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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
The Catholic answer is relatively straightforward in terms of decisions at various councils (or similar structures) about the trinity, iconoclasm, clerical celibacy etc. With some mix of apostolic succession providing authority and the Holy
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
It’s not really about the numbers though. Even spending 10k recurring can be easier administratively that spending 10k on a one time purchase that depreciates over a 3 year cycle in some organisations because you don’t have to go into meeti
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
Which is incredibly difficult in the public sector. Yes, there are various financing instruments available for capital purchases but they're always annoying, slow and complicated. It's much easier to spend 5k per month than 500k o
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
Yeah I hope their procurement becomes more open, but feel pessimistic because that’s been an ongoing simplification project for decades.
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
I had a university friend who spent hundreds of hours on his YouTube channel whilst the rest of spent hundreds of hours arguing about politics. He’s now unimaginably successful at YouTube but at least I’m better at predicting the content of
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
Who? Finding great engineers is comparatively easy versus knowing how to navigate the DoD procurement process and having the balance sheet strength to run huge losses for ages. Blue origin might have the capital and talent, whilst Boeing ha
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
> It just always annoys me when people treat the economic forces as the ones that moved history. Why? The economics of oil, cotton and silver, for example, are undeniably important forces in moving the history of many regions.
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
There's a separation between how many cars we should have and what kind of cars those should be.
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
Absolutely, if the taxi driver signs a contract / agrees to terms of service. What law prohibits them from charging that? This is why open source is so important.
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
Every software company can do this. Oracle Java is free for personal use but if you use it in prod you have to pay a licence based on the number of employees in your company. Epic games takes 5% of your revenue above a million if you use un
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
> If Apple can legally claim 30% of your salary then a doctor using an iPad to demonstrate results of a scan to a patient has to pay Apple 30% of their consultation fee. Apple could absolutely do this. They could say that professional me
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
Tim Cook is usually good at politics, which doesn't seem to be the case here. Nobody other some CNBC guests really gets too upset when they take 30% from tinder, music or mobile gaming companies. And those types of apps run by unpopula
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
Developers are a tricky market for this because they could realistically move to different platforms if stuff like this started to happen. Or at least work on remote machines. If gaming on Macs ever became popular though this would be a rea
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
You joke, but legally they could. If game engines can charge a licence fee as a % of revenue from games developed on those engines, then legally there's not much to stop apple doing the same. Of course consumers and enterprises wouldn&
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
Totally agree, WW1 is really the root cause of all of Britains problems. Victory wasn't worth the cost. It would've been better to give the entire empire to the Germans to maintain peace. It'd be lost anyway in a short amount
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
That sounds like an almost Malthusian viewpoint. The world has effectively infinite resources, getting more is usually just a matter of figuring out better extraction techniques or using better energy.
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
He wins or draws on every measure of unpopularity, other than YouGov net satisfaction where Liz Truss still beats him.
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
This is how you govern from a position of unpopularity. The government knows they’re on the wrong side of many issues, to the point they know they can’t win an open debate. So media control, regulation by enforcement, and institutional cont
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by spacebanana7 9mo ago
Generally the demand for software engineers has increased as their productivity has increased, looking back over the past few decades. There seems to be effectively infinite demand for software from consumers and enterprises so the cheaper
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by spacebanana7 10mo ago
Ukraine wouldn’t have been invaded if they hadn’t given up their nuclear weapons.
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by spacebanana7 10mo ago
Isn't the general principle sound? That novel experiences become rarer as we get older, leading subjective life to be highly skewed towards youth.
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by spacebanana7 10mo ago
Hong Kong is the only business friendly place in the world that’s genuinely independent of the US/EU transatlantic regulatory blob. The mainland government want to keep it prosperous so will likely work to protect it from sanctions or
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by spacebanana7 11mo ago
This also creates massive risk. Financial trouble at OpenAI - even minor stuff where they slow purchases by 25% - could have a big impact on global prices.
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by spacebanana7 11mo ago
What makes it worse is that governments are doing this somewhat unintentionally. The US CAFE standards that effectively push large turbocharged vehicles were never intended to do so, the UK salary sacrifice rules were never intended to push
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by spacebanana7 11mo ago
Homeowners having the ability to produce their own energy means they get to opt out of capitalist markets and socialist sharing systems. It’s similar to how the British empire hated subsistence farming, and always wanted colonial subjects t
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by spacebanana7 11mo ago
It’s better to give welfare / benefits directly to help poor people in that situation, rather than fix prices to make energy appear artificially scarce during daylight and abundant at night.
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by spacebanana7 11mo ago
I wonder whether OpenAI could be okay if they themselves weren't notified within 72hrs.
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The only upside is that we can buy BYD cars with fewer tariffs.
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by spacebanana7 11mo ago
Yeah it would still be difficult. But I could imagine that if steam offered to give a few million to cover development costs and gave projections of 20k new customers, they might be able to convince one of the not very profitable children&#
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by spacebanana7 11mo ago
BA was originally stated as a state owned airline, but I agree about RR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways

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