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by Cpoll 1y ago
Better, but supporting the resale market still improves the appeal for new buyers who plan to eventually sell.
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by Cpoll 1y ago
No, their point is that the painting isn't evidence of changes, because they've seen modern watermelons that look the same.
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by Cpoll 1y ago
Not relevant; a child consenting (or "consenting") to a parental lock on their (or "their") phone isn't the same as Apple locking down their OS. Ditto an employee using a company device.
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by Cpoll 1y ago
The concept exists in English as well. Kaufman, Norm Macdonald, Isaac Asimov. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-humor
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by Cpoll 1y ago
But some of these are pretty creative, perhaps in an anti-humor sort of way. Seems more of a subversion of joke structures than a lack of understanding. > A man goes to a doctor's office and says "Doctor, I'm a chicken.&qu
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by Cpoll 1y ago
I've read [citation needed] that semaglutide has anti-inflammation effects even when there's no weight loss, i.e. there's another mechanism at play as well.
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by Cpoll 1y ago
The most annoying thing for me is that Hans im Gluck didn't even create the term "meeple," that was coined by a writer with no affiliation to HiG, and adopted by the community.
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by Cpoll 1y ago
Very wishful thinking, but could this be an impetus for quality political education at a younger age? E.g. how to reason about issues, think critically, fact check, verify past outcomes, etc. That could have positive effects on all age grou
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by Cpoll 1y ago
I though IMAX was almost 4:2, but it looks like there are two ratios, 1.43:1 and 1.90:1. So 4:2.8 and 4:2.1.
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by Cpoll 1y ago
You might be an outlier. Our FOV is wide, so it's a better match. Furthermore, the 4:3 version of a movie is almost always a crop from the intended ratio, so information and intent is lost.
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by Cpoll 1y ago
> or even more Grafana isn't quite as featureful as Datadog, though nothing to keep you from getting the job done. > But, it requires engineering time to set up these tools At some price point, you have to wonder if it doesn&#x27
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by Cpoll 1y ago
> Also it is still so surreal to me to see prestigious publications like the New Yorker talking about 4chan. It's happened now and again. And lesser publications love to talk about "hacker group Anonymous."
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by Cpoll 1y ago
OSX makes it easy to write em-dashes. It's much more annoying on Windows. I wonder if more innocuous assistants like Grammarly also insert them? Ditto the directional "smart quotes", OSX inserts them by default (and sometimes
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by Cpoll 1y ago
Tobacco advertisement is banned or heavily regulated in most of the world (including the U.S.). Free speech has a couple dozen exceptions like libel, incitement to violence, etc. And besides, it's not clear how it applies to corporatio
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by Cpoll 2y ago
> As for beef, maybe once in awhile, but feeding a 1,200+ pound animal enough antibiotics for months to increase its weight that extra 5% is going to cost you nearly as much as the entire animal is worth. Is this true? I can't find
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by Cpoll 2y ago
In the linked article, Hejlsberg considers adding a new checked exception a breaking change (true), but adding a new thrown exception to not be, because "in a lot of cases, people don't care." I think this is obviously open t
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by Cpoll 2y ago
Crates were in TF2 (and in some MMOs before that), but I think you can more readily blame Overwatch for that one. And paid levelling was a KMMO staple long before. But I can't argue about the DotA2 battle passes, or the expensive hats&
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by Cpoll 2y ago
Some quick googling: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/is-the-total-value-of... Anecdotally, myself and most of my friends are in this boat, with very large "piles of shame." Humble Bundles ten
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by Cpoll 2y ago
> throw Waltz to the wolves. Except they forgot to actually throw him to the wolves? Or will that come later somehow?
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by Cpoll 2y ago
Do you have some required reading to share here? As I remember it, the body of knowledge on economy is that tarriffs are good for collecting revenue, but bad for economic growth. What is the phase called? What is this amputation and what s
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by Cpoll 2y ago
What is that agenda?
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by Cpoll 2y ago
Reminder for others: paste jwz.org urls into the address bar instead of clicking on the link. If you come in with an HN referer you get scrotum.
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by Cpoll 2y ago
You can simulate behaviour with a lookup table, but that's not the same as understanding.
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by Cpoll 2y ago
Sure, and income tax is just a labor windfall wealth tax.
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by Cpoll 2y ago
I'm not convinced either of those are the lessons. I think the reason for the keyboard's success is that it has a smooth learning curve. A neophyte can hunt-and-peck with a keyboard. Not so with a chorded keyboard.
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by Cpoll 2y ago
I can't speak to UMich specifically, but graduate research is long hours and crap pay, and the university gets to sell the results.
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by Cpoll 2y ago
Can the owners just pay the 200k to re-register it as a gTLD?
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by Cpoll 2y ago
> At Oxford, undergraduates in humanities and social sciences get 2 hours per week of lectures Per course, right?
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by Cpoll 2y ago
Sometimes it's not an "emulator" in the typical sense. Some of these are hardware reproductions (see: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro Chromatic). Others do hardware emulation using FPGAs (see Analogue Pocket). Even a lot of the
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by Cpoll 2y ago
> (RMS calls that device a Swindle) That's kind of a non-sequitur though; he's not calling it that because the subscription sucks.

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