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by sershe 7mo ago
Not at all, the Russian ban was an outright speech restriction (I'm originally from Russia). This only applies to schools taking federal money. This is much more similar to pressuring institutions taking federal money to do things, by
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by sershe 8mo ago
I feel like for me (a man) algorithm is super sensitive to engagement. If I er I mean my friend would look at these thirst traps, I er I mean my friend would have feed 90% full of them. On the other hand if I watch anything else I get none,
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by sershe 8mo ago
The most frustrated people are those behind you, and if I was id soon be another person merging in front of you. If people are constantly merging in front of you, either everyone is going too fast or you are going too slow :)
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by sershe 8mo ago
For perspective I didn't even learn to drive till 30 so I know the pros and cons of walkability. And since learning I shifted firmly into car dependent camp and regret that we bought a house with 60 walkscore and not say 20. First of a
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by sershe 8mo ago
I didn't say anything of that sort. North Korea calls itself "democratic people republic" and people who call themselves antifa claim they fight "fascists". In both cases, the claim is either completely made up or o
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by sershe 8mo ago
If you are against a self-professed democratic people's republic (of Korea), does that make you anti-democratic or anti-people?
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by sershe 9mo ago
The modern alarmist environmentalist projections have even less plausible basis in any kind of science (compared to e.g. IPCC ones [1]) than the Population Bomb et al. Let's hope their moral panic doesn't inspire genocidal policie
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by sershe 9mo ago
I think this makes total sense, when I was 15 there was no social media and we socialized just fine over beers at an unattended construction site (ok also playing soccer but I do fondly remember opening bottles on rebar). Kids these days!
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by sershe 9mo ago
Not sure how scalable this is but a similar format was popular in Russia when I went to college long before AI. Typically in a large group with 2-5 examiners; everyone gets a slip with problems or theory questions with enough variation betw
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by sershe 10mo ago
New business idea: can they mine crypto in my kitchen, it's an old house and the heating is uneven. Also there are whole countries that run on central heating where hot water is pumped from a central power plant like facility to houses
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by sershe 10mo ago
How is it different in terms of breach of professional ethics than practice interviews many in tech do, never intending to take the offer? I personally have never done them (part laziness, part ethics, part lucky to have little experience o
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by sershe 10mo ago
How about an ad (assuming an honest product, since this thread is clearly about ads as such) in a remote village saying "get a work visa to Europe/US, you could live like these people with higher living standards!" People who
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by sershe 10mo ago
Valve makes most of their money from Steam lock-in. Given these numbers and the pathetic state of all the alternative game stores, they are ONE company before Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. that richly deserves some antitrust enforcement http
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by sershe 10mo ago
Can you actually download these games like one can with GOG? As far as I can tell, even indie games require steam to run. DRM is also kind of orthogonal to their terms. Ubisoft has their own DRM; let's say I am ok with Ubisoft's s
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by sershe 10mo ago
They are merely trying to commoditize their complement https://gwern.net/complement Your games are still not owned by you, they are locked inside your Steam account (liable to be suspended at any time) and app (as I've
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by sershe 10mo ago
There are two ways to look at this. Either children are in fact useful for society, and should be subsidized (I weakly hold this view given mass immigration is politically unworkable, and long term that too would run out). That is well and
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by sershe 10mo ago
I think this is actually an opposite problem. For kidney failure in particular, you can check the insane amount USG spends on end stage care. The demand for healthcare at the limit exceeds any reasonable supply. Healthcare spending across c
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by sershe 10mo ago
I've just installed Mint on my travel laptop after windows update softbricked it, and then after a restore point recovery insisted on redownloading the update automatically on boot and re-bricking it right back. Last time I tried Linux
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by sershe 10mo ago
In less than a page, they call it feudalism, fascism, and capital(ism) / corporate rule. Mussolini in his manifesto explicitly defined the 2nd in opposition to the 3rd among other things, and even Marx considered the 1st and the 3rd to
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by sershe 10mo ago
Exactly! Council took the houses/lots, in some cases cleaned them up, and after that the price is $100. What do you think it was before? The same local government, that assessed some intact houses with mortgages still being paid at $5k
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by sershe 10mo ago
Not pro monopoly as such, but in the recently posted article on UK shipbuilding they mentioned that a major reason for it's decline was it didn't build out capital capacity after being repeatedly burned by cyclical nature of the i
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by sershe 10mo ago
One day long time ago, I decided that hex grid coordinates lovingly described by redblobgames and used by every developer delivering actual games are inelegant. I wanted to store them in a rectangular array, and also store all edges and ver
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by sershe 11mo ago
You can literally open the page I sent you and they are selling vacant lots to neighbors for 100 dollars. They have also done thousands of demolitions of the houses that nobody would have at any price. The reason they were not sold is not b
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by sershe 11mo ago
Given the lack of friction going to a random website, "Don't run programs you don't know where they're from." automatic execution of javascript from arbitrary random domains would mean "including the one you ar
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by sershe 11mo ago
I was only talking about the US. I am not familiar with European problems, my outside view is if Europe were more like the US perhaps it wouldn't be poor compared to the US, but I don't know for sure. In the US, you gave me a shor
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by sershe 11mo ago
Here's the long term trend, of course https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco... Ratio was very similar in 1965 and 1995, for example and not much higher than previously after the housing bubble.
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by sershe 11mo ago
Repeating the same things doesn't make them true. Do tell me what data I should peruse on welfare spending or living standards. Housing, again is easy to disprove for the relevant timeframe - price to income ratios were not much higher
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by sershe 11mo ago
Another vacuous statement with no relevance to previous claims. Human societies existed for ages without, for example, any welfare state to speak of, while also being much more collectivist in a way distinct from modern statism. So what? A
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by sershe 11mo ago
Sure, collectivist. You all look the same to me :D creationists come think of it had more variety, too. When someone talks about cheap toasters taking jobs I couldn't tell if it's Vance or Warren without a picture
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by sershe 11mo ago
Ah, here comes the adhominem again with zero info. Your delusions do not work for any reasonable definition of working class or welfare state. In one thing you are right; long long time ago, when I had too much free time, I spent some of it

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