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by rurp 2y ago
I agree with all of this, my only quibble is that I would bet there have already been costs associated with this idiocy. Hostile powers knew going in that this would be an incompetently run administration and I'm sure were looking at g
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by rurp 2y ago
How could it not lead to conflict? As far as we have seen, different groups always come into conflict. Humans have already driven thousands of species to extinction and show no signs of that ever changing. Maybe an advanced civilization has
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by rurp 2y ago
I've spent quite a bit of time in outdoor sports and don't think I've met a single person who did a lot of rough hiking and preferred heavy duty hiking boots over lighter trail running or approach shoes. I see quite a few of
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by rurp 2y ago
I think their whole point was that it's not just about the money to them. If they love being outside and working with their hands far more than being in an office and can make a living ranching it seems like a smart move to me, regardl
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by rurp 2y ago
Most people obtain those just fine without a tech salary.
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by rurp 2y ago
I worked at a company with very similar performance metrics and it was as counter-productive as you would expect. The surprising thing is that the management wasn't that bad overall but they worshiped at the altar of data and metrics f
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by rurp 2y ago
I was also quick to dive into early internet forums and feel like I got a lot out of them, but LLMs just seem different. Forums were a novel medium but it was still real people interacting and connecting with each other, often over a shared
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by rurp 2y ago
It's pretty wild. I'm someone who thinks that disasters and existential threats are seriously underrated by most people, but even still a decade ago I would have put the odds of a major US collapse in my lifetime at a low very num
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by rurp 2y ago
There has been some darkly hilarious reporting that much of this administration was genuinely surprised and confused that Canada didn't immediately roll over in response to US bullying. Most people realize that the world isn't mad
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by rurp 2y ago
This reminds me a recent chat I had with Claude, trying to identify what looked like an unusual fossil. The responses included things along the lines of "What a neat find!" or "That's fascinating! I'd love it if you
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by rurp 2y ago
That and the complete lack of resources and hospitable terrain. It drives me crazy when space gets compared to the new world. But yeah the isolation alone is no joke.
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by rurp 2y ago
It seems pretty extreme to say that her livelihood was in jeopardy given that her salary was probably an order of magnitude more than an average worker. She likely put up with that and other toxic behavior because she was highly ambitious a
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by rurp 2y ago
That's hardly an isolated example though, plus who knows how many staff hours went into evaluating various proposals and facilitating the conference. The big question is why. It's not like there are a dearth of social justices non
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by rurp 2y ago
Nobody is confused about how it's currently working. The whole complaint is that there isn't a way to donate towards Firefox and have any confidence that's where the money will go. There are a million social justice charities
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by rurp 2y ago
This pretty much covers it. Harris ran a terrible campaign in 2020 and was never popular. Biden picked her anyway, against his better judgement, because that was what the Left wanted and he was trying to appease them. His disastrous decisio
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by rurp 2y ago
Forecasts will always have some level of uncertainty and if a race is very close a prediction around 50/50 will be the most honest result. A prediction like that does have value, just like a prediction that candidate A is a large favor
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by rurp 2y ago
> Who would contract Selzer ever again? Presumably anyone who is familiar with her overall body of work and the concept of an outlier. Pollsters are increasingly herding. Perhaps after this election all unexpected results will be suppres
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Musk blames Ukrainians for cyberattack on X. Experts aren't convinced(politico.eu)
11 points by rurp 2y ago|3 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
I agree with all of that, Elon's downside risk is massive. Putting himself at Trump's mercy might turn out to be one of the biggest blunders ever. Trump seems happy with using Elon for now but he's the ultimate bully who love
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by rurp 2y ago
Nobody was even considering it a few months ago. I wonder if anything has changed regarding EU security recently?
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by rurp 2y ago
Just like the myth of them being the party concerned with responsible government spending. A simple chart of the annual deficit overlain with the party in power makes it clear that reality is the exact opposite and has been for many decades
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by rurp 2y ago
You seem weirdly determined to ignore all context in a discussion about markets.
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by rurp 2y ago
Is there any source for this being an attack other than Elon's tweet. I hope reporters aren't just taking his word for this given all of his past lies.
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by rurp 2y ago
Tesla is notorious for a slow and difficult repair process. An older car will always be at risk of unexpectedly being out of service for weeks or months, which isn't a risk many people have the luxury of taking with their vehicle.
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by rurp 2y ago
He still has his hooks into a wildly corrupt administration with all sorts of opportunities for graft, but he's going about it in a surprisingly incompetent and spiteful way. At least that's my best read of the recent stock moveme
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by rurp 2y ago
Why? The company is insanely overvalued based on its fundamentals. Elon's hardcore investor fans are the only reason the stock is worth anything near what it is.
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by rurp 2y ago
Well Musk lied about exactly this sort of thing last year, blaming a non-existant DDoS attack that turned out to just be poor engineering on their part. Given his massive track record of lies on all sorts of topics anything he says on twitt
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by rurp 2y ago
If it's really that big of a problem this can be addressed by locking extensions by default and hiding the on switch where casual users won't look. But come on, this is obviously a pretext. You expect people to believe that the mo
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by rurp 2y ago
You live in an extremely atypical place that doesn't generalize at all to the rest of the US. I've never lived in or visited an American city where I couldn't get something basic like an oil change or haircut with no notice.
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by rurp 2y ago
So Tesla could show a much more accurate value for the overall range but chooses not to.

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