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by whatisthiseven 7mo ago
For others like me who might be skeptical to hear throughput in any metric other than seconds (and is used to large numbers in hours/days being used to inflate), I think millions per hour is actually quite high for 1998. Assume that me
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by whatisthiseven 7mo ago
But you know that Java solution will continue working even after we no longer use the Gregorian Calendar, the collapse and annexation of Malaysia to some foreign power, and then us finally switching to a 4-day work week; so it'd be wor
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by whatisthiseven 7mo ago
Which VPNs are people using that actually care about the user's privacy? Most of them don't, sell their home IP to buyers, sell their DNS history to others, etc. Worse, some of them could require invasive MITM cert stuff most user
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by whatisthiseven 7mo ago
On the contrary, humanity spent nearly its entire existence calorically deficit, and until mechanized farming did we finally see health outcomes improve, height increase, IQ increase, and populations explode. Productivity gains in the case
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by whatisthiseven 7mo ago
> But will it? My prediction is no, because productivity gains must benefit the lower classes to see a multiplier in the economy. For example, ATMs being automated did cause a negative drop in teller jobs, but fast money any time does in
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by whatisthiseven 7mo ago
If you want to listen to the audiobook Rendevous with Rama, I strongly recommend against the version as narrated by Peter Ganim. One of the worst narrators. His pacing is so bad it sounds like he is inserting periods into the middle of se
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by whatisthiseven 8mo ago
Cause their post sounds like some AI wrote it, and I guess everyone else noticed, too.
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by whatisthiseven 9mo ago
Oil and gas have used, between drilling and refining, over 7 million acres of land in just the US. Yes, it provides more electricity, but at the cost of destroying the entire planet's biosphere, global warming, etc. Current US estimate
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by whatisthiseven 9mo ago
Again, the Nuremberg Laws were just that, laws on the books in Germany. Immigration laws I am fine with, some I disagree with, but that's the nature of government. Interesting how all the laws ICE breaks aren't part of the discuss
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by whatisthiseven 9mo ago
So why isn't ICE carrying out its mission without all the theatrics, and why so poorly? Obama was able to deport 470,000, whereas Trump did somewhere around 600,000. The laws are a pretense for action. The goal is racial fear-mongering
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by whatisthiseven 9mo ago
Given the comparison was already made, what do you think of the Nuremberg laws, then? They were laws that, in as many words, made being a jew illegal in Germany and stripped them of their own citizenship status. That is just "the law b
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by whatisthiseven 1y ago
So, yes, you agree the "faster" market will produce a larger quantity of sugar pill fraud because you are so willing to dismiss it as "obvious", yet you won't acknowledge the other kinds of near equivalent fraud suc
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by whatisthiseven 1y ago
"When I didn't even take a side" sea-lioning and worse is so prevalent with regards to solar, wind, and climate change that frankly if you are going to link dump without much of your own input, it's going to be written
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by whatisthiseven 1y ago
I think every engineer knows that all things come with trade-offs. A great engineer, however, is able to readily admit when one option among others has a far, far greater set of costs than another, for the exact same benefit. And if said en
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by whatisthiseven 1y ago
This is what-aboutism and sealioning taken to a disingenious level Total world oil revenues: $4.2 trillion in 2025, market cap of $7.2 trillion in 2023 Total world solar/wind revenues: estimate $500 billion, so 1/8th. Market cap b
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by whatisthiseven 1y ago
> The real philosophical headache Isn't the real actual headache whether to produce another thinking intelligent being at all, and what the ramifications of that decision are? Not whether it would destroy humanity, but what it would
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by whatisthiseven 1y ago
Are there studies that show a causal relationship between higher CEO pay and profits? Do buybacks cause profits to increase? Maybe from what I can see? But long-term? If all we care about is short-term then that will lead to the continued f
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by whatisthiseven 1y ago
@dang this appears to be a spam account.
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by whatisthiseven 1y ago
Stonemaier has had so many people questioning the HTS code used they have commented on it as well. Turns out the website the highnoongame.com author relied on for giving tariff amounts is just not updated. "The fact is that the tariff
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by whatisthiseven 2y ago
I think when you say "luxury goods" you mean to say Veblen Goods, which are about signaling wealth or status through the purchase of a particular brand. When the functions of a good are divorced from its price and the brand is wha
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by whatisthiseven 2y ago
Ironically, the drones themselves are targets worth about $1k or less. Just fairly difficult to spot/shoot down.
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by whatisthiseven 2y ago
And the gross revenue in 2021 for the Apple app store that same year was $85B. Alas, poor Apple just can't afford more reviewers to ensure every app has a meaningful review process and well paid workers who have a decent work environme
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by whatisthiseven 2y ago
It doesn't matter the country. When any country is accused of hacking its always "how do you know, it can all be faked, its a flase flag". It's weird deflections and pretending hacking is a ghostly nightmare done by geni
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by whatisthiseven 2y ago
Do you have any papers or studies showing it can reduce transmission of any disease? Covid lives in the throat and lungs so I am not sure how a mouth rinse could do anything. Similarly for many other common colds and the flu.
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by whatisthiseven 3y ago
So after your basic premise was demonstrated false, you instead just deflect to a nothing statement that couldn't be more false? "Apple is good" "no, they aren't" "for every bad app Apple let's on the
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by whatisthiseven 3y ago
The less known half of that saying just never really got the viral spread as that first one. "And that's why they're everywhere"!
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by whatisthiseven 3y ago
"I thought people on a website called _hacker_ news would be supportive of a ruling allowing small app creators alternative payment system? " This is also ycombinator, and thus hacker culture is an means to be exploited by investo
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by whatisthiseven 3y ago
I'm also ok with mega corps not buying smaller companies. It encourages further mega-corpification.
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by whatisthiseven 3y ago
I think it's fine if no one starts vampiric companies that dump free services on the public destroying the perceived value of software for the purpose of a fast unicorn exit. Of course, these companies always look to advertising for fu
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by whatisthiseven 3y ago
Software salaries have been higher than hardware salaries since well before covid. So that part of your theory is bunk. Had it occurred to you some people repeat stuff because they just want other people to believe the things they think? Th

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