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by xp84 3mo ago
I would bet Japan, Korea, Taiwan all produce some of the needed things in an emergency scenario (obv Taiwan may be under artillery attack, but then again, does China want a destroyed Taiwan or do they want to own it, with its priceless indu
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by xp84 3mo ago
In that, I agree with you. Tbh it sounds almost socialist: The government pays a lot of money to employ lots of workers in really good jobs, with only a pretty modest amount of overhead (money earned by the investors of the contractors). An
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by xp84 3mo ago
Be that as it may, the law in California forbids the insurance company from refusing to pay at the in-network rate in an emergency. As evidence, I'd submit the claim they immediately paid when called out on this. If the insurance compa
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by xp84 3mo ago
Am I missing something here where he "tries to make" anyone do anything? Also he mentions the Ashley knot numbers, how is that not acknowledging that?
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by xp84 3mo ago
1. If you rewrote Wikipedia? Yes. If you set up your own website and said you invented the Arijun Dog? Nah, go for it. Slightly embellishing your accomplishments, in a trivial and victimless arena like hotdogs or shoelaces, is exactly the k
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by xp84 3mo ago
I actually agree with you on this completely, it's definitely the worst downside of the war. Same reason we don't want S400s being operated by Turkiye, we'd like China and Russia to have as little data as possible on our warp
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by xp84 3mo ago
Thank you - didn't see that yet, not surprising but very disappointing. Still, unless China is gonna start giving kinetic support to Iran, Iran's ability to be "doing great" in the war is still limited by its crippled, s
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by xp84 3mo ago
Perhaps. If we need more, we can make more though, and at a faster rate than Iran can. I really doubt Iran has the capability to significantly threaten the factories where we make those munitions. The same can't be said the other way a
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by xp84 3mo ago
I tell this story every time ambulance costs come up because it might be helpful to anyone. I once lived in San Francisco in the mid-2010s. In SF, the SFFD operates the vast majority of ambulances in the city. As in, 80%+. I once had the ne
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by xp84 3mo ago
Maybe there was some kind of focus issue your first time, where the browser wasn't sending the keystrokes to the page.
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by xp84 3mo ago
I too think timeless mode should be an option, and since you're telling me i'm in "top 10%" or whatever at the end, Timeless can just not be on the leaderboard, instead maybe just use a local-storage streak calculator or
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by xp84 3mo ago
There’s nothing peculiar about the US, every country or even tribe has fought many wars.
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by xp84 3mo ago
Why are defense contractors not better investments, then? https://youtu.be/C2gIId1dpDs
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by xp84 3mo ago
It’s an odd declaration and maybe based on Rus/Ukraine. But Ukraine is doing better now than in the first week of the “Special Military Operation” due to having a lot of rich allies who have (in fits and starts) given them a lot of mon
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by xp84 3mo ago
It never ceases to amaze me how reliably someone always appears to “well, actually” this issue whenever Ian comes up. Despite the fact that he has merely published all this info freely on the web for like 20+ years and never attempted to mo
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by xp84 4mo ago
> generally successful democratic socialist countries in Europe where standard of living is better by many measures than in the US? Most of those countries have had 80 straight years of paying almost 0 for their defense. Who was paying f
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by xp84 4mo ago
I don't understand what you're trying to say. The stats don't lie: https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_California_state_go... And the only bit of "red" on that diagram besides the blip in 96 in
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by xp84 4mo ago
With there being several places in this report where clearly it knows it's in a simulation, I wonder why it can't be convinced it's in real life for more interesting results. Or, conversely, if there's a danger of some r
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by xp84 4mo ago
I didn’t mean it like that. I’m fine with most of the “omissions” on CarPlay (though CarPlay isn’t perfect and has regressed - the Maps UI changes in the past 5-7 years with the disappearing controls and the menus that require a tap, move 6
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by xp84 4mo ago
Yeah, he has the handle @justcallmeeddie1
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by xp84 4mo ago
Fair enough, it would be more accurate to simply say significant increases in the bottom line. Certainly possible that it simply moves from massively negative to less negative, like American Airlines. It still makes a big difference to them
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by xp84 4mo ago
Fair, the flavor certainly changes if you suspect that it is close to the whole list of such bloggers, and it would seem kind of like lottery winners. I think it was likely meant to be understood as a small sample out of a much larger group
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by xp84 4mo ago
> consume multiple blogs today? It's so much easier with instagram/social media I beg to differ. Follow 12 “people” on Insta and you’re just telling the algorithm you’re into parent stuff, or fashion, or makeup, or cars, or att
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by xp84 4mo ago
Agree. The only way "buying" is understood in English to mean a temporary entitlement is when combined with those terms like "ticket" or "pass." The choice of language is deliberately made to deceive. If an aut
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by xp84 4mo ago
1. Video games are not a spectator sport. You buy tickets for a match to pay the players to perform for you. You can buy a football and goals and play with your family until the equipment itself literally wears out (which is a very, very
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by xp84 4mo ago
This comes off as pretty out of touch. Entry-level SE roles have been a bit rocky since about that time and of course fell off a cliff a year later, but more relevantly, that wasn’t simply career advice directed at people who already know h
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by xp84 4mo ago
> “These hundred authority sites and blogs were chosen back in 2022 as they appeared in “bloggers who make six figures” roundups that the entire creator economy circulated”
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by xp84 4mo ago
As a wise man once said, if “buying” isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing. Words to live by, arrrrrrrr.
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by xp84 4mo ago
Thanks for sharing the link. The Long Haired Maiden was beautifully illustrated and i enjoyed the story.
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by xp84 4mo ago
This is part of a broader trend I see in all consumer markets: especially in markets with just a few large important players: the companies start making very unpopular moves in the hopes that their competitors will realize the massive profi

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