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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's about logic and not "feelings"⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If that debt is accruing interest, it might be a good idea to do that to get out of debt while you still can. The deeper you go, the harder it is to get out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's about logic and not "feelings"⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the point of having savings. You could just as easily ask yourself what you would do if you spent 2k on car repairs and suddenly your friend urgently needs financial assistance the next day. If you need to spend that money, then you spend it. If you can’t, then you deal with the consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done similar. But I guess an argument can be made that we should strive to replace those with more economical forms of transportation. Just because one part of your trip is by airplane, doesn’t mean the whole thing needs to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As dumb as it sounds, people still fly those distances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if you maxxed out your credit cards and line of credit then moved to some village in the phillipines?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  wtf 50k? I’ve never had a card go over 2k, and the highest I’ve ever been offered was 5k. I can’t imagine the level of wealth you’d need to spend that much in a month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meal Replacement Drink Suggestions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My preference is Holfood (Chocolate). Canadian company, produced in Toronto. It has a nice flavour and isn’t too filling.

  Compared to other nutrition shakes I’ve tried in the past:

  • Soylent powder and Holfood Vanilla are both very similar and taste very artificial. It’s not what I would call “bland”.
  • Boost and Ensure: They’re always way too sweet (I would not be able to consume more than maybe 300 Calories worth in a day), and much more expensive than the alternatives when you consider the nutritional value.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many programming languages have their own package manager?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And also having to check OS compatibility for every package you want to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many programming languages have their own package manager?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this meant to answer the question, or is it just a tangential rant?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could machines develop consciousness just like we did?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They could be conscious for all we know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could machines develop consciousness just like we did?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Expanding on that: until we can prove that another human being is conscious, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll be able to do so for a machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Spoiler 👁️⃤⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The country sobered up and decided to write dates correctly, only to relapse the very next day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't be so quick to judge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t freon one of the more efficient refrigerants we have? The environmental concerns aren’t applicable until it goes into a landfill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For a lot of people, the answer is unfortunately survival.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you really need to say those magic words before you’re allowed to stay silent? You can’t just not speak?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically if I found a suitcase of money by the side of the road, is there a legal way to claim it on my taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a lot of money to spend on those two places.

  Maybe if you can pay your rent or mortgage in cash, that’ll be enough to eat through a good chunk of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OP actually did write 0.10, but I think it’s pretty clear from context that they meant it with one sigfig.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I agree with don⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So you tilt your hips down? That’s how you direct pee with a vulva.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does even-ness matter?

  Because significant figures.

  0.1 means you have a margin of error of ±0.05 (i.e. the true value is between 0.05 and 0.15).

  0.08 means the margin of error is ±0.005 (i.e. the true value is between 0.075 and 0.085).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I agree with don⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How does that happen? You point your dick straight down and the stream decides to shoot out at a 90 degree angle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was there ever a candidate for President of the US, who actually stepped outside the lobbyist crap and gave real and honest answers that were not rehearsed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Real and honest in that they accurately reflect what’s going on in his own mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About what people are talking to each other nowadays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Things I can’t look up:

  • The person’s name
  • Their interests
  • How their day is going
  • Their opinions on various local matters
  • Whether they can help me move next weekend
  • Gossip from the dinner party they recently attended
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being poor is expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that public transit even saves time compared to driving. I can do so much while sitting on a bus/train. I can’t do anything else while driving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me? ???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  100 failures + temporarily borrowing someone else’s success also looks like 1 success from the outside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel the same. The only times I (intentionally) down vote are for things like spam or people throwing insults around with zero substance. It’s basically a button for increasing/decreasing visibility, and you get much more interesting discussions when it involves views you disagree with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that explains a lot about why everyone gets all up in arms when you judge others by the same standards you use for yourself. Surely, I’m the only victim of the system, right? It was specifically designed to hold me down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yes, I’m sure AI is going to defy the first law of thermodynamics any day now.

  Humans as a whole already produce way than we consume. Why should it not be possible for robots to do the same?

  Sure in a couple hundred years

  And you know that it only happens because people put the work in to make it happen, right?

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  Regarding the rest of your post, I choose to believe that we can change the world for the better. I’m very aware that the current system has problems. I don’t know if you’re just looking to complain or if you have solutions to propose. I was kind of hoping for the latter because I don’t have any ideas so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it works out, the AI would produce more than it consumes. Requiring anyone to pay for that would be a choice, not a necessity.

  We already have committees to decide what we should be working on. In Canada, one of the major ones of NSERC. I don’t think they adequately capture what everyday people struggle with though, and you can get just about anything approve. The whole process of writing papers and grants can be summarized as game of framing your work in different ways to convince different people that your work is relevant to their goals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems we are in agreement on most of this. These generative models aren’t going to fill your pantry or do your chores. They can help through world models, but I’m hoping to get things working without that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we should clarify what we mean by AI first. I’m under the impression that you’re talking about generative models. I don’t think it makes sense to ban any form of automation. But if you do mean all automations, then I’d like to hear the reasoning for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are some Linux community so toxic?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for the questions that get asked repeatedly. You don’t tell people to just look it up unless you’ve already answered that same question at least ten times in the past. If you’ve already answered it multiple times, then the answer is out there.