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Realistically food prices need to go up to make this an attractive business for people to get into

I wonder if a wood powered tractor for farming would be more practical than a wood powered car for transportation

I've been doing more and more web dev with JQuery recently. I learned it in high school and I think most of the new JS frameworks are probably worse.

I'm not sure where this number comes from but McDonald's profit margins may be misleading due to their franchise and real estate based model. If you spend $10 at McDonald's that's …

Is the allegation here that a LLM generated code that was very similar to the author's copyright protected code or that they copied the code and then tried to use AI to hide that f…

U.S. schools are facing a huge and permanent drop in enrollment as the fertility decline starts hitting too.

How is $5/mo a cash grab? Psychiatrists charge more

I couldn't get Bluetooth to work on a car ride recently, wasn't able to listen to Spotify from my phone, and had to listen to FM radio. NPR was by far the best option. Everything e…

LibreOffice is still fast to start

The Federal government making funding to a university contingent on them "reforming" specifically named departments whose foreign policy views the executive branch disagrees with (…

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Blow's talk made me realize I'm not crazy when I get frustrated about basic things being incredibly difficult. Drawing a button to the screen when you want to build a software appl…

Copyright law needs major reform. We need to figure out a way to let authors monetize their work while not making complying with the law so burdensome. We've created a system where…

It's hard to tell if they're telling the truth about the number of GPUs they have. They open sourced the model and the inference is much more efficient than the best American model…

It absolutely is. If security is standing in front of the door to the stage are they going to push past? How is security supposed to remove them from the stage without using force?…

Disrupting a talk isn't really "peaceful". You're physically obstructing the talk and daring the conference organizers who rented the room and other participants who want to hear t…

> This is "never-cracked-a-history-book" levels of incorrect. Severe depressions recurred about every other decade, and practically every decade had some sort of Global Financial C…

Yeah I think the sites broader point is that a lot of indicators of the health of American society start trending definitively down with an inflection point around 1970. The fact t…

I calculated historical American wages in gold terms if anyone's curious: https://github.com/argosopentech/American-Real-Wages TLDR: wages in 2025 are roughly comparable to wages i…

An auction is a great idea. If a foreign worker is valuable enough then companies should be willing to pay up for them. Then the American People can benefit in multiple ways, we ge…

My guestimate. The whole above thread is litigating the number of people in the U.K. arrested for speech crimes. It's hard to put an exact number on it but it seems like low single…

How would this special court work? Can anyone including amateur scientists access it freely? Are the arguments public? What's nice about free speech is it's a simple rule, "any cit…

You were vindicated in this thread. It's insane that the U.K. is throwing thousands in people a year in jail for speech "crimes". I remember ten years ago when free speech was a sa…

I wouldn't trust the science on something I'm injecting into my body if it was illegal for people to disagree about it.

This is where I'm using the CDN: https://github.com/argosopentech/argospm-index/blob/main/ind... R2 is easy to use. I think there's an API but I just manually upload files in the C…