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by SilasX 4y ago
No. The "problem" is that people pay a massive premium to see him perform on stage, thinking they're enjoying art, even though his performance isn't significantly different from any of a hundred less famous violinists. T
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by SilasX 4y ago
>Honestly why does anyone think this is not wrong? Probably because they think they're such superior detectors of satire that they will never themselves be hookwinked, and then Just-World-Fallacy away anyone who is. While also, of c
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by SilasX 4y ago
Not really. This is a case where both numbers are so small that even the 10x difference between them shouldn’t matter, considering the narrow, limited scope, which was the point of the original comment. Sorry for the sloppiness though.
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by SilasX 4y ago
Phantom Menace: “A communications disruption can mean only one thing: invasion.”
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by SilasX 4y ago
I don't even think anyone can ELI 50 on that one. Like the others said, it's always a political determination. So, I could ELIcynic and say that price gouging is high prices that affect politically connected groups. Remember when
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by SilasX 4y ago
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess does something like this, where you play as a wolf at some point that can you track in-world smells. Kind of a blunt approach though -- the smell appears with a visual indicator that is absent when you&#x2
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by SilasX 4y ago
Right, for a month or so I saw halos around lights at but then they went away. But definitely a risk to be aware of. I had a friend who was considering LASIK by doing one eye at a time to reduce the possible downside.
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by SilasX 4y ago
He's adding misinformation too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34811350
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by SilasX 4y ago
Expensive solution, but … LASIK fixed it for me. Edit: I had astigmatism in one eye as well.
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by SilasX 4y ago
Wait, what? They are economizing on headlight LED power draw? LEDs are ridiculously efficient to begin with, and a rounding error against a car’s total energy usage. (And in gas cars, get the energy from the battery, which can be recharge
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by SilasX 4y ago
That wasn’t the part that I was calling a farce — see the next three paragraphs. Literally .
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by SilasX 4y ago
>See downthread. The two non-parental guarantors haven't paid anything, but his parents will be zeroed out if he jumps bail. You lost me -- how does that justify you falsely referring to (some of) the guarantors as "people maki
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by SilasX 4y ago
>By all means, dunk on the people making insurance payments to cover his bail! They made no payments of any kind: >>Kramer signed a $500,000 unsecured bond, while Paepcke signed the same type of bond for $250,000. And his bail isn&
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by SilasX 4y ago
And note, this is not, "give the court $750k, and you get $750k back once the trial is over". This is not even, "put a $750k lien on a brokerage account (with more than that in it) until the trial is over". This is, &quo
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by SilasX 4y ago
>Kramer signed a $500,000 unsecured bond, while Paepcke signed the same type of bond for $250,000. Sigh ... to echo my earlier comment[1], this (further) makes the bail/bond process feel like something of a farce. It's "ba
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by SilasX 4y ago
To this day I always copy comments to the clipboard before submitting them or after I feel like I've put a lot of work into them -- owing to dubious browser UI[2] c. 2000, where e.g. you might accidentally lose focus of the text field,
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by SilasX 4y ago
Similarly, can you imagine the media not objecting to Madoff using euphemisms like SBF does, e.g. how he "just needs liquidity" or just needs some support for his "capital position"?
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by SilasX 4y ago
Can you quote the part where union leaders are warning about something in the way the grandparent describes? I’m not seeing it.
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Except that a) the WHO says that amount knowably increases cancer risk (and so the author would disagree with the parent's comment), and b) if you just say "it won't have harm X" while not endorsing harms you think it ha
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by SilasX 4y ago
>If having one drink can decompress you after a hard days work, fine, you're not gonna get cancer. That would seem to contradict the headline, and content, that there's a safe level of alcohol consumption. In fact, the WHO real
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by SilasX 4y ago
You argued Tether wasn't honoring withdrawals, saying there was no evidence of it. I disputed that claim as being over-the-top. That wasn't "being argumentative", that was calling out an obviously wrong claim, and then y
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by SilasX 4y ago
Right, I searched the Tay stories that way. I saw the second one but didn't link it because I was looking for stories from the aftermath, not the introduction. I missed the first one because the title didn't have Tay. Most of the
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by SilasX 4y ago
Yes! Remember Microsoft's chatbot Tay from 2016 that went super racist and forced MS to pull the plug? https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/24/technology/tay-racist-micro... Edit: A high-comment HN thread
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by SilasX 4y ago
>When code reviews were in person, as a senior person, I could deliver feedback without that feedback becoming a public albatross stuck around someone's neck. We all screw up and miss things. Sometimes we don't write the best c
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by SilasX 4y ago
If your argued in good faith, you wouldn't t need to constantly "clarify a position", and you wouldn't "get confused". You made a comment doubting that Tether was honoring redemptions at all -- directly contrar
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by SilasX 4y ago
Right, just like how you can’t expect to build something that flies better than a bird. They’ve just been evolving at it far longer.
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>Firefox normal collection, automatic or triggered in about:memory, will reduce memory used by Firefox about the same as restarting firefox. Obviously not, since the memory usage is increasing without bound despite no corresponding incre
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By coincidence, just this morning I had a panic because I tried to close FF by closing the only window (which is something I need to do periodically because memory usage will build up over time), and I thought I had lost the tabs because wh
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No. If you had the power to crash the crypto market, you could still buy puts on LedgerX, which are fully cash secured.
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> The thing is it's not really speculation. What's not really speculation? The new goal post you moved to, or the point I was originally contesting, before you retreated to an unrelated argument for which you could dump piles o

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