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by tomp 1y ago
It’s not a really good analogy because it’s mostly labour (whereas housing is mostly an investment) but yeah, this argument of “fairness” is common, e.g. by feminists (“housework should be paid or at least accounted for pension”) and govern
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by tomp 1y ago
It’s actually “imputed rental value tax”. The point is fairness, not progressiveness. The idea is, if you live in your own house, you’re no better off than if you lived in another property and rented out your property, and paid the tax on t
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by tomp 1y ago
Marxism is amazing as long as you get to freely choose who to share the spoils with. In fact, this idea is so amazing, we should create a new political philosophy around it! How should we call it? Share-ism? Freedom-ism? Or, maybe just Capi
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by tomp 1y ago
Do you think it would be better to have a democracy during war? (I mean in individual military units, not in a country overall - note that military is controlled by a civilian democratically elected president) "The enemy's forces
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by tomp 1y ago
Dictatorships are far more efficient. That’s why military is a dictatorship. That’s why “design by committee” has such a bad rep. The only problem with dictatorships is that you can’t change them. Also countries shouldn’t fail, so an orderl
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by tomp 1y ago
if the "cost of doing business" is executives actually going to jail trust me, there would be 99% compliance in very short order
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by tomp 1y ago
The problem with your solution (and similar solutions - e.g. implementing "salary auction" for H1B - i.e. it's not a lottery, but it's that the most paid get the visa) is: It requires changing the law. Which is very diff
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by tomp 1y ago
No it can’t, you’re literally confusing immoral with illegal in your comment.
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by tomp 1y ago
This is what I return to every time when someone confuses morality and laws. 100% of Hitler's reign was legal . Everything he did was 100% legal. Morality is and must be above laws. (Edit: ChatGPT reminds me that Hitler's post
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by tomp 1y ago
No, the parent is wrong. Checking a token is the same as generating it. The benefit however is in the next (third) token. After generating tokens 1 and 2 (in one turn), you start generating token 3 (and 4). You also get the “real” predict
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by tomp 1y ago
Very interesting and cool article, if you love low-level optimisation (like myself!) Interestingly, recently I've been thinking that basically the Big-O notation is essentially a scam, in particular the log(N) part. For small values
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by tomp 1y ago
a lot of the damage has been done by exactly comments like there, implying that democracy has been destroyed
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by tomp 1y ago
Why would "algorithmic" outrage-porn content (X, Meta) be any worse than human-ordered outrage-porn content (news websites)?
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by tomp 1y ago
You’re correct, I forgot about that optimisation!
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by tomp 1y ago
A non-moving GC must visit dead objects.
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by tomp 1y ago
This is contradictory: > The US has spent decades preventing and delaying the EU becoming a defacto state > I am just saying trump is driving [pressure for EU armed forces] So which is it, is US stopping EU from federalizing, or accel
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by tomp 1y ago
No, before that. Russias trade deal was better than EU's, and the loan agreement better than IMF's. It's all on Wikipedia, and news articles. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25427706
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by tomp 1y ago
Do you have any source for that? From my perspective, as an European, there's plenty of forces / population within the EU that doesn't want federalization. Even myself, I'm generally pro-federalization (necessary to
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by tomp 1y ago
I mean, this is literally the story of Ukraine in 2014. Putin gave them a better deal than the West. The US organized protests and toppled the government. Why wouldn't the US do the same in Denmark or any other Western country?
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by tomp 1y ago
I'm not saying it's bad, but it's clearly not a replacement for batteries, given its applicability is quite limited. The question is about conversion is, is it still cheap if you add a powerplant (i.e. converting heat into el
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by tomp 1y ago
These are cool ideas but there's always an asterisk. The issue here is: the "stored energy" isn't electricity, but heat. Converting heat into electricity is quite wasteful.
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by tomp 1y ago
> Why among all the list of failed or current fab owners is it so important that Intel be declared sacred? Has TI ever made anything nearly as complex as CPUs? Has NVIDIA? (Hint: the answer is "no"). Intel is pretty much the
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by tomp 1y ago
It's truly amazing how left-wing media pundits just refuse to understand voters. IMO it's great news, it means that the right-wing will keep winning for many years!
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by tomp 1y ago
Of course, who doesn't? Would you like people who think raping 12-year-olds is fine because their prophet did it, living in your neighborhood, and going from 10% to 90% of the local population? Some cultures are just better than others
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by tomp 1y ago
If “racially segregated white supremacy” means we accept any race and nationality as long as they respect and are aligned with our cultural and moral norms … then 100% sign me up!
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by tomp 1y ago
Textbook: discrimination (=unequal treatment) on the basis of race.
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by tomp 1y ago
That is a retarded justification. It’s incredibly valuable to understand how the enemy thinks.
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by tomp 1y ago
Clearly “real information” here means “not blurred”. Stop spreading FUD.
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by tomp 1y ago
> preemptively ban them I'm not the one who started banning though. I'd be open to first unbanning plastic straws and incandescent light bulbs, then unbanning artificial meat. Let the market decide! But I definitely wan
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by tomp 1y ago
Plastic straws are better, as are incandescent light bulbs. The proof is in the pudding / free market. If the alternatives (paper straws, LED bulbs) were better, people would voluntarily buy them! (cf: mobile phones vs. stationary phon

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