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by bena 3y ago
We are often our own harshest critics. I think you should have someone you trust to gauge the quality of your work and let them make the call. Because like people here have pointed out, some authors wanted their works destroyed when they di
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by bena 3y ago
A lot of what we think of when we think of pirates is heavily influenced by the "golden age of piracy" which was mainly in the Caribbean region. So it's like a second or third order reference, but it's there-ish. Pirate
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by bena 3y ago
I’m sorry, I can see where I was ambiguous. I meant I can see why dark matter is appealing to more researchers in general and why MOND is in the minority. If dark matter is right, we can find it. If MOND is right, we’ve just been doing inco
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by bena 3y ago
I think dark matter is more appealing to them because the first person to discover a dark matter object is going to get something named after them.
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by bena 3y ago
It could still be closed loop. JPMorgan has ChaseNet, a closed loop system and it issues Visa and Mastercard cards. It was mostly rules from Visa and Mastercard that prevented American Express from being offered by more banks.
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by bena 3y ago
There it is. You're not worried about indoctrination. You're worried you won't be able to be the one to indoctrinate.
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by bena 3y ago
Describe the indoctrination you think is taking place currently.
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Both this article and the article on Turchin himself don't pass the smell test. They both read more like opinion pieces than informative articles. Like they were written by either Turchin himself or people who know him. Contrast the ar
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There's a SNES game based on the movie that has some decent sections.
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It's found in one dictionary. Last published in 1911. Brall isn't an obscure word, it's an obsolete one. I think it's fair to say that if your word isn't in Oxford or American Heritage, you shouldn't expect it
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by bena 3y ago
Yes, that's what the ruling essentially said. However, that's not what Air Canada wanted . And I'm not saying they should have won either. Just that, that's what they wanted. Because if they can ignore the output of the
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Because if they win this, they get to keep the good and ignore the bad. They get to automate a large chunk of their customer service and when the chatbot does something really stupid they can tap on the sign that says "We're not l
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by bena 3y ago
Then fair enough. However, there's no shame in the actual hustle. But that is what's happening in the tipping system. I'm not trying to start a flamewar. Accusing others of that is just as intellectually dishonest as you thin
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by bena 3y ago
I think it's partly because Apple has made a lot of the more onerous parts of distribution hidden from developers. They don't have to deal with it, so they think it has no value, so they don't want to pay for it.
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by bena 3y ago
There are plenty of cases where this defense is used. It's always treated like bullshit because it is. You don't get to decide how I settle my debts. If I owe you $20, you don't get to confiscate whatever you want of mine
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by bena 3y ago
This is tangential, but part of the reason why I dislike talking to servers about the tipped minimum wage. Because it seems they deliberately don't want to understand the full context of the law. Or fully the type of work they are in.
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All of these are basically "what we have now, but with magic". I'm sorry but how magic and the legal system interact is a subject explored in fiction. Hell, even Harry Potter touched on the subject. And that's not goin
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Exactly. If the choices are Amazon warehouse or nothing, amazon doesn’t have to pay all that well. Just better than nothing.
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by bena 3y ago
I think one of the major problems with fields like psychology is that they often deal with wicked problems. You just cannot really run rigorous experiments that isolate explicit features you want to investigate. No two people have exactly t
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by bena 3y ago
It doesn't even have to be random, just wrong. And much like running from a bear, you don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other guy. You don't have to be perfect, just more effort than it's worth.
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by bena 3y ago
I think you missed what he was trying to say. He's not saying he has nothing to hide, he's saying it's easy to hide when you generate garbage the vast majority of the time. It's kind of related to that old software adage
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by bena 3y ago
Because WalMart knows it is primarily a logistics company. They know that if they get the goods to stores efficiently, everything else will follow.
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Which is why I said I don't believe the murder was premeditated. He was able to plea to second degree in exchange for the location of the body and essentially a confession. They convicted him of first degree because without the body, t
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Considering the number of people in prison who get exonerated, I'm glad that the ones "they know" did it aren't actually in jail. Because that seems like random chance that they're actually right. But it's also
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Yeah, I don't think the murder itself was premeditated, but he did treat the event with a sort of self-serving callousness that gave the perception that he did not care about Nina's life beyond how it affected his.
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It really depends on what you're looking to get away with. If you're looking to get away with orchestrating the murder of someone you know, it can be difficult. However, if you're just looking to get away with murdering someo
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This is such pretentious bullshit. The ability to realize an idea is way more important than "having ideas". And I say that "most ideas are just half-formed thoughts" because they are. Most people think an idea like &quo
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by bena 3y ago
People chase happiness instead of contentment. And we've also been conditioned to think that love does not require work. That it will "just be". So if there's friction, well, obviously it's not meant to be. Because
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You do know you can do what you like outside of work, right? You have a hyper-idealized version of what is and is not art. And execution definitely forms part of the talent. We should know that just as well. We all know "the idea guy&q
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by bena 3y ago
Television comes in waves. Sopranos didn't overlap with either Justified or Breaking Bad. It premiered in 1999. Breaking Bad had already finished in 2013, just slightly over 10 years ago. You're pining for a time that doesn't

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