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Gud
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About Gud
I’m building a high-signal tech + geopolitics + markets link/discussion board.
Want to come join with me?
https://www.stonkys.com
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Comment #49219844
It is a gigantic problem, we are literally destroying the planet.
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Comment #49213363
LLMs are only useful if they are affordable. I’m paying OpenAI pennies on the dollar for the value I receive.
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Comment #49212329
Because engineers and investment bankers are wired differently.
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Comment #49212140
That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it, is that this relatively small amount of money the USA was spending on US AID did amazing things to stabilize the worl…
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Comment #49194738
I got very much into biology when I started growing weed at 24. Now I can’t not have a little garden(currently growing chilli’s and a citrus tree, from seeds)
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Comment #49189625
You live in a world entirely controlled by the rich. Few places has a functional democracy(Switzerland, where else?). Most of your life is spent performing a business function; the…
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Comment #49180422
Silicon Valley was originally funded by the military industrial complex. Today it’s dominated by the military industrial complex and advertisers like Google and Meta. The hippies w…
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Comment #49179033
This is very different from Afghanistan. The USA and its allies could sustain the Afghanistan occupation indefinitely, but chose not to(prematurely, in my opinion). In Afghanistan,…
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Comment #49175719
Indeed. We are sleepwalking into WW III and no one seems to care.
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Comment #49174583
It also helps that Switzerland has a decentralized and direct democratic system of governance. The rest is just noise.
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Comment #49164717
Only in some libertarian fever dream. Functional societies has central functions to ensure that safety of its people.
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Comment #49162460
You don’t like computers? Because these corporations are pushing up computer prices, for the rich and poor alike.
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Comment #49161419
Yes, currently. But you have made no argument for why that must continue, only presented that is the status quo. China is huge and I am simply wondering, why does it need to export…
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Comment #49161045
Sweden as well.
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Comment #49160516
Wealth is made.
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Comment #49158579
Why must the consumption be exported? Why can't they build for themselves?
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Comment #49153226
I moved from Sweden to Switzerland, and I don't know what that guy was talking about. Switzerland is an extremely well run country.
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Comment #49153112
Already happening.
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Comment #49151917
Let’s not overstate Tesla’s lead. BYD were breathing down their neck after a few years.
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Comment #49143235
There are many great apps? Come on, let’s not pretend it all sucks. As a counter example, Fairtiq.
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Comment #49142432
“Still doesn’t”, is a weird way of saying “OpenBSD removed support for Bluetooth because Bluetooth is not secure”.
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Comment #49142409
Clearly you don’t know what you’re talking about. You should read up on it. ZFS is great.
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Comment #49142393
I do my “serious” stuff with FreeBSD and my gaming on Linux.
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Comment #49132492
I wouldn’t even drive. I would put up the car for sale, and would never drive a BMW again. I’d go by bus until my new car arrives.
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Comment #49132403
Me? I tell it what to write, establish the general picture, then we write together. Obviously I make software, not prose(not yet anyway). I would say, I contribute 95% of the “orig…