CptFribble

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by CptFribble 5y ago
Amazon judges how quickly/whether to issue a return based on an algorithm weighted by your lifetime total value. If you shop a lot on Amazon, occasionally returning an item will be 0 hassle for you. If you don't shop on Amazon tha
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by CptFribble 5y ago
Laymen can use Eratosthenes of Cyrene's method from the mid 200's BCE. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/big-history-project/s... For those who don't know it, in brief: Put a vertical pole in f
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by CptFribble 5y ago
Various leaks over the years have showed us how when programs doing icky stuff are revealed, they are "shut down" only to be recycled as new secret programs with "new" mandates doing exactly the same thing. After Snowden
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by CptFribble 5y ago
In a weird and entirely ironic way, I think co-working spaces will become a big deal (again?) over the next decade or two. As People Of Means spread out over the country to lower-cost-of-living cities and towns, we'll start to see serv
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by CptFribble 5y ago
I'd like to make an accessory recommendation: get one of those grip-strength things and use it all the time. This did two things for me: 1. Extra strength in hands and forearms makes you more resistant to injury of all kinds there 2. M
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by CptFribble 5y ago
This is actually how existing diagnostic machines work generally - mix blood or plasma with a reagent, incubate at body temp for some time, measure how the light properties of the sample (color, turbidity, depends on the test) change over t
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by CptFribble 5y ago
I would argue the opposite, that the limiting factor of progress actually IS capital at the moment - but not capital in a total-floating-around-sense, but rather how much capital the average person has access to. Literally everyone is talki
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by CptFribble 5y ago
Some time ago YT and other majors started serving ads from the same domains as content, so it's become much more difficult to reliably block them. https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/88vsz1/yout
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by CptFribble 5y ago
I don't know if you're from the USA (based on your username), but here government is very inefficient at the state/county/town levels where these sorts of things play out. Maybe the department that issues tickets in your
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by CptFribble 6y ago
> If it was that bad, I think they'd have a harder time hiring. You're severely underestimating the punishing conditions of an Amazon warehouse job. A picker has a tablet that alerts them of an item to get. A clock starts count
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by CptFribble 6y ago
That's my point - I usually see talk of aliens dismissed with "if they're so advanced, why would they bother? Therefore it must be something else." We cast our own human drives and incentives on the aliens in that case.
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by CptFribble 6y ago
One thing I don't hear mentioned very often in the "why would aliens bother coming here" debate, is a comparison of UFO behavior and our behavior with other species we study in remote locations. Consider the mountain gorillas
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by CptFribble 6y ago
Serious question from a crypto noob - what's the point of defi systems if they're all built on stablecoins and depend on the value of a fiat currency at the end of the day? Especially for permanently-deflationary coins like BTC?
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by CptFribble 6y ago
I think it's less of a moral narrative, and more to do with the way our brains process information - at a physical and organizational level, the human brain is like a series of stacked filters, cutting extraneous (or what our brain thi
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by CptFribble 6y ago
I think this is a big part of why games have moved to the continuous development/games-as-a-service model. It's not just for longer-term recurring revenue; continuously adding new content is the ultimate DRM, as pirate versions ke
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by CptFribble 6y ago
I think the point is that NFTs are a way to verifiably prove ownership of a digital asset - i.e. the most recent position on a verified chain of purchases. It's like, imagine if you bought an original Picasso, but a device existed wher
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by CptFribble 6y ago
A huge percentage of hip-hop and electronic music is essentially this, sampling and remixing segments of other songs. Old school DJs since forever have been known to keep absolutely massive libraries of records going back to the beginning o
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by CptFribble 6y ago
The reason they ask is that companies are obligated to hire without regard for race, gender, etc - but in the past, many companies would exclude minority groups on purpose but just say "oh we just pick the best candidates, not our faul
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by CptFribble 6y ago
This seems like thinly veiled marketing for Hey? "There's a Big Scary Problem you probably didn't know about, according to the founder of a service that solves that problem." [Image of what it looks like when the Big Sca
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by CptFribble 6y ago
There is a long history of presidentially-appointed people saying they "serve at the pleasure of the President." It simply means that they hold the job only so long as the president wants them there. This has extended "servin
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by CptFribble 6y ago
The fact that co-founder of Zynga and creative director of FarmVille 2 are behind this enterprise is extremely telling. A few thoughts: 1. There is a small-but-non-trivial segment of gamers that are willing to spend huge amounts of money fo
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by CptFribble 6y ago
There's another possible explanation, though I forget where I heard it: Patents like these are coded signaling to USA's adversaries of a new-but-no-so-exciting advancement in weapons tech. For example, Chinese military scientists
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by CptFribble 6y ago
Not all major car makers will fall into the "legacy/old and busted" category - I think the ones with a long-time reputation for quality/dependability will be able to make a strong splash in the EV market once they'v
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by CptFribble 6y ago
Thank you! I'll check both of those out
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by CptFribble 6y ago
Hi, I'm also a new JS coder, but I'd like to avoid becoming one of "those people" you're talking about. I've been struggling with exactly what you mention - how to find out the "correct" way to apply
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by CptFribble 6y ago
To be fair, almost everything on ZH is predicting catastrophe - ZH is rife with prepper-flavored "this is the big one" reports on things like FEMA operations, rumors of potential false flag attacks, and of course various financial
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by CptFribble 6y ago
Science fiction was born as a critique of social constructs. The sci-fi patina was less of a Branded Genre Thing and more of a wink-and-nod to make the critique acceptable in the public sphere. Solarpunk, like all the other ___punks, is jus
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by CptFribble 6y ago
There are concrete measurable benefits to the complex things we build. Improvements to quality of life, increased time for recreation, etc. On the other hand, you make a fair point - tangible contribution to Things is probably built into us
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by CptFribble 6y ago
My favorite writing advice bears repeating: Writer's block is what happens when you try to write a final draft on the first try.
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by CptFribble 6y ago
Then instead of 100B on maybe getting to usable fusion, let's spend $XX billion on solving those problems instead. What would $100b specifically directed into panel conversion efficiency, grid improvements, and battery recycling look

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