Ntrails

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by Ntrails 2y ago
> The more trials, the more you roll the dice, the more you learn. If you have infinite dice rolls this is obviously true. If every dice roll costs you something or indeed everything... heh. Maybe don't just roll it to see what ha
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by Ntrails 2y ago
> From the article, it looks like they make a lot from market making in ETFs and similar. Thats an extremely competitive market that is necessarily a race to the bottom in terms of pricing They are not making their money market making eq
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by Ntrails 2y ago
> After all, we're on social media here, right now [...] Similarly, Reddit is social media as well I don't agree, but i can't really formulate why. For example is 4chan social media, or Something Awful? I'd say no
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by Ntrails 2y ago
Assuming they re-nationalise the railways, I merely hope we extend the scheme to work everywhere. Tap in and tap out is the right UX imo
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by Ntrails 2y ago
We have largely moved away from anything so crass as holding parents responsible
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by Ntrails 3y ago
I think most people would agree that rationally no amount of action by the Swiss Government is going to change the climate change experienced by the claimants. But I also concede that line of thinking ends in never doing anything. It&#x
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by Ntrails 3y ago
10 years ago we designed a system to approximate a chunk of maths we did not have time to do every second, too slow. If you started from scratch you'd never even consider doing anything other than the original obvious "correct&quo
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by Ntrails 3y ago
> The rule is no deeper than the knees of the smallest person who may be involved. Absolutely not. You are welcome to apply it to your family but don't come applying it anywhere near mine. I am so utterly bored of absolute risk ave
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by Ntrails 3y ago
> It's far from "living with dignity", even if the body is still physically capable. It would be abhorrent if you understood what was going on, but if you did you wouldn't be in that state. I'm not sure whether
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by Ntrails 3y ago
Not just taxpayer, but also charity funded!
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by Ntrails 3y ago
Just react in a proportional manner to the likelihood. Knock on the door, say hello, ask if everything is ok and can you have a look around. Assume but confirm .
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by Ntrails 3y ago
> Should you concentrate on taking notes or should you concentrate on understanding what you are learning? I always always erred on the latter. I was definitely in the minority. It took me ages to work out why nobody else ever asked qu
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by Ntrails 3y ago
"We've got a bunch of people with massive wealth, so tax only the people earning new money" doesn't sound like it is going to equalise the state of the world. I will also accept inheritance tax at 90%, if you really want
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by Ntrails 3y ago
My view is to simply allow property taxes to be deferred until sale or death. Alternatives exist (eg taxable value set by what you paid not marked to market)
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by Ntrails 3y ago
I feel like you could have said the same about google or facebook. They made a dominant early platform and could have comfortably lived off that success? There are a bunch of companies trying to compete with valve. They are not behind any
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by Ntrails 3y ago
I end up manually curating skeleton command lines in a text file - partly because I've never had functional full badh history
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by Ntrails 3y ago
For the record I read your statements in the same way they do. I might not use "grandiose" but I see what they mean.
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by Ntrails 3y ago
"Restaurants" is a broad church, and has venues on both ends of the spectrum - sourcing either best possible quality or lowest possible price depending what you're buying. As an idle heuristic, i'd tend towards French Fr
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by Ntrails 3y ago
I am not convinced that is a significantly different meaning? The true quote certainly has more depth and nuance around the hardship of living. But GP feels like a tolerable para-phrase to me
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by Ntrails 3y ago
I have "st = status" but you're absolutely right I should probably get around to updating!
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by Ntrails 3y ago
> total tire grip scales sub-linearly with road pressure, so distributing the weight over more area slightly improves grip I always assumed friction and thus deceleration scaled linearly with contact surface area
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by Ntrails 3y ago
I'll just pop out to the nearest newsagent that stocks the NYT so I can engage with a news aggregator (But yes, that is the model)
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by Ntrails 3y ago
Given the number of times I run git psuh To be told "you probably mean push"... yeah it'd be easier for me if they went ahead and accepted the typo :D
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by Ntrails 3y ago
I mean this also misses the fact that if they _see_ the obstacle at the exact same distance + time (a sensible assumption to compare) by the time they hit the breaks a significant difference in distance has already been generated. Stopping
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by Ntrails 3y ago
> How would you pay for news otherwise? You could subsidise news via "public service" style stipends. Much like having a government owned "independent" news service (eg the BBC) this comes with a high risk of corrup
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by Ntrails 3y ago
So many people loved HoN, great to see it shared!
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by Ntrails 3y ago
Internal Combustion Engine Aka petrol/diesel
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by Ntrails 3y ago
I'm going to quote from a recent FT article that I felt was pretty succinct https://www.ft.com/content/cb93c040-a719-446f-9ec2-9ead9f130... : >[On women having children] There is no other job in the world about
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by Ntrails 3y ago
I feel like being in the middle of two black holes would be more like being ripped apart than zero gravity/accel.
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by Ntrails 3y ago
> I was particularly thinking that if we end up "uploading" ourselves into computer storage, we might intentionally do some memory cleanup, and occasionally allow ourselves to re-experience things "for the first time&quot

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