SilasX

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by SilasX 3y ago
Then you're against all the federal funding to help students attend religious colleges?
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by SilasX 3y ago
Haha I’d think a better comparison would be (an explosion-free) Fight Club.
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by SilasX 3y ago
And a critical counterbalance against automating labor. If you want that.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Even systems without a profit motive will have to economize, and therefore will track resource usage and discourage waste. The NHS still has e.g. PSAs telling people not to go to the emergency room for non-emergencies.
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by SilasX 3y ago
It’s for that reason they started the subreddit /r/LinkedInLunatics.
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by SilasX 3y ago
No, you should recognize your miscalibration on the question of "what's the worst that can happen".
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by SilasX 3y ago
Wow, you didn’t notice the one I just listed even after I listed it? That level of ignorance takes effort! As for telemetry, I’m talking about this particular incident, where the “user studies” feature was used to force an unrelated update:
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by SilasX 3y ago
Just like you probably dismissed the significance of banning unsigned addons until Mozilla forgot to update the certs and we had that worldwide extension outage?
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by SilasX 3y ago
Right. They keep the config settings around. They just start ignoring the value, like in the case of allowing unsigned extensions. Or anything related to telemetry and user experiments.
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by SilasX 3y ago
That was Chaos Orb, and it was a normal card, not parody Unglued one: https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multive...
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by SilasX 3y ago
Mice were absolutely selected into the “Zerg rush/high loss rate” niche.
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by SilasX 3y ago
HN doesn't have downvotes on topics/submissions, which IMHO is part of the problem. You can only flag. But there are a lot of stories that don't rise to the level of "this is totally inappropriate/spam", but al
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by SilasX 3y ago
Haha, you're not wrong. I think it was actually more like 8pm, shortly before I left to live it up. But either way, transacting near the new year shouldn't break financial systems.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Haha yeah for the past tax year I I looked at my transaction history and it was missing some that I expected to be there. Turns out, the exchange (Gemini, for crypto) uses UTC, but the IRS docs always tell you that a cutoff is relative to y
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by SilasX 3y ago
And as written, someone that didn't already know about it would make a false inference about what kind of people would be marked as radioactive. I was pre-empting that (very likely) false inference. The fact that you didn't explic
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by SilasX 3y ago
Haha! I actually made the connection when viewing the recent Veritasium video on p-adic numbers. They were walking through an proof of how ...9999 = -1, because if you add one to it, it yield zero. I was like, that's just like two&#x2
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by SilasX 3y ago
I wasn't making the comparison, I was correcting a misrepresentation you made about the US credit scoring system only penalizing you for not paying debts.
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by SilasX 3y ago
No, it's based on a lot more than that, like how long you've been in the system, and average age of account. This is why you can be radioactive despite never having missed a payment on anything -- because you never carried debt.
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by SilasX 3y ago
I had a lot of fun with these! Only complaint is that in section 4 the deliverable becomes increasingly vague. Edit: also, a surprising observation about it: the challenges fall into two categories: A) implement this off-the-shelf standard
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by SilasX 3y ago
What? Didn’t he get an associate professorship, and at a pretty young age? That’s not productive? Not to mention the doctoral dissertation itself.
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by SilasX 3y ago
I wish browsers did this as a default option. The back button should never have a noticeable delay.
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by SilasX 3y ago
The idea came up before on HN[1], where the upshot is, banks don't do this, because if they sell the loan at all, they sell a bunch at once, and there are game-theoretic reasons not to encourage this kind of deal. But Denmark gives you
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by SilasX 3y ago
Did you know there’s a difference between a productive comment and a hint at what a productive comment might look like?
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by SilasX 3y ago
Similarly, the self-important prima donnas of Mozilla who think the fate of the universe depends on forcing their shitty “zarro boogs found” in-joke on the general population — or rather, the subset of users who are only there because they’
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by SilasX 3y ago
Or OpenAladeen https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NYJ2w82WifU
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by SilasX 3y ago
I know, it was something obscene and obviously marketed toward the greedy. Something like 90-120% of the official inflation rate at the time. How could that even be possible?
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yep. Every time someone suggests a special blind-friendly API, I remind them that HTML was that API, and it just got bastardized over time, so you need to figure out how you’d keep it from going through that same process with whatever new
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by SilasX 3y ago
Whichever subgroup and goalpost makes you look wise and correct, I suppose?
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by SilasX 3y ago
There are people who claim they “told you so” all along, who had heard about bitcoin in 2011[1]… and it’s still up 100x since then. ”But you could say the same of a legit Ponzi scheme or fraud!” No, not really. Those crash after the details
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by SilasX 3y ago
- IMF special drawing rights (SDR), some basket of multiple currencies. - Swiss Franc (CHF). "But it's such a small market" -> lol they can make more. - Japanese Yen (JPY). Also, please don't format with monospace, it

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