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by SilasX 2y ago
If the idea is to claim to be an escort that only accepts cash, and then report already-possessed cash as income, while also depositing into a bank, then that could have been phrased more clearly. As it stands, it says to actually be as
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by SilasX 2y ago
What is that responding to? The problem is how to safely spend/clean that much cash. You're describing how to accumulate cash, which makes the problem (in the parent comment) harder.
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by SilasX 2y ago
Semi-related: I had a dream about a law firm that specializes in suing casinos that prey on gambling addicts (in a way that violates the law), and has to make sure that their constant interaction with the gaming world doesn’t re-trigger the
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by SilasX 2y ago
Yes! This is what I keep complaining about! HTML likewise solved accessibility, but then it goes right through the cycle: someone extends it in a way that requires a special reader, then they focus on people with that reader at the expense
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by SilasX 2y ago
"It's not a bad deal because you can just deploy more of your household's available labor to earn more."
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by SilasX 2y ago
Don't forget the classifieds as a critical revenue stream.
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by SilasX 2y ago
Um, what? If anything, the bit about unscented cleaning products would be one of the more reasonable asks, since it's relatively cheap to provide, and makes a huge difference to quality of the workplace for those who care about it and
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by SilasX 2y ago
That may be what you think of as the core reason for cash to exist, but you shouldn't speak for others, who may see the privacy as a more relevant upside.
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by SilasX 2y ago
Another similar puzzle game is Dungeons & Diagrams on Zachtronics’s Last Call BBS . You have to build a dungeon on an 8x8 grid by deciding which spaces are wall tiles, with some constraints (such as “dead ends must have monsters and vi
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by SilasX 2y ago
I have an automatic at-home blood pressure device, and it does the same thing. Not 200 mmHg, but high enough that I’d freak out if I didn’t know it was normal and would let up soon enough[1]. Did the product designers do that intentionally
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by SilasX 2y ago
That ... feels like it defeats the purpose of designating a special, certified library for safety-critical code.
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by SilasX 2y ago
Which, to be clear, then invalidates at least one of the assumptions, right?
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by SilasX 2y ago
There were two things going on: A) Betting more aggressively than the Kelly Criterion, which indicates a bad understanding of how to reason about risk and EV[1], and, separately B) taking unnecessary, negative EV risks that have no justif
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by SilasX 2y ago
I think that’s what the parent is acknowledging in the end of the second paragraph.
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by SilasX 2y ago
Oops, fixed. Thanks. I had just lumped it in with all the others.
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by SilasX 2y ago
Semi-related: one thing I liked about the video game Turing Complete [1] is that, once you've built the computer and implemented its (binary) machine code ... it doesn't give you an assembly language, or suggest one! It has you st
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by SilasX 2y ago
Okay, well, “They do it because they have the power to” isn’t the moral argument I was originally presented with.
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by SilasX 2y ago
So why does no other country in the world do it then?
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by SilasX 2y ago
>Theoretically you can order from it and you order is ready when you arrive. The last time I tried this... the app let us know we can't order online from that store. FWIW, as one data point, this is what I've used it for a few
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by SilasX 2y ago
Omg! A perfect time to share my story from before[1], where I lost a notebook at a big box store, and I had early on lumped the notebook in with greens, and thus described it as a "green notebook". But some people, including the s
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by SilasX 2y ago
Yeah -- that's the problem. You can't make the right decision when you only look at the costs of a yes but never the costs of a no. Both matter! Politicians can puff themselves up by only grandstanding about the former -- but
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by SilasX 2y ago
No. Every site, even HN and static sites. Remember, we’re taking about a Firefox restart, not the back button.
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by SilasX 2y ago
We’re talking about coming from a restart, not the back button.
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by SilasX 2y ago
lol what? Every Firefox tab I’ve ever switched to after restarting has done a full, across-the-wire reload.
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by SilasX 2y ago
lol isn’t that basically what happened with lobster? Used to be inhumane to give that to prisoners too often, and now it’s delicacy? https://historyofyesterday.com/lobster-used-to-be-a-poor-man...
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by SilasX 2y ago
Imagine being the designer of handcuffs: "Customer requirement is to for prevent effective use of a detainee's hands, without technically violating their rights." Imagine being the designer of AA missiles: "Customer requ
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by SilasX 2y ago
Fair. But, one more point, even with its pre market drop, it’s still way above that strike, though the value of the put is going to be up.
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by SilasX 2y ago
He says he bought seven put contracts for $7.30 at the $185 strike. Absolute max profit, from CS going to -0, would be (185-7.3) x 7 X 100 = ~$125k. I don’t know if the absolute amount of profit affects decisions here. It seems if he were m
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by SilasX 2y ago
Still, I'd expect the government's bean counters to ensure that any usage of third party analytics involves some ironclad agreement to the effect of, "If you fail to meet <Herculean privacy desiderata>, then we f---ing
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by SilasX 2y ago
Semi-related: I went to the gym a month ago, and that block was undergoing a power outage. I tried to drink from the (refrigerated) water fountain, but it didn't work! That model is inoperative when power is out. Huh? You'd think

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