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donkey_brains
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Comment #49205662
“ we're limited by Christian taboos to only ever mentioning abstinence until marriage, so porn becomes the only way men learn about sex and intimacy, and they learn to see their ow…
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Comment #49149536
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Comment #49143177
I think it’s more useful to apply OP’s question to about real, established businesses that already price products at the market rate. Not companies riding an unsustainable speculat…
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Comment #49143127
That’s why that’s not the standard advice. It’s index stocks hedged with bonds. If you manage to buy at the “top” of your entire country’s economy, you’ve got bigger problems at th…
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Comment #49053262
I assume you mean, “or it did and didn’t”, in which case, hats off to you.
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Comment #49035191
It’s a patient privacy law that applies to hippos.
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Comment #49030577
Yeah, and then they’ll give everyone a pony
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Comment #49000471
Oh, that’ll go well. Another 4-D chess very stable genius move by the US.
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Comment #49000463
No kidding. Except we won’t even have to do that; we can just run open-source frontier models. These companies are hosed.
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Comment #48770509
Zach I love your games! Thank you! Keep em coming!
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Comment #48770311
That’s a very hard line
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Comment #48742243
Weed wackers too
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Comment #48740084
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Comment #48714970
Wow. I love being reminded of stuff like this. Those cars were so cool. Edit: I took one of these cars apart as a kid to see how it worked. This site brought back a lot of memories…
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Comment #48714914
Preposterous. Clearly the goose is full of golden eggs
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Comment #48703747
This explains a lot about that mouse who got a cookie and subsequently wanted a lot of other food
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Comment #48703729
Ah, sadly it doesn’t work that way for me. I guess for some people it does but not for me. I can either be abstinent or constantly high.
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Comment #48686805
I’m so lucky to have had a copy of this as a kid. Loved that book. It really let you understand how all kinds of things worked, with beautiful illustrations you could pore over for…
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Comment #48686743
Did Polymarket employees place bets on this before they announced it?
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Comment #48523197
Hell yeah. And disregard anyone who says you’re “wasting your vote” or “splitting the vote”; they’re part of the problem and their defeatist thinking will get us nowhere.
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Comment #48434044
I completely agree with what you are saying, but I have grown too cynical to believe it will ever happen. American capitalism has been very effective at ensuring 2 outcomes: - The …
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Comment #48433981
“I’m not crazy, everyone else is crazy! That’s why they’re all out to get me.”
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Comment #48433977
None of that happened here.
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Comment #48419256
Just as bad as the technical debt is the cognitive debt in your codebase. When something breaks, your only recourse is to ask the AI how to fix it, since it wrote it and you did no…
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Comment #48406539
Well, sometimes we have to subtract 1 from something, too.