
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by routerl 5y ago
It's so funny how the class of people who most criticize "entitlements" (read: social services paid for by taxes) are the same class of people who are most "entitled" (to admittance in (so-called) elite institutions
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by routerl 5y ago
Agree with you completely, but companies/governments do not. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_paternalism
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by routerl 5y ago
The best chess engines in the world operate at a ~3500 rating level. For context, Magnus Carlsen's peak rating was 2882 (i.e. the highest rating ever achieved by a human). Combinations of human+engine operate at a ~3800 rating level. I
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by routerl 5y ago
Of course it is possible to exploit the psychology of the opponent. Bluffing does exist in chess, and it relies on your opponent's inability to realize that you've made a sub-optimal move. For example, at the highest levels, grand
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by routerl 5y ago
> the best players would work with the computer rather than against it He was certainly talking about "advanced chess"[1], where computers are used to make move suggestions but the human player actually selects the move to play
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by routerl 5y ago
Very weird to see this rebranding of a 2000+ year old technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method#Method

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