Phiwise_

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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
>Wait, TikTok doesn't allow you to change the volume? Just a guess from Youtube's shorts not having it. I've never used it.
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
>the words "by someone elected" don't belong in your question [about power derived from elections]. Do they not belong because they are untrue, or perhaps because they make your taking exception to their argument incoheren
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
I think both redirect to the video, no? At least I think they used to.
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Plus adjust the volume! Really speaks to the modern state Google's in that they took out their own functionality to more closely clone TikTok, I assume. Paul Graham's got an old quote about what it indicated about Microsoft when t
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
I'm not sure I can support throwing out review boards because they look improprietous by conducting reviews. Seems a little backwards.
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
It's good to hear that's what you wanted to do, but I think a case can be made that your comment does not read that way.
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
That's more than a bit of a word salad so I'm just going to leave this for you to read: https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/65fec8...
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
>What's the point of a citizen review board if the sheriff... appoints everyone on it? Would you rather someone unelected by the citizens decide who sits on the citizen review board?
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
You mean the time that I read and memorized long ago had an inflation of 14%? You have read the title of this post, right? And you're aware that 18 > 14? If I assume you are, you are just making another vibes-based assertion. Would
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Yeah the moderation is absolutely atrocious these days. I got flagged for quoting the IMF a few weeks ago lmao.
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
>> CPI is designed to make the government look good, hence the article. >The CPI is run by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: ... https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/history.htm You do notice that your lin
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
>If these facts are so right, why do they sound false to me? Again, this appeal to the vibe you're getting right now is not compelling to anyone who actually cares about economics.
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
>But, further down the February results, you can see that record numbers of people report hearing negative news stories about prices, way way way higher than in 1980! Which is totally crazy if you were here in 1980! If you had taken a mo
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
>Beware any election-year stories that just happen to elicit a deep sense of things being astray. Larry Summers in particular has a long track record of playing complex angles in his public policy views. The technical argument in the pap
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
It's more than just interest: 2022 just might have been the worst non-recession year in (modern, meaning years with acceptable stats) US economic history. Every tranche of net worth FRED tracks fell off a cliff that year, declining in
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
This absolutely reads like a reasoned counterpoint to a dubious claim and totally not at all like an unhinged, partisan knee-jerk rejection of additional information that's bad news for your preferred platform.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
If you had read the data before commenting you would have noticed that it is all PPP-adjusted.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
This wording is unnecessary, but I agree that Wikipedia is quite harmed by some-to-many of its favored policies and editors. I've recently been turned on to Justapedia, a fork project that seems to want to avoid such petty-baron proble
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
I'm waiting patiently for the day when I encounter the first European on an American website who understands that Europe sees the American work standard as absurdly high, that on the other hand Americans see the European wealth standar
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Did you read more than the first sentence of this comment before replying? I'm up in the air on it but it deserves more discussion and less mental laziness than you're showing here.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
>In other words, no operations were affected or compromised here. How do you know this? Did you check it with the NSA, or Cyber Command, or the CIA, or literally anyone before running your "attack"? Will they confirm this discu
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Almost certainly the latter. Chances are good "allied" states like the US or S.Korea, with their cybersecurity budgets many times larger than either N.Korea or any private firm or group, also already knew about these and many othe
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Sussman has a great guest lecture that mentions exactly these sorts of issues, and that he found it much easier to verify work he and his grad students did in mathematical physics after developing the "mechanics programming" notat
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
This is indeed a N=1
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
If you're referring to the sharp drop at the end of the graph, no. It's an artifact of the api change making it much harder to capture comments. We can verify this by how the comments/day rank didn't budge, because it ha
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
A favorite more recent fact about this of mine: You might have heard about reddit's several early influxes from other websites as metaphorical eternal septembers, but did you know they had a literal eternal september just over a year a
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
>In addition: two months to a compiler? Four to a complete chip? All from a team under 15 ppl? "Because of [Symbolics' automated design] methodology, we were able to do five different revs of the chip on four different technolo
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
>Now what am I supposed to do? Sell my model and take a bath on the used item depreciation to get a worthwhile screen? Buy a second device with pretty much identical performance otherwise? Pay for the screen I should have been able to ch
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
How old are you?
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Fun fact: Half of all HN posts/ comments were made in the last five years. I'm brand-new to here instead of reddit (no subs grrr), but look old as the hills from this perspective.

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