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by wredcoll 6mo ago
First past the post doesn't meaningfull affect primaries and that's where major change could happen. Hell, that's what trump did. He was a third outside party and won the republican primary. Bernie sanders came fairly close t
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
That's sort of like saying you're not sure if the earth is round or not-- says much more about you and your understanding than anything else.
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
Yeah, the (untrue accusation) is the important part of the political prosecution phrase.
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
Crimes that are not known about are frequently not punished. Rubbing it in everyone's face is not a great idea. But, and this is the much more important point you are missing, is the difference between prosecuted for a crime you comitt
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
This is an interesting article about a relatively foreign culture, although I can't speak to its veracity it certainly sounds true. It makes a lot of points about culture, both where it came from and where it's going and undoubted
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
Housing to wages has been going up every year for like the last 20 years, I'm not sure we can blame AI for that? Regardless of how hard you worked or what you deserve, having 30k in capital gains puts you into a very, very, verrry smal
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
> pressures of high taxes This is something I never see mentioned so I'm curious what brought it up. Are you personally paying a lot of taxes or so much that you can't afford other things or is this a thing peers talk about? Is
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
Nobody is perfect, even "professionals" and I think there's a reasonable difference between "I, a novice, am skeptical of your conclusions" and "I, a novice, have come up with an entirely new theory".
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by wredcoll 6mo ago
It's rare, I think, for a project to have such a well defined and singular purpose that has not changed in 10 years nor have any bugs been discovered or its dependencies changed underneath it. It's not impossible, of course, but i
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
This was such a genuinely weird moment for me when reading the article. "yadda yadda and then also the secretary of defence agreed it was bad" I'm just reading along and going, "yeah that sounds really bad if a secretary
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
Very often the fact that the herd is going in that direction causes it to become the right direction, e.g. the stock market.
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
Why stop there? Because we decided to stop there. It's really that simple.
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
Sometimes people consider morality instead of legality.
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
Aren't your home addresses assigned by your local router?
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
You could accidentally swap ips to one that had a port forward, some applications can ask routers to forward, etc etc. I donmt know how exactly we'd measure the various potential issues but they seem incredibly minor compared to the sh
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
> until you have liability And are you thinking this going to start happening at some point or what? The letters I get every other month telling me I now have free credit monitoring because of a personal info breach seems to suggest othe
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
Did we have code quality before llms?
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
I don't think academia runs fox news and cnn but I'll withhold judgement
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
The great thing is you can just focus on the one person who "worked hard" or "self disciplined" or "studied well" and got rich while ignoring all the other people who did the same thing and didn't.
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
Last I checked, the delayed gratification was also highly correlates with having wealthy parents.
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
Amazon, among others, write a lot of java, but they want absolutely nothing to do with oracle licenses for java
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
How do you place the cursors then?
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
The line between "addictive" and "fun" is tricky. That doesn't make it umimportant or nonexistant. It's hard to explain black holes, especially in a hackernews text box, but that doesn't make them irreleva
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
Netflix makes the same profit whether you watch 30 minutes or 30 hours a month. Tiktok gets paid for every extra second you spend there.
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
Please, I beg you, stop and think about these things. "is it a young people thing": no, obviously not because nothing is. You're just as prone to addictive behaviours at 20 as at 40 at 80. There might be some differences as
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
"average of 30 minutes" covers a pretty massive range. Lots of people can get drunk once a month and suffer or cause no real harm. Some people get drunk everyday which is slightly more harmful.
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
I'm not sure how much it really matters but it is mildly annoying when people's brains just shut off when they hear atomic/nuclear. It's perfectly reasonable to make an argument that they were "not needed" in t
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
I mean, steam does install the game and you can run the executable, but yes, there is a level of trust that it won't delete the game or some such.
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
I mean, people really didn't hate it. There was some grumbling about digital and not having a cd, but by and large people liked it as soon as they had broadband.
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by wredcoll 7mo ago
This sort of thing is a constant tension and it's highly likely to be a different optimum for every individual, but it's also important not to ignore genuine improvements for the sake of comfort/familiarity. I suspect, in gen

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