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by scoofy 9mo ago
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/caltrain-says-could-clos...
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by scoofy 9mo ago
People want to have their cake and eat it too.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
>Why do you expect them to make money? I don't. That's why I said "variable cost of operations." If a system doesn't generate enough revenue to cover the variable costs of operation, then every single new passen
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by scoofy 9mo ago
Lighting money on fire by funding an extremely expensive system that most people don't want to use is not an "investment." It's just a good way to make everyone much poorer and worse off than if we'd done nothing.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
As someone who lives in the Bay Area we already have trains, and they're literally past the point of bankruptcy because they (1) don't actually charge enough maintain the variable cost of operations, (2) don't actually make p
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by scoofy 9mo ago
SaaS companies are effectively both "software maintainers" and "price gouging middlemen" at the same time. The difference between the bid and the ask for SaaS is part of a simple math problem for whether the company shou
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by scoofy 9mo ago
The point Strong Towns is making is that whatever you believe, you can’t live outside your means forever. The bill for all that infrastructure will come due, taxes will go up, people who still can will move away, and the town will start fal
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I am currently eating my normal breakfast. It consists of steel-cut oats cooked in a Zojirushi NL-DCC10/18 rice cooker (designed for steel cut oats), with frozen fruit added, and a dollop of olive oil after when it finishes. It takes l
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I want to step in here and point to Strong Towns. It’s easy to say THAT the cities have owners, but not why. The why is the American development pattern that creates suburbia that can’t generate enough taxes to pay to maintain the town. T
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by scoofy 9mo ago
If your point is to ignore the history and political philosophy of civil disobedience because "times are different now," then just grab your gun and start your civil war already... because that's where you've concluded w
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by scoofy 9mo ago
>If you let the government stomp on your constitutional rights and willingly go to jail on unconstitutional grounds, then that's not respect for the law. That's respect for injustice. My point is about civil disobedience, not
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by scoofy 9mo ago
The literal point of civil disobedience is accepting that you may end up in jail: "Any man who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the comm
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by scoofy 9mo ago
There are literally dozens of local ordinances in SF that are blatantly unconstitutional. The issue is that nobody wants to actually pursue they to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, just for a court to eventually say “
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by scoofy 9mo ago
Yes, and my point is exactly that a rubber stamping SCOTUS would have literally allowed it even though it was "improper." That's what rubber stamping means.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
You can be pro-immigration enforcement, while also anti whatever-the-fuck-this-is. It's called being pro- rule of law . You're not allowed to just shoot people in the back that are very obviously not a threat, even if their idioti
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by scoofy 9mo ago
If you think the SCOTUS has been arbitrarily rubber stamping the administration's goals, you haven't been paying attention. I'll fully agree with you it appears to have been fairly partisan, but less than a month again they b
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by scoofy 9mo ago
You realize the famous case of Apple pushing back against the govt ended because their encryption was breakable by a third party, right?
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I mean, machine politics means that Congressmen who want to stay Congressmen fall in line. The problem was never the system, the problem is always that the electorate actually wants this. The system is there to prevent a king from emerging
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by scoofy 9mo ago
"But I forgot my password! You need to fix this!" The technology exists to trivially encrypt your data if you want to. That's not a product most people want, because the vast majority of people (1) will forget their password
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by scoofy 9mo ago
Fixed income are just the weirdest markets. Like, the most boring and the most insane... kind of at the same time.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I mean, they've gerrymandered the country so much it's nearly impossible... good luck to the ones with very "efficiently" cracked districts.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I mean, sure. I’m just saying you can make the same argument about the photograph, and people did. Technology changes what art can be . We should not be surprised that a new tech has come along and upset the apple cart in a very similar wa
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by scoofy 9mo ago
>Wild that you claim others misunderstand art via an ill conceived attribution to "thing-ness" I don't claim others misunderstand art. I'm saying that art as a product that can be sold for income, where people want to
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by scoofy 9mo ago
My entire point is that art is an inherent contradiction. Art can be anything. Fucking Duchamp’s readymades should make any concern about AI worthless. He was literally putting someone’s trash in a gallery and it was art. The reason why
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by scoofy 9mo ago
I mean, it's arbitrary. I've lived in a Fahrenheit country and a Celsius country and both systems work fine. Resolution issues exist for both systems (you can still benefit from decimals in Fahrenheit for coffee and tea brewing) I
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by scoofy 9mo ago
>Why would you want to see a booth showing artworks that weren't even created by the person in front of you but by an AI? I'd suggest people learn about Andy Warhol's factory where they mass produced "art." Art i
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by scoofy 9mo ago
Look, I'm a descriptivist, but my point is that there is nothing about the word "Republic" than implies representative democracy more than "Democracy." This distinction boils down to Federalist No. 10, when Madiso
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by scoofy 9mo ago
Republic, res publica , means state power comes from the people. Democracy, dēmos kratos , means state rule comes from the people. They mean the same damn thing. They are just two different words that mean not ruled by monarchs.
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by scoofy 9mo ago
Looking at the imports is very good advice, thanks.
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Ask HN: How worried should I be about running LLM code on my machine?
10 points by scoofy 9mo ago|4 comments

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