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by vasco 2mo ago
I always thought it came from lapis lazuli (portuguese). Azul as a subpar of Lazuli even sounds exactly the same in portuguese.
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by vasco 2mo ago
Because of this website I just learned there's a difference between the language code "ja" (ISO 639-1) and country code "jp" (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2). Came here to complain but left more learned. And the answer was in a
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by vasco 2mo ago
High cost of living can happen for two reasons, either everything is expensive, or you make no money. And guess what, people with no money have way more kids than people with a lot of money in middle class lives in developed countries, who
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by vasco 2mo ago
Being a non-profit is just a tax arrangement, it shouldn't change any of your opinions. What does the tax rate of who does an action have to do with the action being good or bad?
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by vasco 3mo ago
I just don't read any news other than if they show up here or someone in my life tells me. And even then that's way too many news. There's really not a need for any news, if it wasn't by now a 15 year old addiction to co
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by vasco 3mo ago
If you have a substack you probably do not need a website. You probably need a personal diary.
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by vasco 3mo ago
I dunno man if you want to answer claims about probability with single a data point that's up to you, but nobody can take that seriously, whatever the topic.
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by vasco 3mo ago
You may have missed the word likely.
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by vasco 3mo ago
Worldwide the main thing that correlates to having less kids is being more educated. High cost of living correlates with more kids, not less.
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by vasco 3mo ago
> Open-weights models that don’t have dangerous capabilities are a public good I don't think the qualifier "that don't have dangerous capabilities" is needed and that single phrase is a trojan horse / escape hatc
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by vasco 3mo ago
It's actually much better, now you can replant the same area and re-sell the credits. Almost as good as those farmers that say they were planning to cut thousands of trees this year and if you pay them they will not do it. And same nex
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by vasco 3mo ago
What does the means to fight the fire have to do with the starting cause of a fire?
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by vasco 3mo ago
So are you!
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by vasco 3mo ago
The idea of self sufficiency either from individualism or associated with a sense of "being prepared" is enticing. But growing something yourself is also cool in itself. Watching a plant grow, eating the tomato you grew tastes bet
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by vasco 3mo ago
It's sad but also interesting that in someone's disaster recovery plan now they need to add a line item about analyzing which datacenters are behind air defenses.
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by vasco 3mo ago
Every single person I know here in europe that is a meat lover is always including either some Texas BBQ or some large tomahawk steaks in their visit and the size and quality of US meat is perceived highly. And it's not like people wil
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by vasco 3mo ago
Move to Alaska to become the greatest salmon catcher that ever lived.
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by vasco 3mo ago
If you borrow a million dollars and buy gold both of those will have to be communicated to shareholders and indeed show up in the balance sheet. It doesn't matter if you say the lines add up to zero, that's still in the balance sh
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by vasco 3mo ago
The lines in SIMD are much simpler though. It's like replacing one line of "I have a desire for yellow nourishment from the tropics" to "give banana" 12x
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by vasco 3mo ago
What is short sighted is parroting this over and over. It's not insightful, interesting or adding anything else to the discussion than "mean people are bad".
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by vasco 3mo ago
Historical curiosity
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by vasco 3mo ago
You cannot outsource quality to another role, or you can but you'll be slower and have more bugs.
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by vasco 3mo ago
How will they structure that for you to not show up on the balance sheet then? I'm not aware of a way, and the way you described wasn't true. All you now offered is "bankers can do it", but how without having to report i
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by vasco 3mo ago
Wanting to be a good person is different than being a good person. I said the former not the latter. The former is about intent behind actions and what you strive to be. The latter is about thinking people are born in boxes.
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by vasco 3mo ago
What they were saying is they prefer people to behave because they want to be good people which are part of a good society than to be good people simply as a byproduct of fear of jail.
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by vasco 3mo ago
This is not true at all, leases appear on balance sheets. It's not the 80s anymore See Apple's FY2025 10-K, the leases are in page 42 under "Lease-Related Assets and Liabilities", which shows: Operating leases - Other cu
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by vasco 3mo ago
It's hard to believe something when I saw the opposite work in practice. Removing QA makes developers care about production. You can say now they are wasting part of their time doing what QA did but to me it's not wasted time. Inc
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by vasco 3mo ago
And a coffee place near me charges €10 for a strawberry matcha drink, but we don't have to purchase either.
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by vasco 3mo ago
Because it happens with other things like recycling rules for most trash? How many years of EU exporting trash to places without regulation now?
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by vasco 3mo ago
Yes but this website seems to assume that one will need to Google what a screwdriver is for an hour before they start assembling anything.

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