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> How do you cut any of these without everyone losing their minds? > medicaid, medicare You can't. You're dealing with the inevitably increasing costs of human labor as it becomes …

It took me defocusing my eyes to read the hidden text with normal ease. When I tried it, squinting only made it focus in on the thin lines instead of the background.

> Now tell me what is cool Not immediately being a copyright bootlicker. The fact that you went straight to "BuT pIrAtEs" already shows who you actually care: Corpos, not people.

> Less motivation for people to be racist if they have their needs met. If and only if what they'll be given is not taken away by anyone under any reason.** Loss aversion bias inna…

> No privacy is valued other than their own, and they will always use "think of the children" as an excuse. Until they lose an election using "think of the children", they'll alway…

The tax money shouldn't have been collected in the first place. It should've stayed with the people.

I'm dead serious. Where are the charities who're supposedly aligned wuth such a mission? Where're the blue states?

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> 1) it's not hard to do your own research. If you're here, I assume you know how. Assume the opposite direction. If you don't bring the data, then you're not doing your part to co…

All the more reason as to why it should be Canada monitoring that portion of the ocean.

> ... “removal of all in-water infrastructure” belonging to the Ocean Observatories Initiative at sites along the coasts of Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and North Carolina, and in t…

...Unironically in complete agreement. If the data is economically valuable, mbgerring, then the private market and aligned states/charities should be the ones shouldering the cost…

The capability isn't there yet. Some of it is there, but not to the level of reliable reverse engineering. https://programbench.com/

> And that will never be true, so it’s meaningless. The math is simple: The total cost for building on Earth is X, the total cost for building in space is Y. If X > Y, building in …

> the author lost me when he implied socialism is synonymous with authoritarianism. To enforce the socialist cause at the 100+M level, a stricter level of enforcement is required i…

Whenever someone talks about forking/rebuilding the web, I'll always link to my favorite Dylan Beattie talk about such a hypothetical alternative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8…

> I don't see how orbital datacenters will ever be able to compete with terrestrial. An orbital DC makes fiscal sense when the cost to launch one to space is lower than the cost to…

> The earlier F2I scheme instead had a contest where the party that is the most ambitious in fabricating lab notebooks to backdate their invention gets the patent. The implementati…

> If someone can’t write their own Agent.md for a project how are they going to validate the auto-completed text? > This strikes me as the ideal LLM first contribution/PR, a file e…

Forks need to be normalized again. Logistically & brand-wise, they're messy to deal with, but they result in a "filter" of sorts that the original project can pick & choose to upst…

> Should the barrier of entry be someone who knows how to code? or should the barrier of entry be someone who is motivated to help with open-source software. The motivation to help…

> Is it that if you write enough buggy code you get banned as a contributor? If this is a consistent issue, your contribution would (ideally) be continuously put into a backlog unt…

> what is the appeal of blindly blasting open source projects with high-volume PRs? The prestige of being "the one that added feature X to OSS project Y". The things that would've …

> It's surprising that Visa and Mastercard are even private companies. Asianometry provides a great summary as to how both of them came to be: For Visa, a 1976 rebranding of the Ba…

> Indoctrination via decades of advertisements in clear demonstration. The imagery from this description are taken directly from coke advertisements. Either that or this is a parod…