bialpio

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by bialpio 2y ago
Yeah, people that don't care enough to vote should not be weighted in, that's the whole point. Weighing them in does not mean they actually get represented. The only problem is people that want to vote but can't are going to
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by bialpio 2y ago
Can you name edge cases of popular vote system that electoral college system does not also have? You do realize that just because the popular vote is national does not mean that all the votes would be dumped at a desert in New Mexico and th
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by bialpio 2y ago
Current system theoretically allows for the presidency to be won even though the candidate got less than 30% of the popular vote. In my opinion the existence of such an edge case makes it undefendable. What do you mean here by "incenti
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by bialpio 2y ago
Not if you have to pay to set up your tent legally, which you conveniently forgot to respond to. The only place I found so far that is free is BLM dispersed camping, but they allow only 14 consecutive days in 28 day period, and those places
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by bialpio 2y ago
You may want to revise the life expectancy estimate on a rice+beans diet, scurvy is a thing and based on my googling you would not get enough vit. C. I'm probably missing some other disease too, so "don't get sick" is pr
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by bialpio 2y ago
Out of curiosity, how much money do you think is needed to survive ~55 years ("savings by 30" + life expectancy around 85ish = 55yrs) without working? Also, please spell out biggest assumptions you're making.
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by bialpio 2y ago
That does not feel like burning the money, more like propping up the private sector (naively, government's deficit is going to be private sector's surplus if you don't actually reduce the amount of money in circulation).
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by bialpio 2y ago
100% this. This reminds me of what my SO says: if you have to work, you are not in the upper class. I don't think I agree with this statement fully (I personally think that top decile by income is already upper class), but I feel like
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by bialpio 2y ago
Footnote in the article provides the following explanation: "The standard imposes this limitation because the implementation may need to add default function parameters, template default parameters, or overloads in order to accomplish
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by bialpio 2y ago
What are your thoughts on hentai then? It's all made up after all. Meta-point is that different people get off on different things, so using seemingly objective language ("the whole point of A is B") to describe something ext
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by bialpio 2y ago
Nowhere did I write that I didn't go out for a walk/hike on my own. I limited my activities among other people to the level I deemed safe and moved the rest of my social activities to the Internet, but just that was sufficient to
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by bialpio 2y ago
How was your experience from the time of pandemic lockdowns? I don't know about you, but I was pacing around the house like a caged animal after first couple weeks, and I was free to leave the premises and e.g. go for a hike anytime I
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by bialpio 2y ago
From the paper: "The thickness of oil required to take the life out of the camphor movements lies between one and two millionths of a millimetre, and may be estimated with some precision at 1’6 micromillimetre." Looks like a prima
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by bialpio 2y ago
It's not going to drift by 300ppm per day - it'll pick the lowest value it saw and assume it was 400ppm. If that happens to be 700ppm every day, then it'll be wrong by 300ppm every day.
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by bialpio 2y ago
What we do when mixing beans in our breville is we keep the grinder empty and only add beans after weighting them for a single serving. For a split-shot, I'd just add ~9g of caffeinated beans, pull a shot and then pull a 2nd one with ~
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by bialpio 2y ago
One example where picking units within a project is still not saving you from cognitive load is e.g. when doing woodworking. Ymmv, but I can add decimals way faster than I can add 7 9/16" + 13 23/32" (numbers picked arbi
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by bialpio 2y ago
Do you have the same problem with mandating labor if the mandated labor is related to obtaining some kind of certifications? Why or why not?
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by bialpio 2y ago
For completeness, in Clang `[[clang::optnone]]` as a per-function attribute also works fine. I'm using it for debugging quite frequently lately.
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by bialpio 2y ago
Good idea, I'm gonna quit my job today and start my own coop with all the earnings my current employer shared with me! Oh, wait... Seriously though, most people cannot afford to just quit. You at least need savings for that, and you ne
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by bialpio 2y ago
> All these workers could set up cooperatives and work for / own them instead. And some people do that (modulo creating coops), just not middle-class people. No-one without a decent cushion would be able to risk it. Especially with
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by bialpio 2y ago
It doesn't even have to always be electricity on demand, sometimes we also need heat. I wonder if heat storage will be a thing we'll have in the households (or maybe it's enough to have it in district heating facilities?).
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by bialpio 2y ago
And also change the interviewing process, because clearly it's not testing for the skills that are needed.
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by bialpio 2y ago
How do you reconcile this advice with the fact that in both places I've worked at, the expectation was that just the onboarding takes significant amount of time (up to ~0.5yr)? Even if I personally didn't need that much time, it w
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by bialpio 2y ago
It's not a bias for 2d projection. If someone tells me to "go east in a straight line", I think about how practically I'd go about it. In this case, I'd take a compass, point myself to go east, and keep adjusting my
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by bialpio 2y ago
How much (little?) radioactive material would there have to be inside the SMR for an impact of a 737 into the neighborhood to be more devastating than the release of the radioactive material?
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by bialpio 3y ago
No. There's so much content fighting for my (limited) attention that there is no loss to ignore user-hostile sites.
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by bialpio 3y ago
Gotcha, at first I was expecting something that tried to rely on some kind of physical limitation or a property that the passage of time has.
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by bialpio 3y ago
This feels like Shamir's secret sharing with a pinky promise that "we won't decrypt things earlier", am I missing something?
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by bialpio 3y ago
Where are you based? I have it tested annually, but only after moving to USA (from Poland). I don't remember if I had such a test done earlier - I think I might have had it done as a part of screening for whether I'd be allowed to
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by bialpio 3y ago
How is it a pain to stop in a car? Does your foot hurt from pressing the brake pedal and then the accelerator? I don't get it - it takes actual, not-insignificant effort to start riding a bike after a full stop, unlike a car, even when

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