amalcon

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by amalcon 5y ago
You may be right; I've been out of that loop for a rather long time now.
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by amalcon 5y ago
Oops, that's not a great typo. It's too late to edit, though.
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by amalcon 5y ago
I don't mean to pick on you a bit here, but this feels like a good place to express something I've been having trouble with. My parents raised me to do my best to neither take nor give offense. Most of my peers as a child were ta
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by amalcon 5y ago
Western society seems to have gotten the idea that "debate" is either talking heads trying to shout over each other, presenting prepared arguments to random unprepared people and claiming victory when it takes time to respond, or
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by amalcon 6y ago
Let's suppose I am Google. I am in arguably the best position in the world to build this system, because I have PageRank. PageRank is (for the sake of argument) the closest thing yet invented to an unbiased measure of authoritativene
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by amalcon 6y ago
It is as yet unclear how long effective immunity lasts after catching the disease, but pessimistic estimates put it at less than six months. While the pessimistic estimates are likely wrong (hence the term "pessimistic"), there c
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by amalcon 6y ago
I recall at some point that I started writing that type of cheat sheet, even if I didn't get to refer to it in the exam, for that reason.
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by amalcon 6y ago
Yeah, this description immediately brought to mind FizzBuzz. In a C-like language, there's basically a whole 3 ways to write it without doing something esoteric (loop a switch, loop an if/elseif construct, try to be cute with ind
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by amalcon 6y ago
I have no cogent argument with your first situation (there are some subtleties there that you omit, but it's basically correct modulo other uses for the energy). The second, however, is fundamentally inaccurate: > Heat production
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by amalcon 6y ago
The main thing is the free-for-all nature combined with the existence of trading. It is obviously tactically incorrect to trade with anyone who is about to win, but it usually takes a while to get that last point or two without a trade.
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by amalcon 6y ago
There are several board games that actually have rules that encourage cheating. I specifically remember one where the rule was basically "If you get caught during the turn on which you cheated, you need to pay a minor penalty. If the
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by amalcon 6y ago
Legitimate question: Could Discord produce two apps, e.g. "Discord Safe" and "Discord Unsafe", where the only differences are the age rating and whether the NSFW switch can be flipped? Is there anything in the rules pr
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by amalcon 6y ago
This is the J&J vaccine, which is not mRNA-based. It's an adenovirus vector vaccine, which is also not gene therapy but is a (tiny) bit closer than an mRNA vaccine.
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by amalcon 6y ago
> But these don't come from the cashflow of the business like wages and salary. They come from diluting Wall Street. How are these different? If the business pays its employees $X more, that money doesn't just appear out of
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by amalcon 6y ago
"Shooting it just any direction into space" is overwhelmingly likely to be suborbital, meaning that it will just crash back into Earth somewhere. An orbital trajectory might be safer, but it's probably not what anyone has in
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by amalcon 6y ago
That "censorship and silencing" is just those platforms using their free speech back . If you think the corporations running these platforms don't have that right, you'll want to meaningfully differentiate this decisio
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by amalcon 6y ago
That point is super weird, because the court has a tendency to make the narrowest ruling that is able to resolve the case in front of them. Clearly the fair use question is more narrow than the question of copyrightability of APIs.
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by amalcon 6y ago
Number of lines is actually a pretty good (though imperfect) measure of how difficult a code base is to work with, which is why many developers are delighted by the opportunity to delete code.
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by amalcon 6y ago
Concrete-ish but still simple simple version: If you visit example.com, close the tab, and then load a page with an ad on it, both parties would love to show you an ad for whatever example.com is selling. If example.com has a tracking p
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by amalcon 6y ago
That's been the primary manner of marketing a whole genre of books for decades. Therefore you can't use that slogan unless you're OK with being mistaken for that genre.
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by amalcon 6y ago
> Any situation that can be permanently resolved by education and intelligence, rather than by brute-forcing a constant 'workaround', would seem to me to be the best way forwards Hard disagree. You're essentially propos
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by amalcon 6y ago
Honestly, I think of soccer/football as being kind of like baseball. It looks really boring if you don't know what to watch for , but becomes interesting if you do. E.g. when one of your strikers is about to make a shot on goal,
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by amalcon 6y ago
Basically every pro sport had that philosophy, until they didn't. Eventually, some highly publicized incorrect call (with video evidence, because it was televised) leads to refs using video replay.
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by amalcon 6y ago
To be fair, we also have an epidemic of partial statements being taken out of context and used against their speaker. Often, when contextualized, the quote most likely means the opposite of what it's being used to claim. I can easi
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by amalcon 6y ago
The most common reason I'm blocked from coding is that I'm still doing the analysis necessary to figure out what needs to be coded. Examples: - I am currently not coding because I have a profile running, to figure out which part
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by amalcon 6y ago
For some evidence of this, consider that sundials have existed since about 1500 BCE. The existence of such a device easily disproves the notion that the "current time" was ever the same globally. Even mechanical clocks would obv
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by amalcon 6y ago
I've owned a car in a city, a high density suburb, and a low density suburb (all USA). I had the one non-alarmed car as a teenager in the low density suburb. It was broken into in the quiet residential driveway. In the city and the
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by amalcon 6y ago
That's a very interesting variant. Since it works for healthy people as well, you can describe what changes more directly. It also captures that not all conditions are identical. For a healthy person, getting out of bed in the morni
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by amalcon 6y ago
I'm trying to avoid my own bias here, so I'm going to come up with two examples that should be familiar to US audiences, one from each side. Take your pick: - Impeaching Trump and attempting to remove him from office after the Uk
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by amalcon 6y ago
People also don't seem to realize that the action does not need to be real to cause a reaction by the other side. I'd provide an example, but to do so would just inject my own biases. I'm sure anyone reading this can think

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