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by bena 3y ago
But even if you have a memory foam or whatever, it's likely that we don't have that unless we have interior spring mattresses. Also, we're not talking about the foundation, but the mattress itself. The box spring is the thing
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by bena 3y ago
Even if the technology has moved beyond, it doesn’t affect you, and you aren’t aware of the full implications doesn’t mean that it’s not true. Often, seemingly simple things like this open up whole new possibilities. Like shipping container
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by bena 3y ago
If you're the only one willing to tap into a talent pool, you get to pump that resource as much as you want. So if Sierra is the only company really willing to hire female game designers, they really get to take all the best.
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by bena 3y ago
> banned for discussing views They banned people for their position on taxes?
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by bena 3y ago
> It's making an assumption based on a predetermined belief that lower intelligence votes for things others more "righteous" disagree with. In this case, it's not an assumption. The majority of Brexit voters were less
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by bena 3y ago
It should not be, which is why it’s notable when it is. I think you’re mixing up the causal link here. Voting for Brexit is not being used as proof of lower intelligence. But there is a clear divide. If one has lower intelligence, that pers
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by bena 3y ago
The monarchy for one. Class is kinda part of national identity.
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by bena 3y ago
That’s actually a large part of it. People with lower intelligence are also worse at critical thinking. They often defer that to someone else despite what they may say or even believe.
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by bena 3y ago
First of all, paralyzed people do have bodies. And sensorimotor functions. Second of all, it wouldn't matter if individually they did or did not. The species does and now our species has developed consciousness. It's part of the p
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by bena 3y ago
Also kind of a trope. It's a minor plot point in Sandman. Morpheus and someone else were arguing about immortality and how eventually we would all tire of life. So they grant a random guy immortality for as long as he wanted. Every so
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by bena 3y ago
Change is a catalyst. And all stories are stories of change.
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by bena 3y ago
I think all stories will find themselves in these patterns, but it's important to let the story find the pattern rather than the other way around. I doubt that the person who came up with the story of Icarus was attempting to do RISE,
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by bena 3y ago
I did it on the hobbyist scene for a bit and then my place of work tried to spin up an indie shop. It can be fun. It can be interesting. However, it is not as lucrative as just writing YACS (Yet Another CRUD Site). Now, I would like to get
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by bena 3y ago
We should make a wiki for all of these leaks.
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by bena 3y ago
Yeah, like for a lot of things, there was a window. Tinder was probably the pivot. When Tinder was at its peak, so were dating apps. Now, they're all just kind shit. They've gamified the wrong aspects.
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by bena 3y ago
It's probably a result of not having complete information and giving benefit of the doubt. The guy realized SBF was doing weird shit that was probably, if not straight up illegal, at least highly unethical. And front-running was the th
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by bena 3y ago
This is one of those things that's true but not necessarily applicable. One could also say that you can't have a functioning democracy when elections aren't secure. And yes, that's technically true, but the implication h
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by bena 3y ago
This is kind of self-selecting. If your kids are poorly taught and don't have any collegiate aspirations, why are you going to subject them to achievement tests. You're not. So the only home school students taking those tests are
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by bena 3y ago
100% misprediction of two choices is an error in the algorithm. You could flip the prediction at the end and be 100% right. 50% misprediction cannot be improved upon with trivial methods.
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by bena 3y ago
No, the fact that one autistic person acts like this does not mean that all autistic person acts like this. However, it is a common enough trait among enough autistic people and being able to navigate social interactions with autistic peopl
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by bena 3y ago
The article isn't that long, they kind of address your criticism in there. They're lamenting the fact that no matter the person, every person whose ideas they find fascinating becomes less fascinating the longer they consume their
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by bena 3y ago
Die Hard with a Vengeance may be the best of the series. It's either that or the first, but regardless of what you think, it's a conversation.
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by bena 3y ago
I think you're mistaking the feeling of guilt with the state of being guilty of something. The person you're responding to isn't claiming that SBF demonstrated remorse at his actions, he is claiming that SBF admitted to the c
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by bena 3y ago
You know what other measuring system is based around highly composable numbers? It's not metric. It's the imperial system. Halves, thirds, quarters are all neat numbers. It does get a little weird because we only use feet, yards,
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by bena 3y ago
This makes it look like IBS is more a symptom for a host of related diseases rather than a disease on its own. Which is the tricky thing about diagnosis that a lot of people don't really get. Symptoms are sexy, symptoms get the headlin
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by bena 3y ago
Yes, I was pointing out that the second layer is kind of close to the surface as well. The surface layer is that Lego is providing sets to hospitals. Which is nice. The second layer is that they're just giving them out to 300 hospitals
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by bena 3y ago
The implication is that the creator made the media for enjoyment and not for study, therefore if you're not enjoying it you can't be infringing on copyright. I can see how that was not clear in my statement. Because part of OpenAI
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by bena 3y ago
There's also the Child's Play Charity ( https://childsplaycharity.org/ ) which provides toys and games to pediatric hospitals.
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by bena 3y ago
I get it. This is a smaller set, around 500 pieces, so a retail value of about $50 US. So you're looking at an outlay of about $30,000. Which isn't a lot for the most popular toy brand on the face of the Earth. Lego could probably
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by bena 3y ago
Give me a case where the fact an original "was created for human consumption" was used as a successful fair use defense.

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