amalcon

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by amalcon 5y ago
I don't think it's even possible to have a small government presiding over a large thing. That thing might be a region, an economy, or really anything -- as soon as the thing gets too many resources, the government either grows o
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by amalcon 5y ago
It varies a lot. Quite a long time ago, I worked at a pizza place in a regional chain. That location was kept quite clean, as were most of them. However, sometimes they'd give us the chance to pick up a shift at another location i
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by amalcon 5y ago
If I remember correctly, in that period it was still EV-positive to guess if you could eliminate at least one incorrect possibility. Not everybody knew this, though. Simply having someone tell you that (or having the patience to read and
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by amalcon 5y ago
The boringness could actually be a big part of the effectiveness. Efficient study habits and ability to work through boredom certainly help with some undergrad classes. The test would have some predictive power even if it's just meas
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by amalcon 5y ago
It turns out that $20/hr is really good for blue collar work in most of the US. It beats e.g. serving at Applebee's (except the bartender) by probably about a factor of 2, especially if you're not young and charismatic. If
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by amalcon 5y ago
It's effective in its real goal (preventing fines), just not in its stated goal (preventing bribery). Of course this means that it's at best a half-truth to call it training (a more accurate name would be e.g. "indemnity pro
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by amalcon 5y ago
For historical reasons[0], with 12-hour clocks, 12 is generally treated as zero. A general fix for this is probably something like Linux locale settings. It's going to be a rather flawed solution, what with those settings being super
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by amalcon 5y ago
There's a pretty big difference in stated intent. It doesn't seem unreasonable for a person to be OK with being filmed for the purpose of e.g. theft prevention, but not for some kind of modern art project / protest statement
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by amalcon 5y ago
I am unaware of the specific law in Germany, but the way this kind of thing usually works in much of the world is that a judge or jury decides what the photo is "of" after being apprised of the relevant context. There are a lot o
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by amalcon 5y ago
It's different from the implementer's perspective because the implementer can go back to the CEO (maybe indirectly) saying "I can make that work 80% of the time, but it just can't be done for the 20% of users who have ex
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by amalcon 5y ago
I wasn't there, but putting myself in the headspace of someone who was and may have had to comply with that law: There are things outside of the individual control of the designer that can override everything except !important. The
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by amalcon 5y ago
The interesting thing about FromSoft games is that almost all of the difficulty is observation and timing. It's real difficulty, to be sure, but almost anybody (obviously without severe visual impairment) can learn observation and tim
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by amalcon 5y ago
> YouTube's downvotes, invisible though they now are, can at least influence the recommender algorithm. YouTube's algorithm is opaque, so obviously folks could be wrong about this -- but there's a pretty common belief th
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by amalcon 5y ago
Usually[0] contacting the operator's ISP and informing them of the situation will get said ISP to contact said operator. All that outbound traffic does represent a cost to the ISP, after all. A call from your ISP usually gets a bit m
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by amalcon 5y ago
Your mistake is that you left off "given the right inputs". There are a lot of inputs to stock prices that are unlikely to be readily available to your function.
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by amalcon 5y ago
By this logic, I don't have freedom of speech because I'll be thrown out of your house if I go there and start insulting you. The interesting part about freedom is where it intersects with someone else's freedom. Grandparen
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by amalcon 5y ago
The most likely good is in the ability to study the model itself to better understand mental disorders and therefore inform treatment, or in the ability to deploy something similar to monitor folks who are already clinical patients on an op
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by amalcon 5y ago
Metering software by the second seems worse for both the developer (whose revenue becomes less predictable than e.g. monthly billing) and the typical customer (who now needs to think about whether the particular document they want to write
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by amalcon 5y ago
I'd understood from the OP (though granted this is not explicit) that they are not so much looking to help Ukraine with their current conflict, as looking to learn skills that may be useful if they are asked to aid in some future confl
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by amalcon 5y ago
The place I would start is not with offensive skills, but on the defensive side. Learn how to: - Know when you might be introducing software vulnerabilities - Find and repair bugs that might turn into vulnerabilities (things like static an
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by amalcon 5y ago
I have a very distinct memory of the quadratic formula: when my high school geometry teacher just assumed we all knew it, but most of the class had never seen it before. This sticks in my memory many, many years later because of the hours
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by amalcon 5y ago
Well, it can work out OK if one particular person has a strong enough association with the name. Lincoln is a great example. It seems unlikely that anyone with that name will become so infamous as to tarnish it. The voters of Lincoln, Ne
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by amalcon 5y ago
Worth mentioning here: If you are falling, let go of your poles . The most common ski injury is the thumb, caused when you keep a death-grip on your pole as you go down. You can easily generate enough torque on the pole to dislocate or
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by amalcon 5y ago
They could impound the scooters, only to release them when the fines are paid; this prevents (some of) the inconvenience.
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by amalcon 5y ago
I once had briefly traveled into a different time zone (so briefly that I hadn't thought about it) when I received a phone call asking to reschedule a doctor appointment. I entered the new time into my calendar. Then, I was an hour l
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by amalcon 5y ago
Right, the attention is only valuable as a way to get to your money. If we somehow eliminate all of the cognitive biases, it would seem to be better[0] to just pay with the same amount of money. That would free up a bunch of attention tha
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by amalcon 5y ago
This is exactly it. "Vote with your wallet" sounds like a pretty good idea until you notice that your wallet doesn't actually contain that many votes.
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by amalcon 5y ago
This is the key, I think. It's possible for an individual to start or grow a movement. It is impossible for an individual to own or control a movement, at least for long, because that's not what a movement is. The movement
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by amalcon 5y ago
I don't know that this is really a disagreement. You prefer a more skill-based experience; grandparent prefers a more relaxed experience. Both of these are reasonable preferences.
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by amalcon 5y ago
You have said two things that are false, one of them repeatedly after being corrected, with evidence. This is lying (and not very effective lying at that). First, you said that we have no vaccine against Omicron. We do. Your explanation

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