LeonB

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by LeonB 3y ago
Apple’s ability to wield its market power to force buyers or sellers to use its platform is firm evidence of the sort of power that anti trust laws (if they retained any teeth) are designed to prevent. For example they were able to force
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by LeonB 3y ago
There’s plenty of practical solutions to monopolies who abuse their power. - First up, stop their tax avoidance by supporting governments that engage in strong international tax treaties. - Support governments who will provide effective det
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by LeonB 3y ago
It’s an omission and serious bug for this thread to not already contain the following comments: “Why would I consider this, given that make is perfect” And “Doesn’t eMacs org mode already do this?” — Seriously, looks nice. I’m a big fan of
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by LeonB 3y ago
Your specific claim was not about religious versus non religious students. It was about a very narrow subset of students. Your continual assumptions about me are both wrong and offensive.
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by LeonB 3y ago
You did provide some “data” and it doesn’t mention your specific claim.
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by LeonB 3y ago
You didn’t provide “the data” - and I doubt it backs up your specific claim here.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Sorry, you mean asymmetric. assymetric is when both buttchecks are not perfectly identical. (Most of my own long term spelling problems are in this same format — I know there’s a double letter, butt I double the wrong letter. (Sorry))
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by LeonB 3y ago
The “fraud prevention” people are told that they are fraud prevention people, even though the rest of the company are “customer service” people. So they build “fraud prevention” systems, and heavily discount any notion of customer service —
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by LeonB 3y ago
Isn’t the claim that it’s preventative not that it reverses or cures existing melanoma? (I don’t see any discussion on that claim, the claim of prevention, and wish someone gave more info there.)
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by LeonB 3y ago
In theory, you might be right. But in practice the biggest investors (and boosters) in carbon capture are oil and gas companies — and for them it’s a way to continue business as usual (i.e., continue to increase carbon output) while hand
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by LeonB 3y ago
Square free … there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. They had a simple wysiwyg in the browser html editor, in the pre-Ajax era.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Perhaps if the bookmarklet opened a new url containing the text as a query parameter, and the url had a weird protocol instead of https:// — say it was snippy:// … and then you created a protocol handler on your machin
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by LeonB 3y ago
“ German folklore held that storks found babies in caves or marshes and brought them to households in a basket on their backs or held in their beaks. These caves contained adebarsteine or "stork stones". The babies would then be g
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by LeonB 3y ago
I joined an oil and gas company and I had a few questions when I noticed “pigLauncher” in an enum.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Sorry I missed this question earlier. I may turn down the brightness on images, generally, in dark mode. (Using a filter). And have some classes that mean “don’t alter the brightness of this image, in dark mode” And there may be other image
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by LeonB 3y ago
I don’t know which specific incidents were pivotal, but surely some moment was?
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by LeonB 3y ago
I’d like to say - Factfulness or - Sapiens or - Richard Feynman’s various writings …but the most measurable impact was probably from something like - “Strunk and white The Elements of Style” or - “How to win friends and influence people” or
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by LeonB 3y ago
Even though that’s a kind of strange and unworkable idea — it’s interesting to think about. Unworkable in the sense that, for example, some elements are not physically positioned inside their container elements, and sometimes even in light
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by LeonB 3y ago
If I look at the times I’ve implemented dark mode — I see that the effect will be: 1. Less lines of code (seems like a good thing) 2. I will still need to use prefers-dark-mode for some of my changes. Thus — the concept count is ratcheted
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by LeonB 3y ago
A thing contained an ad. (But anything related to Terry Pratchett probably gets my upvote.)
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by LeonB 3y ago
Yes — i thought the same. Here’s a 2015 article that got me into the topic: https://hazlitt.net/feature/goes-all-way-queen-puzzle-book-d... The human ability to find meaning in anything (to see patterns that aren’t the
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by LeonB 3y ago
I think that a lot of the same problems exist in generic brands at supermarkets. Supermarkets already have a lot of ways to pressure suppliers, and “own brand” products are weaponised extensively. I’m all in favor of suppliers competing wit
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by LeonB 3y ago
Amazon is the rent seeker here.
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by LeonB 3y ago
> so I should buy 10 apples today, then sell them on Friday' Simulation might also want to take into account that you can’t stock pile apples indefinitely before they spoil.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Yes please! Fantastic work by the way. I’d love to see the code with a permissive license for others to build upon. Reminds me a little of ncase’s fantastic simulations — for example: https://ncase.me/sim/
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by LeonB 3y ago
Pretty sure Dang has some nice scripts that generate this, and I expect he does a little manual pruning before posting it. He’s very precise in his choices, definitely applies some intuition/judgement. We can’t losslessly compress him
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by LeonB 3y ago
That’s a really clear response. I like the details and context you include. When I was a little kid the original tv series of “the transformers” was one of the most popular children’s shows. The theme song sang, in a sort of robotic chorus:
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by LeonB 3y ago
Provided they’re not connected to lengths of conducting material, they ought to be ok. Hard to be certain though, as transformers are more than meets the eye.
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by LeonB 3y ago
The essay is “I, Pencil” It’s a rollicking good read. Here it is in pdf form: https://fee.org/media/14940/read-i-pencil.pdf
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by LeonB 3y ago
What is meant by TMD? If it’s “Temporomandibular disorders” do you consider those a manifestation of “css”?

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