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Comment #46159594
Never underestimate the amount of people that just go where the wind blows
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Comment #43112622
I'm saying be more specific not less
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Comment #43101324
Haha oh you're right, was misframing in my head the word countable as meaning finite. I even provide the definition of countable infinity in my counterargument without realising it…
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Comment #43099754
You are right because you can recursively add clauses. 'Buffalo buffalo...' or 'This was my dad's dad's dad's...' If you think you have a full set you can always add one more
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Comment #43079921
I meant here, though I think there is also tendency in general As a side note I think the state of current discourse has shown that anything other than concrete language presents t…
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Comment #43076784
That's kinda the whole point, but noone is framing that situation as the problem. They would rather think that homeless people are innately inferior and thus deserve to suffer, rat…
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Comment #42897630
It never changed from the single-income household era. And people wonder why the high street is dying.
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Comment #42864041
The government is accountable (in theory). The government is a different kind of entity with different behaviour to a single human, or even a corporation. Your argument is a semant…
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Comment #42862927
If you are competing for resources with billionaires, who's taxes also go down, you are losing money.
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Comment #42838966
Compute shaders from a high-level pipeline perspective. How data moves from CPU and between shaders to accomplish a task.
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Comment #42829192
Thanks. Yes I was thinking more about the (traditionally) CPU side of graphics or games, things like CPU skinning or skeletal animation. I was wondering mostly about the FFI overhe…
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Comment #42821996
Is it possible to use BQN in a high performance context? How much overhead does the runtime, and FFI have? Could it be used for graphics?
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Comment #42767145
How much savings do you have? Is it used for rent-seeking behaviour? I think that's the key issue the country is facing. If you have a little padding no-one will be coming for you.…
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Comment #42766859
it’s more about wealth. You need a functioning welfare state to allow people to take risks
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Comment #42695537
I see the logic there, though I think there's more to it. Like quality of work, and reward structures for hard work. Carrots work much better than sticks, with much lower risk of s…
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Comment #42695493
A guess: If you could ask a (nice) djinn to make rent-seeking businesses disappear - those with net negative real productivity -> happiness generation - society would bounce back. …
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Comment #42695403
Are you saying: people aren't scared enough? Or poor enough?
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Comment #42695179
People are struggling
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Comment #42349727
<2 months rent p.m. and no savings basically, is a generous definition
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Comment #42164354
Cool! Did you just prompt -> copy -> paste or did you come up with some specific workflow?
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Comment #42067721
Sources and sinks - where does the money go? What is it subsequently used for?
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Comment #42058645
electoral college
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Comment #41964594
The point is it’s easier to just tax wealth a bit more and let everyone get on the bloody train… It’s mostly people just going to work/school, makes sense to be free
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Comment #41580929
Poetic analogy for modern times , short term gain over cooperation inspiration and discovery. Also ironic coming from the company revitalising space tech. But cynically this benefi…