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by asdf21 7y ago
https://blueseed.com/ nginx bad gateway. No updates since 2014 or so.
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by asdf21 7y ago
Video games do exercise the mind... >In particular, playing Super Mario 64 for 30 minutes a day over two months increased adult volunteers’ brain volume in their right hippocampus, the right prefrontal cortex, and the cerebellum. These r
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by asdf21 7y ago
Pretty amazing this entire article never mentions trans fats.. which cause approx 500,000 premature deaths worldwide each year. For decades, Original Crisco had four grams of trans fat per tablespoon.
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by asdf21 7y ago
Psychology / psychiatry aren't sciences?
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by asdf21 7y ago
>people have been convinced of much more evil and much dumber things by people good at talking. Sure, but it usually follows this scenario.. People ignore issues, accumulate technical or monetary debt, ignore issues, accumulate debt, ign
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by asdf21 7y ago
>At this point it almost seems more worth it to just sit back and sip water while the world slowly burns around me, but of course that is far too cynical. Is it though? What other option is there really..
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by asdf21 7y ago
The reasoning is the entire free market, there are endless low quality goods that are "good enough" and still sell.
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by asdf21 7y ago
So you're saying to figure out what stocks employees at Board Portals are trading and jump on board.
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by asdf21 7y ago
enter baby
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by asdf21 7y ago
Wow, very cool. That's a $1.6B company I've never even heard of. The stock hasn't gone down at all since that article was published either. They must be doing something right..
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by asdf21 7y ago
Sure, but the carbon sinks are now gone to re-balance it.
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by asdf21 7y ago
>but people's opinions are fickle. Who gets to say what is counterfeit, unless you have a trusted authenticator looking at every item? Correct, that's what I mean by a decently-sized QA department. I would never base the score
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by asdf21 7y ago
>They don't give a shit because the news they read, the entertainment they watch all tell them not to No, they don't give a shit because they don't need to. It doesn't affect their daily lives.
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by asdf21 7y ago
Your decently-sized QA department would investigate, case-by-case. Some examples would probably be controversial and you'd need to escalate to a higher tier of analysis.
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by asdf21 7y ago
Case in point, I believe in climate change... that it's man-made (so to speak), that it results from higher than normal levels of carbon, that it will cause sea level rise, etc. But I disagree on some core orthodoxies. I think the root
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by asdf21 7y ago
This seems so easy to me to fix... just have a decently-sized QA department and add in reputation score variations for sellers... if a seller gets caught selling anything counterfeit, their reputation takes a huge hit for 6 months or so and
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by asdf21 7y ago
You realize co-ops are a thing, right?
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by asdf21 7y ago
>Our diets are supposed to be 50% carbs. Please don't lump everyone together like that. Some folks do better on low carb, some folks do better on very high carb, everyone has different gut bacteria, different digestive enzyme effici
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by asdf21 7y ago
>I don’t think any person should ever be refused their request to die. The idea that abortion is some sort of settled issue because of "privacy," yet we are disallowed from controlling our own bodies in many, many other ways (h
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by asdf21 7y ago
>Let me recommend you read Michael Lewis’s book The Fifth Risk, or at least listen to one of these interviews about it: I'm not sure I need to read a biased polemic about how big government is good and the Trump admin is bad. >Th
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by asdf21 7y ago
Upvoted, because very valid points overall. That being said.. >Individual consumers can’t possibly have full information about the supply chain of every item they buy Of course not, however, they don't need full information to hear,
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by asdf21 7y ago
vpro
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by asdf21 7y ago
>You simply refrain from injecting situations with those views when they're not called for In other words, you tend to avoid sensitive topics at certain times.
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by asdf21 7y ago
He's Republican / Libertarian and his worldview is grounded in economic and biological realities, which will absolutely get you run out of many (perhaps most) SV tech companies... for example, James Damore.
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by asdf21 7y ago
"Just be yourself." "Hmm, Ok well, I hate and resent all of you, but I absolutely rely on the paycheck from this scammy, terrible company." "Uh, nevermind, stop being yourself."
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by asdf21 7y ago
And certain "sensitive" questions are just straight up illegal to ask in an interview / the workplace, and there are tons that are in a gray area depending on context: - Do you have any medical conditions / health issues
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by asdf21 7y ago
Is "hilly" a simple binary indicator on each street (or section of road) or is there an entire layer of elevation data included in the world data?
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by asdf21 7y ago
OSM should be big enough to scrape their own parcels / subscribe to someone who does at this point. I wonder if this is still an issue... AR RTS is my use case as well, and the mapping is obviously a huge component. I think Pokemon Go
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by asdf21 7y ago
You also can't tell if gold is real or gold plated, etc.
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Engineers are generally more trustworthy than governments.

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