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by banannaise 2y ago
Yes, but that's why we find it important to limit the number of places you can access it. There's a reason nearly every state in the US restricts offline gambling to specific gambling houses (if even that) and nowhere else.
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by banannaise 2y ago
One of the problems with modern social media (and digital media in general) is that this is now happening, to some extent, to everyone . This is particularly a problem for children, who are exposed to this so early that they may never inte
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by banannaise 2y ago
> I suppose most of the contestants in the shows are in debt because of gambling or overtly irresponsible decisions It's depressing that we're still stuck framing gambling as "irresponsible decisions" as online gambli
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by banannaise 2y ago
It's not fighting against human nature, it's fighting against the incentives of our economic system and the people who exploit them. What you're doing here is sometimes referred to as naturalizing - acting like something is t
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by banannaise 2y ago
Since it's short for "you ones", I suppose it would technically be "you'nes", which of course looks insane and nobody would ever write it that way. I've also seen it written with an apostrophe ("y&#x2
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by banannaise 2y ago
"woulda" is just rewriting "would've" to match the speech pattern.
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by banannaise 2y ago
That's "you folks" which I suppose would be "y'olks". I'll stick with "y'all", thanks.
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by banannaise 2y ago
To add to this, part of what sets engines apart from humans is their understanding of time . The engine always knows whether it has time to complete an attack before the opponent can defend or counterattack - in other words, which player i
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by banannaise 2y ago
I've even heard rumors of a data transfer protocol based on the concept.
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by banannaise 2y ago
It's hypertext - a text-based format enhanced with other elements.
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by banannaise 2y ago
[nitpick] it's the Jevons Paradox, named for William Stanley Jevons. No apostrophe, but if you were to add one, it would be Jevons' Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanley_Jevons
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by banannaise 2y ago
Because the existence of these people means that we concentrate economic resources toward building yachts that might otherwise be concentrated toward growing food or building homes. Rational economic actors who produce goods and/or ser
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by banannaise 2y ago
A bunch of these are just improper procedure: several who hit the clock before choosing a promotion piece, and one who touches a piece that cannot be moved. Even those that aren't look like rational chess moves, they just fail to notic
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by banannaise 2y ago
Outsourcing your morality to politicians past and present is not a particularly useful framework.
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by banannaise 2y ago
Of course it's easier for it to happen in nature than for them to do it in a lab. The way nature does this is that when you kill untold numbers of the ones that aren't resistant, you're left with the ones that are. If you use
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by banannaise 2y ago
Considering that the US and others largely know about this and benefit from the product of this labor, one might argue that they never stopped; they simply outsourced it.
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by banannaise 2y ago
Every time this sort of discussion comes up, I think back to this satire article: Due to the country’s long history of human-rights violations, WWE cancels upcoming events in United States https://www.kayfabenews.com/due-t
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by banannaise 2y ago
Slightly older Audis (up through 2017-2019 depending on model) had a clickable wheel interface instead of a touchscreen. It's vastly superior, and I deliberately bought a used 2017 A4 to get it.
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by banannaise 2y ago
It's in the rules. Emphasis mine: Fake or False Consumer Reviews, Consumer Testimonials, and Celebrity Testimonials: The final rule addresses reviews and testimonials that misrepresent that they are by someone who does not exist, such
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by banannaise 2y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to create an app that, instead of acting as the house, merely facilitates sports bets between friends. Post betting lines, let people propose and accept bets on those lines with their friends, take a nominal
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by banannaise 2y ago
I suppose this would be "Rickdriving"?
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by banannaise 2y ago
"Fishes" is a plural of a plural. You wouldn't likely say "two fishes", but you might say "all the fishes in the sea", referring to many groups of fish (much as you might refer to the "peoples of the
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by banannaise 2y ago
We treat words like they have a single stressed syllable and everything else is unstressed, and that's a useful abstraction sometimes, but that's not actually true. "Photocopiers" has primary stress on the first syllable
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by banannaise 2y ago
> Maybe in the future, when more people start using the plural "octopi", it will be correct. The future is now. "Octopi" is considered the correct plural by a significant plurality of US adults, and a plurality of
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by banannaise 2y ago
And a child or ESL speaker will often use constructions that sound stilted. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. "Stilted" is a bit of a judgy word, but it's not a value judgment of anyone else's intell
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by banannaise 2y ago
While I'm all for a history lesson (and the double-I octopii is indeed simply incorrect) I take issue with anyone insisting that "octopi" is wrong: 1. Language is neither static nor a series of rules to be blindly followed. T
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Because it turns it into a four-syllable word with three consecutive unstressed syllables. It has bad meter and ruins the meter of almost any sentence constructed around it.
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> Then blame the board imo. The Board of Directors at most major corporations is made up largely of current or former executives, many of whom come from the same industry. It's in their personal interest to normalize lucrative and
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It would be very funny to have an iterable type where the items are required to contain incompatible types.
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You are correct, but we would have to dramatically decrease the number of rules, which would be great but appears to be a non-starter with just about everyone who has a say. You would have to dispense with a lot of rules that seem like obvi

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