Talanes

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by Talanes 5y ago
The 76% was from his competition score. It's a measure of the keyboards actual output, not the error rate of the typist. Any corrections the keyboard makes are already accounted for.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Well, if you find anyone calling it a crisis IRL, why don't you ask them?
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by Talanes 5y ago
Descriptive qualification is a necessary stepping stone to qualification though, so of course society built on it first. Something must be described and defined before it can be counted. Modernity emerges from humanity first; influences it
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by Talanes 5y ago
Modern society is just the result of countless generations of the human tendency to quantify. We just have so many things quantified now that our problems tend to be more "using the wrong quantifications" rather than "not hav
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by Talanes 5y ago
Not GP, but when you really WANT to believe something and are aware of that fact, it can be hard to separate out whether that thing is actually true or if you've just subconsciously convinced yourself it is.
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by Talanes 5y ago
"Jigsaw identification" is a nebulous broad claim that could have been applied equally to any reporting on the trial, but was only applied to one independent journalist who has been critical of the state.
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by Talanes 5y ago
I know that FFXIV, at least, does have actual constraints on supply. Square-Enix is having trouble getting more server hardware at the moment, so they can't easily add more instances.
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by Talanes 5y ago
As a rhetorical example, not an invitation to debate the finer points of Cuban policy.
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by Talanes 5y ago
> By income redistribution I mean most progressive proposals aim to heavily tax high earners to fund healthcare for lower income individuals. That money would otherwise be used by those earners to buy their first home, build retirement w
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by Talanes 5y ago
Does all-in mean all four wisdom teeth? Because I paid somewhere over $2000 out of pocket a few years back in San Francisco. And that was after insurance.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Craig Murray only just got out of prison for court reporting while not part of the proper crowd, so is it really that different over there?
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Why do people optimize every KPI? Because if it's not worth optimizing around, how key can it be?
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by Talanes 5y ago
> Therein lies the answer to your argument. Their argument wasn't the specifics of the hypothetical. You're actually supposed to believe that Cuba isn't unilaterally better than America for the example to work. You're
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by Talanes 5y ago
He supported a dude whose platform was mostly right-leaning populism. If he was just supporting Republicans because they were the closest to Libertarian ideals, why would support the dude driving the party away from Libertarian ideals?
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by Talanes 5y ago
I mentioned "shills" not to call you one, but to emphasize how counter-productive "This person gave me money" is as a measure of character. It meant a lot to you, obviously, but bringing it up only serves to reduce your
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by Talanes 5y ago
>No try to keep up, we moved on from the other poster's pedantic distraction about voting Other poster? You brought it up the first time and have brought it up in every post since.
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by Talanes 5y ago
> We've moved on from that. Well, you keep moving on from it and everyone who replies on you keeps trying to move back toward the original topic.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Does "The Squad" refer to the actual politicians or their bases? Because those groups are playing two different games. The only people I've ever met who were enthusiastic about Biden were hardcore Democratic Party mega-volunt
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by Talanes 5y ago
I believe Epstein is the instrument of extortion in their scenario, not the victim. >And I have just as much evidence to back up my theory as you have. So you have evidence of other telepathic dog mind control schemes having happened thr
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by Talanes 5y ago
Emphasizing how well he paid you only makes you more suspect as a source for everyone who is not you. I mean, the first accusation that gets thrown about in internet arguments is that the other side is a shill. Because we don't trust p
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by Talanes 5y ago
Cynicism isn't a synonym for intelligence.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>as it appears obsessive Do you see the irony here?
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by Talanes 5y ago
Huh, til. I had a little Crayola brand camera that fit APS cartridges as a kid, and I had just lived my whole life assuming disposables had a similar "not quite" size film inside. I also haven't actually seen any of those pic
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by Talanes 5y ago
>We never have a movie series where people pay extra money to remove scenes. Star Wars fans keep asking though.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>They're sending the clearest possible economic signal they can that the grind isn't a positive or rewarding experience for them. For them, personally. There's a good deal of microtransactions where the person spending the
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by Talanes 5y ago
> I'm convinced the best MMOs to come out over the next 20 years will have very little content and very sparse grinding mechanics. Current open world survival games use grind as a main mechanism for driving emergent game-play and cr
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by Talanes 5y ago
I'm in the "Everyone above 30" category, and we shot disposable, not full frame.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Honestly, I prefer my writing to be opinionated. Every author has an opinion, which means I'm going to waste energy trying to decipher their opinion from their facts if they present too neutrally.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Yeah, both examples where the people quoting it miss that the out-of-place context of the thing they're quoting is what made it funny, not the words alone.
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by Talanes 5y ago
If you literally just took out the "whews" and "ahs" from that sentence, you would completely change the meaning by removing the intended level of skepticism.

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