LeonB

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by LeonB 4y ago
This goes to show that the real way to succeed in life isn’t to go about wearing a tin foil hat, but rather to enclose your neighbours house in one.
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by LeonB 4y ago
The lecturer perceived it to be “personal” implying authentic and genuine, but in truth the essay was the opposite of these things, that is ironic .
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by LeonB 4y ago
And keywords or search terms you can supply as a way into learning more, would be much appreciated.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Because “value” in the economic sense is not synonymous with “value” in the ethical sense and neither is it a complete overlap with “value” in the way we use it in everyday speech. In economics value is about choice and indifference. If you
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by LeonB 4y ago
This article https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/127209576?searchT... mentions: “On June 19 last, a brilliant fireball was seen over a large part of NSW and the ACT” …from 1985 referring back to 1984. But m
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by LeonB 4y ago
For older time periods such as the 1950s - where trove does index the newspapers — it’s very easy to find reports of meteors and bright lights — https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/advanced/category/newspapers..
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by LeonB 4y ago
Good chance it would’ve been seen by a bunch of people and mentioned in the local newspapers of the time too. I often look for things at trove — but I think that might be too recent for trove to have the relevant newspaper articles availabl
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by LeonB 4y ago
“The 1978 New South Wales fireball“ 4:44am I think - would’ve been visible from Merewether > Abstract A very large meteor fireball passed through the atmosphere above the east coast of New South Wales early in the morning of 7 April 1978
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by LeonB 4y ago
The concept of augmenting the intellect - rather than replacing/displacing human labor —has been popping up a bit lately when people discuss/ponder the latest wave of “AI”.
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by LeonB 4y ago
References needed i.e I’d like one to apply a little rigor of their one if making so many claims and such sweeping claims.
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by LeonB 4y ago
I’m not talking about the study which you provided a link to — I’m talking about the study which you are replying to — i.e. the feature article — https://phys.org/news/2023-03-online-iq-scores-century.html
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by LeonB 4y ago
The study is about data from 2006 to 2018, predating the covid epidemic.
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by LeonB 4y ago
I think you’re right - and I appreciate the answers (including Dang’s) — had they won big on their gamble they would be putting it down to luck. I feel that people taking out variable loans at 1% and hoping it won’t go to 4% aren’t as reckl
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by LeonB 4y ago
Before I answer that I’d be interested to know if you have ever met any people? And secondly, do you have any compassion? Because it seems like the answer to one or the other might be “no”, in which case you’re going to struggle to understa
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by LeonB 4y ago
To someone who took out a loan expecting it to stay at the rate it was at… It’s extremely high.
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by LeonB 4y ago
> I remember watching Nova shows in science class and so forth. So yes TV has reduced costs. What cost did the school save themselves here? The paid for televisions, so TV increased costs.
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by LeonB 4y ago
I’m not denying it, but the cost of educating 1 child - has that fallen or risen?
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by LeonB 4y ago
When the television first arrived any TV optimist would’ve said: “clearly TV is going to open up educational opportunities in a way that brings the costs way down” … and that is exactly what happened. Since 1960 every kid in the world “clea
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by LeonB 4y ago
Very true. Anyone urging caution, or any government department with “standards” is universally the bad guy in film. There’s a huge gap between what is entertaining and what is good outside of fiction. “reality tv” makes this particularly da
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by LeonB 4y ago
C#
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No, the coup didn’t work. They went the semi-legit route and used the system.
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C# is headed in that direction too.
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The one about them being a master race had pretty big costs as well I’d say.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Equally - perhaps the product should have a disclaimer that it is only suited to people with a 1 dimensional threat model?
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by LeonB 4y ago
Ok - that sounds like the exact thing. It was so very odd when it happened. I’m sure I tweeted about it at the time, or put it on mastodon if it was more recent.
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by LeonB 4y ago
I witnessed an egregious bug once - where logging in with one users name and a different users 2FA let me in. I just looked for my notes on it and can’t find them. I’m happy for you not to take my word on it other than to say — I concur tha
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by LeonB 4y ago
(But you did not point out that I incorrectly said the first commandment is to go to Jersey, when that’s nowhere near the first. I am a very poor reteller of Ham’)
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by LeonB 4y ago
Now, if Microsoft bought Atlassian — that would be absolute theoretical maximum limit of peak confusion when logging into an app. “Warning: You are about to login to Microsoft Atlassian Fogbugz Trello. Have you cleared sufficient space in y
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by LeonB 4y ago
The way Microsoft accounts work is almost completely opaque to users. I’ve been in similar scenarios — the switch directory or switch organisation technique usually worked for me - but wasn’t enough for this person. They never really give y
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by LeonB 4y ago
The musical Hamilton (spoiler alert) involves several Duels, and the rules are introduced with a quite formal explanation. (It’s a nicely choreographed piece of exposition). In the musical the first step to having a Duel is to go across the

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