YokoZar

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by YokoZar 5y ago
> Additionally the failure mode for hydrothermal cooling of the volcano is really bad. Explosive eruptions are basically triggered by the release of volatiles in magmatic systems (expanding gases in a magma froth as H20 and C02 come out
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by YokoZar 5y ago
> Currently, applied behavioral science is where creativity goes to die. This is a shame, since the best behavioral scientists I've ever worked with, including Dan Ariely, are creative geniuses first and behavioral scientists second
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by YokoZar 5y ago
Aluminum is not a heavy metal. It is a light metal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Toxicity has more
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by YokoZar 5y ago
The Covid-19 vaccines don't contain heavy metals. Neither do other modern vaccines.
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by YokoZar 5y ago
> More generally, perhaps measuring dollar-of-GDP-per-gallon-of-water or some such may be of some use to prioritize which crops should be discouraged may be worth examining. The normal way to "measure" and "discourage&quot
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by YokoZar 5y ago
You two are saying the same thing. If they won't sell due to an uncompetitively high price, then they'll have overstock. Then they'll be "forced to" sell lower.
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by YokoZar 5y ago
Trading firms are not knowledge organizations. They compete in zero-sum games. The realm is completely different from building something of value.
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by YokoZar 5y ago
That part of the article confused me too, I think it's later implied they pay that 100 vs 20 hour cost much more often than once a year.
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by YokoZar 5y ago
You are very wrong on all of this. mRNA doesn't, and can't possibly, "change your DNA". Vaccinated people are much less likely to get infected and much less likely to spread infection.
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by YokoZar 6y ago
> ...if you have some unique insight on some specific market, use it on the market! One thing to be cautious of here is that people often overinvest when they have some sort of advantage, and become way too over-leveraged in one single a
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by YokoZar 6y ago
> An investor would not really care about the stock, but only about the behavior of other investors. This sounds like the idea of a Keynesian Beauty Contest ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest ) &
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by YokoZar 6y ago
It's not about linearity, it's that a "cup" of flour can be two completely different amounts of flour depending on how densely it's packed. Going by weight prevents this sort of measurement error.
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by YokoZar 6y ago
This seems to happen on a _lot_ of the images
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by YokoZar 6y ago
This entire article assumes that the vaccine provides sterilizing immunity (where you can't spread it) rather than just disease protection (where you get and spread the virus but aren't as symptomatic). But even now no one knows i
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by YokoZar 6y ago
If you're using a cloud host that doesn't charge you anything for instances with a very low runtime, you can implement quantum bogosort for free - just have every unsorted instance self-destruct promptly.
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by YokoZar 6y ago
You're about 50% of the way to reinventing 2000s era peer to peer filesharing programs here.
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by YokoZar 6y ago
> What about all the traffic accidents which didn’t happen due to shutdown? That represents only a few hundred lives, it seems. Deaths per vehicle mile traveled are actually up. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a3
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by YokoZar 6y ago
> Honestly, the fact that she has the gall to complain to the NLRB about this firing is pretty despicable. Google should be suing her for defamation. This is such an ill-informed understanding of how labor law works I'm not sure whe
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by YokoZar 6y ago
> Again, reasonable for her to be fired. The NLRB is where decisions like this are argued. They weighed the evidence, with a much fuller view than any of us here, and came to the conclusion that the firing was illegal.
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by YokoZar 6y ago
She probably expected her legal rights under the National Labor Relations Act to be protected, as Google has been punished by the NLRB on many occasions, including having to issue a notice to all employees notifying them of these legal righ
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by YokoZar 6y ago
> I remember that case. Yeah - she deserved to be fired. She used an internal security tool to push her personal political views. How could that not be a fire-able offense? If you read the next sentence in the linked article, the NLRB di
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by YokoZar 6y ago
It seems like India would benefit from anti-SLAPP laws, as that's exactly what this company is doing. Something different would need to be done about the bad-faith takedowns and coordinated harassment, however.
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by YokoZar 6y ago
> What ends up happening is that people on these sites don't get any value from betting on events that are 90%+ likely. Sure they do. Even if you never reinvest your money and pay the entire withdrawal fee, it's still worth be
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by YokoZar 6y ago
Can someone explain the intended meaning behind calling six different repositories "monorepos"? It sounds to me like you don't have a monorepo at all and instead have six repositories for six project areas.
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by YokoZar 6y ago
As an advertiser, how would I take advantage of this? Can I click a box on Facebook to target my ads to people with small hands?
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by YokoZar 6y ago
Netflix programmers can help you find what you want to watch. All the content in the world won't help them if you spend your time staring at the home screen while bad algorithms recommend the wrong things.
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by YokoZar 6y ago
These aren't samples or remixes, they're covers - which are handled differently in terms of music licensing.
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by YokoZar 6y ago
The order applies to the superiors issuing commands too, and spells out explicit forms of identifying marks for covered people. The reality is Border Patrol agents were purposefully shooting members of the press with rubber bullets and seiz
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by YokoZar 6y ago
There are cryptographic schemes where you can verify that a vote was counted but not how it was actually cast. Physical ballots going through an optical scan machine sometimes have an id stub that gets detached before they go into the coun
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by YokoZar 6y ago
I suggest investigating old-style web forums - the kind without individual upvotes/downvotes on posts, where replies in a thread are in the same chronological order for everyone They still need close moderation, however

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