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by betenoire 5y ago
The amount of entropy is usually limited. For the lottery, it doesn't seem like it would be a problem, but in general, you don't want your function calls to block while gathering "random data"
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by betenoire 5y ago
This used to be a reliable workaround to "web nannies" or corporate filters as well.
93.
by betenoire 5y ago
That paragraph stuck out to me too.. it makes no sense. They say it is refined capitalism but also nothing of value is being traded. Isn't capital supposed to have value? That's refined snake oil.
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by betenoire 5y ago
> However, there does seem to be a sweet spot in the elo gain rate where a large portion of the players who have gained the most elo per month seem to cluster around 100-300 games per month, which comes out to a handful of games per day.
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by betenoire 5y ago
Literally the first line from wikipedia is: > A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy
96.
by betenoire 5y ago
I get the derogatory nature of the term, but both of your examples include groups of people keeping information from the rest of us. I'm curious if you have an example of a derogatory conspiracy theory that doesn't have a literal
97.
by betenoire 5y ago
If it is man-made, and they are keeping that from us, then it is a conspiracy. Therefore, conspiracy theory. It's not because it us "against the norm", it is because the theory itself clearly involves a conspiracy.
98.
by betenoire 5y ago
Or any part of your codebase for that matter
99.
by betenoire 5y ago
But they call it a search engine. That would be a fairer point if they called it an ad-lookup engine
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by betenoire 5y ago
I don't disagree necessarily, but humans seems capable of solving problems even when when they are poorly defined by understanding the some implicit context. Sure if we encode all the context, the computer can solve it too, but isn&#x2
101.
by betenoire 5y ago
The question remains in earnest, how did you differentiate between the ego and soul without begging the question?
102.
by betenoire 5y ago
Hmm... Yes. But I can't make a cogent argument why lol. 13 year club here, the Reddit I think of is probably not aligned with what Reddit thinks of itself anymore.
103.
by betenoire 5y ago
D) no notifications
104.
by betenoire 5y ago
Would you say ALL forums are social media? Consider that we have commenters in here saying they don't use social media... So... Kinda, but certainly not in everyone's mind apparently. I feel some je ne sais quoi about the terminol
105.
by betenoire 5y ago
Mind sharing why? Is it the features or something else? When I think back 20 years to forums, HN feels most like those to me. It feels nothing like what most people call "social media"
106.
by betenoire 5y ago
Isn't it a forum? It doesn't have friends, following, asking for your contacts, etc. I guess the line is subjective, this is just a plain old forum, managed very well, imo.
107.
by betenoire 5y ago
it cools you down, but you feel warm in the process
108.
by betenoire 5y ago
This article painted a picture in my mind of someone who complains often/too much > My standard response to the concept has often been "Yes but nice problems to have are still problems" "A nice problem to have" i
109.
by betenoire 5y ago
All else equal, it should. Delivery matters too though, since inaccessible content isn't really useful content
110.
by betenoire 5y ago
Reminds me of Rich Hickey's talk on "simple vs easy". Wordpress is easy, but not simple if you really want to grok it.
111.
by betenoire 6y ago
I totally disagree. If it is a comment on diversity, it might be sarcastic or unprofessional, but that doesn't make it just as offensive. Saying all minorities look the same reveals ignorance and biases, which is the offensive part, no
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by betenoire 6y ago
I also found it kinda funny. And even more so that the cop is playing Sublime, and had to skip right past "April 29, 1992 (Miami)" (a song about participating in the Rodney King riots) to get to Santeria, assuming he has the album
113.
by betenoire 6y ago
The experiment doesn't have to be on people, it can be on budgets and resources. Tracking whether or not or how many people get help vs punished might be a place to start
114.
by betenoire 6y ago
Advertising has existed without this feature in other mediums forever
115.
by betenoire 6y ago
> at least one has to be below (average) this is the pedantic part. Normal usage of average means "pretty much what I expected", which is what they are trying to convey, imo.
116.
by betenoire 6y ago
"Consequences" sure does imply causation, but this doesn't say that. It says "linked to negative life outcomes" which sounds a lot more like correlation to me.
117.
by betenoire 6y ago
The article is about DRY, but it opens talking about clean code. IMO, "clean" is a poor word to use when evaluating code quality, not because there is no clean code like the author says, but because clean is an undefined subjectiv
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by betenoire 6y ago
> It was Chipotle, so I hope I didn't do any lasting damage. You are killing me, too funny! I also have given money to people, not knowing how they would use it. I figure if there is a chance it will do them good, who am I to say ho
119.
by betenoire 6y ago
> Hell, I can't even tell that you 'feel' anything. Philosophically, yeah. But if you can't prove or disprove anything, then "proving" isn't a useful metric. Being the same species should give you confi
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by betenoire 6y ago
> I can firmly say JS is NOT used for making "desktop-class applications more accessible" yes it is. It is used for ads and spying too, but to say it is "NOT" used for desktop-class apps is wrong

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