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by JackFr 9mo ago
I read these and it's beyond my comprehension how people can get sucked in and fall for it. And yet I know I'm not special and I think back on periods in my life where I was depressed, under a great deal of stress very apprehensi
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by JackFr 9mo ago
For men I suspect the “killed by a rando” number is pretty low, but robbery/theft is very high. Of course if you have nothing to steal, that does insulate you a little. For women I suspect the “killed by a rando” number is low, but the
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by JackFr 9mo ago
> the way he proudly explains how he is using people is just awful. TFA: “One might even call the art of accepting generosity a type of compassion.” Turns out he’s doing them a favor!
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by JackFr 10mo ago
A company who does cutting edge R&D for defense contracts and and consumer small appliances is destined for trouble. They are two very different lines of business. While you might make an argument about synergy, the problem stems from t
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by JackFr 10mo ago
> IUPAC nomenclature ensures that 2,2,4-trimethylpentane describes exactly one molecule. No chemist wakes up and decides to call it “Steve” because Steve is a funny name and they think it’ll make their paper more approachable. Well if th
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by JackFr 10mo ago
And the users of this device are typically who?
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by JackFr 10mo ago
Well Hamming observed it. It's not a randomized controlled study. It's anecdotal of course, and if one observed something to the contrary they would be well served to discount it. But presumably Hamming was there was a reason Ha
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by JackFr 11mo ago
It seems identical to the displays used in NJ Transit trains.
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by JackFr 11mo ago
What the author ignores is speaking from the point of view of the omniscient observer these things seem obvious. But the characters, even if they were purely rational happiness optimizers, lack all the information the movie viewer has.
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by JackFr 11mo ago
It's less silly if one thinks of it as the New Zealand Parliament created a Whanganui River Authority and endowed it with the same structure and rights.
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by JackFr 11mo ago
> The only reason corporate personhood is a thing is because it allows corporate lawyers to pick from a bigger pool of personal rights in a perversion of the spirit of these original rights. Not at all. It allows corporations to own pro
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by JackFr 11mo ago
> Most people who (quite reasonably) hate corporate personhood Most people understand that incorporated businesses need to own property, enter into contracts and act as either plaintiff or defendant in lawsuits.
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by JackFr 1y ago
> breathless articles Nice.
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by JackFr 1y ago
To be fair Luca Brazil did explicitly assure the bandleader that either his signature or his brains would be on the contract before he left. So that’s kind of a threat.
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by JackFr 1y ago
> we focused a LOT OF MONEY on it Apollo at its height commanded 0.8% of the entire US economy.
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by JackFr 1y ago
It always bothered me because cryptography isn’t the CIA’s thing. Spies and analysis are their thing. Code breaking is the NSA
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by JackFr 1y ago
Clearly someone who never knew EJBs. (I know the irony of Spring is that it became what it replaced. But it got a good ten or fifteen years of productivity before it began getting high on its own supply. )
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by JackFr 1y ago
> they both find trades entertaining or have a cultural preference for doing business with each other That is value. It is any benefit they capture which they would not otherwise.
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by JackFr 1y ago
BuzzFeed apparently leading Springer and Elsevier in social science publishing.
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by JackFr 1y ago
> The difference between being good and being great isn’t talent or formal training, but the invisible practice that happens when you're just living life. Pure nonsense. Necessary != sufficient, and honestly neither are demonstrated
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by JackFr 1y ago
> She hitched her identity to the man of the house, even signing checks "Mrs. grandad's name." That was quite common for much of the 20th century.
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by JackFr 1y ago
There was a funny statistical artifact I read once (well, for some value of 'funny') that home was a terrible place to have a heart attack, because people are willing to 'just lie down and see how I feel' rather than in
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by JackFr 1y ago
It’s exhausting because most of us like to sit down open an IDE and start coding with the belief that ambiguous or incomplete aspects will be solved as they come up. The idea of writing out the spec of a feature from without ambiguity, hand
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by JackFr 1y ago
As a parent who once flew with a baby with an ear infection, I'll admit there were times I desperately wanted to be seated apart from her.
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by JackFr 1y ago
Exactly. States in the United States are more than just administrative districts. in the case of the first thirteen states, the predate the federal government. Each one has its own elected government. They have their own criminal and judi
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by JackFr 1y ago
The article describes 300 servers and 100,000 SIMs across a handul of locations.
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by JackFr 1y ago
I not familiar with any of it, so I’m willing to take your word, but doesn’t the scope raise some eyebrows? Using the prices quoted in TFA they’re talking about $900,000 in servers and another $500,000 in SIM cards, before labor, rent and e
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China's Aircraft Carrier's New EM Launch System(cnn.com)
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by JackFr 1y ago
> As a side note, if anyone I'm communicating with - personally or in business - sends responses that sound like they were written by ChatGPT 3.5, 4o, GPT-5-low, etc, I don't take anything they write seriously anymore. What if
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by JackFr 1y ago
Woolworths too!

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