giantg2

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I'm the programmer equivalent of a Yugo (car)
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Comment · 6 hours ago
Instead of making LLMs create scripts behind the scenes for what you want to do, it is more efficient to have LLMs use apps for you. Apps still make sense to me.
Comment · 6 hours ago
No. Especially for local elections I believe that both the search results and any AI summarization run a risk of mistaken identity. There often aren't enough results for a person in a local race and can pick up people with a similar name.
Comment · 10 hours ago
Generally agree. However, I wonder if their intent was to draw attention to women's rights, or antagonize people regarding women's rights, in those nations. Porn was the wrong choice. Instead of pet photos, they could have shown women in positions of power and not wearing tradional clothes.
Comment · 11 hours ago
You have the highest probability of earning $500/mo with a second job. Yes, your hours and rate provide an earnings cap, but we're talking about $500, which is low for a whole month even at minimum wage on weekends. Begging for money may not be as low risk as you think. It's also low probability for $500/mo as a side hustle.
Comment · 17 hours ago
For a while I worked weekends at a retail store for about $900/mo. It's not glamorous, but this is the highest percentage way get an extra $500/mo.
Comment · 17 hours ago
Time to build apartments over top of canals and rivers.
Comment · 17 hours ago
There's already rent control in the biggest areas. There's capital gains tax on rental property sold is almost 50% if held less than 20 years. Non-resident landlord tax is similarly high. French landlords still owe 30-45% on income, plus a 17% social charge.

It's not a surprise that if you tax something, the price usually goes up.

Comment · 17 hours ago
That still seems like a bad idea. Then you can't look at an individual's voting record to see what they supported. While many follow the party line, there is some variation with parties.
Comment · 2 days ago
Nothing has to be collected. All they need to show is that she has some link to foreign government intelligence and attempted to do anything. Good chance she was an unregistered agent which is a violation.
Comment · 2 days ago
I get the concept, but the question then is if it's ethical to release those names when most of DHS has nothing to do with ICE. The age old question of how much collateral damage is acceptable. It seems most of the praise being given casts DHS as being similar Nazis, but doesn’t consider who is actually involved or not.
Comment · 3 days ago
"...supply chain you can count on"

Except the components are mostly coming from China anyways, so the same disruptions are potentially in play.

Still, cool to see domestic options.

Comment · 3 days ago
SS will be "saved" as it's too political not to be. But I'm guess is they'll do that by increasing taxes and the money supply, causing the benefits to be worth little.

Also, the limit isn't weird when you consider it is intended to be a single payer system with a cap on the benefit.

Comment · 3 days ago
I have no career plans. I will work my job until I die or am fired. If I'm fired I'll end up working at walmart or something similar, at least until the cost of robotic replacements is low enough for them to layoff most workers. The future is bleak.
Comment · 3 days ago
This is the opposite of what your prior comment said. Your prior comment says that exemption requests require approval regardless of the merits.
Comment · 3 days ago
Can you provide an example? The undue burden, safety issues, etc tend to strike down most requests that are unusual.

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