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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Lyric interpretations was already an existing market, but most implementations weren't great. Genius built a nicer interface that allowed them to take that market. For everything else they'd have to create a market from nowhere. A
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Yes that is true. There are applied sub-disciplines for all of the science. Typically you would call that something like "applied computer science" or "computer engineering", but CS is new enough that it hasn't spli
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Sure, if you take "computer" to mean "something that computes". In that case it would include humans. There was a great deal of research into things that can be effectively computed that goes back even before the focus o
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> Turing Machines, on the other hand, were instantly obviously mechanizable. It was clear that one could build a physical machine to run any Turing program without human input. Harold Abelson points out in one of his lectures [0] that co
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
okay thanks
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Your whole $1 million example was premised on your absurd claim that the workers have more bargaining power because there were more of them. My comment exactly addressed that claim. Now you seem to be asking if you eliminate bargaining powe
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
That does not explain why they frequently mischaracterize his theories.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> why not low skill workers get paid $1million and the management get paid $1k instead, since workers are out numbers and they can easily win the bargaining fight? This is explained in the same paragraph. Adam's theory is that the w
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> while in the text you find the word "maybe". I think it's fair to criticize a study if you think the headline (or the popular writeup) oversells it. However, my reading here is that the abstract basically says "It&#
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> they actually only tested 31 cannabis users against a controll group of 40 This is exactly like I said. In fact nothing you say contradicts anything I've said, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Adding mor
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
That is the reason they gave publicly, not the reason they don't like the study. The study used participants without a history of other drug use. And having the effect appear with only 31 randomly sampled users means the effect is easy
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> let me offer some purely anecdotal evidence that has a bigger sample size That is not how science works. And a study isn't absurd just because you don't like its conclusions.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
I'll keep that in mind next time a loud bike wakes up my children in the middle of the night. "It's okay honey, that man needed a psychological safety blanket.'
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
That is Facebook ad spend, not the total cost of the attack. It doesn't include other things described in the paragraph that the IRA did, like organizing Trump rallies and running troll farms where they posed as Americans on social med
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> The word "literally" never means "figuratively" or "hyperbolically" Yes it does. The dictionaries have added the second figurative meaning: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> Just wanted to fetch some things via http. Nothing fancy, didn't even really care about the response body, just the timings. why not bash and curl?
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
As a general rule I completely agree. On the other hand, token bucket implementations are hard to understand and hard to debug. And an ambiguous variable name can cause trouble because some devs might think it "obviously" refers t
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
enough_budget for what though? That's not a very clear variable name.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Hey, sorry I missed the statement in the original post where you called them irrational. Apologies for not reading more carefully. In that sense my original response wasn't disagreeing with you. I do disagree with you tactically, thoug
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
The same can be said of any fear that causes someone to hurt people. The abusive husband has a reasonable fear of being abandoned. The white supremacist has a reasonable fear of losing their jobs to competition. Etc etc Being able to give a
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Unvaccinated people are basically drunk drivers who won't shut up about their right to drive drunk. Mocking their deaths won't convince them to become reasonable, but you can't blame people for feeling schadenfreude.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
None of the reasons you listed are reasonable reasons for people to not get vaccinated.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
My theory is most of the hate for telemarketers is by people who just don't spend money and aren't ever the target audience for them. So they feel grouchy and left out. The target audience for telemarketers is more than likely th
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Unless you want everyone to understand PKI, the solution is to use a payment system where transactions are reversible in cases of fraud.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> History has shown us that as societies get richer / more productive people work less. For most of history, when a society gets richer, the rich enslave more people and consolidate power, and then ultimately try to be worshiped as
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> it's important to keep working hard right up until this point I'm not sure there's any real empirical evidence for this in the absolute way you stated it. There are plenty of highly productive creative people who do 4 ho
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> If I get a task to "make the button blue" I'd rather do it in a repo where I need to grep around a little Except it's not one button, it's 12 of them and they all use different UI elements with different names
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Do you know how to enable this in Linux? I don't see a TTS option in reader mode on Firefox. EDIT: I figured it out. I needed to install speech-dispatcher. On Ubuntu > sudo apt install speech-dispatcher
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Why does it stretch credulity? It's exactly the reason smart printer cartridges are popular.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> Can they possibly have such great IP I really have no idea. I also don't know whether rebranding is the right choice. But they have the code, the infrastructure, the marketing department, and all the revenue from their adult servi

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