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by twelve40 4y ago
Interesting. Also funny that this pioneer of the child-free movement has actually the best fertility rate in Europe currently. Not by much, and still in the negative, but.
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by twelve40 4y ago
do you feel the same way about long-term rentals as well?
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by twelve40 4y ago
Did they, too, overhire to prepare for a mad tsunami of post-pandemic demand for base stations? No, nm, they didn't. They are doing it just because. It's getting pretty comical by now if there weren't people involved.
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by twelve40 4y ago
But in what demented mind do you temporarily hire tens of thousands of extremely expensive and highly skilled workers (to do what?) and then wipe out all those projects in a year? Even if you treat people as completely disposable garbage, i
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by twelve40 4y ago
Both this hiring-like-there-is-no-tomorrow and, a few short months later, layoffs "because the economy has changed" indicate lack of any sanity in business planning. Sure, most of these people will probably eventually find other j
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by twelve40 4y ago
they do 100%. back in June i got charged $30,000 by a fake "home depot". I disputed the charge, but that wasn't fun. the cs reps told me it was not through a debit card but via acct+routing number which got leaked somehow.
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by twelve40 4y ago
> "I'm going to Burger King's" pretty sure this is also incorrect and something to be avoided in print, no? "data" vs "datum" is pretty obscure. While an outfit like the New York Times may know the
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by twelve40 4y ago
Ok also trying to summarize this ELI5: Rolling up transactions makes the money movement on Ethereum cheaper. They highlight 7 use cases to build on Base: * dexs, nfts, bridges, stablecoins, anything that sounds like more crypto for the sake
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by twelve40 4y ago
> out of those few who are religious, most are Buddhist but... 56.1% No religion 27.6% Christianity 15.5% Korean Buddhism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea
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by twelve40 4y ago
it might be more useful to people who are churning out different webapps, prototypes, scripts, fizz-buzzes and code samples from scratch? I can't imagine this thing making sense of a large existing (possibly proprietary) legacy codebas
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by twelve40 4y ago
SK has been on course for this way before Covid
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by twelve40 4y ago
According to the Atlantic article posted above, the prices for some drugs are plummeting already (10x drop in the last decade): > With labs popping up everywhere, the price of a pound of meth fell to nearly $1,000 for the first time on U
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by twelve40 4y ago
whoa this reads almost exactly like the script for Breaking Bad... 2006 p2p vs sudafed, all the details even the Czech Republic...
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by twelve40 4y ago
Why in the world would they cut the cables to friendly Vietnam, or for that matter Svalbard, which has a Russian town of Barentsburg?
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by twelve40 4y ago
Thanks for sharing, I found that article pretty moving > that does not mean the entire Mexican state is illegitimate. School teachers get up every morning to teach millions of children from the roughest barrios to the southern jungles. D
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by twelve40 4y ago
well, the absolute grimmest, darkest and shittiest time, demography-wise or any other aspect really, was 1999 with fertility rate of 1.16, which somehow coincided with the peak of the official mad euphoria for the West and Yeltsin's dr
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by twelve40 4y ago
where did you get this number?
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by twelve40 4y ago
because a low cost drone has trouble ascending to 18,000 m with enough ammo and maneuverability to take out an object size half the Statue of Liberty in a controlled way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_ballo
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by twelve40 4y ago
It's bizarre because presumably a very rich, progressive, westernized society that enjoys a very high standard of living suddenly decided to go the way of the dodo bird, while their frequently ridiculed and otherwise shat-upon neighbor
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by twelve40 4y ago
today, there are 64 million social security beneficiaries and 164 million working people in the US. Who is going to pay for social security, when these numbers are reversed? how can a country such as South Korea, when it gets to over 50% re
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by twelve40 4y ago
> During the Vietnam War era, between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. military drafted 2.2 million American men out of an eligible pool of 27 million. ^ college students included
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by twelve40 4y ago
it's not that simple because after a period of massive decline there are fewer people around to even restart the process, even if they magically so desired.
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by twelve40 4y ago
Probably, just like the Scythians or the Phoenicians... can't really recall a peaceful precedent like that though. > Bizarre that North Korea would be the only Koreans left on the peninsula. It is indeed. They seem to be doing sligh
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by twelve40 4y ago
> low birth rate considered good considered good by who??? Can you quote some sources? Bloomberg article from above: > The lack of babies carries long-term risks for the economy by reducing the size of the workforce that underpins its
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by twelve40 4y ago
yeah it's unfortunate that in their drive to plan and centralize everything they overlooked that the reasons why people have kids are not at all economical or even rational anymore. Unlike some type of steel or concrete, you can't
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by twelve40 4y ago
I'll let someone else run a rabbit hole debate on "copyright as it exists in 2023", but there is basic human decency: citing the sources and crediting the authors of the original information that is being thrown out the windo
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by twelve40 4y ago
the parent is not talking about 'LLMs are used just to "abuse copyright"' at all, you made that up. They are not making some vague philosophical claims about all LLMs, they are pointing out a specific fact that ChatGPT (
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by twelve40 4y ago
> This is obviously highly specific to one economy they list the numbers from all continents in their survey graph, and for what it's worth, the numbers for Australia seem higher than the US
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by twelve40 4y ago
me putting people in charge?? sorry, didn't mean to do that! just tried to recite the official version of how this is supposed to work.
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by twelve40 4y ago
They've been called out on this many times, e.g.: https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1579138509449097221 promising to address this "transparently" and "holistically", even though unlike th

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