Simon_says

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by Simon_says 7y ago
Telecoms have no problem figuring out who to bill.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Sounds like you're in your Middle Age.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
You wouldn't enjoy it.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Yea, it's an upper bound. The actual percentage depends on the distribution and can be anywhere from 0-2.7%. The Wikipedia link has more details.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Samples getting 6 standard deviations away from the mean can happen 1/6² ≈ 2.7% of the time. You might be assuming properties of the distribution that aren't true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev%27s_
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by Simon_says 7y ago
How does Halliday + Resnick compare to Young + Freedman?
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Poppycock! A person's art is separable from their other beliefs and actions, and Feynman was among the best both in individual contributions and communication to laymen. In any case, I'm unaware of any attitude he had about wome
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Half the population becoming infected this year is not that unlikely if no preventive measures are taken. The CDC and WHO stopped being reputable sites about a month ago.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Maybe they're incompetent.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Some people like to wash their hands after they poop.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Yes, you're right. It's "featured".
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by Simon_says 7y ago
> half of world Like he said, severe limitations.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
There are zero confirmed cases in Mexico.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
> Next step: remove the silly Korean phone number requirement from your online services. Never going to happen as long as the Korean nanny state needs to keep tabs on its citizens.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
The prime factors of a number takes (about) the same amount of space to list as the number itself.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Have you seen movies from the 1930s? Not the few classics, but typical movies? Ponderous slow messes, by modern standards. Movies of the 2010s are more than 108% better.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Better: thiswaifudoesnotexist.net
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by Simon_says 7y ago
It’s the top of HN.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Oh wow, I totally misinterpreted the headline.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Amendment 3 is pretty tough.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Why should the customer care? The driver is the only one in a position to decide if it's a good deal.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
He's saying: Sure it costs me money to maintain the vehicle, but that's tomorrow's me problem. Today I get cash. It's like you took a loan from yourself with your vehicle's health as the collateral.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Or you just spam emojis in a YouTube chat because the host requested it.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
> less fewer
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by Simon_says 7y ago
As with anything with a pre-existing fan base, the initial reviews are the pre-existing fans. The reviews will normalize when more people watch and review.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
It is a joke, but I don’t think Zizek’s in on it.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Ads are the decline of the free web.
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Realistically, what kind of money are we talking about? There is some amount of money I would sell my attention for, but it’s somewhere in the multiple hundreds of dollars per hour. Less than that, and my effort is more efficiently spent
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Ads in and of themselves are bad, even without tracking. My time and attention are the only truly limited resources I have. Hijacking those to make me desire things I don’t need reduces my quality of life. Secondarily, ads corrupt every med
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by Simon_says 7y ago
Good. It's a terrible job.

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