Ntrails

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by Ntrails 8y ago
> If believing that every citizen's vote should be of equal weight is wrong, I don't want to be right. Ok, so let me suggest that it is a problem if the cities have complete control over the course of policy. In principle pure
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Unfortunately it turns out that nobody, not even me, likes future-me. So fuck that guy, i'm going to leave that task for tomorrow
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Isn't this just instagram testing a UI response to potential legislation change?
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> OG would absolutely handily win against any non-professionally-contracted dota team under the exact same challenge conditions. Because OG are mechanically better than them. Flawless reactions make for a big difference (see euls/he
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by Ntrails 8y ago
12.3 != 12 12.3 is not divisible by 3 or 4, is not special or whole or interesting. Manipulating things in an attempt to make them significant is ludicrous. Should there be higher powers and deeper meanings driving things, they would be ex
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> in this case pocketing $15/BTC minus fees and commissions (trading being negative sum is always worth highlighting)
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> the fact that the lunation cycle divides the year into 12? Assuming you mean "The lunar cycle" - I was not aware that it divided the year into 12 at all (there are more than 12 in a year). If you ascribe significance to the
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by Ntrails 8y ago
"40 - Queue ahead" by a junction about an hour after the traffic has cleared. A couple of weekends ago I drove past 3 lane closure warnings and low speed limit signs on a motorway with, you guessed it, no lanes closed. To some ex
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Most of our healthcare dollars don't end up in the hands of hospitals [..]. Most dollars ultimately end up with insurers, device manufacturers, or pharmaceutical companies. Do you have some evidence for that? I am pretty dubious
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Failing to surrender to court (ie breaching terms of bail). This is to avoid facing the allegations in Sweden. Feigning ignorance of the obvious doesn't help anyone
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> You can drive a manual in stop and go traffic. That doesn't make it not obviously worse for the task than an automatic. It's weird, I've never actually thought of changing gear as a hassle or something that makes driving
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Yeah, it was more a comment on the natural compromises that come about from trying to be all of the best things in your code. Perfect being enemy of good etc. Agree entirely that they're all things that contribute to "good"
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> meaning - correct, performant, maintainable, understandable, clever and so on My favourite part of this is how often these criteria are essentially at odds. - Understandable *and* performant? - Clever *and* maintainable?
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Sounds like a great argument for Medicare for All, the NHS, or other nationalized systems. There's a good chance that NICE won't be willing to fund these treatments at all . Which is in no way a criticism of them (QALY is t
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Obviously yes, but heck if only humans had never gone to Australia in the first place it would still be populated by innumerable species that simply no longer exist. We were destroying ecosystems long before there was anything that could re
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> No human actually wants you to do that, if you offered somebody on the street five bucks for their phone contact list they wouldn't say yes. There is an argument i have with a guy who stands on the street offering 'free coffe
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by Ntrails 8y ago
If the police called and asked me whether i'd seen [person fitting description] at my motel, i would answer honestly. If they had a name, i would check records. Want yesterdays cctv? No problems. I wouldn't care if they had a w
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I dont know... Managing 100b for investment is significantly more effort than managing 50b. It is just so much money to put places
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I am not sure I believe that facebook content is truly anything like 99.9% user generated at this point.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Have you played on Arena? I'm struggling to imagine how anyone could meaningfully troll you on that apart from by spamming the 6 pre-canned communications (which you can mute).
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Because Arwen could not have ridden against the 9, at all. They could have replaced Glorfindel or removed him, i understand, but the powers he had came from having lived over the sea. Arwen was born in Middle Earth and simply could not do
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by Ntrails 8y ago
The cheap end of hotel rates dont include breakfast. You are right on utilities, but the counterpoint is that you have (for example) lost access to a kitchen to cook, pushing other costs up. I reckon costs being of "similar magnitude&
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I never used to lock my phone, but with fingerprint unlock the effort went away and so left it on.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I dont think i have ever met anyone who thought that was the thing the films fucked up. I can totally understand that the scenes are self contained, and length was an issue. I was far more aggravated by replacing Glorfindel with Arwen, a
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by Ntrails 8y ago
A 1 bed flat in zone 1-2 London is approx £1500 a month. Call that £50 a night? I think it is pretty rare to see a similarly located London hotel < £100 a night. Certainly i have airbnb'd for ~55-60 comfortably - but with way less
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I mean, you probably find a lot of things alarming then? There are a lot of people not living remotely hand to mouth in the world
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by Ntrails 8y ago
The only way, and I mean the only way, this gets blocked is because a manager (not a dev) assesses the risk of improper fixing to be higher than the reward of not doing a shit ton of work justifies. A significant portion of that is making
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Real analysis is not actually that hard, you do however have to learn a bunch of notation, concepts and processes before you can grasp things. The people who struggled with it at my course (different country, similar content I suspect) wer
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by Ntrails 8y ago
The first time they gave me a bunch of morphine post-op, a nurse kept wondering by. After a few checks, getting slightly more in explicit, I asked "why". She explained that there was a fair likelihood of hallucination with the d
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Precisely. I could entirely legally carry my knife roll on the train up to my friend in Leeds, and if stopped explain "I'm intending to cook whilst there, these are my knives for doing so". The police have every right to

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