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by belval 5y ago
I am not arguing that their research is useless or uninteresting, simply that it shouldn't be communicated like it actually proves anything for on-the-ground polarization. It's a bit like when we have AI papers that anthropomorphi
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by belval 5y ago
I am skeptical of the framing of the original work in the article. If you actually read the original research, it boils down to building a model on willingness to cooperate based on differing views and observing that past a specific point c
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by belval 5y ago
Then the "get it by" date will reflect that and if people want to pay for your one/two-day shipping they can. Shipping is also free on prime items if you are a prime member so the same general idea applies, Amazon is doing wh
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by belval 5y ago
> A fallacy because in many Western countries the heavy taxes on cigarettes cover, or more than cover, the financial cost on public health services (so smokers do pay from their own pocket). They also die earlier so they don't use a
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by belval 5y ago
I don't smoke yet I find this ridiculous, how much of a nanny state can New Zealand be? If you want to make something disappear you educate the people through advertising campaigns and whatnot. This seems incredibly short sighted in th
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by belval 5y ago
I get that emotions are high when we discuss Amazon, but the article seems to imply that they were fined for not adding the "Prime" badge to items that were not fulfilled by Amazon (i.e. that didn't use Amazon warehouses). Fr
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by belval 5y ago
If you are really concerned about flux and lead I would suggest using a lead-free solder with a good (i.e. not the cheap on with "active charcoal filters") fume hood. As far as handling leaded PCB goes I really don't see it a
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by belval 5y ago
> Even researching what soldering wire to use is a pain because apparently leaded solder is just so much "better" when it comes to flowing than non-leaded. It just doesn't seem to be taken that seriously at the hobbyist le
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by belval 5y ago
The second dose I got had me unable to work or really do anything for 24 hours so if you aren't even willing to consider that I can be on the fence for legitimate reasons then I don't know what to tell you. > why wouldn't
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by belval 5y ago
Probably because we're reading it in a low-stress situation where we don't fear for our job and can think clearly. While I can only speak for myself, if I'm getting talked at the way this guy was being talked at, I'd pro
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by belval 5y ago
Honestly I'd have trust issues if someone increased my salary 50% because it would mean they severely underpaid for several years to get to a point where I am worth a 50% increase. Not saying that your boss is bad or that you should le
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by belval 5y ago
It goes to show that even stuff that I would consider rock solid (such as man pages) can be surprisingly brittle if one person can make a change over a tweet. Some comments on the SO thread seem to imply that it shouldn't have been rem
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by belval 5y ago
From the investor call last quarter, Amazon made it very clear that they were sacrificing their profits this quarter to make sure that the customers wouldn't see the supply chain issues. This is part of why their stock tanked so badly
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by belval 5y ago
Thank you for sharing, this was an interesting read. I wonder if the rest of the book also suffers from this. To be fair though (not that it excuses it) but pop-science/livestyle book written by academics to gain more notoriety usually
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by belval 5y ago
It's more of a compensation thing though, I have yet to work for a company that increases your salary at about the same rate as their new hires' salary. So you end up with this weird scenario where I have a job that I like, but I
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by belval 5y ago
Does Israel have a lot of startups because of free healthcare or simply because it benefits from a culture that encourages startups? They also have a higher average education level which probably helps to some extent. No saying that healthc
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by belval 5y ago
My take is that there is a whole culture side of things to consider. Some cultures will have a higher general opinion of entrepreneurs than others. In Quebec, Canada you still see a lot of that mindset where a successful entrepreneur is mor
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by belval 5y ago
That does not seem to pass the smell test for me. Do we see a greater percentage of entrepreneurs from Canada or Europe than from the US? I didn't look up hard numbers but I doubt it.
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by belval 5y ago
> there was a space and place you could talk about your feelings. In the last, you know, 10 years or so [post-transition] I can’t find those spaces necessarily for men, and I don’t know if men necessarily make those spaces for each other
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by belval 5y ago
Not to be that guy that argues with a Swiss about how Swiss talk but we get broadcasts from "RTS Un" (I think that's what it's called) and the announcers most definitely say "octante". I also followed a few Swi
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by belval 5y ago
Indeed, but if the travel bans give us a few more days to prepare it's not a bad thing. Maybe the Omicron variant is truly a nothing burger, but if it wasn't, just getting one extra week before it starts spreading more means the h
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by belval 5y ago
I replied to your other comments but now I see that you are arguing in bad faith and I regret the time investment. > It doesn't always enable new use cases. It doesn't have to always enable new use cases, you are just moving th
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by belval 5y ago
> Well, I can look back about a decade for the last 10-fold increase. A decade ago (2011) we didn't even have "deep learning" with the real increase starting around 2013 when GPUs became good enough that things like AlexNe
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by belval 5y ago
Interesting, I knew Swiss said octante and my Belgian friends all say octante as well. Perhaps it's a regional thing?
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by belval 5y ago
Sad fact: French Canadian don't use the (much better) Swiss/Belgian septante/octante/nonante and the awareness in Quebec just isn't high enough to hope for a switch. It's a shame because soixante-dix, quatre-vi
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by belval 5y ago
I know this is not for everyone but I have been loving Home-Assistant. It requires a local server and the initial setup requires some docker knowledge (unless you go the RasPi route), but after that I am impressed by how much of it "ju
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by belval 5y ago
Yeah Nvidia is so far ahead at this point I wouldn't really risk it on anything else. The problem is that all that troubleshooting adds up fast and the whole DL golden years were built on CUDA. TensorFlow and PyTorch both "support
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by belval 5y ago
I second this, we use it to manage a bigger fleet with a few hundred machines. One thing to keep in mind though is that it will not apply kernel updates (as those require a reboot) so you still need to account for it.
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by belval 5y ago
Same in Canada, the funny part is that we do have thanksgiving but it's actually a month earlier so Black Friday is just sitting in November for no reason other than to nudge people into doing their Christmas shopping.
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by belval 5y ago
I understand your point but I think it's a bit of an unfair take. If you want good depth in your reviews there are a lot of smaller tech youtubers that do deeper analysis, but the issue is that most people simply won't watch a 45

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