Gunax

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by Gunax 4y ago
I hate to be so cynical, but the news tends to write stories along the theme of 'rich-get-richer' no matter which way the economy goes. When the economy booms, it's 'stock market gains mostly went to the wealthy'. W
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by Gunax 4y ago
Well sure, but in the universe where capitation rules the world, we have people clamoring for services that they say they need, but professionals refuse to provide. And there are probably HN threads there explaining why we need to go to a f
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by Gunax 4y ago
If the Democrats start performing similar tactics, the republic is in trouble. And I fear that they are learning this is a winning tactic.
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by Gunax 4y ago
Simpsons mocked it years ago: https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Yard_Work_Simulator
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by Gunax 4y ago
> is crucial to set up systems that spot teens who are struggling and may become dangerous. You can’t predict violent events or who will go from threatening behavior to murder, O’Toole said. But it is possible for us to look around and
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by Gunax 4y ago
'portion of cancer incodence in never-smokers' seems like a bad number to use. Clearly if we completely eliminated smoking, then the number would be 100%. It's clear to me that you and the doctors know that... But then why is
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by Gunax 4y ago
Admitting mistakes is a strength, and something we don't see enough of in public life.
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by Gunax 4y ago
I think there is a trilemma in uni funding: 1. Anyone can receive funds, regardless of cost/financial sense. 2. Anyone can receive funds, regardless of academic performance. 3. Burden on the state will be low. There has to be a filter
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by Gunax 4y ago
What about lawyers working on contingency? If I am not paying my lawyer, aren't we incentivised to charge (approaching) infinity, even if it's just a way to inflate the cost?
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by Gunax 4y ago
It's not gambling and I cannot take it seriously if they cannot even get it correct. Gambling is when you receive money back. What they are describing is a black hole--you put money in and it's gone.
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by Gunax 4y ago
Hmm, so I am not sure I see why that would be more likely. It sounds like you're saying that exterminators are less effective at detection than lumberjacks--whether by effort or some other reason. I think you could just as logically co
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by Gunax 4y ago
When dealing with unknown unknowns any theory can be logical. Maybe extra-terrestrials are more like lumberjacks chopping down trees. Except these lumber jacks avoid *any tree with a bird's nest in it*. Then, we should be as visible
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by Gunax 4y ago
I did retrospectives at a job for 2.5 years. I don't think in those ~60 retros, was there one thing we actually changed or accomplished. Certainly much griping happened. But ultimately very little couod be accomlished, because our prob
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by Gunax 4y ago
Well ofcourse it sounds idyllic on paper. But at a time when we are clawing for reduced sentences for criminals, we are also lamenting the inability to detain people who haven't even done anything wrong. The real reason we don't h
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by Gunax 4y ago
Sure, but my guess is that YouTube is earning more than that in advertising from you, even sans music and oroginals.
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by Gunax 4y ago
I just have to comment how this is a perfect microcosm of political discourse. There's much talk about facts and misinformation these days, but even when the facts are undisputed (ie a production shut down due to safety regulations) we
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by Gunax 4y ago
I would think this is strong evidence that dark matter exists. There have been theories like eg. The law of gravity does not hold at long distances, or some other inaccuracy in our math. But if that were true, then we would expect it tobe u
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by Gunax 4y ago
One week the media is up in arms because of payday lenders. The next week--when someone does something--we are supposed to be outraged about that. It's more anti-technology screed. Since it was founded by white men and billionaire Ma
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by Gunax 4y ago
It's definitely totally bizarre. I think it works only insofar as there is some filter. I used to hang out one a discord for competitive programming. Many people gave referals to other competitors, even though they may have only known
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by Gunax 4y ago
YT Premium is expensive. Much more expensive than users expect. Most people underestimate the value of their attention. Youtube earned 7 billion USD in ad revenue last quarter. The value of our attention is a shock to most people. I suspect
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by Gunax 4y ago
I don't think it's unreasonable to close it. I don't know anything about this bacteria, but is it normal to find it in the formula? If another child died someone would have to explain 'well we let it open because whole w
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by Gunax 4y ago
Well maybe you should just ban Reason magazine then. Afterall, they don't have 1st amendment protection since 'Reason' is owned by a foundation, and not a person.
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by Gunax 4y ago
I had not seen this before, but I have seen many parodies of it which retrospectively make sense. I found this collection of some of them: https://youtu.be/hmmcgSgt5_c When i was a kid, we used to call these 'Simpsons
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by Gunax 4y ago
I never thought I would ever see this. I hope this is what Fins want long term. Tensions are high now, but this is a commitment that may last decades. Perhaps more worriesome is that I think there are still terrotory disputes over the lands
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by Gunax 4y ago
If they are over-complicating it, then you are not communicating the problem well. Maybe change the problem to an array of ints. It's the same solution but you will not have anyone asking about UTF and text direction.
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by Gunax 4y ago
I think America is like legacy software. We know there are problems. No, we are not going to fix them. Last time we tried to fix it, everywhere went haywire and the people (users) hated it.
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by Gunax 4y ago
The author of the non-fiction 'Humble Pi' wanted to incorporate some clever page numbering (such as backwards, binary, overflow errors), but was advised against it by the publisher who thought it might cause readers to think there
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by Gunax 5y ago
I think perhaps you and the author are using bubble to mean different things--namely speculation versus bona-fide demand.
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by Gunax 5y ago
And yet at the time, we thought those systems were dumb. 'why do I have to run around looking for a group? Cant you just match me with one?' I think more generally, what we want at the time and what we remember years later are oft
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by Gunax 5y ago
This is how it should be. Every generation should be wealthier than their parents. I bet this is the same feeling that people in the 50s had.

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