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tazu

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    Comment #41653908

    Russia's debt to GDP ratio is 20%. The United States' debt to GDP ratio is 123%.

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    It's probably because of the poorly-designed "flamewar detector" that censors posts if they are upvoted/downvoted too quickly. @dang explained it to me a few weeks ago[1] on anothe…

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    Comment #41605117

    Setting aside the political reasons for less advertising revenue, it's still running and there are 200M DAU. Many ex-employees swore the servers would catch fire by now.

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    Comment #41605069

    Letting 80% go seems to have worked for X.

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    Comment #41566384

    I used this to index and store a subset of Wikipedia's archive and it works great.

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    Comment #41555146

    Does anyone have some real-world use cases for something like this? The algorithm is cool but I'm struggling to see where this is applicable.

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    Comment #41554821

    "Any previously failed messages via SMTP would need to be retried." 8 hours is pretty awful.

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    Comment #41549041

    There is no cost, overall it all raises US GDP. Military lives are not considered.

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    Comment #41547165

    I thought the non-random nameserver assignment was interesting. Seems like a flaw, actually.

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    Comment #41547006

    The American way is creating problems and selling solutions.

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    Comment #41538078

    I doubt more than 2% of the fentanyl in the US comes direct from China. China just ships to Mexico, which makes it to the US through the wide open southern border.

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    Comment #41536931

    "AI reminds me of the internet in 1999." -- Peter Thiel[1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRunzR9fbk

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    Comment #41527595

    Yes, it's misleading to share averages for power-law distributions. Median take home pay is probably $20 annually.

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    Comment #41512424

    Mike Pompeo told him it was a bad idea. Why would he do it this time? He'd pretty much have nothing to lose.

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    Comment #41512044

    There's a 50% probability that RFK Jr will be a part of the future administration, and I believe he is sufficiently motivated to force Trump to uphold his promise.

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    It's promising that RFK Jr could potentially be in a future administration and push to declassify these documents[1]. It would really only take an executive order. He probably has …

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    Comment #41511243

    I am eagerly awaiting the complete declassification of the JFK assasination documents, which will further damage the CIA's reputation.