tjwebbnorfolk

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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
spain loses ~240,000 acres to wildfire every year. this is larger than normal, but fire is normal there
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
It varies in intensity because it always has.
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
You're right I'm sorry. Europe has at least 2 other tech companies that matter. (Infineon is a commodity manufacturer). In the US we count these by the thousands, but you're right that there's still someone in Europe no
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
If you give any regularly-occurring event that varies in intensity enough time, it is guaranteed to break the records of its previous intensities.
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
If/when the temperature differential between equator and pole decreases because of a warming arctic, we actually do get a permanent reduction in hurricane propensity and destructiveness. Not everything gets worse if the planet heats up
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
ASML is the only real tech company in the EU. Just let them have this one :)
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
oh dear
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
> Everyone knows it's possible for a statement to be correct and vile at the same time I really need to spend some time thinking about this one. If something is correct, I don't tend to continue analyzing it further to look for
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
You'd prefer to live in a world where labor is free and we don't need to work for anything? I like the current world better.
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
ok but is it correct or incorrect?
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
gemma4 is the same price as 2.5-flash-lite, and performs better.
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
remember "kubernetes" ?
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
For all the privacy and competence issues, if it helps cops solve crimes while sitting on their asses, it's going to win.
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
There are entire buildings full of people in the US and China who sit and think about national strategy for their entire career.
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
It's not 3D chess, it's geopolitics 101. There is pretty simple logic to why a leader might think you could kill 2 birds with one stone here. Anybody who's ever looked at a map can see that Iran surrounds a strategic chokepoi
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
what's performance like compared to python ftfy module?
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
Are you saying if someone gives you something for free, it's immoral if they don't continue giving it to you for free forever? The children's book "if you give a mouse a cookie" was about exactly this phenomenon
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
No you're confusing where agency lies. The Nasdaq 100 is just a fund. Its existence doesn't force you or anyone else to do anything. People can choose to buy stocks, and people can choose to buy the Nasdaq 100. Or not. Nobody is m
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
Contrary to (apparently) popular opinion, index funds are not people. So, who is being forced to buy that index?
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
And who is forced to buy QQQ?
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
Contrary to (apparently) popular opinion, index funds are not people.
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
ok, who is forced to buy these ETFs? These are all products that people and funds can choose to buy or not buy.
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
but they did. they already got their money. it's the investors who are going to take a bath, not spacex
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
ok but who is forced to buy the nasdaq 100?
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
I'm working on a nationwide US parcel dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landrecordsus/us-parcel-laye... . It's mostly "public" data, but incumbent data vendors charge $90k+ for this data
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
This is cute reductio ad absurdum, but it does nothing to refute the basic point made
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
Chomsky is a perfect example of an academic that should never have strayed outside the academy. Everything he's done outside of his narrow field of linguistics has been an embarrassment.
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
can you point to this law please? I can find news articles referencing that something may or may not happen but I can't find that this actually went into practice
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by tjwebbnorfolk 3mo ago
> the fact that the text literally > processing the light that shines on CCD sensor doesn't automatically mean and I'm the one being pedantic. ok bro. There's a thing called common sense, thinking for yourself, using

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