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by twelve40 4y ago
how can the population possibly reach "sustainable" level (not sure what this word means in this context, im assuming non-decreasing?), when the fertility rate today is 1.34 (need 2.1) and plummeting? It's going to get worse
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by twelve40 4y ago
haha you have to tip us for the privilege of fetching your six pack out of our fridge : )
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by twelve40 4y ago
well, we will find out soon enough. I think it will be pretty bleak and there is no going back unless they let people in.
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by twelve40 4y ago
that a great data set of 1. In Japan, men are statistically not expected to live past 81, so it's safe to say most of them are in deep decline after 70, a few years away from death. Also, officially after 65 they can stop working, so w
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by twelve40 4y ago
and end up in a situation where 80% of the country is over 70 and cannot function? how is that better or short-lived?
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by twelve40 4y ago
yes, I'm talking about scraping. Google drives massive amounts of traffic to web publishers. It's carving out a bit for itself here and there with things like e.g. weather and answers to common questions, but they still drive a to
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by twelve40 4y ago
there are a bunch of unclear questions about production readiness of this as-is. where does chatgpt get its data? Does it just hijack the data from websites without referencing them? might work for a limited dataset (commercial or loose lic
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by twelve40 4y ago
in the other article here the deepmind guy mentioned they might release the bot once it's able to cite its sources which makes total sense
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by twelve40 4y ago
no, that was serfdom too, and it's obscene to compare that to slavery practiced in the west. For starters, it had nothing to do with race.
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by twelve40 4y ago
> The attractions of a new common currency are most obvious for Argentina, where annual inflation is approaching 100 per cent as the central bank prints money to fund spending. Confused about this one. If the central bank continues to pr
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by twelve40 4y ago
I don't get this "instantly jump ship logic". Finding the next big thing takes time, even for the best people. A bunch of other companies are laying off too right now, so that makes the search harder, not a great time to rage
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by twelve40 4y ago
ok I really can't speak for the first part, but the more I think about it, the more preferable than the layoffs to me it seems... * not sure why is this communist spirit, the difference in levels and salaries still remains, but presuma
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by twelve40 4y ago
yeah but imagine if they didn't support Android, they would have been at complete mercy of apple! but currently Apple can't touch 70% of the phones, and it's an enormous financial incentive.
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by twelve40 4y ago
it seems consistent and steady for a few decades (consistently high, not growing), but it's a small country that developed under very special conditions
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by twelve40 4y ago
the only question is, does "wanting kids" get passed down or needs to be re-acquired every time
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by twelve40 4y ago
more like kept it from sliding in the last few decades, but yes, still pretty high, and it's an achievement. They were also helped by having a very young population to begin with (just look at that perfect age pyramid), and the whole c
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by twelve40 4y ago
yes it's pretty bad, but this is not Google sitting on billions of cash and dedicated groups analyzing macroeconomic conditions, this is a small startup with a complicated product and a complicated unpredictable b2b sales process.
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by twelve40 4y ago
That's the part i'm not sure about. The menu looked totally legit, the phone number turned out some random person in Vegas (after i bothered actually calling). Someone took their time to set this up.
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by twelve40 4y ago
Welcome news, enough with that crazy BS already. But, of course, this was the actual crazy part: > 2019 to 2022 ... employee count at Amazon doubled, Microsoft’s rose 53%, Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s increased 57% and Facebook owner Me
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by twelve40 4y ago
I recently ran into fake business on doordash of all places. I was in a hurry and ordered without reading too much. An hour and a half later canceled with a full refund from DD. Got curious and drove to the listed restaurant in person, it
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by twelve40 4y ago
ceos get fired all the time https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/success/ceos-getting-fired/in... aside from those numbers, i suspect a good chunk of ceo drama is underreported, because if you publicly PI
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by twelve40 4y ago
comms teams are great, but how hard is it to post a simple straightforward writeup about the upcoming change? heck he even announced a bunch of other stuff from his personal account before, even promising to put stuff like this up for votin
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by twelve40 4y ago
for me it ebbs and flows depending on my current circle and other things. My mid 20s-30s we didn't go out at all, just doing the family thing. Then we clicked with a bunch of people nearby and started hanging out every single week with
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by twelve40 4y ago
I think throughout their existence they tried hard to be more than that. If they settled to be just an advertising business, then easy, you become an equivalent of Lamar Advertising, you post an equivalent of billboards for over a hundred y
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by twelve40 4y ago
it absolutely sucks ass and is a major psychological hit. Also, when lesser brands decide to follow the trend these companies so prominently follow, it will be even worse.
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by twelve40 4y ago
Have you ever witnessed this file being used by companies moving money stored in S3 as "shitlist2019.txt" for screening incoming transactions in production? Because that's what the article is alluding to.
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by twelve40 4y ago
wtf does that have to do with car production, the topic at hand? also, for example me saying that the Germans (yes, the Germans) suffered unimaginable losses of 6 million people, which is a fact, in what twisted mind does stating this fact
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by twelve40 4y ago
the op is stating the facts. Every single of the 5 points you just quoted from them is an indisputable fact. They tie these facts to another fact that a ravaged country with 30 million corpses literally scattered all over cannot produce lux
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by twelve40 4y ago
I too was at first annoyed by a bit of an overhyping in the title and the overall style as well, until I remembered how it felt when you discovered something yourself, or even just read a good clever report from someone else. You get this r
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by twelve40 4y ago
yeah, surprised as well. In finance, there is ofac for people forbidden from moving money, but it's also typically used as a service/db instead of passing around csv files to everyone. Very bizarre.

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