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by _dain_ 11mo ago
if they want to go to the concert they should pay the fair market price for a ticket. and in addition, they should refrain from murdering people, because murder is wrong. the high ticket prices incentivise the creation of new venues and the
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
seller agrees to sell ticket at $PRICE. buyer agrees to buy ticket at $PRICE. how is society hurt, here? the government banning this is immediately harmful: it prevents a mutually agreeable trade that would otherwise have increased the util
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
>Charge back and hope you get the money back? yes, that's what Section 75 protection is for
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
idiotic populist move. resellers exist because the listed price is much lower than the price people are willing to pay. banning them doesn't make the demand go away. this will just create a black market in resold tickets, with no legal
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
extremely low IQ / reddit comments ITT
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
This is so childish and pathetic it doesn't deserve a response.
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
I don't have a million dollars but I'll take you up on it for like a grand. I'm serious, email me.
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by _dain_ 11mo ago
>Codiscoverer of Rosalind Franklin's notebooks. this is a preposterously reductive and dishonest account of what happened.
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by _dain_ 1y ago
>getting up and getting light exposure if you don't fall asleep in 20 mins never heard of this one, got a link with more info?
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by _dain_ 1y ago
We are streaming to willing viewers at the current fair market price
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by _dain_ 1y ago
the point of the hobby is to have something to tinker with. if it were too easy it wouldn't be any fun.
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by _dain_ 1y ago
>a non-answer is not a negative I don't know how this can be true. Interviewing for a job is a zero-sum competition against the other candidates. If something isn't a positive, it has to be a negative.
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by _dain_ 1y ago
It is quite uncommon.
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by _dain_ 1y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, this has actually been studied and the broader historical data matches your observations: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691162546/th... Funny-soundi
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by _dain_ 1y ago
>unchecked social media Passive voice. Who exactly is supposed to do the "checking" and why should we trust them?
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by _dain_ 1y ago
Jobs are aggregated into gigantic boards like Indeed and LinkedIn, and the market is national or international. You can choose among thousands of companies, but you're also just one potential applicant among millions. The cost of apply
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by _dain_ 1y ago
>after multiple organic efforts to "brainstorm slurs" for people who use AI no wonder it sounds so lame, it was "brainstormed" (=RLHFed) by committee of redditors this is like the /r/vexillology of slurs
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by _dain_ 1y ago
If you want to keep silver as wealth, buy actual silver coins and bars. Not dinnerware. The top 1% own ETF shares, and the top 0.001% own industries.
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by _dain_ 1y ago
Sounds like the anorexia-bulimia axis but for possessions instead of food
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by _dain_ 1y ago
Oh hey, I'm the mirror universe version of you. I used to work in a semiconductor plant, writing Python code that controlled robot arms and electronic measurement instruments and so on. In my universe we used threads over blocking call
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by _dain_ 1y ago
mort = paladin elvis = thief einstein = mage
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by _dain_ 1y ago
Named arguments don't stop the deeper problem, which is that N booleans have 2^N possible states. As N increases it's rare for all those combinations to be valid. Just figuring out the truth table might be challenging enough, then
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by _dain_ 1y ago
Booleans don't "remember" what they mean. They're just a `true` or a `false`, the association with the `is_authenticated` variable or whatever has to be maintained by programmer discipline. But when you have an enum vari
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by _dain_ 1y ago
No, I don't buy this "I'm just making a neutral observation" schtick for one second. When people say "unconscious bias", they believe that the "bias" is harmful. If they didn't, why would it be s
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by _dain_ 1y ago
>And on top of this, Lifetime ISAS are a thing, so you only need to save up 80% of your deposit, the govt will pay the rest. And shared ownership is a thing, making it even easier. LISAs are a trap if you want to buy in the South. You
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by _dain_ 1y ago
>Seems to be a white, straight male with an Anglo Saxon heritage living in England. This is in fact an extremely large, dare I say representative, demographic. Je suis Nicolas (30 ans) aussi. And his counterpart Nicola (30 ans) has sim
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by _dain_ 1y ago
>Smaller sites are automatically exempted. No, they're not. I don't know why people keep repeating this "7 million active users limit" idea, it's nowhere to be found in the actual rules. Tiny forums have alread
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by _dain_ 1y ago
lmao well done. can't tell if it's the topvoted reply because people got the joke, or because they didn't.
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by _dain_ 1y ago
I think it's human-written but meant to sound like GPT cliches. Deliberately laying it on thick, as a pisstake.
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by _dain_ 1y ago
the guy who flips the coin 100 times is more likely to get a long streak of heads >>> import random >>> ["H" if random.random() < 0.5 else "T" for _ in range(100)] ['H', &#

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