Ntrails

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by Ntrails 8y ago
How does the abstraction of order from number to letter help people understand what is required? Or is the concern the possibility of confusion around "rank 1-5" vs "Score candidates out of 5" etc
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Right, but claiming a thing is a planet/ecosystem defining disaster when in context it's just a bad thing from which the world will inevitably recover is just scaremongering
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Cool, thanks!
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by Ntrails 8y ago
sorry to off topic - but how do you get safari to force desktop? I've been hacking URLS
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> This sounds nice, but nobody has a clearly defined value system. Can you tell us what yours is? Absolutes are generally horrific but without them it's impossible to codify any value system. With them you'll be driven to the e
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by Ntrails 8y ago
eh? CEO pay is bound by the same thing that everyone else pay is - the market rate. As are wall street salaries (which, again, are absolutely market based). Now - you can argue much more effectively that CEO hiring is not very objective,
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Better to use cameras, which have almost exactly the same issues humans have Surely, he cries, the argument is to use both and simply apply use some kind of likelihoods/confiendence in the output to combine them?
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Right, and it turns out that the devil you know is infinitely more attractive than the next helf finished buggy piece of shit that someone assures you will revolutionise your workflow .
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Those are not evidence of a bankrupted economy. Yes, the pound has tanked, and yet strangely the economy is not bankrupt . You're entitled to believe a thing may come to pass, but don't be under the illusion it either has (it o
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Sort of, but rather than being the guy posting on the internet the fed gets to draw on the GDP of a pretty big country. Second point, 1 dollar is not a stable unit of value as viewed by other currencies. This is fine, you're valuing t
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> People narrowly voted to bankrupt their economy, that's for sure. Source Required.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
There are two interesting parts to reading code. - Working out what it actually does, and why - Working out why somebody *wrote it in that way* The former is usually not too bad. Occasionally there will be a comment to help with
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> The only reason to give to charity is to benefit that charity. It also denies money from the government financed programs which you may not agree with, whilst allowing you to get your name on a building. The choice of how to distribute
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by Ntrails 8y ago
#TeamThanos There is a huge difference between the population flattening out and continuing to grow strongly. Whilst you are broadly correct, that we need to solve for 120% current - that's obviously easier than solving for 200% curre
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by Ntrails 8y ago
The issue is that trust breaches can't just be rolled back. You put people in a situation where they don't want to get caught out by the next change that the press doesn't pick up and/or you don't hear about.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
It's not that I care about privacy particularly - it's that I can't imagine the use case for me personally. They could give them out for free and I'd not be interested in owning one.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I always breezed past them, acknowledging that they were interesting in abstract but I wouldn't retain enough for it to actually colour the story. Mostly the story conveys the things I care about (terrain/distance/etc) and k
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> I think the best translation of "trivial" when used amongst mathematicians is that it is something you should be able to figure out with your current knowledge without too much difficulty As i read through my old uni maths no
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> if in the future the people in power use that information against you or your people you will regret it to exchange your privacy for convenience. Alternatively if the people not in power have a revolution and murder all of us working i
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> If he’d have held onto them until the $20 000 peak (a tall order in itself) he’d have netted a cool $200 million. If he could have sold them at that price without moving the market, that is.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
You're both right and wrong. The auditor has professional ethical and legal obligations. Clearly that is a special case of being particularly culpable. However, everyone who knew what was happening and the scam being run should proba
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by Ntrails 8y ago
HaemoDialysis is miserable. You feel shit ~5 days out of 7, it's exhausting and depressing and it never gets better. Transplant is infinitely preferable if it's an option. CAPD is arguably less miserable as a dialysis option but
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by Ntrails 8y ago
My experience of economics teaching is something like this: - Here is a set of assumptions which are obviously wrong - Given that set of assumptions, we can make this model, which has been shown not to hold true in reality due to the above
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by Ntrails 8y ago
The thing I actually care about is computer games. Good ones, well made, and designed around being fun. I enjoy opening my dota2 chests - but they have (basically) no negative impact on the game. I actually agree - it's "pure&qu
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Counterstrike boxes contain purely cosmetics. I can't get wound up about that. You can even buy the thing you actually want on the open market. CS:GO is not a game using lots of shitty in game mechanics/restrictions etc to drive
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> n each of the poor utilization of skills, I could counter by saying there were other objectives in play. For example, you didn't mention that the "skill that does more damage for every point of missing health on targets"
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by Ntrails 8y ago
They aren't blind spots, they're outliers. If a change to medicare makes 99% of users significantly better off and 1% significantly worse, then it's a net good change. The useful reporting tells both sides, but simply telli
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Tobacco and Alcohol being legal whilst we've criminalised weed/amphetamines/cocaine doesn't make much sense to me. The arbitrary lines are clearly spurious and historical. I'm broadly in favour of selling every si
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> My dad was one of those people and I believed him until I tried it in my 20’s and saw that it’s a vice akin to drinking at its worst, and often very positive. Not the whole truth, as there are known rare side effects that are signif
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by Ntrails 8y ago
No. It's an incentive to change the corporate structure. Sorry, but it's simply not that simple.

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