tsupiroti

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by tsupiroti 2y ago
Exactly. For Ukraine, a peace treaty now that allows Russia to regroup and invade again in N years is not really helpful.
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by tsupiroti 2y ago
The gap between haves and have nots is more related to politics than economics IMO. It's about how the value is (re)distributed.
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by tsupiroti 2y ago
> there's no way the top 10% receive 10% of the services. Depends on how you value the service of protecting that wealth. Prooperty rights enforced by the state, and the more property one has, the more one benefits from that.
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by tsupiroti 2y ago
Rereading the previous comments, I agree you're right. Good analogy.
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by tsupiroti 2y ago
That's exactly what GDP measures: how much money people have paid and gotten paid for things.
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by tsupiroti 2y ago
"GDP measures everything except that which is worthwhile"
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by tsupiroti 2y ago
Well, there are often threads lamenting that open source maintainers don't get paid more.
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by tsupiroti 2y ago
LLMs cannot explode. People need to be educated that LLMs are as trustworthy as a random page or post on the internet.
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
> You can be a great studio painter, but not be able to "talk to" Stable Diffusion at all. Likewise, you may have zero artistic ability in the traditional sense, but be a prodigy at getting the computer to spit out what you are
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
> The logic of most prominent programming languages, such as Python, is based on English vocabulary and syntax — using terms like “while” or “if not” to trigger certain actions — which makes it that much more difficult to learn for non-n
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
I understand, but I must say that it doesn't sound very efficient to be working in an office for 8 hours every day in order to have useful spontaneous connections every once in a while. Meetups and other events also provide such intera
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
The someone was Pedro's brother Miguel. After losing the war, he was banished and his descendents removed from the succession line, but they now claim to be heirs to the throne of Portugal (which nobody really cares about). This all ha
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
I think b) without a) would be a bit of a red flag. Almost everyone I know has lived together in some way before getting married.
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
I agree children can cause problems in relationships. My point was more that they're a very strong reason against splitting up.
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
Good point, it's indeed common for couples to get married when having children. Still, I think what's helping ensure commitment in that case are the children, rather than the marriage. It's much easier for a married childless
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
> We could agree that marriage, everywhere in the Western world, is declining in popularity, and non-marital cohabitation rising. This is especially true of Europe. In my experience, many young couples in western Europe don't see ma
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
> The educated class decides cohabiting partnerships are just as valid and important as marriage. And they also believe it’s okay to walk away at a moment’s notice from a cohabiting relationship. This is very dependent on whether there a
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
I've found Nokia/HMD also okay.
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
I find it reasonable that Python doesn't enforce the type checking. The owners of each project can choose how much to enforce it and how. Defining such style rules and validations is necessary with almost every language. A codebase whe
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
Does anyone know online lectures/courses on BCI basics and whether there are any relatively inexpensive devices that are good enough to allow hacking something useful?
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
There are also stable and peaceful borders, and Putin could absolutely have chosen to have one with Europe. Instead he chose instability in order to expand by force to areas that Russia used to control. The only reason for US military prese
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
Why would Russia, a large nuclear power, need defensible borders? To prevent an invasion by Ukraine, Finland or Estonia?
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by tsupiroti 4y ago
Taiwan is not a member of NATO, and neither are other US allies in east Asia.
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by tsupiroti 5y ago
I think Switzerland is not bad in this respect. There are several health insurance companies, but the basic plan's coverage and price is set by the government and it's quite comprehensive. Those who can't afford it get it thr
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by tsupiroti 5y ago
Hot water bottles are quite common in Portugal. You should be able to find one at any large supermarket (e.g. Continente).