KarlKemp

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by KarlKemp 5y ago
The cynicism we see is a product more of the boredom of an upbringing in white suburban affluence. Some peoples’ lives in the past half-century were devoid of the struggles of other times and places. Lacking any contrast for anchoring, that
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
If you continuously call all politicians equally corrupt, they have no incentive not to be. You and the people you influence will have no justification based in reality for the decisions you get to make, like voting. That’s the end of democ
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
There's a top comment here by the_reven that I somehow cannot reply to? Anyway, just wanted to mention that make and ruby's rake are text-based systems for doing exactly this kind of thing if you prefer not to use GUIs and wou
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"The alpha in this report is free, and many have gleaned insights from past reports that helped them make money, but nothing herein is investment advice. Be an adult." I don't know why but just the choice of words here made
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Sure, in the sense that both this potted plant and this currently inactive volcano could soon start ejecting red-hot magma. Because one of every x billion "things" are active volcanoes, and these are both "things".
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This is indeed something I've noticed. The discussion about browser engines seems to draw heavily on late-90s folklore while entirely missing the point: browser engines today are extremely easy to work with, in the sense that it&#x27
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They have given you a choice and taken away some comfort. It’s literally what libertarians preach.
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If any of you had read the article, you'd know that these are the two commercial outfits that grow the stuff, and they both grew out of the same university project.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Careful, LaTeX fans can get pretty annoying if you do anything but praise it.
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Photosynthesis is fascinating for how inefficient it is. And slow. Usually, when you look up some enzyme's rate of reaction you realize it's operating at a speed drastically higher than what you were imagining. DNA synthesis? 10,0
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Sweden (17 %) and Germany have higher percentages of immigrants than the US ( 14 %). Norway is also at 14 % and Denmark is at 10 %. What's tearing the US apart isn't "weak borders" but 1/3 of the population sharply
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The linked site is European, where data transfers for non-essential purposes are already prohibited.
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In strictly economic terms, it rarely makes sense for all but the largest users of some upstream project, putting that proposition squarely in tragedy-of-the-commons territory: it’s better to hope for others to support it. That applies even
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
0.98 ^ 40 = 0.445. But that’s income in the last year, not fraction of the total. You’d have to add up 1 + 0.98 + 0.98^2… to get that, but I’m too stupid to figure out a closed formula or anything else I can solve with the Google calculator
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Have you heard of asking for a raise? Also, last I checked, the price of essential good in Bitcoin, assuming the contra-factual that it were possible to buy such things with Bitcoin, hasn’t exactly been constant for 40 years.
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Now you’re textbook begging-the-question: you were trying to proof that “the media” is somehow corrupt. Your argument was their hiring of some former national security politicos. Now you’re arguing that practice is so obviously evil because
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
That’s a few ex-spies that get to spend retirement in relative luxury in return for occasionally and sternly looking into a camera and making some completely obvious point, but with a lot of authority. There are more military veterans at Mc
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
The snide remarks against Americans are essential for my point; Even if the media had those interests and ability to coordinate, their efforts are directed at an audience, and that audience needs to care for anything further to happen. And
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This presents sponsorship of OSS in strictly economic terms as a trade-of. That’s unlikely to be a successful argument for more sponsorship, because it puts it squarely in tragedy-of-the-commons territory: unless you’re the largest consumer
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On Conservatism(theatlantic.com)
3 points by KarlKemp 5y ago|2 comments
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Dark means wide-open pupils, means shallow depth-of-field, means more & constant focus adjustments are needed.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
So how does Omicron have any advantage, right now, from that supposed difference? Wouldn’t every mild strain just suffer from governments’ efforts targeting the bad strains, which ruin it for all the others? Note that any future benefits ca
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
So… the new goalpost is, “top epidemiologist say that there is a pattern of common-cold-viruses to get milder with time”? Do any of them have names? (Either the viruses or the epidemiologists) And that’s supposedly because… these common col
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As it turns out that’s a myth. AIDS, rabies, measles, Ebola, Marburg, Hep A/B/C: none of these viruses have gotten milder, in 60+ years of evolution. There are Egyptian mummies showing signs of smallpox, a disease that killed 350,
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/ashton1anderson/status/14660896597342494...
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Quantifying social organization and political polarization in online platforms(nature.com)
2 points by KarlKemp 5y ago|1 comments
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Hosting encrypted zips en masse would also seem to be slightly shady? Sure, there are legitimate uses for that. But if it’s 90% of what your customers share on your platform, you might want to consider that it’s also legal not to host tha
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Yea, and everyone knows—which is how you were able to make this comment without even checking. It’s not definitive proof. It’s still evidence in favor.
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It’s not really a tech problem? They obviously have people that are allowed to look at the stuff, so they could look for evidence themselves. The total number of victims should also be quite manageable, especially if you know the timeframe
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I have no idea why you’d be opposed to the idea, yet I’m fairly certain they are not honeypots. I’m not even sure if that would be legal. Besides, if these sites had the ability to identify their users, we’d hear about the prosecutions. Or,

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