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timeon commented on The F-35 is losing the trade war jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35... · Posted by u/rntn

dingnuts · a day ago

I don't know why Europe wants so badly to be reliant on the US. It's bad for them, it's bad for us. It's embarrassing for Europe that Ukraine is relying on the US instead of Europe for defense. It's embarrassing for Europe how little they contribute to NATO. The US isn't a partner, it's a caretaker. And as they say, if someone provides what you need, they also have the power to take it away.

Outsourcing your defense is stuupiiid.

Europe should be thanking Trump for waking them up to the reality that has always been the case through his boorish negotiation.

timeon · a day ago

Who is reliant on whom? USA is only member that actually used help of NATO.

timeon commented on Privately-Owned Rail Cars amtrak.com/privately-owne... · Posted by u/jasoncartwright

bluGill · 3 days ago

American trains are the best in the world - at freight. even overall I'd call us rail best in the world - the state of freight rail is that bad in most of the world.

of course people see passanger trains and don't think of freight. However that is missing the true picture.

timeon · 3 days ago

> best in the world

Except for the electricity.

timeon commented on It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019) hsivonen.fi/string-length... · Posted by u/program

cmeacham98 · 3 days ago

Funny enough I clicked on the post wondering how it could possibly be that a single space was length 7.

timeon · 3 days ago

Unintentional click-bait.

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timeon commented on In Defense of Car-Centered Society sweatofthebrow.blogspot.c... · Posted by u/whall6

timeon · 3 days ago

Per capita consumption-based CO₂ emissions, 2022 [0]

- EU 7.7t

- USA 16.5t

[0]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...

timeon commented on Margin debt surges to record high advisorperspectives.com/d... · Posted by u/pera

username332211 · 3 days ago

Imagine for a second that the year was 1880. You would say that telephones aren't essential, wouldn't you? In the previous 25 centuries of recorded history we have lived without them. Nobody's going to die if they were to stop working.

And thus that the valuation of the Bell System must be based on pure hype. Right?

timeon · 3 days ago

If they have stopped working today it would be disaster. If it stopped at that time, life would go on. It is not about technology but how society adapted around it.

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timeon commented on AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions github.com/ghostty-org/gh... · Posted by u/freetonik

luma · 3 days ago

Also ban StackOverflow and nearly any text book in the field.

The reality is that programmers are going to see other programmers code.

timeon · 3 days ago

How is that same thing?

timeon commented on Sequoia backs Zed zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener

sexyman48 · 4 days ago

Please, tell me what it's like living in your free-as-in-freedom house, feeding your free-as-in-freedom offspring? Eventually demanding a return on your investment? The audacity!

timeon · 4 days ago

Sure but does it mean that every business needs to be unicorn?

timeon commented on Sequoia backs Zed zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener

dewey · 4 days ago

They didn’t “solve” it, otherwise it would be a thriving editor that everyone would be using.

In reality 70% of the people I see are using Cursor (Subscription), Vscode (Free) or some JetBrains products (Subscription). I only know of some people including myself that have ST for opening large files, where performance matters.

timeon · 4 days ago

Why do you think that it is not thriving? Is the company struggling? Not everyone needs to use the thing to be thriving.

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KarmaCake day2948January 10, 2021View Original