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by verall 3y ago
The point is to push people towards productive assets - investments in people building things - and to generally limit wealth preservation. Unlimited wealth preservation = dynasties, which is not a goal. Inflation is a sort of (not very eff
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by verall 3y ago
It was an interpreter for something. I don't remember what
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by verall 3y ago
A somewhat related ask for help - I have seen a program, I think for IOCCC, where the code was aligned in 4 character columns that seemed to naturally fit the code, so it would have code arranged like: for( long i=0; i<n; i++) {int
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by verall 3y ago
> For real estates, but not for other assets classes. Unless you tax the ownership of every asset. Other assets are (supposedly) productive - investing in companies lets them do research, pay employees, etc, investing in property improv
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by verall 3y ago
Every local government in America has basically figured out how to value real estate for taxation, although it's not perfect - I think that loans against a property should be limited to it's tax value as a first step, and ultimate
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by verall 3y ago
And this can be solved with real estate taxes - a disincentive from just holding land.
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by verall 3y ago
It doesn't help that in 2024 a $4k sofa is probably crap and you need to spend like $12k+ for something that lasts 100+years
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by verall 3y ago
> In fact, the results were actually quite good for the people in the study who got the colonoscopies — a 31% reduction in colon cancer risk and a 50% reduction in risk of dying from it, experts said. > “In order for a colonoscopy to
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by verall 3y ago
People regularly kill people with their cars and get less time. I don't really see how this is worse.
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by verall 3y ago
Ralph Lauren does sell $800 sweaters, but in America most (not all though) of the "nice" brands have significantly diluted their quality, so in addition to the $800 sweaters, Ralph Lauren also sells "$150" sweaters which
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by verall 3y ago
I'm not defending KYC here (tho I think it is necessary personally). I'm just requesting the author actually try to make an argument.
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by verall 3y ago
> Realistically, KYC might deter a small fraction – let's say about 1% – of these malefactors. You may as well say, "KYC might deter a large fraction - let's say about 99% of these malefactors" There's no evidenc
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by verall 3y ago
"sneak under" vs "comply with" If the US did not want NV to sell any GPU to any Chinese company, they could make that the law instead
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by verall 3y ago
I can't tell if you're like an archeologist of incel culture or a card-carrying member. If someone makes $300k/yr and can't find a date they have other issues and/or need to move out of the bay.
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by verall 3y ago
This is considerably more narrow than the Spotify ToS.
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by verall 3y ago
This clause is not fairly standard. This clause is similar to clauses in other services but is considerably worse.
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by verall 3y ago
Except that some people born after that date will still acquire them, get addicted, and then what? Prosecute them like drug possession? It's infantilizing and dumb. Grown adults should be allowed to smoke tobacco if they so wish and sm
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by verall 3y ago
I really disagree with this, C++ is a "choose your own adventure" language, I think this is it's main strength. You decide _everything_, which is conducive to writing systems software at many different levels - 1 language tha
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by verall 3y ago
I always think that these "C is a high level language / virtual machine and it doesn't teach you how your computer works because your computer isn't a PDP-11" style takes are very silly. C is a high level language t
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by verall 3y ago
> 16 H200 GPU along with single digit TB HBM memory stitched together on a single substrate wafer How on earth would you cool this?
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by verall 3y ago
Good for you that you're so good at things but I think it's pretty icky to blame people who aren't as good at things as I am.
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by verall 3y ago
I think you're correct for D, but for Rust, we'll see. It's a very slow moving industry. I do C++ work all day (embedded) and while there's no current plans to move to Rust (which means it won't happen within the ne
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by verall 3y ago
Isn't there whole continents of data proving that drinking ethanol causes cancer? Is a strip of bacon more cancer-causing than the bloody mary?
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by verall 3y ago
Are you in the know here? Want to fill us in?
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by verall 3y ago
It sounds reasonable, but if they diversified quality, it would mean making precision glass and then also somewhat less precise glass. They will not start mass producing large panes of low margin glass. It's not what they're good
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by verall 3y ago
It's not what they do, like they probably won't start selling lawnmowers either.
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by verall 3y ago
It's not. Walmart is not a 'marketplace', yet they could easily give you a replacement product from a different 'wholesaler', just like Amazon can give you a replacement from a different 'retailer'. There
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by verall 3y ago
Every brick and mortar store has to assert the safety and legality of everything they sell or else risk serious liability. From what I can tell, Amazon does not present itself as a farmer's or flea market, yet it tries to limit its lia
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by verall 3y ago
Supplements should probably not be sold in a marketplace fashion by fly-by-night distributors by a major trusted brand (amazon). Businesses that sell supplements should create trusted relationships with their suppliers to not break the rule
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by verall 3y ago
My $20 Mr. Coffee my dad got me before I went to uni is about 9 years old, went through daily use for about 5 of those, stored outside for 2 years, has no problems. I think people buy cheap weird shit and are surprised when it breaks but if

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