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MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
13hr ago
A bad CEO can destroy a hundred million dollars of value, maybe even a billion, before the board removes them.
A lot more than that, if they are Steve Ballmer. The difference between Ballmer's and Nadella's Microsoft is exhibit A in the case for "Some of our most talented people should be non-founder executives at legacy companies."
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
13hr ago
In a commodity drone, the rare earths are in the motors, not the chips.
The main (but not the only) industrial use of rare earths is for strong permanent magnets, and the main industrial use of permanent magnets is electric motors and generators.
orthoxerox
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13hr ago
As far as I understood, no significant amount of any "aid" had been found anywhere on the flotilla. I guess the real aid was the friends they made on the way.
The real aid is forcing Israel to keep explaining why they are intercepting humanitarian ships in Palestinian territorial waters.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
13hr ago
Housing abundance + walkability is possible, because Tokyo exists.
I agree that it requires world-class policing to work and is therefore not an immediately applicable answer to anywhere in the US, with the possible exception of NYC.
orthoxerox
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13hr ago
I am more than happy to field what you think is the hardest programming query you can come up with through 5T, ideally one that free ChatGPT can't handle.
It's more of a technical question, but here goes: "I have two Kerberized Hadoop clusters, X and Y. The nodes in both clusters have access to two networks, A and B, I think this is called multi-homed clusters. Right now everything uses network A, which is the network the DNS server resolves hostnames to. I need to keep intracluster communications and all communications with external hosts on network A, but communication between the clusters (e.g., cluster X reading data from cluster Y) must happen via network B. How do I set up my clusters to achieve this? Please include all relevant configuration options that must be changed for this to work."
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
13hr ago
Papen in which year?
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
13hr ago
Replace "antichrist" with "literally Hitler" (meaning: "not literally Hitler but morally Hitler-equivalent") and see what numbers that gives you.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
13hr ago
So, do you deny that the hard problem exists and is indeed a problem? Because from a straightforward logical point of view, it's one of the most impossible gaps for materialism to cover. How do we perceive or think at all, if we're fully material?
Excuse my ignorance of the subject, but why should perception or thinking be impossible for a material creature?
orthoxerox
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14hr ago
The ones on step 2 are being one-shotted and need to get a grip.
I manage an architect who loves to paste obviously LLM-generated solutions to various problems and he's driving me angry. If LLMs are so fucking good that I can use their recommendations verbatim, I should cut out the middleman. The whole point of having a professional on payroll is that he can function both as a holder of domain-specific knowledge and as a critical evaluator of whatever LLMs produce.
FistfullOfCrows
14hr ago
Yes, I'd like to be plowed by billionaire cock in the much more authentic BDSM dungeon.
Rov_Scam
14hr ago
MY brother is unpretentious and got into Wallace after I showed him the essay about the cruise ship that we both quote relentlessly. On year at the beach he read Infinite Jest because he wanted to read Wallace. He not only finished it, he's reread it several times. I think part of it is that none of his friends even know who Wallace is so he came into it as a book written by a writer he found funny (we both have an excessively dry sense of humor) and not as something he felt obligated to read. I started it years ago but with my own knowledge of the book's import I found it impossible to continue, even though my brother insists that it's right up my alley.
Rov_Scam
14hr ago
I think he was referring to a system they have in places like Sweden, where if you're a normal W-2 employee the government would look at your W-2 income and take the standard deductions and do all the stuff that they will correct anyway if you did it differently and didn't get the maximum refund. The first time you claim a child they could keep track of the age and take the deduction every year until 18. If you wanted to take more deductions than they were offering, then you'd file your own return. But most people wouldn't have the need to do that. The predatory thing comes with H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt opening up places in the 'hood where they'll offer to do poor people's taxes so they can charge a percentage of the EITC they recover.
2rafa
14hr ago
“I will flee like a rat to the suburbs and abandon the civilization my forefathers built because getting rid of homeless psychos and dealing with violent crime seems like too much work”
Who can be surprised at 70 years of total failure on the American right when this is the common mindset? Out of sight, out of mind, and all the while you fade into irrelevance.
Markass
14hr ago
Reminds me of when Monsanto's anti-competitive, environment-harming practices directly led to one farmer murdering another. The person put on trial was the murderer, while nothing happened to Monsanto, even though they were so controversial that the jury instructions explicitly prohibited mentioning Monsanto.
It also took me too long to realize that Monsanto being enabled shows how useful all those heckler's veto environmentalist regulations were: Not very.
2rafa
14hr ago
“Full sized” in terms of product volume or selection? In terms of volume of fresh, OK quality food the average Manhattan Whole Foods has more than a huge big box store in a poorer part of the Midwest. It’s bleak out there, the fact that NYC doesn’t have 37 shelves of 48-pack soda isn’t a downside.
2rafa
14hr ago
I just get my food delivered when I want once a week for the in-store price plus a nominal (literally $2) delivery charge, which is viable for the store because of how dense a city is.
TowardsPanna
14hr ago
fate worse than war.
Someone who starts Palantir (amazing how people tell you who they are) seems to be projecting when talking about antichrists and coming evils in peacetime.
Markass
15hr ago
This is half of why Americans are obese.
Obesity is a complicated subject. To claim that this is even half the reason is a high level of hubris.
Markass
15hr ago
The blacks don't help, but this isn't fully true. People prefer living in suburbs and driving cars because it's just better for them. Even if all black people were to disappear tomorrow, there would still be suburbs and cars. At most it would add a marginal amount to the populations of dense cities.
TitaniumButterfly
15hr ago
You're clearly grappling with the way his (uninhibited by resource scarcity) gayness makes you feel. I don't disagree, but if that's how it is we should probably be more willing to generalize.
cjet79
15hr ago
Some Benefits:
- People can be guilty of two crimes when they don't pay taxes: not paying the taxes, and lying about the amount of taxes owed. Which also makes it easier to catch criminals who are making lots of money illegally. (Al Capone Argument)
- Its only hard to pay taxes if you are trying to maximize the amount you are not paying. You can very easily give the maximum amount you suspect you owe, and if you are wrong the government will send you a reimbursement for taxes you overpaid. (Kennedy, do your part argument)
- Special interests can be given special and hard to follow exemptions that are only meant for them, and require a bunch of hoops to claim. You can then write off those estimated tax costs as something you did for the consumer while not having those full costs get reflected in the actual budget. (Cynical jack ass argument)
There are more special interests that benefit from complex tax systems than just H&R block.
OliveTapenade
15hr ago
For what it's worth, I can't imagine the idea of watching a film on a phone or even on a computer monitor. It's practically the only thing I use my television for these days, but I still insist on watching films on a television.
I would think there'd be no difference, ideally.
If there is a difference I would expect it's because the flow control heuristic on a single stream is a bit wrong and not properly saturating your link. That, or by opening multiple streams you are recruiting more resources on the remote end to satisfying you (e.g. it's a distributed system and each stream hits a different data center)
Mostly I would
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