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by bena 1y ago
If a bullet hits, it has to hit somewhere. He could have been aiming for the skull for all we know. He could have been aiming for the chest. Hell, he could have been aiming for someone behind Kirk.
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by bena 1y ago
We fail this test over and over and the fact that you don't realize it is telling in and of itself. Not as a remark on you, but on the media in general.
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by bena 1y ago
Their point is that the length of career is due to injury rather than ability. And making an opening day roster already puts you 2x longer than the overall average.
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by bena 1y ago
The "average 3 year" career is a bit like medieval life expectancy, it's pulled down by people dropping out early. For players on the roster opening day, the average career is 6 years. For players with 3 years of experience,
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by bena 1y ago
Is it more a "collection of tools held together by a common frontend" or a unified product? If it's a collection, I can see the individual pieces needing various compilers.
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by bena 1y ago
No. Meta is spending $10B to build its largest data center in rural Louisiana. I guarantee you that a lot of that $10B will be spent out of state. This is yet another corporate handout with the thin veil of "technology investment"
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by bena 1y ago
This is probably one of those things where the risk is normally small, so small increases cause large changes in percentage. For instance, if spontaneous abortion is normally 1% and smoking increases it to 2%, then that’s a 100% increase. N
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by bena 1y ago
About 10-ish years ago, my then employer was talking to some other company about helping them get their software to release. They had what they believed to be a proprietary compression system that would compress and playback 4k video with n
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by bena 1y ago
As a developer, I like Mac OSX. It seems to be a fair compromise. It has a decent window manager, the finder is excellent, and if I need to I can drop into a terminal and do what I need to.
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by bena 1y ago
100 yards away with a sidewalk on only one side. And that sidewalk being right against the road. Compare that to where they likely crossed at the entrance to the apartment complex directly across from the fire station that's neighbor
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by bena 1y ago
Don’t confuse knowledge with intelligence. Knowing what a trireme isn’t a sign of intelligence, it’s trivia. Being able to figure out how to build a trireme is intelligence. And I don’t mean looking up instructions and doing, I mean being a
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by bena 1y ago
You see this in other countries as well. They pay decent wages to fast food employees and don’t play the tipping game either. Prices aren’t out of control and service is decent.
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by bena 1y ago
Welfare is also kind of a subsidy for low paying employers. If Walmart doesn’t pay enough for its employees to afford to live, then the government steps in with ebt and housing vouchers, etc. to make up the difference. That’s money Walmart
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by bena 1y ago
Eventually they would have collected $20k of collateral for the loan
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by bena 1y ago
Exactly. If Yahoo was capable of nurturing Google into what it became, it was also capable of simply becoming that first. But it didn’t, because it wasn’t run by the same people who ran Google. And I’m not saying that only Page and Brin wer
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by bena 1y ago
It sounds familiar, but it's one of those things that's secretly checking something else. Vegetarians are generally more conscious of their health than omnivores. Because you have to realize that omnivores includes the vast majori
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by bena 1y ago
Today, sure, but I've heard this a lot. Starting when it was around $100. It's currently just above $300. It's a lot like bitcoin/crypto-in-general in that aspect. It's constantly in danger of collapsing, but line k
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by bena 1y ago
Not necessarily. Smoking has become less prevalent. So while before, most lung cancer victims were smokers, we’re at the point where overall risk in the general population causes higher numbers than specific risk in smokers. Because while m
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by bena 1y ago
To be fair, from the casual glance over the causes of Parkinson's, it doesn't seem as if alcohol or drugs are probable causes of Parkinson's. Now, if he got something with pesticides or whatever still on it, sure, but Parkins
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by bena 1y ago
You're right, I do. I had gotten them mixed up.
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by bena 1y ago
This is essentially what Blake Lemoine went through in 2020 with LaMDA (not LLama).
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by bena 1y ago
There's probably some survivorship bias in here. Those self-taught engineers who don't even perform aren't going to be engineers for long. So of course you'll see a lot of self-taught engineers in the outperforming cat
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by bena 1y ago
I think the overall point is that we will never get there. Renewables will never be cheap enough to fully replace fossil fuels, batteries will never be good enough. No matter what, as long as the cost of extracting and burning fossil fuels
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by bena 1y ago
Both actually. Milquetoast was a fictional character used to characterize extreme timidity, as if he were the personification of milk toast. Eventually, the name became a synonym for the attitude. But the name comes from the food
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by bena 1y ago
That day being essentially yesterday. Since Katrina, the next 10 costliest hurricanes are all after . We don't dwell on the Ikes, Idas, and Helenes because they often happen to smaller communities and they've become common enou
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by bena 1y ago
No doubt we can probably do things better, my main thrust was to show how if you can force participation, you can kind of get away with it.
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by bena 1y ago
Not necessarily in this case. You have those who pay in, but die before they fully collect. Then the collectors do die off, they aren’t expected to get returns in perpetuity or crazy large returns. Then you have a constant supply of new pay
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by bena 1y ago
First, the average person isn’t doing this. Second, I doubt even the best puzzlers would do well. There is no reference image, pieces missing, the pieces they have aren’t guaranteed to fit, and no indication of whether or not you’ve actuall
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by bena 1y ago
The main output of doctors is not written notes though. Our main output is typed code. Yes, our most valuable skill is critical thinking. So I don’t want to waste time and thought on wondering where the “f” key is. If I’m thinking about typ
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by bena 1y ago
I caught this on HBO in the 80s. And over the years, I had forgotten the name, although it wouldn’t have helped much. But I had remembered liking it. The glider, the giant bugs, etc. I spent several years casually trying to find it. But “bi

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