BariumBlue

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by BariumBlue 3y ago
>Mouse clicks and distance are two of the most basic metrics. And straight forward. So why wouldn't you optimize there? That's the McNamara fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy Basically
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
The perfect UX is the interface is that displays and works exactly how the user wants and expects. The perfect UI is the interface that has the quickest, most optimal workflow to accomplish a user's tasks
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
The article also mentions fruit bats also showing paralysis symptoms
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
Are you implying that the US is cursed, forever pathologically unable to have bikeable places, because it's too large? If only the US was smaller...
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
The US has the largest cultural blocks on the western internet, but I don't think they quite form the majority, just a plurality. There's a lot of internet out there, but usually it's easiest (for consumers, and for content
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
Quick math: where I live, a kilowatt-hour costs 12 cents. A kilowatt-hour has 860,421 calories. Even with inefficiencies, seems pretty doable to me.
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
I know Japanese used to have only one word for blue/green - "Midori". According to this chart, does that mean that Japanese had five or less terms for different colors?
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by BariumBlue 4y ago
I don't think the article ever explained WHY. It has a couple hypotheses, but I would definitely like to know what the root issue(s) are or could be. It sounds like the article writer didn't know though. I guess there's a nee
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by BariumBlue 4y ago
I would say as a tribe, rather than as a religion. Religion involves some combo of supernatural and ethical beliefs. Tribes are about in-group out-group status and conflict.
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by BariumBlue 4y ago
Turbo tax and H&R Block, companies that produce software for filling taxes, lobby to keep taxes complex and non-easy (unless you pay for their software)
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by BariumBlue 4y ago
LEO does have export potentials: mainly tourism, r&d, and manufacturing of specific goods. Many countries import the majority of food / material inputs, but output high quality manufacturing, technical, and entertainment goods.
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by BariumBlue 4y ago
Yes and no. Having wealth creates more opportunities to create wealth - a person who had relative wealths to be able to learn to read, and sleep & eat properly will be more able (and probably willing) to support and grow themselves, th
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by BariumBlue 4y ago
I wonder if, like forests, corals tend to colonize an area first with fast growing species, which then get slowly replaced by longer lived species (forest succession). I understand that it takes a while for a forest to go from clean-field t
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by BariumBlue 4y ago
I've had similar results! At first when I tried monitoring my diet, I assumed that 2600 calories/day with exercise would be good enough, but I was only losing ~1lb/month. It did make it way easier for me to transition to 1.5-
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by BariumBlue 4y ago
Would they though? This sounds like it could give withdrawal symptoms, and it wouldn't solve the other issues that most highly addicted people face ... It would be great for folks who are in remission and don't want to be tempted
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by BariumBlue 4y ago
I'm pretty sure means tested welfare is specifically intended to be difficult and unpopular. If it was conceived and implemented well then it might just become a popular policy! And then that ofc slippery slopes into the US becoming a
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by BariumBlue 4y ago
Eh, there's stuff that eats wood but we still build our houses out of it. Paper disintegrates pretty gosh darn easy if you leave it outside but we still use plenty of it. Most steel rusts in the right conditions, including the stuff in
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
I didn't personally enjoy AI dungeon too much because of how loose it felt - nothing was defined and anything goes - but I hear people describe it like you did, and it sounds similar to how I heard lucid dreaming described - you'r
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
Samsung Z-35, now with 50% more HBC (Human Brain Cell) inside!
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
I'm finding it interesting that all of the comments so far seem to have drawn very different conclusions about what the article was about. I think this article has many unique viewpoints that people aren't used to and think of the
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
"Process Automation" would be a good, encompassing term I think. Even if there's no code being run, having all the steps down and easy to follow is a way to make the process "automatic". The term is extendible to co
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
With the current Evergrande crisis, China is proving that it doesn't need to be dependent on globalization for the economy to be fragile. I think that China is more concerned about the effect that US sanctions could have on their econo
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
Cows are a fairly major producer of methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas, contributing ~20-80x more to global warming than CO2 over the next 20-100 years. I do think it's interesting that there are different definitions / cat
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
I double checked by searching on google and fond this: "The A-10 is not agile, nimble, fast or quick,” A-10 Lt. Col. Ryan Haden said. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/tough-nails-10-wartho... Haha, stra
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
> Massive Payload capacity; it's a missile truck, 5x what a reaper can bring If you need a bunch of munitions, bring a B-1 or B-52. Those things are GREAT at annihilating a whole training camp. > Cannon can hit infantry in closer
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
> MQ-9s great at blowing up innocents MQ-9s are a tool. They're a very useful/versatile tool for the military, which is why they're used a lot, even though they are easy to misuse and use unethically. We don't hear ab
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
Literally anything coming to kill you from the air is going to be demoralizing. I respect the concept of "the bigger boom" (the concept being that the person with the larger/scarier gun feels like they're winning, and th
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
The A-10 was designed to mow down convoys of Russian tanks headed on roads from Russia into Europe. That role is outdated: the US realistically does not expect a full-on war with Russia (though a hybrid war is a possibility, such as the Ukr
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
Lol no. Terrorism is "The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religiou
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by BariumBlue 5y ago
> I do not find trees looking similar at all. When folks say "forest", like "I'm going to go hiking in the forest", they usually don't specify what species or genus of tree. A street could be lined with &quo

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