YokoZar

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by YokoZar 4y ago
This is why designs usually require the voter to be able to inspect the paper ballot before finalizing it. Shenanigans like that would be caught, as the machine has no way of knowing how close the voter will look.
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by YokoZar 4y ago
>The author is suggesting replacing a bad plan (everyone discuss each intersection) with another bad plan (just drive however you like). The author is suggesting replacing it with the normal rules of the road, which are as close to not p
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by YokoZar 4y ago
There are other rules. Always yield to pedestrians. Two cars can sometimes go at the same time if they're not on a collision course. If pedestrians are blocking the person whose turn it is, you can go instead. Order is based on arr
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by YokoZar 4y ago
Sentences feel different from lines of code. "One statement doing one thing per line of code" seems a reasonable idea but "one sentence per line of text" seems a bit absurd.
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by YokoZar 4y ago
Retaliating against employees for discussing their working conditions is in fact enormously legally risky for a company. Doubly-so when doing it via SLAPP lawsuits. Why on earth would Valve take the risk?
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by YokoZar 4y ago
The vast majority of affordable cars are used cars. Used cars are cheaper when there's tons of new cars, and they get more expensive when new car production slows - prices jumped so much in the past two years that some used cars were
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by YokoZar 5y ago
Stocks and bonds are traded something on the order of 1 million times more frequently than a given house, making price discovery much more transparent even without an open bidding process.
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by YokoZar 5y ago
> It's nonsense of course, if investment bankers were unnecessary, they woudn't have jobs. By this logic, con artists are necessary.
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by YokoZar 5y ago
One "real number" is actually rather far off - survey respondents estimated that 49% of people "own a home" but the article implies the actual number is 65%. 65% is the oft-cited "home ownership rate", however
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by YokoZar 5y ago
Are they allowed to dilute it with wastewater?
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by YokoZar 5y ago
Why not combine the two and require using the secure VMs only from enrolled devices?
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by YokoZar 5y ago
I'm not sure you even clicked the link your point is so orthogonal. > Cook some identical roasts or steaks. Cook one bone-in, cook one with the bone removed but tied back on, and cook a third with the bone removed and tied back on w
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by YokoZar 5y ago
Also note that these days Windows itself is an "emulator" in much the same way Wine is when running apps in the various compatibility modes for earlier Windows versions. Still, even today people tend to think of emulation as imply
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by YokoZar 5y ago
If intuition is consistently biased in the "stay" direction then it's not exactly wrong to say "if even your intuition says you should quit then the case for doing so is most likely overwhelming"
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by YokoZar 5y ago
> The issue is still the same: what do you do in the second year (or the third), after you've fixed all the low hanging fruit. Then you destaff the team, collect your tens of millions of dollars, and be happy about a successfully fi
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by YokoZar 5y ago
> The gains for doing this for individual large services are significant (in the case of service-1, it's [mid 7 figures per year] for the service and [low 8 figures per year] including services that are clones of it, but tuning ever
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by YokoZar 5y ago
> Do people actually need next-gen wifi? Streaming VR to a wireless headset (SteamVR on Oculus Quest) is generally considered to require Wifi 6, though that is admittedly a niche use currently.
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by YokoZar 5y ago
I called someone today and they appeared to be using a generic call screening service that offers exactly this feature - a computerized voice asks you to enter a random number to be connected.
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by YokoZar 5y ago
Given that narcissism is fueled by past trauma and by beliefs of having greatness being unrecognized, that sounds like the exact opposite of helpful.
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by YokoZar 5y ago
By far the most common complaint from support groups for people with sleep disorders is the sheer lack of respect people have for different sleep schedules. We get called lazy even when we work past midnight. By coworkers, and even family.
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by YokoZar 5y ago
Chesterton's fence is satisfied here: it asks us to know why a rule was put into place so that we know we aren't missing something when we change it. In this case we do know the reason why: aesthetics. The side effects are just g
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by YokoZar 5y ago
> Economics is the study of the statistical, game theoretic, and computational properties of a market. I was taught in my Econ 1 textbooks that Economics is the study of scarcity. Game theory and stats didn't enter into it until mu
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by YokoZar 5y ago
You don't need to bring irrational individual behavior into it: you can get rock-paper-scissors group cycles even when every voter has a well-ordered list of preferences. As a basic example, imagine voters prefer whoever is closer to t
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by YokoZar 5y ago
The "theoretically possible" case of voters having cyclic preferences is actually quite reasonable! A rock-paper-scissors situation among the top 3 candidates doesn't require irrational voters or anything of the sort: all yo
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by YokoZar 5y ago
"Strategy-proof" is a really strange thing to strive for. Making dishonest strategic voting "really really hard" is more than good enough. By way of example, exploiting a strategic voting vulnerability in certain ranked
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by YokoZar 5y ago
Food-soiled paper was never recyclable.
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by YokoZar 5y ago
The energy and water costs of cleaning and sanitizing reusable containers can be very substantial. It seems nicer to "reuse" a bottle, but it may genuinely be the case that it's less impactful to just make a new one (prefera
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by YokoZar 5y ago
The Pfizer vaccine was fully approved on August 23 https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
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by YokoZar 5y ago
I don't know how it compares exactly but there is a non-alcoholic product also known as "Irish Cream". If you want to find it (or recipes for home made versions) the best thing to do is search for "Irish Cream Coffee Cr
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by YokoZar 5y ago
> The article itself isn't terribly interesting, IMO. Yes, there are moments like Flow when doing something familiar (piano playing, coding) which are apparently "mindless" but in fact are themselves deeply mindful, in th

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