Zanni

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by Zanni 2y ago
The distinction that ericjmorey is making (I believe) is that the reward is not guaranteed, only the opportunity.
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by Zanni 2y ago
The ACLU hasn't been a credible defender of free speech in some time. (FIRE and EFF still credible.)
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by Zanni 2y ago
I have a (USA) digital driver's license that I've presented to TSA via my iPhone a couple of times. It's explicit exactly what information is being shared. You tap (as if to pay), the information being requested displays on
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by Zanni 2y ago
It was a paper record of every (paid) phone call. This was in the 80s before the switch to digital. The front side had the origin and destination numbers, the back side had the calling card number. Also--we didn't use a 10-key! Our key
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by Zanni 2y ago
As a former telephone operator from this era who spent most shifts frantically bubbling scantrons as business men rattled off their calling card numbers and call numbers at lighting speed, I would have been delighted by this break in rout
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by Zanni 2y ago
I appreciate the response, but it seems that database can be constructed with or without facial recognition because photo ID is already required. So, I ask again, why is this bad?
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by Zanni 2y ago
Serious question: why is this bad? Is it just the 3% false negative rate? I don't see the negative privacy implications of face recognition when the alternative is to present your face (via photo ID) anyway.
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by Zanni 2y ago
That is who I mean, thank you. It's been a few years ...
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by Zanni 2y ago
Universe was the only series I watched (due to Scalzi being a technical advisor), but I found it infuriating that they let Tim Roth's character continue to have the run of the ship after he proved himself a psychopath.
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by Zanni 2y ago
I worked as a telephone operator a couple of summers and pay phones were a pain in the ass. The protocol for a long-distance call (and this was back when long distance was expensive, up to to a couple of dollars/minute), you'd col
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by Zanni 2y ago
It seems to be intentional. (I was confused by this at first, too). If your starting grid contains, e.g., a dot, you can safely assume it's a one-ship. But if you add a ship, the initial state is a block that resolves to a dot or end a
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by Zanni 2y ago
I appreciate the fact-checking and the self-reflection :) I used 1" as an estimate (I have a lot of paperbacks), but 1.34" is probably a better estimate for hardbacks.
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by Zanni 2y ago
Physical books are great. I love physical books. But (among other downsides) they take too much space. I've got just over 2,500 books on my Kindle. That's more than 200 linear feet of shelf space if they were physical books. My id
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by Zanni 2y ago
For what it's worth, I loathe this sort of thing (damning by vague questioning): "But, if a composite is full of a measure that’s biased, how accurate is it going to be?" Well, I don't know, and you haven't told me.
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by Zanni 2y ago
Not remotely the same idea, but the Magic Puzzle Company [1] makes fantastic puzzles with "two solutions." They're traditional puzzles with hand-drawn art, but the first solution is in four distinct pieces that can be reassem
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by Zanni 2y ago
Yeah, this is the brilliance of the novel format. Someone presents an insight, and it can see obvious in isolation but then seems obviously wrong in context. "Of course we should favor throughput over efficiency" is obvious unti
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by Zanni 2y ago
Surprising reference to The Goal [1], which Mr. Beast "used to make everyone read ..." and still recommends. The Goal is a business novel about optimizing manufacturing processes for throughput and responsiveness rather than &quot
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by Zanni 2y ago
All cars should be taxed on a formula of miles and weight. I own an EV, and I'm happy to pay my share, especially for the increased weight due to the battery. I'd love to see taxes that incentivize smaller, lighter cars in gen
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by Zanni 2y ago
Yes. Card counters (advantage players at blackjack) studied shuffle tracking. I haven't seen much good material published on it, but I played on a team with a math whiz (physicist) who ran the numbers. For the casino we were playing at
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by Zanni 2y ago
Insurance—decrease variance. Gambling—increase variance.
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by Zanni 2y ago
Really difficult to estimate it's worth since the owners are determined never to sell or develop. If value can never be realized, is it still value?
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by Zanni 2y ago
The island of Ni'ihau (Hawaii) is also privately owned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau
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by Zanni 2y ago
The data you have is the data you have but not necessarily the ground truth. See, for example, San Francisco shoplifting statistics.
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by Zanni 2y ago
Some international flights have face scanners at the gate. Not sure if it's to take a photo in the event of an issue or an actual scan and comparison against your stored ID, but the length of the process (a few seconds) suggests the la
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by Zanni 2y ago
In fact, the 10oz gloves that boxers wear allow them to hit their opponents' heads harder and more often, resulting in more brain damage. In MMA, we typically see a few light blows followed by a knockout blow or a quick flurry of hea
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by Zanni 3y ago
This sounds more like a wildfire management crisis than an insurance crisis.
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by Zanni 3y ago
They are rare (not unique), true, but I don't think they fail to recognize that. In fact, this post is the opposite of such failure. They're saying they're special because they choose to be --because they're clear on th
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by Zanni 3y ago
Archive: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/01/death-valle... And a video, since the pics don't seem to come through on the archive link: https://abcnews.go.com/US/vi
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by Zanni 3y ago
A pentagonal form of a Klemperer rosette (first thing I thought of also): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klemperer_rosette
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by Zanni 3y ago
so that no control point (the circled grab handles) is sitting on any line segment between two control points

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