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Poverty and hunger are not famine

Except it does? Capitalist countries don’t seem to have any famines. You could argue that for profit prisons are similar to gulags in some ways but the important differences are so vast it’s hard to compare them honestly.

Capitalist countries don't have famines at home. That's different from "capitalism prevents famines". Capitalism is happy to cause hunger, inflict death, or imprison people if it's profitable for capitalists, that's baked into the structure of the structure of the system. There's no systemic feature of capitalism that directs capital generating activity unless it violates natural and human rights.

I like this version of the game more, keep at it!

The text that pops up in the middle obscures the current position making it hard to immediately launch again. Maybe it should be closer to the bottom of the screen?

  > We seem to go through a cycle where we set up systems that provide non-violent ways of resolving issues, then people get annoyed with the outcomes
An excellent illustration of the blind spot

People who make concrete counter tops use a lot of fibreglass fillers to get them fairly thin but if you wanted it truly light weight you’d probably need to make it out of a dense foam and coat it with something that looks like concrete.

My bathroom is a couple mm of microcement over Schluter Kerdi-Board foam, it's fairly strong. I think it can hold a laptop no problem.

There are a range of rendering mixes that look pretty much like concrete, or at least mortar, that would do the job. In fact just rendering it entirely (base coat, plastic reinforcing mesh, top coat(s)) should give a concrete-ish look while keeping things fairly light.

Concrete counter top mixes usually use either much smaller, or no aggregate and use more sand. The mixes resemble mortar more than concrete and they are typically a little harder and less forgiving to work with.

> if you wanted it truly light weight

Aircrete with a good sealant because obviously it would be even more porous than regular concrete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4_GxPHwqkA


Then we’ll likely know by the end of this year.

Don’t cry while you’re ruining it for everyone.

I think maybe you still don’t understand that not everyone will max out their usage, regardless of the methods available.

People don't pay double the $100 account in fixed recurrent payments if they don't intend to use a lot more than they would use in the $100 subscription.

Perhaps people at Anthropic should ask Sonnet (or Kimi, it's much better value) how power laws and pareto distributions work? You are advertising for people who can justify a virtually unlimited amount of tokens, why is it surprising that they would use as many as you're offering them in the plan?

PS: interesting that you'd use a throwaway account to post this


then it’s a custom or etiquette, not a standard


And the point of etiquette is to signal conformity and social status.

I had a friend who came from a working class culture where social aspiration was measured by tiny nuances, like whether someone put milk in their tea before or after pouring it.

Outside of that culture these nuances were irrelevant. Middle and upper class people had a completely different set of etiquette markers - as well as more or less obvious displays of wealth - which the working class aspirers were oblivious to.


So? Doesn’t make it a universal standard. Just an invented shibboleth for a group.


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