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> But a struggling economy, questionable planning for many years now, the "educated middle class" he mentioned in the post shrinking don't bode well for it. Indeed. I left the coun…

> I want you, I want you, I want some of you What about what I want? What if I don't want what you want? What if my criteria for a recipe is perfectly well served by an AI and I do…

> I never look for any type of tax dodge. If you're engaging in philanthropy, dodging taxes is perfectly justified. The main thing to look out for is whether or not you are using t…

Would be good for Tesla's reputation if they would upload/mirror the crash data to a neutral third party. Then the police and plaintiff could get it from there without any allegati…

I've heard this expressed as existence versus life. Nobody owes it to to give up their life for the life of another, let alone if all that can be hoped for is the mere existence of…

The connection between sludge and distrust in government is worth emphasizing. The narrow minded and short term focus on metrics leads people in the managerial class to lose sight …

If you receive btc in a transaction, the question is, when you consider it to be settled. In other words, how much energy is enough for you to consider it infeasible for an attacke…

That wasn't the reason to restrict block size. There is no way to scale the number of transactions on the main layer to anywhere near the level required to cover daily transactions…

Lex non cogit ad impossibilia. - The law cannot compel the impossible. A judicial system populated by people who don't understand what's possible is a real issue.

I hope the only valid use for WhatsApp becomes giving people a link to your Signal.

I really like how well the node editor preserves the path as much as possible when adding or removing nodes, apparently adjusting adjacent nodes to minimize distortion.

Why would you give your product a quite specific name that's exactly the same as another product? "Core 2 Duo" immediately brings an Intel CPU to mind and will probably make it har…

One definite UX improvement over the past 25 years have been command menus. In the most simple implementation, press Ctrl+P start typing to filter a list of commands down and hit e…

None of this is settled economic theory. Even just the conclusion in the second sentence is highly debatable. Capital investments are a market and it is completely plausible that t…

The pricing on these products is frustrating. To even try out the Phind-405B model I have to pay $20 and then I get unlimited queries which I never asked for? For a product I don't…

I wonder if this sets up a moral hazard that only exacerbates a possibly coming crash. People assume the Fed will prevent assets from dropping, which makes them bid up asset prices…

I doubt many people are making purchasing decisions based on Intel branding. Any kind of speed advantage has not been a dominant factor in the minds of most low information/brand i…

Was he really that wrong? Isn't a bond just another debt instrument? It's not obvious to me, that there is any fundamental difference between the operations that both comments desc…

For some, it's an ethical imperative. The government is at best wasteful, often what it does with resources is harmful. If you can make sure resources are kept in private hands and…

It would be really nice if there were a battery technology that could charge 100 miles in a few minutes, even if that meant you would be constantly charging on longer trips.

Perhaps something for your list: https://mbarkhau.github.io/asciigrid

Possession is not illegal anymore. My understanding is, that police now cannot use mere possession as a pretense for searches of your car or home. If true, this is great progress f…

Do you know which of these would be best suited to customization? I'd like to create a linux live distro only run a single application.

I have a microwave with two knobs: power and time. Both controls are haptic and I imagine the circuitry is the same as what might have been built in the '60s. It's perfectly fine.

It's not as if crypto has a particularly good reputation or the scammy nature of crypto is a secret. I wonder if your former friend has the same kind of personality that just as we…