BJones12

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by BJones12 1y ago
Or you could just not imply that people are racist when they want to discuss the truth.
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by BJones12 1y ago
> Untreated symptoms are also bad for the baby [Citation Needed]
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by BJones12 1y ago
> If Tylenol causes autism, how did those parents in the 1920s get their hands on it? The claim is that Tylenol is a factor that increases the risk of autism. It is not the cause of 100% of all cases. That said, the first synthesis of Pa
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by BJones12 1y ago
> What's to be done? I really ask: What's to be done about it? There's a document that gets posted every so often here called The Return Rate on Everything. In it, it says that the returns on capital outweigh economic grow
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by BJones12 1y ago
I suspect this is why it's good for the USA to be constantly at war. If you're only at war occasionally, you forget how to make war and can lose. If you're at war constantly, you'll remember how to do it.
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by BJones12 1y ago
IME this allows the BAs who are writing ticket requirements to also write tests. It works. The dev may have to tweak the tests to get them to compile, but it an org that is willing to spend quite a bit of money on testing (e.g. public secto
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by BJones12 1y ago
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44699052
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by BJones12 1y ago
Being Christian does not mean one is not feminist. This person seems to advocate for a multitude of things including ones that are historically feminist (of at least one commonly accepted variety of feminism). Those advocations make it reas
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by BJones12 1y ago
Banana Ball does a lot of rules experimentation toward the aim of making baseball more fun for the fans.
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by BJones12 1y ago
A 21K deficit over 3 weeks would be 1000 Cal/day of deficit. For comparison, this is the amount of deficit required to lose 2 pounds per week, which many people do.
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by BJones12 1y ago
> That's why you can have competitive eaters that can eat a weeks worth of food and not be overweight. Nope, they do gain weight, or avoid gaining weight by counting calories [0] [0] https://youtu.be/SVS0ioOdfuE?t=22
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by BJones12 1y ago
What an idiotic article. > Someone posted the footage online. A pile-up ensued. And their lives were turned upside down. No, they created a situation where their lives would inevitably be turned upside down, and one of many possible trig
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by BJones12 1y ago
I usually hear "they went to emerg(e?)"
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by BJones12 1y ago
It's inevitable that future LLMs will provide therapy services for many people for the simple reason that therapists are expensive and LLM output is very, very cheap.
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by BJones12 1y ago
If I had 8 billion in cash in my bank account and put in a transfer order, they'd block it, call me, make me come into a branch, make sure there weren't any burly guys with wrenches escorting me in, and maybe call the FBI if anyth
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by BJones12 1y ago
Yes. Or to rephrase, debt/interest is a way of moving money through time.
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by BJones12 1y ago
I think companies view it as a trade secret. Whether or not that particular app is making money, regardless of how old it is, they don't want to release the code.
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by BJones12 1y ago
They might still be - aside from guitar amps, vacuum tubes' biggest relative strength was in high power radio amplification.
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by BJones12 1y ago
The US stock market has not had a negative return over any 30 year span. There are 30 year spans with total returns under 10%, which significantly lag what bonds returned in those spans.
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by BJones12 1y ago
https://archive.is/qSrH1
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by BJones12 1y ago
Talking about your feelings without fear of a woman getting the ick.
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by BJones12 1y ago
> And its asinine to compare counts of attendees to a church as the number of employees at a company. You did not comprehend my comments, because I did not. > And while it might be sound legal advice to shut your mouth, it's not
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by BJones12 1y ago
Rationally, I agree. But IRL it's surprisingly hard to measure the value of a company - both the assets and the value of continuing operations - even without considering they are in constant flux, even if there's no trickery.
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by BJones12 1y ago
> But he continued to lie about it until recently From what I've heard, he has disclosed actions years, possibly decades, ago but did not mention that involvement of a minor. I expect this is because a lawyer, or possibly anyone wit
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by BJones12 1y ago
The original shares ended up being worth $8. There might have been a point during the bankruptcy were they were worth nothing (due to changing used car values) but in the end they were worth something. https://nypost.com/202
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by BJones12 1y ago
Regarding the Robert Morris reference, not going to defend any action, but I will point out his 'bad action' was 40 years ago. Why does that matter? There are abuses happening now, every day, by high profile. Some (Epstein, Diddy)
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by BJones12 1y ago
Misleading - the study did not find any job loss, it collected "perceive[d] potential of automation" and predicts job impact.
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by BJones12 1y ago
I wonder if an extremely tall subterranean windcatcher [0] with its bottom at the top of a tunnel could passively cool the tunnel. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher
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by BJones12 1y ago
Context: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by BJones12 1y ago
I believe you're touching on the idea of 'legibility'. The topic is explored in the book Seeing Like A State ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State ).

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