Jiro

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by Jiro 4y ago
Anyone can make $50000 from wheat if they get free land, free labor, and free machinery. Also, $50000 for 7 students for "most of the year", assuming 7 months, is about $1000 per student per month. They'd make more working a
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by Jiro 4y ago
That sounds completely compatible with the NRA being sincere about opposing gun control.
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by Jiro 4y ago
The reason that this is considered a failure mode is that these systems are set up so that you can't just ignore activists who speak for, or claim to be speaking for, an approved minority. Just saying "no, I'm going to i
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by Jiro 4y ago
>French fries don't come from france. According to Wikipedia, it's at least believed by some researchers that French fries originated in France. Unless you mean "these specific fries don't come from France, any more t
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by Jiro 4y ago
If we object to a foreign country killing their own citizens, we can invade the foreign country and overthrow the ruler to make them stop killing (or threaten to invade unless they stop the killing). If we don't want to do that, we co
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by Jiro 4y ago
It increases cognitive load when writing the function call, since you now need to remember what kind of true to use. It also increases cognitive load for people who either do already understand the parameters or who are doing something for
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by Jiro 4y ago
>Just scrolling through this site makes my head spin. It's not as bad as it looks. It repeats everything in two languages (you can click "English" on the right to get rid of that), and there's a large section at the
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by Jiro 4y ago
My AD&D Unearthed Arcana fell apart in months. Although that was notoriously bound poorly.
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by Jiro 4y ago
Twitter itself pre-Musk started killing the meaning of bluechecks back in 2017, where they officially changed their rules from "this person is who he says he is" to "this person is who he says he is, and is politically correc
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by Jiro 4y ago
This reads like a justification for trolling. "Nobody's hurt and it's all in good fun. My fun and my friends' fun, that is." Putting up a fake sign is like dropping a single piece of litter. It's not going t
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by Jiro 4y ago
What do these people think about blocking abortion clinics? (Aside from "Our blockages are done for a good cause, abortion clinic blockages aren't.")
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by Jiro 4y ago
They can collect more information in the background than they can when you're not running them.
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by Jiro 4y ago
The new designs are often a result of the fact that managers can get credit for overseeing something new that becomes successful, but not for maintaining something old. So companies continually churn out useless new versions of things beca
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by Jiro 4y ago
I think "managers want to cover up bad management and blame someone else" is a perfectly logical reason for Id Software to act this way.
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by Jiro 4y ago
The app can run constantly in the background. The web browser won't.
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by Jiro 4y ago
If something is so much fun that you'd be willing to do it without getting paid, other people probably will do it without getting paid, which means that nobody's going to pay you for it.
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by Jiro 4y ago
It's not asking people to lie, it's because they can kick people out for lying, but they can't kick people out for having used drugs.
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by Jiro 4y ago
>Yes, the paper says that the Transformer model is superior because it is more parallelizable and requires less time to train. "Superior because it is X" is not the same as "superior while also being X". GPT-3 has man
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by Jiro 4y ago
I am not convinced that Brexit or anti-EU sentiment is primarily driven by spam.
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by Jiro 4y ago
The fewer words you use, the easier it is to localize for other languages, which I suspect is why a lot of things are like this. And a lot of things that don't need localization are probably designed by people who saw all the ones tha
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by Jiro 4y ago
There's also the situation where the program creator likes changing functionality on a whim, and every time you google up your problem, you find a solution for a version of the software that doesn't have the particular menu or wha
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by Jiro 4y ago
From the headline, I thought the post would have been about this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri
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by Jiro 4y ago
>I think you and others in this thread are missing that the proposed mandatory bidding price is a multiple of the "real" value. That doesn't work. People will set the "real" value to be lower than the real value
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by Jiro 4y ago
You also end up taxing actual value that can only be used by one person. If your house is close to your job or your parents, or if your children or if your children have gone to school the previous 5 years in the neighborhood and don'
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by Jiro 4y ago
Payment processors are regulated by the government.
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by Jiro 4y ago
If you are an anime fan, Otaku USA.
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by Jiro 4y ago
The 1% have far more than 1% of the influence.
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by Jiro 4y ago
Well, he was telling a lie.
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by Jiro 4y ago
Exits to the outside get left open (probably because of those legal or fire code restrictions) but such things as exits to another level get blocked this way. Even just doing this to entrances has the same problem--the maps aren't goi
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by Jiro 4y ago
I'm surprised that it doesn't mention Rings of Power, which is one of the most blatant examples of this to happen recently.

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