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get grok on it and I'm in

this is a poignant example of rent seeking

why is it three logicians? wouldn't it work with just two?

there are parts of the American market that are free and there are parts that are not. We'd have to get into specific details to classify said parts. While I don't think the existi…

indeed but sometimes abstractions are useful. i would argue that in this case the binary is useful because of the PP's use of the word "totalitarian" (as in "totalitarian neofeudal…

i don't think anyone has a clear answer for "winning the argument" since definitions can be endlessly debated. i think a more useful question is "what about the existing US economy…

i see control and influence as being two separate things. mainly, control is forced by the controller while influence is granted from the influenced.

the "control" of a "weighted control economy" is usually enforced through government (including those politicians you reference). so when we bring in more government then it's less…

did you mean to use a different word than "aristocracy?" and what is "equality of condition" and how do you achieve it?

how totalitarian? you have free markets (which the manifesto supports) or planned economies and planned economies are where totalitarianism works.

there appears to be no effort by cpj to determine if the journalists were killed by palestinians or israelis. is that accurate?

In the article they are talking with students who haven't graduated yet, a couple of PMs, and one software engineer who took a three month break between gigs and has been looking f…

Ten years into my self-taught software engineer career I ran across a statement "if you aren't seeing problems in your work that can be solved by graphs (or any advanced algorithms…

"money doesn't grow on trees and runways are very real and scary, so without deadlines companies fundamentally cannot function." Runways being real doesn't mean you need deadlines.…

inference , object detection for one.

With tax credit the cheapest Tesla is $30k. With default interest and loan terms, the Tesla would cost about $4500 / year. Median annual household income in the US is $71k, so the …

Curious what you can find about IT bands? I used to run triathlons. Stopped when I had a long recovery from a cracked foot. 10 years later I have chronic IT band tightening that pu…

Ianal, but I think ddg could come back and claim that their service doesn't copy the content or that their abstract is fair use, so a dmca wouldn't apply to them. If that happens I…

I use the "safe enough to try" test. If I can't convince my coworker or employee that my idea has better tradeoffs (using my 30+ years of experience), I'm humble enough to know tha…

I stick with regular vi for a very long time because of this. I was a systems consultant way back when and I'd have to work on several variants of unix that had a mich-too-long lag…

That not every plane used by musk technically applied, or is able to apply, for a PIA kinda misses the main point. Sweeney )the jet tracker) has proudly claimed himself that he has…

i'm not sure i would call it _completely_ sad. i would say the sad was mixed in with awe. in an instant i felt both incredibly small and incredibly important. it was very surreal.

Fwiw I had something akin to the overview effect when I attended a full solar eclipse. I thought I was prepared. I had read up on what to expect because I wanted to make the most o…

What you describe is the exact reason we should question your very premise. "For example, let's say that to do some specific the law says a degree is required." Why is the governme…