thriftwy

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by thriftwy 3y ago
But that's not quite your direct problems. Like, when you live in Tel Aviv and earn a wage for your full-time job, you do not care about those casualties a couple miles from you. Except you can argue that Tel Aviv is also bound to be h
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Imagine you're living in Moscow, Russia - what's the worst world-ending thing happening to you? The answers range from "Nothing" to "Hot full-scale war" but it doubtfully includes climate change and stuff.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I was thinking of loading the dice in some CRPG so thar if some event has exactly 1/1,000,000 chance then resolve it as if it was 9/10.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
One does not have to search for mice when the room contains an elephant.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The article assumes we will "soon" be able to simulate sentient, conscious experience. Whereas our understanding of sentience is limited and we have not got ideas how consciousness works.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The only reason why you are not in a similar panic mode is because your hormones are evolved to keep you way above the baseline appropriate for the circumstances.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
What if it does not crumble? What if the people who "did the actual work" turn out to be the useless ones?
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Why? If market on average grows then so is your snapshot. If it does not, then financial systen will eventually collapse so $1 = $0
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by thriftwy 3y ago
LLMs should requalify Liberal Arts education. The people who can ask questions and understand answers are quite relevant now, seeing how STEM worldview is in many ways no longer relevant. SDEs should double down on soft skills now, since th
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It was kind of funny to me that Dostoevsky coincided with biology development which made him ponder painfully if we are just reactions of our neuron's "tails" and that there is nothing underlying (such as Soul and God).
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by thriftwy 3y ago
https://rasp.yandex.ru/map/trains/#center=37.63999999999997%... for the coverage further East. It may be partially relying on timetables and not live data, though.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
What if a new person takes your place and they do not know it and are not certain in anything?
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> So doesn't seem like the Palestinians should be allowed to have their own government Why not? Isn't that an universal right? How are Sudanese or Lebanese better than Palestineans in that regard? Your attention is worthless be
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by thriftwy 3y ago
They can eventually settle down. Israel atrocities are already two orders of magnitude worse at this point.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
When in France, I could reschedule my rail ticket to a different time by using ticket machine and paying some extra cash. You don't have to be in Japan for QoL.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Who says their self-determination will be any less violent if their right is rejected and they do it anyway? Let's face a simple truth, Israel has no plan for Palestine but refuses to let it go. They are not winning this except by ethn
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Do you think that all of these countries are so committed to Israel as to give it a get out of its own mess free card? I think Israel is a wonderful country but at the same time its government does completely untenable thing. I believe al
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by thriftwy 3y ago
This scheme seems to squeeze young adults for cash so they can only afford children shortly before they are no longer able to produce them.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> I doubt anyone in Europe is deciding to not have children based on this factor. Why so few children in most of Europe then? Of course they don't. They just know that they can have fleeting fun until 60 and then "somebody&quot
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Wouldn't that be the rational approach? Otherwise, insurance is still a tax on young and fit to finance the medical treatment of the old and unfit. At which point it's socialism but less efficient . It's like if your car ins
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The whole idea of medical insurance is insane. It is OK for scheduled issues but not for covering shots to the moon. Like, I have a voluntary insurance for my children which covers periodic health checks and doctor appointments and maybe ev
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The joke being is that's not a joke.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Swiss bank accounts are not designed to store billions of 1973 dollars. Grand mansions do not cost anything near billions of dollars. The huge monuments are embezzlement at best, bad invesment more likely. Billions of dollars would allow th
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The notion of dictators looting a significant sum of money then getting to keep and use it does not match the observable reality either, so we have to keep looking.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
From the same dude's another article > The Balkan country was “liberated” by communists, either by the Soviet army (which didn’t give a shit about them) This is measured, I presuppose, in comparsion with the Old Europe with its unc
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> To spoil the story a bit, the Ivory Coast descended into an ethnic/religious civil war that killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands in less than a decade after FHB’s death. An incredible amount of the contemporary acc
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by thriftwy 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38443141 is a good start.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Everybody would be moving to the big citiea regardless. It would just be even less affordable.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
They should give a blanket license to a developer like PIK and LSR and plead for mercy watching rows after rows of 25 storey apartment buildings being delivered to market. They will even fly in their own workforce.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> using an average of 3,000 watts per hour,

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