cleansingfire

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by cleansingfire 6y ago
When I hear "Money doesn't buy happiness" my internal response is always "but poverty can ensure misery"
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
He authorized one calendar, one year. I've always loved and respected that he was able to stop & let the strip be the amazing thing it was. He declined astonishing money, for enough.
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
Sounds like Swiss trains need a single axle connector to ensure all trains have an odd number of axles.
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
You're right, of course. Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking particularly of the comment about the behavior with arbitrary initial numbers. Start with 1, 5000, and it still converges quickly to the golden ratio, as the parent c
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
This seems like a pretty basic calculus problem. Constants become irrelevant at the limit, so that the relationship (ratio) is all that's left.
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
CA used deceptive practices to collect user data, & downloaded personally identifiable information for u users and their friends without notification or consent, unlike NYU. Those are significant differences.
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
There's no 1/4 here. (1/2) (99/199) = 99/398 First ball removed changes the odds for second draw.
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
Yes, this tool seems ideal for the people who unintentionally create databases in excel. I realize this sounds insulting, but providing tools to the people who know their business is useful. Perhaps you could brand it as MaxS?
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
This is really exciting to me, and I'm glad to see a new review. I was introduced to open-endedness as a motivator for interesting behavior by this Ted talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_wissner_gross_a_new_equat
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
That sounds just like the (very generous interpretation of) Yelp business model. Automated systems that are as effective as elevator door close buttons, & human support available only to paying customers. I think the origin of this wasn
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
You've described the process: When the Vendor misses the bogus return, it's sent back to another sales bin, and resold. Next, the Customer accepts it, or returns it again. At this point, the loop should exit, but we already know t
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
Emotions are in the most primitive parts of the brain, so I'm afraid this is exactly backwards. I'd suggest that our privilege as humans is to take our intellectual ability and use it to enrich our emotional lives. Cultivating emp
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
I agree. I think this is one of the hardest problems of dealing with addicts. I had a friend who would drink and go on crying jags. I took it as cathartic, & was loving & supportive, but after the same emotions & expressions cam
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
That's what I find striking. With all their experience & expertise, the major studios spend a tremendous amount of money and consistently produce a surprising number of failures. Personally, I like the wider seeding creatively in g
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
Like the sun and your closed eyelids. Light transmission goes up with wavelength https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-biome... (see figure 5.) To speculate, perhaps we have evolved to benefit from clo
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
I would like to see the breakdown of individual positions on James Damore versus Captain Crozier. I suspect very few people have consistent views (I do not) in spite of exactly the same arguments being made on both sides. Essentially: Shoul
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by cleansingfire 6y ago
Sports betting is less deterministic than cards, since odds are set relative to popularity and past statistics. Sports bettors would make money by recognizing when the odds are unrealistic (e.g. popular team is favored too highly) but these