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I think the spotify shuffle+ algorithm weighs songs more when you’ve liked them more recently.

I’m also fairly confident the artist’s contract impacts the weight as well, especially for suggested songs not in your playlist.

Songs from the backlog get played, but at a much lower frequency. Random should have a relatively flat distribution, not a skewed bell curve.

Don’t worry, we’l invent privatized public transit again soon

If you plan to work short term in the US and are foreign born then just don’t get citizenship, just work on a visa.

If you are a US citizen and need to retain your passport or do business in the US you have to do US taxes based on the treaty between the US and your country of residence/work. Renouncing citizenship relieves you of this duty.

Foreign banks don’t report to the US at all. You are required to submit that independently through an FBAR.

It’s explicitly not. 🤣 but i agree with the sentiment.

Depends on treaties. If dual citizenship is allowed and tax liability is reciprocated then it could be a waste of money. But also I’m unsure whether you can ignore tax reporting and travel through the US on a foreign passport after they revoke your US passport.

If you want to go from Europe to south America you’re almost certainly passing through a US hub, at least by air.

Insane you have to pay for the last interaction you have with the US

God i need my company to stop asking for ideas on how to use their chatgpt subscription to “streamline workflows” to justify the cost while claiming it improves efficiency.

My emails are already summarized, don’t AI them, they’ll be longer.

You get rate limited by cache. The literal physical distance between cache(3) (tiny ram(s) in the processor) and processor can’t be zero. So those signals must travel over a distance at the speed of conduction. Having multiple processors allows tasks to be done simultaneously, effectively multiplying processing speed.

But more speed is particularly useful with bad/legacy software(single thread). SolidWorks is a good example.

I’ve changed my mind, I’m ok with kink shaming in some cases

Windows is already occupying your hardware and network with “telemetry”. I would be surprised if telemetry overhead alone was all that was needed to burden modern hardware and yet when i boot into windows those fans never shut up.

Being on the receiving end of crowd control munitions is certainly a better education then any book.

If you’re curious about theory there’s tons of alternatives to books: podcasts, film, public speeches, community training/workshops, etc.

My suggestion is Women’s War by Robert Evans on Behind the Bastards. I also suggest pretty much anything on https://channelzeronetwork.com/

If someone just shows up and participates with an open mind they’re doing more than most. Anyone who would gatekeep because you didn’t read such and such text should be promptly told to fuck right off because that’s a caustic hierarchical bullshit appeal to false authority and kills engagement.

If you need a (text)book try The Ecology of Freedom - Bookchin. You could probably find other books here too https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom

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Well don’t complain to me when you fall off trying to walk on some ball. i tried to warn you. 🤷 Roundies smh…

But you can’t see anything past the horizon. Occam’s razor suggests there’s nothing beyond it

This gloriously aligned with a conversation i was having. Peak copy pasta

Controlled media, victim erasure, these passengers are taking selfies with biden.

A slightly perceptible curvature on the horizon only indicates a convex spherical cap, like a Frisbee.

Unless you has a view of the distant horizon in which case you might alternatively conclude it’s a convex lens shape.