Beldin

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by Beldin 3y ago
> In the same way as walking to the bank is dangerous because any party on the way can rob you on the way? To make this analogy more fitting, you'd also need a big sign around your head "going to do some banking, carrying all
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by Beldin 3y ago
First: your arguments, even if I accept them as-is, do not constitute evidence of fraud, but of a systemic problem. Second: your argumentation raises the question: what are reasons for retraction? Shoddy science is (currently) not a reason
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by Beldin 3y ago
> Huge mistake: they should have wildly increased enforcement They did. However, it turns out that often, you're suing upstanding citizens for what the public views as minor infractions. This does not really recoup costs. It does
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by Beldin 3y ago
No, appropriate would be if she made a professional observation about her field. A professional realising they're personally doing "their" thing wrong - from a professional point of view at least - is indeed ironic.
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by Beldin 3y ago
I realise US driving lessons are rather different from driving lessons around here. Around here, the goal of driving lessons is (basically) to reduce cognitive load so that you can spend attention on what's happening outside. A steer,
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by Beldin 3y ago
Maybe the three of you should go to a bar and get this joke over with.
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by Beldin 3y ago
Huh? The "last couple of hundred million years" involves all current above sea-level landmass being subducted back into the mantle - probably more than once. We're talking about the Himalayas rising up and going back into the
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by Beldin 3y ago
Maybe to drive this point home from another point of view: the dinosaurs roamed the earth for tens of millions of years. We have so little evidence from that, that our ideas what they looked like have changed significantly from the portraya
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by Beldin 3y ago
KurzGesagt also did a video about this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvv0QdruMQ&pp=ygULa3VyeiBnZXN...
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by Beldin 3y ago
Oh please. This is not someone's first step in an experimental new feature in its own branch. This is a commit of a fully working non-trivial patch that alters long-standing UI to the master branch. You're not supposed to merge in
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by Beldin 3y ago
Don't forget the benefits of not having to set the table and not having to clean up, including doing the dishes. Also: not having to prepare, if you're cooking yourself. Re: baby: If there's an Ikea near you, you might want t
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by Beldin 3y ago
> I pay for YouTube to support the platform and creators. Paying Google to support creators pushes them to play to The Algorithm(tm) - which means they will adapt the presentation of their content to maximise profitability. And thereby
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by Beldin 3y ago
> but if he allows the Facebook project to move forward under other groups that are also within the Kennedy school, Move forward in the direction the dean and Facebook want, or in the direction the original team wanted to explore? Beca
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by Beldin 3y ago
> Maybe as an aside, but why should this research be done at university level? Why not? Universities perform research - typically free from outside interference (academic freedom). And there are good reasons for academic freedom (whic
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by Beldin 3y ago
They were about to quit... how much more should they lose their jobs to impress you?
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by Beldin 3y ago
> In the EU, when you open Edge for the first time, they ask you to agree to sharing your personal data with the entire advertising industry, via an IAB dialog. I didn't know that. I do know that the GDPR requires user consent to
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by Beldin 3y ago
> I have never in my entire life used an arrangement like that. It's become the norm around here: pick up a dedicated scanner at the entrance, scan while you go, at cash register, return scanner in a reader that extracts all neces
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by Beldin 3y ago
Is your problem a UI problem or a functionality problem? I'm asking, because I can understand wanting functionality (eg. decent calendar integration). I don't understand UI complaints but am willing to imagine "it could be be
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by Beldin 3y ago
The obvious benefit to the customer is that they are not stuck in a queue. If you have portable scanners for customers (eg, via an app), all items can already be scanned on the fly, speeding up things even more. Moreover, self-checkout regi
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by Beldin 3y ago
> I also doubt there are a lot of deals where a previously profitable company is unprofitable after the deal. Perhaps - but the fact that a trick has become well-known where companies are acquired only to be burdened with debt from th
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by Beldin 3y ago
I do not have a problem with ad support. I have next to no tolerance for the way too common behaviour where a service pretends to be free to attract a large enough user base to make switching expensive, whereafter the service starts monetis
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by Beldin 3y ago
Conversely, Apple has the cash on hand to buy most companies and not even notice a drop in cash in hand. Plus they buy companies all the time... but this once, they didn't -- but hired 20 people from there. In other words, the fact tha
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by Beldin 3y ago
Fiat is Italian, so from the other side of the Iron Curtain.
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by Beldin 3y ago
Yeah, but is never that cut and dried. Suppose there are two airlines. Statistics on them state that first one has a crash every 100,000 flights, the other every one million. You need four tickets, and four again for the way back. How much
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by Beldin 3y ago
Phrased differently: the free market will maximise the amount of unsafety. Well, only in case safety is perceived as more expensive than unsafety.
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by Beldin 3y ago
From the article: > As a result of increasingly strict privacy laws across the world, users are now beset with cookie banners across the Web In the words of a law prof from the Radboud University, more accurate is to say "as a res
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by Beldin 3y ago
I initially thought parent commenter was being witty... thanks to this comment, I realised that the parent commenter might not have known that.
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by Beldin 3y ago
Actually, dark matter isn't the only game in town. The whole need for dark matter arose from the fact that our theories (on gravity) didn't match some of our observations - while matching other observations phenomenally well. Abst
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by Beldin 3y ago
> your answer is, “Google has always done this free tier so I’m entitled to it forever.” Apart from OP pointing out that that's not what was said: yes. We have been trained over more than two decades to expect stuff on the interne
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by Beldin 3y ago
> Ad data is not worth that much money, Google and facebook, some of the highest-valued companies ever to exist, make most of their money from ads. The ridiculous SV software engineering salaries aren't powered by goodwill, but by

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