MrPatan

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by MrPatan 3y ago
The formula for success is not a sum of factors, it's a multiplication of factors. Yes, you need luck to be > 0. But you better have hard work also > 0, or you won't have any success anyway. No, the sales and marketing guys
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Ok. I'll explain because there seems to be a genuine misunderstanding. Of course the scientific method is great, and the only tool we have to understand the world. Of course. Very true. "The Science", on the other hand, is
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by MrPatan 3y ago
> If you can't distinguish between science, medicine, media and government policies, there's little we can do. I surely can. And this thing you say has nothing to do with what I said, which is that they destroyed completely tr
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Fair enough. Can't delete or edit this one anymore, ah well.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
No. That line of thinking destroyed free speech and destroyed whatever trust was left in science, medicine, governments and media. Was it worth it for a bunch of maybes? "maybe China wouldn't have collaborated" (also, collabo
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by MrPatan 3y ago
If you don't let some information out in case it changes The Science, what then?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
No. The whole point is that they're telling you stuff you disagree with or don't like to hear, but we shouldn't censor them, not that they're wearing a lab coat.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Extensions are too risky
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Long-standing entitlement is still entitlement. Expensive entitlement is still entitlement.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
That's precisely the opposite.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
> the alternative of working any other non-art-related job is too painful "I don't feel like it" doesn't sound like desperation to me. It sounds more like entitlement.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
13 of the last 2
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by MrPatan 3y ago
This is a great question, we need more of it. Whenever there's a new piece of information or "news", always stop and wonder who is telling you that, why, and why now. Not enough people do!
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by MrPatan 3y ago
If the rock floats, it will be the biggest indictment against the current way of doing research you can possibly imagine.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Not because of JS in any case. JS is the whipping boy of desktop performance because its ascendance happened at the same time as what you say: interfaces that update on the fly and need data from the net to do anything at all. So now downl
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by MrPatan 3y ago
The code the unexperienced write is infinitely faster than the non-code that would be not-written by nobody would the unexperienced not write code.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Because all the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the sample back together again
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by MrPatan 3y ago
To "combat misinformation", surely?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
The moment they push the sample and it "turns and snaps" into the magnet in this video: https://sciencecast.org/casts/suc384jly50n makes it look like a diamagnetically levitating piece of graphite moving over
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Every sigmoid not carrying me up is close to the plateau
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by MrPatan 3y ago
How is ad revenue share open to everybody "bribing right wing activist accounts with Twitter cash"?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
The power knob controls and displays, visually and tactile-ly, the current power level.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
> Every day is mental pain as I get older and younger folks are above me. It feels undignified, humiliating at times. This is transitory. I get it, but it only stings now because you're not that old yet, so you feel you should be i
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Credit? It's the (non central)bank accounts what lose meaning, imo
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by MrPatan 3y ago
It may be a matter of explaining it differently. Maybe just the names! But I never "got" MVC, and I got the one way data flow pattern straight away. Maybe I was just old enough to get the point that time around.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
No. Here's the quote I responded to originally, slightly expanded for your convenience and ease of use: > Similarly, building a somewhat straighter fibre (and then microwave towers) from Chicago to NY has no societal benefit I can d
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by MrPatan 3y ago
1 BTC = 1 BTC
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Isn't that an admission that the first page is not good enough in so many cases now that they had to make pagination easier?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Nobody is saying delivery of assets is done on chain. That's a strawman you've skewered twice already, well done. What we're saying is: a lot of the low level infrastructure used now in finance (brokers! Dealers! Clearinghous
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by MrPatan 3y ago
It's the same application layer just running in a different tech and social stack. It's clear why the current gatekeepers don't like permissionless alternatives, but why do you agree with them?

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