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by avn2109 8y ago
The waters are further muddied by the fact that nobody can agree on a definition of "fake news." It's meaningless, sensational claims all the way down.
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Tobacco is an industrial product. It's only amenable to industrial cultivation at scale, because of the biology of the tobacco plant. It's not feasible to grow and process enough tobacco yourself to sustain a habit. This is why bi
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by avn2109 8y ago
You hop in an Uber.
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by avn2109 8y ago
This is a really great comment and should be much higher on the page, and I appreciate that you took the time to write it all out.
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In "The Rommel Papers," (which is incidentally a really splendid book that you should definitely read if you have any interest in tactics at all), Rommel himself claims that the ratio was in practice closer to 500:1 in the African
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by avn2109 8y ago
Google's is OK but it's still not as good as a being able to grep a directory full of files, where each file contains a thread or message or whatever.
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Can you give an example of the "neither" case?
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>> "We've 100%'d that part of the tech tree." "640k ought to be enough for anybody."
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It's easier to just get the result empirically. I once literally did this experiment in an office where we had a bunch of similar-looking Dell displays from different eras, with a range different native resolutions: It was pretty easy
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Oh I assumed you had a parser written that notified you when your name gets mentioned, or something like that.
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The link should be https://en.historylapse.org/first-battle-of-the-marne cc: @dang
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What is the MIC?
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Yeah. That is the million dollar question.
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>> "...I just switched from a Surface Book to a Macbook Pro and the mac is a huge improvement, both from a hardware and OS perspective." Can the MS hardware run Linux without me doing a bunch of work with drivers etc?
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>> "...a global currency that was untethered from government corruption (printing)..." This is your friendly weekly reminder that the government does not print money in almost all countries, with a very few interesting exc
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>> "...bad government policy cannot reduce the value of your Bitcoin by printing more of it." The spirit of your comment is totally true, but I have a pendatic (though vitally important!) objection. Governments in most count
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>> "...convert all speed limits to suggested speeds (thereby abolishing fines for speeding)" The State of Montana had this until the late 1990's, when the Fed's finally forced Montana into having a speed limit agai
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>> "If I had to hit a tree at 40mph I'd rather be inside a recently built car than anywhere else." Personally I would like to be in an M1 Abrams or a bulldozer or a freight train.
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>> "They're still loaning out deposits, though." I'm not the GP here but his point is that actually the bank in general does not loan out deposits[0]. Instead, the bank creates money at the moment a counterparty ag
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by avn2109 8y ago
When you find a phishing email, do you have a program that spams their "docusign" login with vast quantities of plausible-looking but fake credentials? IMHO active countermeasures are always the best approach to stuff like this. A
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This is really interesting and I would be very keen to hear more about it, like a blog post or something. I bet a lot of other people would be interested too.
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>> "laptop with a design ripped-off of the MacBook Pro" All I want is a 2014 Macbook Pro with modern processors and a ton of ram. "A design ripped-off of the Macbook Pro" sounds absolutely ideal to me. That's
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From the perspective of all VC's and some founders, this is in fact the very definition of a zero sum game. Every dollar of an exit given to an employee is a dollar that the VC or founder can't have.
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Your claims about goats strike me as true, but I have an addition. In my experience with goats, their salient feature is a maniacal and skillfully-executed desire to escape/vanish/get loose, typically at the most inopportune possi
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Though I don't agree, I acknowledge this as likely the best counterargument to my point above.
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If your cultural relativism/multiculturalism/whatever-you-want-to-call-it leads you to equate/compare "institutionalized torture killing of children" with "pollution," that's a hint that you've m
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by avn2109 8y ago
Speaking of editorializing, the article's author took to Twitter [0] to defend her article's reverent/respectful tone and (nowadays-common) unspoken premise that all cultures and ideologies are equally good and valid. You&#x2
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It's dismaying that user 5DFractalTetris' comments here are so heavily downvoted, since they're clearly civil, literate, grammatical, and made in good faith. Personally I find 5DFractalTetris' claims to be preposterous a
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>> "VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord." Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the VC is the landlord. They're not stupid, and this setup is intentional. It's a company town. History doesn't rep
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Twenty grand in legal fees in Manhattan is about four days of attorney time, if you're lucky.

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