MrLeap

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by MrLeap 9y ago
It might be a good thing if you think the natural progression of a governmental system is one where entropy increases til' things can't change, and you think that governmental systems trend negative in aggregate. I'm not yet
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by MrLeap 9y ago
This comment gave me a rather nice maturity flashback. Maybe I shouldn't have called that function "bobfuscate()"
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by MrLeap 9y ago
As income inequality increases, relative percentage comparisons like this become more infuriating than comforting. The more money you have, the dumber you can be with it and still be guaranteed survival. At a certain level of poverty, you h
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by MrLeap 9y ago
This is what I see when I look at lambda: Lambda is just nodejs but different. It's an ec2 server running nodejs at a discount if you preform a special AWS dance. What use is that to me over just writing nodejs? Nodejs as it is can run
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by MrLeap 9y ago
Also grew up poor, and seen people of all income levels be cognitively lazy. I felt like I really started to get the way success works when I saw successful people waste money. I saw individuals make flippant decisions to throw away 50,000$
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by MrLeap 9y ago
Nah you can have debt, you just have to pay a penalty (higher rates) to bring your profitability up. It's just not a game I want to play.
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by MrLeap 9y ago
Similar situation. Lived with my mother, constantly stressed about survival until she kicked me out at 14. Moved in with my upper middle class father (who should have had full custody from the beginning, courts don't always do it right
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by MrLeap 9y ago
People who have authority over where money flows tend to authorize it flowing to themselves. A group of people who each controls the destination of a money flow but can't choose themselves choose each other, thereby choosing themselves
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by MrLeap 9y ago
It's as simple as society gives his money value, and American society is getting anxious and resentful. As an abstraction, I like to think of money as crystalized human effort. Society makes decisions by the power of individual behavio
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by MrLeap 9y ago
I disagree. Read day 2.
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by MrLeap 9y ago
I may give houdini a try. I've only ever tried rigging in blender and zbrush. Blender is my package of choice for hard surface modelling, but the rigging workflow is just.. onerous. Zspheres are way easier, but I don't like the ha
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by MrLeap 9y ago
So many problems are caused by the paradox of the human predator. Tools to protect against the human predator are always eventually used as a tool OF the human predator. Day 1: you create a regulation to stop some company from forcing empl
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by MrLeap 9y ago
Got any tips on making rigging not feel unimaginably tedious? It's fun when you finally get a nice IK handled rig created, but getting there is always a nightmare for me. :(
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by MrLeap 9y ago
I'm pretty simple. I remember briefly experimenting with deep nested logical folder hierarchies in windows 98 when I was like 10 years old, no experiments became habits because I just didn't have that many files to store back then
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by MrLeap 9y ago
It's funny how the problem is so _us_ this time. Turn a mirror on our souls and we lose nuance, mediums, neutrals, and common ground. "Ben Shapiro makes a good point" becomes "BEN SHAPIRO DESTROYS SUBHUMAN SCUM." Wh
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by MrLeap 9y ago
I live in a small town north of Kansas City, MO that pays for ambulance rides if you can't. Not exactly NHS, but it's been a huge help to people I know. There are also several free clinics in KC and STL. In my area, there's t
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by MrLeap 9y ago
I'm interested in personal anecdotes of statistical counter examples. I'm not going to go make policy decisions off it, but hey, interesting insight into that guy's life for me.
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by MrLeap 9y ago
Rather than issue an artificial monopoly, what if a "reward" to the company that "did the science" was capped at 2x their costs or X years, whichever comes first. Then it's public domain. Wouldn't that get SOME
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by MrLeap 9y ago
I have a technique I'd use to add heat resistance to steel. Only necessary If we lived in a doomed world where engineers didn't exist and I was asked to make steel more heat resistant. Cover steel beams in a relatively thick later
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by MrLeap 9y ago
If you get a job that offers insurance, you'll be fine. Unless you lose the job and don't have the money saved to pay for COBRA or a marketplace plan... So have emergency savings.
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by MrLeap 9y ago
Your hypothetical may be moving on the wrong axis. I think a more appropriate counter example is whether or not positions that no one surrenders any power to attract tyrants. Does a tyrant wish to be a kindergarden teacher?
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by MrLeap 9y ago
People `HODL` about equities on the nasdaq just as well as they do in crypto. Crypto has more volatility though, to be sure. Leverage can be gained from all sorts of shinanegans, so an underlying asset's volatility is a little irreleva
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by MrLeap 9y ago
> Not the GP, but I didn't read anything in dsacco's post that implies any of these. I understood it as saying that it's possible to understand the technology, and even have a strong pro-encryption and pro-privacy stance,
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by MrLeap 9y ago
It looks like the parent was edited since I started typing my response, but I still think my response is appropriate for this new version. There is no series of checks and balances you can wrap around breaking encryption that doesn't h
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by MrLeap 9y ago
This line of reasoning is disturbing to me. I don't want to live in a world where there's effectively a traffic camera pointed at the contents of my phone. Bandying apologetics regarding how limited it's used and how badly it
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by MrLeap 9y ago
Eh, steel doesn't have all that much carbon. Most of the steel would be structural, which tend to be 0.05 to 0.3% carbon. "High Carbon Steel" is around ~1%.
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by MrLeap 9y ago
I didn't downvote you, but calling him out on his language is significantly less interesting than the thing the parent said. If your quote was the only thing he said you'd be right. I think the quote added a lot of context and inf
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by MrLeap 9y ago
I have very little confidence. That's why I stay mostly in cash and largely avoid single company equities. I capture my gains when it feels "early" and I leave a lot of money on the table doing this. All these behaviors come
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by MrLeap 9y ago
For me, I associate counter-consensus insights tightly with a lot of cynicism. Having a deeply cynical attitude is isolating. It's hard to trust people to a severity that I'm constantly hyper alert to subtle signals that people ar
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by MrLeap 9y ago
What's beating the market mean to you? The meme that the s&p's performance +/- is as good as you should expect to do is so bizarre to me. I know where it comes from -- I've read the same stuff about warren buffet&#x2

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