Fargren

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by Fargren 8y ago
MTG Arena, a new online version of the game, is in closed beta and I like it quite a lot. If you want to see how Magic is like nowadays, joining when it goes into open beta may be a good idea.
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by Fargren 9y ago
Technology has regressed seriously at least two times that I can think of. After the Sea People invaded Mesopotamia, and after the fall of the Roman Empire. Arguably in some ways after the colonization of America too, a lost of technologica
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by Fargren 9y ago
After reading the story I immediately thought that the point was that most of us live in Omelas. I don't think I have it in me to walk away.
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by Fargren 9y ago
You can easily iterate over all binary strings to generate your illegal number too. That way you don't need to rely on the normality of transcendental numbers. If you concatenate all base numbers in base 2, you even get a number that&#
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by Fargren 9y ago
With AWS, and I assume most other cloud computing providers, you can pay extra for you instances to run in a host without someone else's VMs. You probably should be doing this for any servers were you handle sensitive data, but it is a
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by Fargren 9y ago
I don't think you can properly learn probabilities without understanding a degree of calculus. And I don't think you can have a complete scientific education without a measure of probabilities and statistics. On the other hands, I
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by Fargren 9y ago
Teaching also used to be male dominated, and only became more open to women as it become entwined with rearing.
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by Fargren 9y ago
It really won't. See Brazil. The president was elected with less support than that[0], and they are overhauling nothing. Don't think that things would be different in USA, don't fall to American exceptionalism. I recommend th
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by Fargren 9y ago
I've seen the "invest in index funds" repeated over and over, but almost always coming from people in the US. I don't understand enough about investing to understand when the advice is useful globally, or only locally. I
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by Fargren 9y ago
Because if you immediately announce that you are done coding, you cannot do any of the other things on the list, which are all good ideas. After you've done them all, you should announce you are ready. It's probably a good idea to
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by Fargren 9y ago
Buenos Aires great cultural life, a huge spectrum of very lively and very quiet/slow neighborhoods, good public transportation(except on peak hours), good internet, very good food and nice people. For a Latin American metropolis, it&#x
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by Fargren 9y ago
I just left, after having lived there most of my life. I'm not impartial, but my opinion is that it's a fantastic place to live if your income doesn't depend on the country's current position in the wealth/poverty p
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by Fargren 9y ago
I work as an SDE for Amazon in Madrid since 3 months ago, having relocated from Buenos Aires for the job. If you are cut for the culture, I can't recommend it enough. Everyone is fluent in English, and all work happens in English. I re
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by Fargren 9y ago
I would wager that changes a lot by locale. There are plenty of places without such a thing as community kitchen, where if you don't have money at the end of the they you are not going to eat. And I also don't believe you are doin
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by Fargren 9y ago
Panhandling is probably bad enough that it discourages itself. There are reasons not to give, but I don't think you reduce panhandling by not giving, so "discouraging" is not a good reason. Hopefully some people will manage t
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by Fargren 10y ago
And I can't count the times I tried to do s.len() or s.length().
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by Fargren 10y ago
John Milton is on that list. Newton was exceptionally important, but our world would be poorer without Paradise Lost. I'm glad Milton spent his time as he did.
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by Fargren 10y ago
The main advantage of developing for consoles is targeting exactly one hardware configuration. I don't think that's lost if the specs for the console are public.
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by Fargren 10y ago
Wait, that makes no sense. Your argument is that since there's one (huge) malicious actor we haven't stopped we should not care about any other malicious actors? "Privacy" is not binary. You can have privacy from Uber ev
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by Fargren 10y ago
Are we talking about UBI, or about education? Because if it's UBI, what I mentioned was just one of the mechanisms by which it could work. But I honestly don't know if it would. I suspect it would, but we can't know without m
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by Fargren 10y ago
Because self-actualization is a human need and for a lot of people education is a means for that. Because some of us enjoy creating things that are of value to others. Because life is more than survival, basically.
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by Fargren 10y ago
My answer to dawdling has become to wake up an hour earlier, at the cost of going to bed earlier. I like my lazy mornings.
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by Fargren 10y ago
Many countries/companies will consider a 5 year Bachelors as good as a 3 years Bachelrs plus a Masters if the university has a good program. Translating titles is complex, and if your country does something unusual, explaining it goes
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by Fargren 10y ago
Thanks for the elaboration. I don't entirely agree with you though. On on one hand you are right, libertarinism does strongly oppose the existence of a state force with rights that common citizens don't have. On the other, many
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by Fargren 10y ago
I honestly don't see what libertarianism has got to do with this. Could you elaborate? What are these ideals, and what is the idelogy that lacks them?
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by Fargren 10y ago
I'm pretty sure you should read 24/24 as a fraction instead of a tuple. But I guess your neural network is more trained on the other case.
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by Fargren 10y ago
In what way are self driving cars different from Taxis/Uber? Why are the people who own cars today preffer to share them when they become self-driving? I ask as someone who doesn't own and doesn't want to own a car. Where I l
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by Fargren 10y ago
To quote from A Bit of Fry & Laurie, 'well of course too much is bad for you, that's what "too much" means[...]. "Too much" precisely means that quantity which is excessive, that's what it means'.
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by Fargren 10y ago
But consistently having to change your position is not a good sign. It's good to be able to change your mind. But it's hard to trust someone who changes a lot of their positions.
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by Fargren 10y ago
I stoped playing right around the time this change was implemented. What I felt back then was that while you are right in principle, in theory what happened was that the power level of a lot of interesting cards dropped so much they weren&#

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