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by vkou 11mo ago
Expenses are definitely higher, and doctors and hospital CEOs and med school CEOs do drive nicer cars and have bigger summer dachas, but I can't say the same about quality. Six month waits for a specialist, every PCP and shrink you&#x2
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by vkou 11mo ago
Weird, I've seen a lot more people bitch about welfare and how easy people on the dole have it, than actually give up their nice jobs and lifestyles to go try living it.
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by vkou 11mo ago
> The flip side is that I lose ~30% of my pay to taxes. That's not a flip side, that's what you'd be paying in the US, too, once you account for all your payroll taxes. Maintaining 11 carrier strike groups and a global emp
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by vkou 11mo ago
The coach drivers found other work, their horses got turned into glue.
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by vkou 11mo ago
> You already know where an enemy is if you hear them behind the wall, You know they are somewhere behind the wall, you don't know which exact angle they are behind the wall, because headphones and our ears don't work with th
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by vkou 11mo ago
> If AI can make things 1000x more efficient, Is that the promise of the faustian bargain we're signing? Once the ink is dry, should I expect to be living in a 900,000 sq ft apartment, or be spending $20/year on healthcare? Or
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by vkou 11mo ago
Unless DOTA2 is running at a ~3 tick rate (Which it's not), even taking account processing delays and action batching, a bot will always have faster reaction times than an actual player. It will also never misclick. This problem is m
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by vkou 11mo ago
That only solves half of the cheating problem - illegal inputs from clients. The other half is much harder to solve . For a simple example - my client knows that there is an enemy player around a corner. It knows exactly where that player
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by vkou 11mo ago
> Everyone who is in the industry providing IT services is supposed to know that basic security measures are necessary. And everyone who doesn't have wool for brains knows to not carry large rolls of cash around in a bad part of tow
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by vkou 11mo ago
Closer to trying the handle on random car doors.
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by vkou 11mo ago
I can't say I've ever struggled to make this determination, but I don't make a habit of trying random ports, endpoints, car doors, or brute-force guessing URLs.
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by vkou 11mo ago
You think criminalizing guessing URLs is unreasonable. What about guessing passwords? Should someone be prosecuted for just trying to bruteforce them until one works?
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by vkou 11mo ago
> Do all colleges require engineering students to take liberal arts? 15 credit hours of liberal arts education isn't why college in the US is so expensive, and if one pays attention, they might even learn something from it. If nothi
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by vkou 11mo ago
> Airbags do not kill people. > fewer than 300 airbag-related deaths So, they do kill people. They kill people at a low enough rate that make them both worth installing, and mandating, compared to the alternatives.
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by vkou 11mo ago
> You could use the ocean for the bottom level and an artificial reservoir for the top level. You're not going to noticeably affect ocean levels. Then you have to deal with the problem of sea water corroding everything it touches. &
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by vkou 11mo ago
> a miniature charged black hole that can be fed regular matter to produce power, What form of power and through what principle?
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by vkou 11mo ago
> It's also not immediately obvious to the uninitiated what should happen when you swap one asset for another, like when you trade DOGE for BTC. When I swap between MSFT and AAPL, I trigger capital gains, because sale of one realize
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by vkou 11mo ago
They didn't become anything. What happened is that the Republican party turned hard towards pandering to the minority of cruel people that were always present.
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by vkou 11mo ago
Even if the system is simple enough to not need a lawyer, you should always use one.
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by vkou 11mo ago
Some of it is that, but much of it has a much simpler answer. Advertising and availability. Sports gambling was limited to Vegas a decade ago, now you can lose thousands of dollars while fiddling with your phone on your toilet. If every cor
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by vkou 11mo ago
The first rule of politics is that you don't want to get into fights with people who can beat you. The second rule of it is that the right questions (have you stopped beating your wife?) can always be spun to make your opponent look l
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by vkou 11mo ago
France had the inverse problem, all the nobles were sequestered away in Versailles, and weren't particularly interested in actually running the state.
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by vkou 11mo ago
China operates on the principle that as long as the country as a whole is making steady forward progress, it won't have to deal with revolution. Hundreds of millions of people have, in their lifetimes, gone from having to go outside to
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by vkou 11mo ago
> As the model get's more powerful, you can't simply train the model on your narrative if it doesn't align with real data/world. What makes you think they have no control over the 'real data/world' that
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by vkou 11mo ago
New capitals also help prevent revolutions and uprisings. It's a lot easier to have a government that's insulated from the unrest of the masses, when everyone in its capital is loyal to it.
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by vkou 11mo ago
> What's sad is it's 500 years later and education has barely changed From my extensive experience of four years of undergrad, the problem in your plan is "3. Therefore students can read at home " - half the class won
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by vkou 11mo ago
> but if students are going to see homework for the first time in college, I can see problems coming up. If the concept is too foreign for them, I'm sure we could figure out how to replicate the grade school environment. Give them
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by vkou 11mo ago
> but I don’t think anyone here believes that. All it takes is one moron with power and a poor understanding of statistics.
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by vkou 11mo ago
Course correct to what? Unqualified appointments based on loyalty?
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by vkou 11mo ago
I bought 64GB of DDR5 two weeks ago. That same RAM is now twice the price.

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