LeonB

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by LeonB 1y ago
It’s “1-bit, for particularly large values of ‘bit’”
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by LeonB 1y ago
Very unlikely in the first place, but second, that way lies far worse chaos. Similarly, when Julius Caesar turned the republic into an empire, and was subsequently assassinated: it did not mean the empire reverted back to being a republic -
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by LeonB 2y ago
I generally agree. This bit I see differently, though only with ~ 30% confidence. > vast majority of the companies in the S&P 500 have nothing to do with defense, shipping or natural resources. If you were evaluating the impact that
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by LeonB 2y ago
> if we dole out UBI to everyone to cover basic living costs, will that simply result in the cost of rent going up to absorb the whole amount? For that to be true, rent-seeking would have to literally capture all surplus. In which case
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by LeonB 2y ago
I carry around a little illuminated square on which i interact with imaginary friends. Right now I’m imagining that `mmooss` has just asked me a question. Only thing is, how do I know for sure that I’m not the imaginary one?
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by LeonB 2y ago
Turned out there was only room for about 4 oligopolist cloud providers.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Awesome Tom. Snout were v good.
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by LeonB 2y ago
I’ve lived in scenarios where people saying either of these things would be a huge violation, and I’ve lived in scenarios where people saying either of these things would be natural. Living in the latter scenario is a far better place, an
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by LeonB 2y ago
King co-wrote the song! (Carole King that is)
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by LeonB 2y ago
No one knows why it happened! It was possibly one rogue triple Z volunteer on a bender, not some organised putsch. We’ve known Paul and David from custard for a long time now. Only time we ever talked about that was waaaaay back, around 199
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by LeonB 2y ago
I watched the teaser video and was disappointed to see that — despite half a century of precedent — these so called experts failed to include, and focus on, some really gnarly stacks, nosedives and face plants.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Lots of airplay, apart from that time they went into the 4ZZZ studios and found a bunch of custard cds and tapes were all smashed up… leading to the song “fantastic plastic” off Wahooto, “I wish that triple zed would play us…” Love Custard
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by LeonB 2y ago
M1 changed in a way that made M1 larger. So explaining M2 in terms of M1 only works if you include those definition in the equation. Otherwise it will falsely look like M2 fell by the amount that M1 rose.
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by LeonB 2y ago
I’ve found the following 2020 note about a change to M1 definition (not M2) and which didn’t make M1 supply look smaller but larger . I think you should back up your claim with a reliable source. > First Monthly H.6 Statistical Release
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by LeonB 2y ago
There will always be work for people who are smart, hard-working, creative, and willing to do exactly what their billionaire-owner asks.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Jeff is specifically donating money to causes which improve the political system, enfranchise (not dis-enfranchise) voters.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Some people would still contribute. It’s an intrinsic drive. (But I agree with your point in general)
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by LeonB 2y ago
You might find this hard to believe, but I find that helping other people is genuinely rewarding all by itself. And it’s rewarding in a way that money can’t buy. Stack Overflow helped it to scale really well, too. You could answer a questio
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by LeonB 2y ago
“I found a body with no head.” (singular) “I found a body with no legs.” (plural) As opposed to: “I found a body with no heads.” (Weird alien concept!) “I found a body with no leg.” (Ambiguous meaning) “I found a body with no left leg.” (Z
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by LeonB 2y ago
I find “co-ordinating distributed transactions” to be very hard. Getting any kind of optimum cooperation between self-centred agents is tricky. Also — “Jevon’s paradox”. That one is nasty! For example: just about anything we do to decrease
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by LeonB 2y ago
International tax agreements are crucial if any progress is to be made on preventing climate disaster. Which major parties support it? Who is even talking about it? It’s such an obviously needed mechanism, but hard to get anyone enthused ab
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by LeonB 2y ago
Mullenweg needs to be more careful doing this. The moment Mullenweg realises exactly what Mullenweg’s doing to WordPress, Mullenweg will deactivate Mullenweg’s account.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Can you suggest an organisation that does?
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by LeonB 2y ago
One of the weirder types of comparisons is comparing “the number of combinations” (Eg …in a lottery game) to the quantity of a thing (e.g. grains of sand on the beach) Although: Comparing that type of comparison to the general case of compa
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by LeonB 2y ago
And if you’re feeling particularly Sadomasochistic there’s always the Windows Registry.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Woah — following your link is how I learned that Greg Bear passed away, two years ago. Brilliant writer. RIP.
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The Great Filter Comes for Us All(blog.codinghorror.com)
7 points by LeonB 2y ago|3 comments
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by LeonB 2y ago
That’s a shocking case. Several layers of problem there, particularly that a “criminal record” doesn’t mean you’ve been found guilty, only charged, and that the stay on proceedings means an innocent person can never clear their name- allowi
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by LeonB 2y ago
“Pattern”
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by LeonB 2y ago
“We don’t wish to cause any alarm, but is there any one on board who is familiar with regular expressions, cron expressions and parameter expansion rules in bash?”

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