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by takinola 2y ago
No chance he gets a prison sentence for the NY case. He will get a suspended sentence or some other slap on the wrist. The Federal cases are dead. There is no chance they can continue while he is in office and they will be killed by the
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by takinola 2y ago
What needs to happen for GPUs to be commoditized so that an infrastructure builder is relatively indifferent to using GPUs from Nvidia, AMD or any other provider?
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by takinola 2y ago
> Needless to say that’s not the case with GPUs and a lot of people that make the AMD vs Intel comparison don’t seem to understand that. What needs to happen for GPUs to become as interchangeable as CPUs? What are the leading signs that
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by takinola 2y ago
Seems like you are discovering the truism that the last 10% of a project takes as much time as the first 90% of the project. In my experience, it is always a slog to ship a product. What you are feeling is normal and the experience of man
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by takinola 2y ago
You should consider turning this into a Shopify app.
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by takinola 2y ago
What front-end tooling did you use? Did you use any CSS framework?
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by takinola 2y ago
The challenge is this is a commonsense interpretation of the checkbox. The legal interpretation could be much broader. If you have something to lose (ie you are a money making entity), you are much less willing to take the risk that someo
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by takinola 2y ago
I first saw the scene on a tiny airplane seat headrest screen and remember being jolted awake by how mind-blowing it was. I watched the movie twice on that trans-Atlantic flight.
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by takinola 2y ago
Correct. The experience of time and space is dependent on the observer.
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by takinola 2y ago
I’m surprised no one has posted this gem from Yes, Minister https://youtu.be/Zl0aEz34A4o?si=D9RcUnMq0oI370Lg
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by takinola 2y ago
The explanation that unlocked the intuition for me was the postulate that all objects in the universe are moving at the same velocity. Some are moving faster through time and some faster through space. If you move faster in time, you move s
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by takinola 2y ago
The obvious use case for Meta is content generation. They provide the tools to content creators who create new content to post on Facebook/Instagram which increases Meta’s ad inventory
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by takinola 2y ago
I can imagine a painter two hundred years ago saying the same thing about photographs. How can you feel attachment to a picture when you did not make each brush stroke?
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by takinola 2y ago
My guess is the art form will evolve. When YouTube started, some people thought it would not be able to compete with heavily produced video content. Instead, YouTube spawned a different type of "movie". It was short-form, filme
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by takinola 2y ago
> I find the US to be highly authoritarian, full of easy examples double-thought and duck speak. I’m curious to know where else you have lived (I assume you live in the US). As someone that has lived under an authoritarian regime, I find
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by takinola 2y ago
If we were to find DNA based life on Europa, would there be a way to tell if it came from Earth, seeded Earth or both came from an external source?
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by takinola 2y ago
Imagine the amount of energy required to create a jet that large! The scales are so big, it makes me wonder if there isn’t an upper limit to energy density. How much energy can be in one spot before you inadvertently create a Big Bang?
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by takinola 2y ago
They would need to have a self-sufficient base otherwise a good old-fashioned blockage would be very effective.
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by takinola 2y ago
> They believe that they alone are capable of safely engaging with the world of ideas to determine what is true, and thus feel strongly that information and speech ought to be censored to prevent the rabble from engaging in wrongthink. T
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by takinola 2y ago
I am curious to know if there is precedent for goods losing their veblen status.
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by takinola 2y ago
> I refuse to believe that he's reclusing in some island in NZ and even if he is I'm pretty sure he isn't just watching from the sidelines. You don't know anything about him other than some videos and public appearanc
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by takinola 2y ago
Your examples make my point. Some bad things happened but not on a catastrophic level that warranted the level of investment that was put into Y2K projects.
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by takinola 2y ago
> "Remember Y2K? Nothing happened!" is a super toxic lesson to take away from a rare success where people came together and fixed something instead of firefighting disasters. My cynicism about Y2K comes from the fact that there
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by takinola 2y ago
If you would like to learn more about the Punic Wars, Oversimplified has a very, very good (and humorous) explainer video https://youtu.be/yRmOWcWdQAo?si=6FNtH2zqJ9XAMh3g
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by takinola 2y ago
> I also remember around 1975 getting all excited about solar and getting told that costs were dropping so fast that in five years solar would be cheaper than power produced from coal or natural gas My understanding is commercial solar (
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by takinola 2y ago
> The state has a monopoly on the purchasing of healthcare services, it is illegal in most provinces to buy any healthcare for your family. Why is it illegal to purchase healthcare privately? When I lived in the UK, I skipped the NHS an
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by takinola 2y ago
Context matters. When I walk into a high-end store and see a shirt on sale for $X, I assume that I need to pay $X to get the shirt. If I see a shirt at a flea-market priced at $Y, I assume I can get the shirt for some percentage off by ju
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by takinola 2y ago
Many? Most? I suspect your view of women's preferences is jaundiced. Most men earn average or below average incomes (by definition) but I don't see any data to suggest that there is a significant number of those men are unable to
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by takinola 2y ago
Other than cynicism, what is the basis for this argument? The economic and social interests of the pharmaceutical companies are to find a cure. If a company came up with a single dose pill that cures colon cancer, they could charge up to
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by takinola 2y ago
I think the secret was being acquired by Google. Without the deep financial pockets and strategic patience of Google, I doubt they would have been able to become what they are today.

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