toasterlovin

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by toasterlovin 5d ago
Then restrict it to just programs that help the poor. Still an enormous share of the federal budget and, thus, a huge impingement on the liberty of people who are not poor.
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by toasterlovin 5d ago
I think it’s worth reflecting on the baseline paradigm of our political system. Which is: we are perfectly fine taxing one group of people (the working non-retired) at very substantial levels so that a different group of people (the retired
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by toasterlovin 17d ago
Did a long bike ride recently and just used my iPhone to track the workout. Probably suboptimal, since it doesn't have all the heart rate stuff, but it gets the big picture (elevation gain, speed, distance).
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by toasterlovin 1mo ago
Replace OpenAI with Apple and Nvidia with Intel.
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by toasterlovin 1mo ago
Upgraded my work machine from an M1 MBP to an M4 Mac Mini a couple of years ago. I do a lot of work in Excel with large sheets. The performance improvement was very noticeable and appreciated!
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by toasterlovin 2mo ago
I came across a theory which seems more likely to me: Gruber lost access to Apple execs after he posted the following regarding Tim Cook and other tech CEOs congratulating Trump on winning the election in 2024: “I wonder how much Cook dithe
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by toasterlovin 2mo ago
I think the real issue is knowing that half the boys in your school are masturbating to a picture of you. It's been a long time since I've been in school, but my sense is that half the boys in your school aren't masturbating
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by toasterlovin 3mo ago
You’re like a guy who’s confused why drug addicts don’t just try not taking drugs.
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by toasterlovin 3mo ago
> Maybe try to figure out why you’re feeling hungry. For a lot of people, the reason they feel hungry is because the way their brain works is that they feel better when they feel full and their life sucks for some reason, so they want t
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by toasterlovin 3mo ago
With all due respect, we have pills for obesity and computers think. If that doesn’t get you excited about the future, nothing will.
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by toasterlovin 3mo ago
FWIW, Google does just answer questions now.
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by toasterlovin 8mo ago
> Heart disease later in life caused by genetic predisposition to high cholesterol isn't something people generally select for or against in a partner, but its effects happen later in life well after people have children so it passe
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by toasterlovin 8mo ago
> or even a concept of religion in the original languages IMO this and the sources it cites are wrong. A huge chunk of the Old Testament is about how God had to keep sending prophets to tell the Israelites to stop worshipping other deiti
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by toasterlovin 8mo ago
But Nvidia wasn't able to compete with Apple for capacity on new process nodes with Nintendo volumes (the concept is laughable; compare Apple device unit volumes to game console unit volumes). What has changed in the semiconductor indu
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by toasterlovin 8mo ago
> several high-margin customers This is the "venture capital and hype" being referred to, not Nvidia themselves.
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by toasterlovin 9mo ago
My sense is that it is an affectation meant to indicate an aspiration to something more than a bar (and its coarse patrons).
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by toasterlovin 9mo ago
I'm sure hiring Jony Ive to design hardware for them didn't help.
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by toasterlovin 9mo ago
FWIW, Mormons and New England Congregationalists are essentially offshoots of the same ethnic group (Puritans), so there may be a genetic confound.
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by toasterlovin 10mo ago
On the other hand, they grew 400% in one year.
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by toasterlovin 10mo ago
It's a really bad analogy. And the "cost" of working part time for someone who doesn't want or need to work is literally every single hour they spend working. If they're working 20 hours per week, that's 20 hou
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by toasterlovin 10mo ago
Optionality has costs. If you live your life like it's going to go astray, then you miss out on a lot of the upside if it doesn't go astray (such as by being a stay at home mom, if that's what you actually want to do). The st
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by toasterlovin 10mo ago
> My wife is fairly unusual in that she runs her own full-time business. Many moms don’t like her, presumably because they gave up their careers to do this and are jealous that she does both. FWIW, my experience is that the dynamic at pl
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by toasterlovin 10mo ago
> It's telling that ARM, Apple, and Qualcomm have all shipped designs that are physically smaller, faster, and consume way less power vs AMD and Intel. These companies target different workloads. ARM, Apple, and Qualcomm are all mak
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by toasterlovin 10mo ago
> I belonged to a cultic political party Minor thing, but I prefer ‘cultish’ to ‘cultic’ for your usage. In academia, ‘cultic’ means anything to do with worship and lacks the association with cults as discussed in this thread, whereas ‘c
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by toasterlovin 11mo ago
The English approach here, as with other linguistic matters, is to solve the problem by using more words. "Juan thinks they are going to promote him, but I'm not so sure."
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by toasterlovin 11mo ago
> as HTML5 did for Flash Uh, Flash died because Apple refused to support it on mobile Safari. Perhaps Flash would have died anyway, but that is the proximate cause. And Apple's competitors were falling over themselves to market Flas
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by toasterlovin 11mo ago
On the other hand, information flow seems like the hardest problem for any large org to solve. How do you actually know what the ground truth is when you’re the CEO of a company many with tens of thousands employees?
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by toasterlovin 11mo ago
On the one hand, your politics seem diametrically opposed to RA Fisher’s, so it seems unlikely your username is a tribute, but on the other hand, how many statisticians are named RA Fisher?
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by toasterlovin 11mo ago
On the other hand, legit players can lobby for their interests, whereas criminal cartels generally can’t.
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by toasterlovin 11mo ago
From the point of view of content owners, an moderate amount of piracy is ideal, since it implies that they’re extracting maximum value from everyone who isn’t pirating.

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