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by slashdev 1y ago
Why would it be used in farming, you can edit the DNA before fertilization in farming, no need to do anything in vivo.
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by slashdev 1y ago
I agree, this is makes no sense at all. Can I take the other side of this investment? Like an angel funding round, but selling short?
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by slashdev 1y ago
I don’t want a large std lib. It stifles competition and slows the pace of development. Let libraries rise and fall on their own merits. The std lib should limit itself to the basics.
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by slashdev 1y ago
I would take a logical dump on shutdown and the restore that rather. You’d need a backup and restore process anyway, so that path has to exist either way. It’s kind of like a full vacuum, so has some benefits too. The NDA prevents me from s
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by slashdev 1y ago
Yeah, so restart does not. Which means you can count on it about as much as a server of your own, if you could not repair the server. I know a database company that uses instance storage as the primary storage. It’s common.
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by slashdev 1y ago
My understanding is this not true, only when the instance permanently fails and is moved.
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by slashdev 1y ago
Where do you want to start? Going back 3000 years it was the state of Israel. Then conquered by various nations, including the Persians, Greeks and the Romans, among others. Move forward a couple thousand years and it was conquered by Arabs
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by slashdev 1y ago
You must be referring to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War? That was not started by Israel! You would do well to read up a bit on the history of the region, because "Israel literally started the war by invading Palestine" just doesn'
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by slashdev 1y ago
Self defense is not evil. Yes it's war, and wars are horrible, and innocent people die - but Israel didn’t start it. Gaza (that’s what you mean when you say Palestine? You don’t seem educated about the region) was free for the most par
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by slashdev 1y ago
> On the Gaza side the people are protesting against Hamas who are equally evil. I don't know how any human can look at Israel and Hamas and call them morally equivalent. I suggest your moral compass is badly broken, and that makes
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by slashdev 1y ago
That's the cynical take, and it's been said about 9/11 as well. I don't think it's actually true in either case - but it's impossible to say with 100% certainty.
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by slashdev 1y ago
Yeah, that's an interesting way of looking at it. Also I didn't realize Fox dominates so much. It makes some sense!
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by slashdev 1y ago
I've been saying this for years on X. I think static languages are winning in general now, having gained much of the ergonomics of dynamic languages without sacrificing anything. But AI thrives with a tight feedback loop, and that&#x27
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by slashdev 1y ago
That makes some sense to me, although the result is surprising. Do have anything you can point to for further reading on the subject?
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by slashdev 1y ago
I can cite multiple studies showing the left bias in the media. I think it's pretty widely held to be true. I'm actually kind of taken aback that anyone would take the other side of that argument.
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by slashdev 1y ago
The media is far from neutral. Almost all have a major left bias. Fox has a major right bias.
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by slashdev 1y ago
Implying the media is sensible is hilarious
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by slashdev 1y ago
The media has been extremely critical of Trump. Sometimes deserved, sometimes not. But impossible to deny the bias.
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by slashdev 1y ago
> All I have to say is imagine if Biden did this, what the news would be saying. Surely you don’t mean to imply the media treated Biden less favorably than Trump?
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by slashdev 1y ago
The labor market is the most lagging of all economic indicators. It doesn't turn over until we're really in the recession. Leading indicators, like housing and manufacturing, are not looking promising.
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by slashdev 1y ago
In general yes, but in practice housing prices are down big in a lot of areas and still falling. Decisions happen at the margin, which means it's the marginal home owner who lost their job and has to sell, which pushes up supply at a t
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by slashdev 1y ago
People and businesses freeze when facing uncertainty. They cut back on spending and keep more cash in reserve in case they're going to need it. I fully agree that this is predictable, and if it drags on, I think it's likely to pus
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by slashdev 1y ago
I strongly disagree with this. Most startups fail. Optimizing for getting revenue is more important than optimizing cost in the beginning. If you get revenue you can solve the cost problem. If you don’t, it doesn’t matter. Anything that giv
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by slashdev 1y ago
I don’t share your optimism, but I admire it. For all our sakes, I hope you’re right.
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by slashdev 1y ago
You realize female birth control drugs have the same lingering effect on fertility too right?
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by slashdev 1y ago
And many people are opposed to abortion for moral reasons.
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by slashdev 1y ago
That’s the official narrative out of China, and it’s a hopeful one. It doesn’t fit the data though, at least so far. China is constructing record amounts of coal power and consuming ever increasing quantities of coal. https://www
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by slashdev 1y ago
The developing world, including especially China and India are building out massive amounts of coal power still: You can see the data for yourself: https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-coal-plant-t... It&#x2
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by slashdev 1y ago
That's a fair point, but the thing about regulation is it only works for one country at a time. For whaling we could make a law and apply it to the whole world, and most countries complied only because there were no whales left and no
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by slashdev 1y ago
Doomberg has this theory that worldwide consumption of a source of energy never decreases, any fossil fuels extracted will be burned somewhere, and green regulations or subsidies just shift around who does the burning. Adding new sources of

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