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by bernawil 3y ago
A "casino" doesn't have a reason, in fact it has no reason at all. The people running it do, and someone with enough power could rig the games and steal from both the customers and the casino, hurting both.
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by bernawil 3y ago
Man, that article dances around the issue, huh. When I say most I mean arena selling artists. Small time artists don't get their tickets scalped. Ever heard those stories of artists putting silly requests just to make sure the organize
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by bernawil 3y ago
Anybody ever floated the idea that it's all tax evasion? Company sells ticket officially at 50, black market clears at 150 off the books. Were I'm from it's the most popular take. Doesn't have to be done by the company
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by bernawil 3y ago
This take is widespread and it's just wrong. Most artists are hired by organizers and just paid a flat fee for performing, the company then selling and promoting the event. Can you imagine what it'd take to organize an internation
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by bernawil 3y ago
Oh, around 2010 youtube (peak vlogger era) the cool thing to do in monologues was removing pauses between sentences, making a sort of galloping cadence.
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by bernawil 3y ago
People say this but they -mostly- just want to live somewhere wealthier. Would anybody move from Serbia to USA/Canada if they where equally wealthy? What if Serbia was even wealthier but still more corrupt?
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by bernawil 3y ago
Well, that's way more friction.
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by bernawil 3y ago
Well, there isn't much of invidual every day morality in LOTR basically. It's more of a morality for kings tale. who is the most moral character? Gandalf. And he is a mouthpiece from the Valar to men. Who are the most moral people
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by bernawil 3y ago
It's a story about a world where God and deities objectively exist and interact with it in visible ways, it makes sense everything turns around being for or against them. There isn't much of an economy or progress in general, with
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by bernawil 3y ago
Hi there! I'm running every post through several filters with GPT for every category. Like: 1. is it remote? 2. is it remote within some location? 3. tech stack? etc. and then trying to coalesce some tags together. I'll probabl
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by bernawil 3y ago
yeah, such a silly myth. People have known you can make water safe by boiling since forever. This myth also often dispelled along "they drank it for safety and didn't get very drunk because it was very week beer" like they co
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by bernawil 3y ago
cottage cheese and ricotta, yes, note the clumpy texture. That's what you get when you heat enough and cook the milk with an acid, it clumps into that typical texture. But cream cheese is more like yogurt. You put the culture in the mi
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by bernawil 3y ago
if you put milk in a pot, heated and added lemon until it separated sounds like you made ricotta, not cream cheese. Cream cheese is more like yogurt actually (I'm sure I've had some brands that where really just yoghurt with very
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by bernawil 3y ago
Credit came before currency. The oldest civilizations we know of (Sumerians, Babylonians, etc.) traded on credit on the daily to be later settled come harvest. "Okay, I owe the bar for 100 barley beers, it's harvest time and they
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by bernawil 3y ago
Sounds like a just-so explanation and something something causation ≠ correlation. Like me saying "Countries that use imperial units are richer than countries that use metric. The inconsistency in the former make their citizens more ad
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by bernawil 3y ago
haha, oh of course all of this is implicitly prefaced with "In my opinion". > Also, screen protectors? Last time I saw one was ~1994. Ugh, I think you're thinking of those tinted glass things you'd hang on old CRT mon
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by bernawil 3y ago
maybe I wasn't very clear in my point. I'm not saying matte doesn't attenuate glare. I'm saying that it does some, mainly by diffusing it and spreading it around and I personally can't stand any amount of it. It&#x2
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by bernawil 3y ago
Matte never made sense at all. I have no idea how matte ever made it into PC monitors. I mean, before lcd screens all screen surfaces where smooth glass. Then came LCD in plastic. Did the early LCD tech necessitate that the outside layer b
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by bernawil 3y ago
they can definitely enforce a strict time limit by only showing the exercise on a website that starts a countdown and telling you so. I'm okay with that. What I'm not okay with is being ambiguous about this and expecting me to gam
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by bernawil 3y ago
always do exactly one commit with a commit time of exactly when they sent me the take home If they require BS I give them BS So, that's editing git history to fit a narrative. I'm not judging though! I guess it really d
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by bernawil 3y ago
Or maybe younger/less experienced people feel anxious about competing with everybody in the remote market so they don't even bother and go for the less competitive in-office market.
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by bernawil 3y ago
I once had a recruiter send me the project template in a .zip for the take home with the instructions to take less than 3 hours (the email wasn't timed to start right away either). No server with countdown, no forking from github, just
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by bernawil 3y ago
It's a mid 2000s internet trope that somewhat persists. Back when Ericsson and Nokia where cool the media would make an example of Sweden and Finland. Every discussion would be a variation on: - "I want $LIBERTARIAN_POLICY policy&
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by bernawil 3y ago
hah, good point. Just wanted to point out that callbacks and async/await are different things, and callbacks are still the preferred way to customize behavior.
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by bernawil 3y ago
what do you mean async/await "replaced callbacks"? Async/await "replaced" Promises, specifically then/catch chaining. Turns out Promises can be syntactically-sugared to imperative try/catch blocks.
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by bernawil 3y ago
It's like the basis of that old meme: In Soviet Rusia, wheat tames you!
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by bernawil 3y ago
I honestly think it was all just hype, or some sort of FOMO of every reviewer not jumping on the M1 hype-train. I own a base Macbook Pro 14", 16GB RAM. If anything, it feels like less than 16GB (maybe because the shared video memory or
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by bernawil 4y ago
As I said, the innovation of the Medieval Knight was "charging full speed ahead with crouched lances". "Charging" cavalry, in that sense, was not a thing before. Byzantine Cataphracts fought like all known cavalry of ant
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by bernawil 4y ago
The Byzantines where shocked when they first encountered knights in southern Italy in the 1000s. They where crushed by the Normans. Cavalry charging full speed ahead with crouched lances was a huge innovation. The norm since forever was for

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