Deestan

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by Deestan 4y ago
He'd say "one two gerbil gerbil fourteen spiders singin' to me" if it would affect the stock price of anything he's planning on buying or selling, or harming something that cuts into his earnings. Previous strategy
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by Deestan 5y ago
Well, here is mine: ca813206fc37742ed2bf192c97f6c7db56686321 It says I own Banksy's hat. Now, the site I bought it from has since gone offline and the person I bought it from deleted his email account and I lost the paper receipt, but
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by Deestan 5y ago
Sure. On both sides. It's just a thing that happens? You've made a hiring decision, but you still have 2 strong candidates from the process that you know are good hires for other positions so why not ask what they feel about it?
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by Deestan 5y ago
> But in an era where every major company database (Facebook, Equifax are front of mind) has been leaked and government organizations are frequently compromised (SolarWinds most notable) I can't help but find some solace that harden
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by Deestan 5y ago
I understand that many people are genuinely excited, and not everyone is trying to perpetuate a scam, but it's hard to be convinced when all arguments I find in favour are variants of vague references to "the future" and sent
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by Deestan 5y ago
> There’s a lot of confusion here about why NFTs are valuable if the buyer doesn’t get to own the image copyright. Mostly because of two persistent lies around NFTs: 1) That you buy a piece of artwork. 2) Blockchain makes it automa
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by Deestan 5y ago
Man I love Haskell, but this shows how... I'd say immature the language is when it comes to creating software for a specific use. Business logic is already separated into other parts of the code, and now I have one concept I need to
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by Deestan 5y ago
It's also misunderstanding the question, either due to being stuck in thought of due to ambient noise. Absent-mindedly understanding the question as "is this the train?" or something would not surprise me. A lot of people ar
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by Deestan 5y ago
> Doom/Quake Doom was a tense collaboration between Carmack and Romero. Carmack was geniusing out the engine, while Romero was pulling hard on the game atmosphere, music, level design and details like the timer that spawned Doom&
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by Deestan 5y ago
I wonder if it is related to the gray/red strawberry effect https://www.illusionsindex.org/i/grey-strawberries
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by Deestan 5y ago
That would be a different problem. In Monty Hall, Monty always opens a door, and you're left to choose between your picked door and one other door.
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by Deestan 5y ago
That randomness doesn't correct for score bias.
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by Deestan 5y ago
Including any secrets or confidential chats others have trusted them with.
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by Deestan 5y ago
This is no ha ha accident. The claimant is one of many copyright trolls who try to get as many copyright claims as possible. Once the claim hits, they are able to run their ads on the video get the revenue from it. Once the dispute is sett
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by Deestan 5y ago
This can explained by following the reference to the study: > Two large-scale randomized trials provided definitive estimates of the risk of recurrence after an untreated first unprovoked, seizure. These are the multicenter study from It
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by Deestan 5y ago
Exactly. And in either scenario, responding "bit busy, will check in 30 mins" both allows short lived transient problems to fix themselves, and lets the sender know that yes you got their message and that you can not look at i
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by Deestan 5y ago
Copple: Hey, I forgot my key card, can you let me in? Colleague: [no response] 30 minutes pass Copple: Ergh... nevermind, I set up a mobile hotspot and am working from the cafeteria on my laptop until it runs out of battery and then I'
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by Deestan 5y ago
Multiple months of paternity leave for men is well established in Norway (and other Nordic countries), and has been for a long time. When given a real choice, men are eager to and capable of caring for their small ones. Even from the fir
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by Deestan 5y ago
In my view, Half Life 3 did come out. It was just called Wolfenstein. For all practical purposes, there is no longer a HL3 shaped hole.
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by Deestan 5y ago
These powerful people you refer to are treating this all as a game. As if apologies are only a tool to adjust public perception. And most of the time such people really only do give calculated, insincere apology-shaped statements. Like a
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by Deestan 5y ago
While I agree in principle, a confounding factor is that "merit" has a high degree of subjectivity and bias. Diversity goals are meant to adjust for bias, not override merit. And it feels unfair, because bias is unconscious and w
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by Deestan 5y ago
I can't persuade my bank to revisit their security decisions in any reasonable time frame or within any reasonable amount of effort.
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by Deestan 5y ago
I'd sit there with you and transfer them through some tumblers. I'd have brought a laptop and set aside time, and will threaten you on your life if you slow down or refuse. It only sounds hard if you assume I'd take an unrea
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by Deestan 6y ago
It's true, and I've seen it in a lot of old school books on hygiene, and conversed about with with the older generation. Though the alternative wasn't "do nothing", it was to scrub your face, neck, ear, armpits, and
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by Deestan 6y ago
Nobody can be "trusted" with a backdoor, because it isn't really a valid concept. A backdoor is a vulnerability that doesn't care who you are or what your purpose is or who pays you. If you found the backdoor it is open
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by Deestan 6y ago
When hiring, we filter applications on what they claim on the CV but also actually dig into the required skills on interview. If we find a mismatch, it invalidates the candidate as a whole. If someone claims 8 years of MOVA but doesn'
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by Deestan 6y ago
A lot of affirmations that it is not possible, with examples of where it didn't happen, but doesn't really go into "why" at all. The closest they get was near the end by alluding to risk-aversion and having to wear Googl
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by Deestan 6y ago
What I have seen attempted by the Erasmatron that I haven't seen in "real" games yet, is the ability to create a dramatic setting, with scenes and actors, where the actors are driven by "decorated" simulations. Deco
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by Deestan 6y ago
As someone who followed his work closely, I think that is an over-exaggeration. With his Erasmatron, he did make many working prototypes, and recruited a very talented IF-author to try and build storyworlds with him in that tool and guide i
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by Deestan 6y ago
This is one of infinitely many ways to act without responsibility and obstruct justice for police brutality victims. It should not be praised.

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