bigDinosaur

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by bigDinosaur 7mo ago
Domestic tourism is massive even in countries with terrible work culture like China, so your claim is not particularly strong. Either way, hobbies and holidays are certainly not unique to NA and Europe.
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by bigDinosaur 7mo ago
This article seems to hinge on a rhetorical flourish whereby the literal meaning of 'you are not your job' is substituted with a criticism of 'you are not what you do'. Well, of course it doesn't make sense and isn&
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by bigDinosaur 7mo ago
All discussion of foreign affairs is the discussion of domestic affairs somewhere.
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by bigDinosaur 7mo ago
Describing Germany's loss in WW2 as 'affecting their foreign policy a little' represents a profound disconnect with reality, which is that WW2 fundamentally reshaped the entire world, cemented the US as a superpower, set up t
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by bigDinosaur 7mo ago
You really didn't feel Pentium 4 to Core 2 Duo was a 'game changer'?
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by bigDinosaur 7mo ago
To say this is simplifying is understating just how 'not even wrong' this is...
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by bigDinosaur 7mo ago
Can confirm - I go for the cheapest and smallest iPhones possible (e.g. 13 mini) and could not care less about >60Hz on my phone, although I care about it quite a lot for laptop or desktop displays. 17e will likely be my next upgrade (if
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by bigDinosaur 7mo ago
I didn't say the Shakers had a bad idea, it just was an idea that led to them removing themselves from further existence that was not genetic. Whether that was a good or bad decision is an entirely separate judgement call.
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by bigDinosaur 7mo ago
It doesn't have to be genetic to be 'self-removing'. What happened to the Shakers?
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by bigDinosaur 8mo ago
Obviously the concept is different from the execution, and you provided an idea on execution (which anyone can do) which would need to be actually, you know, proved out to help with any kind of brand loyalty. Just doing random things that s
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by bigDinosaur 8mo ago
How is that not a line of principle? Principle doesn't mean where we'd all agree, nor does it mean what we'd deem acceptable, it just means there is a line somewhere - and mass surveillance or fully autonomous AI in the kil
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by bigDinosaur 8mo ago
Someone has not read a book even if they read the opening paragraph, so the solution is likely far simpler.
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by bigDinosaur 8mo ago
You can spin up any idea and claim it increases brand loyalty, but you have to have actual evidence that that either happens or actually matters in some way, and in this case it probably doesn't and isn't worth the expense once th
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by bigDinosaur 8mo ago
CORS has nothing to do with (dis)allowing 'mutating requests from random origins' on the server unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean. The origin is a browser concept.
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by bigDinosaur 8mo ago
There's no actual good evidence for being a Mossad operative and the agenda of trying desperately to link him to Mossad so strongly is such a transparent agenda it's almost funny.
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by bigDinosaur 8mo ago
In the world of B2B software many of the 'hard problems in custom software development' have not been solved by human coders either - it can be an extremely grim market for anyone who cares about software quality. I'm complet
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by bigDinosaur 8mo ago
All you've done is created a homonym for no good reason at all.
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by bigDinosaur 8mo ago
I would still expect ingress and egress costs to be significant - as well as storage for content that isn't culled. And while it was not 'meant to be profitable' my point is that it was profitable, apparently exclusively fr
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by bigDinosaur 8mo ago
I still haven't quite understood how Anki can apparently be profitable when the web sync with Ankiweb apparently supports an unlimited amount of data (surely some people heavily abuse this - but one never hears about fair use being app
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by bigDinosaur 8mo ago
SM is claiming that the latest versions of the SM algorithm (namely SM-19) are vastly superior to FSRS (maybe it is?). They state in contrast: We do not dismiss the work behind FSRS. It is a commendable open-source effort and a marked impr
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by bigDinosaur 8mo ago
https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/supermemo-is-better-than-f... seems to suggest that yes, it is a major improvement over SM-2, and given how critical they are of FSRS I'm happy to believe them. SM-2 to my un
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by bigDinosaur 8mo ago
Many people now know that a tomato is a fruit, and will distinguish it with exactly the 'did you know a tomato is not a vegetable?' fun fact, so I'm not sure this is a great point. If someone asked me to list vegetables and t
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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
They did verify the authenticity. The police won't launch a full investigation for every single possibility and doing so would be a colossal waste of resources. They are, in fact, allowed to make some calls and be satisfied at that poi
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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
What would make this legally unenforceable?
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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
My understanding is that HN is monetized e.g. marketing is explicitly permitted by founders etc. I guess that's not conventional monetisation.
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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
There are plenty of examples of asymmetric warfare where the stronger party crushed the weaker one. WW2 was full of such examples. People point to Afghanistan and Vietnam as if they apply in every situation, for some bizarre reason (I assum
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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
This makes sense - as am analogy the flight crash investigator is presumably a very different role to the engineer designing flight safety systems.
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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
Graffiti on things like trees (e.g. in urban parks) is awful and trees are the opposite of artificial and antiseptic. The main problem with graffiti is that most of it is made without thought or consideration, and that never ends well.
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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
Gwern does actual research into usability, and that's the reason there aren't any ads on Gwern.net (which alone makes it far from the worst for readability, I mean have you used the internet without an ad blocker on the median b
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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
It's impossible to discuss TikTok in isolation without discussing its algorithm or the whole 'the medium is the message' nature of it - which is precisely what distinguishes it from the era of the weird and bizarre personal w

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