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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
The people who believe this stuff don't have kids, so they lose out in the Darwinian race, and the people with pro-natalist beliefs continue the human existence and more often pass down those beliefs. So regardless of who thinks they&#
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
If someone cares more about themselves than continuing their family line or the human species, it’s arguably more selfish.
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
People are a more intelligent type of animal but still animals.
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
Sure, it's a pretty high chance they will go into space. If they use energy storage it could even be trillions of years. It really depends if humanity self-destructs or not. Also different animals kill each other all the time. It'
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
If you have children you can help continue a chain of humans millions or maybe even billions of years long.
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Trade Court Strikes Down Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs(wsj.com)
10 points by xyzzy9563 1y ago|1 comments
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
The final settlement inside Somalia or North Korea isn't necessary because they can buy things from other countries where those people can do the settlement. Just like if you have US dollar bills in Somalia, they have value even if the
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
Crypto doesn't require 3rd party permission to send money or verifying anyone's authenticity, real name, or legal compliance. So it's much easier to build APIs around. If you created banking APIs you'd need very extensiv
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
Because they have the money and Apple wants them to pay. Why should Google let a competitor pay a lesser amount to be the default?
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
There are many other search engine options, why should Google be punished for hiring the best people over decades to make the best one? Many consumers also switch their search to Google when presented with other options or defaults.
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
But they only have high market share because people want to use Google instead of the competitors. Many consumers switch their search engine to Google when presented with other defaults. Because Google search works the best and people kno
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
It's the only reasonable option because they did the best job making a search engine. The competitors have search engines but their software is worse.
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
Google is effectively being punished for retaining their earnings and re-investing in tons of software R&D over the years. Their "monopoly" is because people choose to use them, not because they have to. Not to mention they ar
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Apple sent an email with updated app guidelines(justpaste.it)
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
The App Review Guidelines have been updated for compliance with a United States court decision regarding buttons, external links, and other calls to action in apps. These changes affect apps distributed on the United States storefront of th
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
In pre-historic times everyone was equally poor so there was no wealth inequality. The tribes in the Andaman Islands also have very low wealth inequality, but all they own are bows and arrows and huts.
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
As soon as you give your kids Internet access, they'll be able to get to adult material.
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by xyzzy9563 1y ago
It's a crime to harbor or aid illegals in evading federal authorities. So this is a legal obligation of every person.
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by xyzzy9563 2y ago
It's actually better to have a trade deficit. Let's say you are a king living in a castle. If you are importing grain from all the surrounding land, the peasants are doing all the hard labor. You have a trade deficit with the peas
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by xyzzy9563 2y ago
Maybe they are just a clump of cells.
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by xyzzy9563 2y ago
I have transferred tons of stuff to my bank over the years (all legal), none of it ever got "alerted" or something I had to describe.
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by xyzzy9563 2y ago
If it's a one-time $100k you can just slowly withdraw small portions of it and probably nobody would notice. It depends how much you're trying to launder.
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by xyzzy9563 2y ago
Buy crypto, convert it to Monero, transfer it around a bit, convert it to your destination currency. Done.
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by xyzzy9563 2y ago
Just use strong typing and mutexes. This isn't rocket science.
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by xyzzy9563 2y ago
Well theoretically you can also do E2E testing where an AI agent also clicks around a user-interface and takes screenshots, which are then fed back into it.
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by xyzzy9563 2y ago
I think a lot of people are going to be surprised at how fast "vibe coding" with agents replaces a lot of traditional software engineering. Especially for non-critical software, but eventually where safety matters too since AI can
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by xyzzy9563 2y ago
If you are copying locally you aren't importing it into the U.S.
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by xyzzy9563 2y ago
Just wait 5 years when 99% of code is written by LLM agents.
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by xyzzy9563 2y ago
Sharing something locally doesn't fall under federal copyright law. They don't have jurisdiction.
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by xyzzy9563 2y ago
Downloading pirated material isn't illegal in the U.S., sharing it is.

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