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by boublepop 5y ago
Just recently went to Disney land myself. We did the tour hopper on a day when California land closed early for a Halloween event, unfortunately we didn’t book well enough in advance to get tickets for the event, but that’s just bad plannin
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by boublepop 5y ago
You cannot have PoW running on burning a free or cheap resource, the entire point of PoW is that the resource you are burning is costly, which pushes up the amount burned to close to the break-even point. The amount of energy consumed now i
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by boublepop 5y ago
Yes I could. No issues. Save to photos on iPhone.
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by boublepop 5y ago
> they simply don't have the same taste profile People who eat meat aren’t the target audience. The target audience are people who don’t eat meat but still go to MacDonalds or Burger King, it’s a growing segment, and don’t worry, no
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by boublepop 5y ago
If I met this person on the subway, I think it would be a good lesson to go over to them and tell them that they are a complete piece of shit in my opinion and spend a considerable time doing so. Why? Well it’s not illegal to do so, and sin
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by boublepop 5y ago
> How is raising somebody else's taxes going to fix that? Just raise the taxes on peoples 3’rd or 4th home. It will definitely screw over a lot of real estate investors and banks, but that’s sort of the deal with investment risk, an
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by boublepop 5y ago
You propably need to spend a year haphazardly watching YouTube videos and Reading papers on social interactions while applying your learnings in practice before being able to actually compare the two. It sounds like you think just living wi
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by boublepop 5y ago
Saying a company that literally sent a car into space has a zero dollar advertising budget is just a combination of Hollywood accounting and delusion.
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by boublepop 5y ago
You can’t compare a hipster wanting to flash a cane with a senior citizen giving up going up and down stairs in pain because a painless alternative exists.
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by boublepop 5y ago
> But the complete failure to consider the possibility that I might also be intelligent, educated, and able to understand the applicable research just because my day job isn't in medicine immediately disqualifies a doctor for me. It
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by boublepop 5y ago
Snowflake must be kicking themselves hard now for letting a story that was “Databricks is a viable alternative” turn into “Snowflake has absolutely no integrity and will fling mud even while they are gaming the statistics” Really can’t see
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by boublepop 5y ago
> most people in the EU don't have passports Do you have a reference for this? It might be true, but I live in a small European country and have never met or heard of anyone not having a passport, so it sounds very unlikely to me, t
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by boublepop 5y ago
centralized profits, decentralized risk.
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by boublepop 5y ago
Why didn’t you answer the question? > What was Google's incentive for engaging with Pinterest?
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by boublepop 5y ago
> and might not be the most significant force behind its adoption. You say that, but if you where using tiktok you’d be one of the roughly billion people who didn’t know about the signal a month ago but then recently learned about it. T
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by boublepop 5y ago
The way art works, the 999 authentic fakes will end up being worth more than the 1 boring original.
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by boublepop 5y ago
Blockchains are extremely widely used, almost every coding project on the planet is using a blockchain for managing and versioning through git. The crypto blockchain is a different story of cause and the reason it is being hyped without bou
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by boublepop 5y ago
Why should any concrete details be mentioned? For all we know he might have eaten a burger from some poplar chain on the day he died, but that doesn’t make it ok for media to publicly in a non-scientific way to speculate “did McDonalds kill
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by boublepop 5y ago
> I can assure you the average person is not much dumber than the average American. If you have two scales and used them to weight the difference in mass of two objects, and one says there is a difference and the other doesn’t, you canno
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by boublepop 5y ago
You don’t even need an industrial PhD. In Denmark at least, a PhD study is a paid position, essentially just a job that runs 3 years and results in handing in a PhD dissertation. It pays less than what you get in the industry, but very dece
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by boublepop 5y ago
Your comment reminds me of a friends recommendation to watch The Arrow. “The first two seasons are really bad, but if you stick through it they become ok” It’s ok to not want to watch a show that sucks originally. We don’t need to watch it
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by boublepop 5y ago
If you had afsked me a year ago if “Good Omens” could be adapted to the screen I would have told you it was impossible. Heck if you asked me back in the day of A Song of Fire and Ice could, I would have told you it was impossible, but in re
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by boublepop 5y ago
Metaverse is just a word. And what it will be used to describe is a VR game owned by Facebook. And it will be bullshit. The internet will include VR/AR elements eventually, but it will not get a new name. It will still just be called T
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by boublepop 5y ago
Care to elaborate on your comment to those who are not in the know? Did the Aztecs not burn scripture? I don’t know much about Mayan and Aztec history and culture, but I visited Yucatán recently and it sounded from guides like there was a l
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by boublepop 5y ago
Yes, you are correct. The housing prices have been steadily climbing over the years, and that’s not because companies are getting worse and worse at building houses, and it hasn’t been because of rising material costs (the rises that curren
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by boublepop 5y ago
> Munger maintains the small living quarters would coax residents out of their rooms and into larger common areas Looking at the floor plan, the living quarters are not small, they are microscopic, and the common areas are not large, the
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by boublepop 5y ago
That’s mis-understanding the effect. It has nothing to do with “losing big but rarely” you could put 20s instead of 6s and it wouldn’t change a thing. It’s just that when you roll A against B it will win more than half, but B against C will
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by boublepop 5y ago
That’s a typo, it should be (3,5,7) every number should appear only once. My bad.
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by boublepop 5y ago
I felt exactly the same way the first time I read about them, but for boardgame design. But I found that in practice the probability of the effect just isn’t really enough to make it fun, at least in my attempts, and I ended up just using r
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by boublepop 5y ago
There is no nonlinearity or defiance of probabilities. It’s just simply the fact that comparing the face values between the dice outcomes has dice each winning over the next, because that operation is not transitive in general. The “trick”

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