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Wasn’t one of Amazon’s biggest advantages over brick and mortar stores the fact that you could effectively avoid sales tax for a lot of the purchases?

It’s been years since anything Tether minted was plausibly 100% backed by real assets. Both times they’ve been forced to show the books, they only had fractional backing. And they’ve minted tens of billions of tokens since.

In theory sure, but in practice an engineer who can steer managers and product owners can have a massive impact on the outcome.

Unless you're actually CPU-bound, there's never been a better time to use it. A lot of the benefits of Rails apply as much to LLMs as humans.

It's battle-tested, there are millions of lines of existing code using common patterns and libraries. It's still the gold standard for testability, with RSpec and factory_bot you'll have the nicest test setup with concise, human-friendly specs (especially if you're in the camp of verifying LLM work). Solid queue, cache, Active Storage with Turbo Frames give you all the benefits of single-page interactivity without the JS slop. Code size is a fraction of an equivalent JS setup, which is always nice for LLMs, went from close to 80k lines of JS to ~10k of Rails just recently on an internal project.

Historically, the main complaint was always "it's hard to hire for Rails" or "I don't know Ruby". But looking at the last 10 years of JS, I'm not sure the vast majority of JS slingers knew anything about Javascript either. And since everybody's vibing now anyway, why venture to the minefield that is the JS ecosystem.

Not just Finland. Apparently, it’s some russian dude who doesn’t like certain neighboring countries.

> It's not possible to steal numerous paper-based elections in a row

Why not? Estonia had paper ballot voting for the entire soviet occupation of about half a century, didn't have any effect on the amount of rigging though. Same with Russia today, they use paper ballots, but results still don't matter.

Paper vs electronic voting is just a small component in election fairness and there are upsides and downsides to both.

Claude is already emailing me from the CEOs email address. All the load-bearing seams and everything.

Who cares? Russia's been targeting Ukrainian vessels and shipping infrastructure since 2022, as we've established above. Just because Ukraine has chosen to respond in kind (or at a larger scale more recently) is irrelevant, the responsibility lies squarely with Russia. You should probably consume less Russian propaganda.

First, this thread is about refuting GPs claim about how this is in response to Ukraine attacking Russian vessels first, which is obviously bullshit.

Second, EU and US were not signatories to any deal between Russia and Ukraine, so any sanction relief was never on the table as part of the grain deal. Russia may have asked for it, but it was not offered or implied in any way by anybody. And yes, this is typically how deals work everywhere.

Third, any ship that Ukraine sinks is 100% on Russia because they’re the reason any ships need to be sunk in the first place. Again, Russia could stop the war today and no further violence would be necessary.

Completely irrelevant as well as ridiculous. Russia is 100% responsible for any ships being sunk in the Black Sea. Making silly demands when things don’t work out the way they hoped does not shift the blame in any way whatsoever.

Russia can stop the war (and thus sanctions) whenever they choose to. Ukraine does not have that option.

Some notes from my father's experience over 10 years:

1) Doctors are human and make mistakes or overlook things all the time, so you yourself are ultimately responsible for double checking every result and lab test, following up with questions and getting second opinions when something doesn't add up or make sense. It can be as silly as a radiologist looking for changes between 2 identical images vs comparing with the previous scan.

2) Rare presentations happen. Just because some symptoms are a low probability occurrence, they still happen to somebody, so don't let anything be dismissed due to odds without further analysis or imaging.

3) Palliative care can have a major impact on the quality of life when there's nothing else to do. Nurses were more helpful for figuring out what to ask for than doctors.

Russia withdrew from that deal in July 2023

Russia has been targeting Ukrainian ships and shipping infrastructure since the start of the full-scale invasion.

I’ve used AdGuard for years across Macs and iPhones and it works great.

US wouldn't need to join the war for Ukraine to prevail. Not trying to force them to unconditionally surrender would be a good start.