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How much of Meta's r&d is spent on keeping people addicted to their apps? I'd argue Amazon and Meta were both more innovative when there was no or very little revenue.

Meta essentially replaced myspace, which basically went down hill after being bought out by a much larger company.

Read a thing his father died of heart disease at a younger age. The long plane ride probably caused an issue with a blood clot, would be my guess.

Think I've heard anecdotes about Tokyo being pretty affordable as well. Quick search shows less than 1/3 of income typically spent on housing, which is much better than major US cities.

It reduces the debate to fighting some imagined, small class of property owners who oppose progress.

I feel kind of the opposite way really. I've even known plenty of people who lease apartment units and don't want other apartments built because newer construction = more expensive (even if it keeps their own rent from being more expensive since it relieves some of the demand).

I take it as referring to AIPAC, one of the most influential lobbying organizations in the US.

Reminds me of something that made me cringe that I heard from an architect at a medium sized IT shop, "even Google couldn't handle our scale".

I just kind of assumed they meant no additional snow to add to the accumulated amount they have for the season compared to 2015.

Curious how much this varies among police. Some jobs are by their nature always dangerous.

But there are a lot of cops in the USA, and plenty I'm sure have nice, cozy jobs, and then there are some who spend thee majority of their career policing areas that more closely resemble warzones or 3rd world nations but this isn't the majority by any means.

That's a bit tenuous. Corporate taxes are a cost after profit, which usually means whatever is left over after expenses. This means companies could pay higher salaries specifically to avoid corporate taxes, or invest in things instead.

Just anecdotally, my experience was the total opposite. I didn't work in the health care industry long though and I think you're probably right in general. But you might also find there's a lot of variation between small companies too and a lot of failures for every success I suppose.

I get what you're saying and mostly somewhat agree with your point, but it's kind of funny thinking back and feeling the complete opposite. People like to argue which states would be better off in a civil war, meanwhile I grew up in an area where people liked to claim the south is going to rise yet again. And we do have a problem with militias.

If a person immigrates to the USA due to success with onlyfans, are they not productive members of society by virtue of having taxable & disposable income from the fruits of their labor? They don't need a PHD to be productive anymore than a soccer player, mentioned earlier. In reality we already have American citizens in the US paying for their college degrees via onlyfans.

Isn't this par for the course for the New York Post? I hear that name and think trashy tabloid.

What atrophies with calculator usage is an ability to do long form division for example, or arithmetic operations with large numbers in your head for example.

The way you describe AI - tell it the problem and get an easy answer sounds identical to anecdotal complaints I've heard like Google search providing an answer to everything means no one has to learn anything, or everyone copying code from stack overflow articles. At the end of the day it's still another tool with pros and cons, tradeoffs, etc., and will be used and misused and abused by different people in different ways.

I guess that distinction in poor matters some to me, because when I read your original comment (budgeting to avoid staying poor) the first thing that came to mind was someone I know who often says things like poor people should just work harder and variations of that. And then I'm thinking like food deserts or people dealing with more pressing issues where there's probably a general inability to do any long term planning. And in that context it comes across as out of touch or like a naive solution to a complex problem, but then I guess you also have broke college students and others who could certainly heed this advice, not just necessarily low income people.

I don't have a concrete example, but I think you can invent plenty of iterated prisoner's dilemmas with whatever modified rules and variables and find 'tit-for-tat' isn't the end-all-be-all. Like it changes things if there's an infinite or an unknown number of rounds, some of the defects are 'noise', etc.,.

Original title was better in multiple ways. Mods did a disservice here.

I find it kind of hard to define success or failure. Google search and Facebook are a success right? And they were able to scale up as needed, which can be hard. But the way they started is very different from a government agency or massive corporation trying to orchestrate it from scratch. I don't know if you'd be familiar with this, but maybe healthcare.gov is a good example... it was notoriously buggy, but after some time and a lot of intense pressure it was dealt with.

You don't need to get to the 3rd age in AoE 2 necessarily, unless you're just sticking with a certain strategy or playing a certain map that warrants it. There are whole metas around going offensive in different ways at each age - drush (dark (1st) age militia units), scout rush, archer rush, tower rush, etc., before getting into the 3rd (castle) age. Usually you start with a scout, and if you're not using it for hunting then presumably you're using it for scouting and if an enemy villager strays too far from safety you can try picking them off. Better players can steal the opponent's boars or sheep, re-locate your town center with higher HP next to your opponent, etc.,.

Almost all languages have some sort of object representation, right? Classes with their own behavior, DTOs, records, structs, etc.,. What language are you working in? If you're coupled to a specific database provider anyway there's usually a system table you can query to get your list of tables, column names, etc., so you could almost just use one data source and only need to deal with its structure to provide all your endpoints (not really recommending this approach).

Age of Empires 2 has big tournaments as well, and the campaigns are fairly popular too I think.

When I was younger and living in military dorms, I put a old throw away laptop hosting a simple website via Apache on the internet. Every time I checked the log it'd be full of so many random, wild spurts of attacks (granted I had basically 0 legit traffic).

Some would say Tesla has been over hyped as well.

I know at least a couple times just the templating side saved me where it was convenient to just run a helm command with --dry-run to get the yaml and grab & modify the relevant pieces and apply those manually where I don't necessarily want the whole package or I want snippets of a package or modified yaml that their helm chart didn't support out of the box, etc.,.

Just curious, why should I believe this is merely neocon propaganda? I've read tidbits about this off & on over the years and it doesn't seem that straight forward, even if calling it genocide is on the hyperbolic side.

Could take this a couple different ways. Aren't those cities flourishing today?

Can't you just say that about any less than perfect solution? Bitcoin has been used to facilitate illegal drug trafficking, which is a problem. Yet you think more bitcoin is the solution? Bizarre.

So there's already a lack of a stable, functioning government, and the solution you're touting isn't currently a reality, why? In the US when there's little friction in a marketplace people in some communities resort to using Tide laundry detergent as a medium of exchange. There's nothing stopping them from using bitcoin or cryptocurrencies currently, but navigating a market place, finding qualified teachers, finding motivation to use what little resources you have to use a novel medium to pay for teachers in a place with no opportunity, etc., doesn't seem too easy. One tool alone doesn't usually solve any problems.

Probably a significant difference for Cybertrucks compared to cars.

Does it really matter? The grandparent comment states the bandwidth is becoming even more readily available in the US, while the article itself says the bots were largely hosted by US ISPs, and that's obviously enough bandwidth to already cause global disruptions. But that's just the source of the attack, and who is on the receiving end is another.

I get being too US-centric, but I think it's interesting if the US has the right combination of hosting tons of infected devices and having the bandwidth to use them on a much larger scale compared to other countries and possible implications.

I'm in a zip code that spans two cities and I can think of other ways it gets complicated in different scenarios. There are places where I can throw a ball across multiple zip codes, sales tax jurisdictions, municipal lines, county lines, etc., with varying degrees of overlap.

The problem I've anecdotally seen with autocomplete is there's another property with the same street address as mine but in a different city and different zip code (granted only last digit is different IIRC) about ~15 miles away and on more than one occasion it's caused a few mix-ups.