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by wagwang 1y ago
Maybe, but interest rates among other bad banking practices is how we got here in the first place.
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by wagwang 1y ago
Every dollar that's printed gets multiplied based on the interest rate
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by wagwang 1y ago
No that's what low interest rates does
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by wagwang 1y ago
I would be down to try leeching but I have an irrational fear theyre gunna lay eggs in my bloodstream.
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by wagwang 1y ago
What is being banned
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by wagwang 1y ago
Who's making anything illegal here
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by wagwang 1y ago
> Put another way: Read the room, reconsider and don’t be that guy. Thank you washington post, this was very insightful
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by wagwang 1y ago
I've always felt like the biological definition of life isn't useful or meaningful when it comes to borderline replicators like viruses.
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by wagwang 1y ago
OK but given that only a tiny fraction of crime is solved, then why does the UK have huge prohibitions from carrying things to defend yourself, like even pepper spray?
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by wagwang 1y ago
2% is for grand theft auto is crazy
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by wagwang 1y ago
> There is also almost no deterrent: Britain’s police solve only 5% of crimes (and 2% of vehicle thefts) Idk how this is acceptable at all. Is the UK literally the state of nature?
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by wagwang 1y ago
Yet another article that could can be losslessly translated to a single sentence.
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by wagwang 1y ago
Certain ev sports cars are bought so that you get the privilege of buying nicer cars e.g. the taycan
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by wagwang 1y ago
Normal recursion is just a loop and a stack, turns out, if you can optimize recursion without a stack, it just becomes a loop.
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by wagwang 1y ago
The real comparison, which idk why you didnt make, is the islamic control of iberia, to which the answer is, YES! Also anglicism is like, catholicism without a pope... also it was created by the king, not imported from another continent.
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by wagwang 1y ago
That article is full of gems like > Researchers have variously estimated the Muslim population of France at between 8.8% and 12.5% in 2017, and less than 1% in 2001,[64][65] making a "replacement" unlikely according to MacKella
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by wagwang 1y ago
The liberal order(consensus between both sides) of the past 50 years have decided that GDP is the only thing that matters and we should trade everything for it.
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by wagwang 1y ago
No don't you see, we just need more migrants to be a permanent underclass to do our labor
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by wagwang 1y ago
Building the semantic associations that LLMs can do is just building an LLM.
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by wagwang 1y ago
The anthropic CEO dooms all day about how AI is going to kill anyone and yet works on frontier models and gives them agentic freedom.
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by wagwang 1y ago
California is not a desert, it's semi arid and its not obvious to me that the existing irrigation is unsustainable given that we empty billions of gallons into the bay.
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by wagwang 1y ago
Yes globalism is bad :) outside of certain forms of trade. Next up, remittances.
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by wagwang 1y ago
These detectives should come from new york given that ny pizza is far superior than italian pizza
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by wagwang 1y ago
Building solar on farmland is genuinely psychotic. Why isn't the play to first cover all urban/suburban and let nature regenerate. If you are going to cover something, cover the deserts in Arizona.
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by wagwang 1y ago
What's even the point of an AI interview, why not just use a questionnaire...
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by wagwang 1y ago
I dont understand this at all. Mercedes recently announced that theyd be liable for accidentals caused by their level 4 system meaning that by default, all other self driving features are driver liable?
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by wagwang 1y ago
This is only half the truth. The reality is that demand is propped up by fannie/freddie and mortgages in general. The fact that the government will buy investment property mortgages is bonkers. In reality, you should only be allowed to
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by wagwang 1y ago
I just need to subsidize demand and then prices go up, people get angry, and I just need to subsidize demand and then...
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by wagwang 1y ago
I think there are a lot of people who liked programming until it became a job.
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by wagwang 1y ago
I think the ability to grok thru code bases and find patterns plateaus after like 5 years.

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