Beldin

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by Beldin 4y ago
> I know it sounds crazy in today-terms I know of no other country where tipping is such a major part of sustainable wages. In all other countries I know of, tips are a supplement to the wage - a nice-to-have, a perk of the job. Somet
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by Beldin 4y ago
Is that seriously what the hullabaloo is about? The colour of the BFG's cloak? So you're saying that in this story about giants that eat children, and a smaller giant that brings them joyous dreams via some sort of trumpet, dreams
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by Beldin 4y ago
You skipped over the part where we consider if the concept of a business is a good thing for the world. In a capitalist society, these are basically competing entities seeking to maximise their own profits. This entails minimising expenses.
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by Beldin 4y ago
A perspective that seems to have been snowed under so far: they're doing this for money. That is: they are investing in their existing portfolio (of stories) to improve/sustain its value in the future. That is something that most
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by Beldin 4y ago
Because there are enough (a veritable deluge of) alternatives that do not require extra work on my part. Which is probably why the Dahl copyright holders are doing this(1). Not to appease some sort of modern sensibilities, but to make money
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by Beldin 4y ago
> And the stories...[...] but these aren't books that are going to delight. Dahl's best-known book is about a family of 7 that can barely afford to eat. One of his other famous books is about how giants stalk through the nigh
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by Beldin 4y ago
Screeching typically concerns loud, high-pitched, emotional screaming (my connotation, backed up by a quick google). I am under the impression that, on average, men's voices are lower than women's voices. Hence some connotation.
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by Beldin 4y ago
Hear, hear! I appreciate someone challenging commonly held beliefs - science needs that. But I've grown accustomed to expecting her popular science output to present her point of view as the only valid one, and her the one sane person
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by Beldin 4y ago
I understood parent as: "in case X is truly better than alternatives, people will choose X without being forced to" applied for X=arbitration.
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by Beldin 4y ago
Thanks! That is an aspect the fine article omitted, alas. It explains the title as well as giving a reason why a private company couldn't release something under whatever license they like. Basically: they can, but cannot give the lic
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by Beldin 4y ago
> While these are reasons to be suspicious, they do not counter a single point she made in her article. True. > her logic and her facts were solid. I came to a somewhat different conclusion after reading that article: I felt it wa
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by Beldin 4y ago
> symbology Off-topic, but now I have William Dafoe going "What's the 'symbology' here? The symbolism ..." in my head (from Boondock Saints).
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by Beldin 4y ago
Sorry, a comment pointed to a previous thread where i saw this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14921120 I intended to reply to that comment, but clearly failed.
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by Beldin 4y ago
> But why does he need students to do his own research? That's a phenomenally good question. Short answer: because of incentives in academia( ). To be high up in the academic hierarchy( ), you want top-ranked publications. So you
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by Beldin 4y ago
Sweet hesus, installing a keylogger on your own system to steal passwords from friends who are trying to help you? And the content doesn't show any awareness of the issue. Perhaps it'd be more clear to that poster if one of those
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by Beldin 4y ago
I'm not a fan of trying to bring back extinct creatures from the grave without first addressing what's wrong with the world that led to their extinction. It really isn't ethical to start creating creatures just for our entert
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by Beldin 4y ago
The lighting department split off from Philips about 2 years ago. They now go by the name "Signify", if memory serves (check... it does, signify.com). Unfortunately, that coincided with a refocus on B2B. So I don't know if th
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Ask HN: Insight Crucial to Play a Game?
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by Beldin 4y ago
Plenty of movies start out not so much with the protagonist in a zone of comfort wanting something, but being forced into something. E.g. Iron Man 1: that cave was not a zone of comfort. You might argue that this structure applies e.g. to
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by Beldin 4y ago
You wouldn't get the tech-savvy people with that, no. But it's easy to imagine someone barely making it through a day, not quite cottoning on, but hearing how Android phones last longer - and dismissing reports about iPhones lasti
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by Beldin 4y ago
See also this Numberphile video on numbers, including algebraic, computable, transcendental, and talking about numbers beyond those. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkIe60y2GI
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by Beldin 4y ago
They aren't... from nearby. Cosmic distances are vast and the telltale signs are small. I'm not sure we would have detected an abundance of sealife deep in Titan's oceans or fliers deep in Saturn's clouds. I once looked
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by Beldin 4y ago
This reminds me of the 737 MAX. It was deliberately designed to have a flight profile very close to the original 737 so as not to require retraining pilots. That worked adequately, but not good enough. (The MCAS system would have been diffe
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by Beldin 4y ago
64 in what? 64th worldwide is obviously not a middling player; 64th of his local club probably falls shy of that lofty moniker. Perhaps you meant "middling professional player"? Because I don't think there's enough money
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by Beldin 4y ago
> am I ruining my life? How would we know? Based on one post on the internet? Let's not; that's not remotely how that works. If you truly want help, get professional help - the offline kind.
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by Beldin 4y ago
I prefer OPTION BASE {0, 1} :)
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by Beldin 4y ago
In plenty of non-USA countries, a PhD is basically a prerequisite to enter the higher echelons of government and the corporate world. Not saying it should be like that, nor that it is completely impossible to advance in those countries with
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by Beldin 4y ago
The exhaust of a plane isn't clean air though - which is why the condensation forms.
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by Beldin 4y ago
The simplest explanation is that there is regular matter which we fail to detect. Not weird, given the huge distances involved - there almost assuredly is mass that we didn't detect (e.g. planets). The point where fairy matter comes in
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by Beldin 4y ago
Alternatively, you could let people pay whatever they want for the product. That would also give you a very accurate and objective measure of how people value the product. What? You don't think the two measures would converge? In eithe

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