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by scifibestfi 4y ago
It sure is. But I get it, they are trying to hold onto a shared myth.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
To be fair, that also describes the official CPI.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
The worst part is, what did we get for that $31 Trillion in debt and other spending? Are we any better off? Did we convert to a clean grid? Connect every city by rail? Fix every road and bridge? Fix healthcare and education? Reduce crime to
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Is land the limiting factor? Did Calif already fill up available space?
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Or was it overvalued by $650B? Like crypto and Zoom.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
It's a small, local government run by people who actually live in the area they are governing. It's objectively better than a large, non-local government that has no skin in the game and doesn't have to live with the conseque
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
"Instead of using butter, cream, lard, and other animal fat as the primary source of culinary fat, one should use liquid vegetable oils like soybean, corn, olive, and canola oils for cooking, on salad and at the table." Uh...
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
It's being absorbed by the bureaucrats who have made it cost $1.7M to build a single toilet.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Hello Human, If you're not in today, don't bother coming in tomorrow. Cheers, -AI
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Evidence of a recursion limit in the simulation?
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
In some US cities there was a spike, which is probably what they are loosely referring to. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/what-caused-the-2020-h...
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
How can you tell with that level of confidence?
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
How about Bill Gates, who apparently is an expert in public health, viruses, vaccines, epidemiology, etc? Smart people like Bill, Elon and the CEO of Brave are polymaths and can cross domains quite easily.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
It goes beyond human organizations too. Hierarchies are a natural structure and something we share with lobsters. That's how embedded they are and why suppressing them doesn't work. Life finds a way, hierarchies find a way.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Valve has so much money and not many employees, they can pick their own salaries.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
It's whiplash how Meta VR is putting out demos that look 20 years old, while Meta AI is putting out demos that look like they're from the future. https://makeavideo.studio
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation! That helps.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
What do you use? Or you don't search the internet at all? > Everyday I hate this website and the people on it more. Why?
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A global recession is almost certainly coming and the Fed is to blame, says UN(fortune.com)
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
The same applies to school and teachers. Everyone is taught some bullshit in school. I just think the difference is quantity of bullshit (the internet has more).
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
The article says they are not stored. That's what I'm questioning. "user messages are stored only on their devices, not on Signal’s servers or anywhere else."
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
That's good, but I don't see how that means we know they aren't being stored. The NSA or another entity could be collecting them in bulk just in case the encryption is broken in 30 years.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
> They should not, under any circumstance, have children "Googling" the answer to questions. Why not? Don't you Google answers to questions? It's what they will be doing most of their life.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
I hate to say it, but it's looking more and more like the Bitcoin maximalists will end up being proven right in the end.
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
> By using end-to-end encryption, user messages are stored only on their devices, not on Signal’s servers or anywhere else. How do we know with certainty that the messages are not stored anywhere else? Don't they go through servers
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
> (ie the Beatles example is complete bullshit, gigs are not practice) Why doesn't that count as practice?
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
Fiat works until it doesn't. Whether that's inflation, corrupt government, or the long term debt cycle which we nearing the end of. Ray Dalio has a good video about what that means and how this has played out every time over the p
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
There's an update at the bottom of the article disputing the claim: "Your report that Mr. Goldstein withdrew millions of dollars in advance of the “pause” is flatly mistaken. The reality is that Mr. Goldstein did not withdraw even
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by scifibestfi 4y ago
We thought creative jobs were going to be the last thing AI replaces, now it's among the first. What's next that may be counterintuitive?
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"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s."

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