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by cletus 5y ago
But they didn't mention the volume. That might've been noteworthy, no?
812.
by cletus 5y ago
Can we just stop writing nonsense like this? > Shares of Microsoft were down about 0.4% following the news So the MSFT share price changed well within the norms of daily volatility. It doesn't mean anything.
813.
by cletus 5y ago
The prospect and opportunity of rogue planets is fascinating to me. So I'm firmly in the camp that the speed of light is a hard limit in the Universe. Any talk of wormholes, FTL and space folding just seems like wishful thinking and th
814.
by cletus 5y ago
Yeah, I’d heard about these missions. One has a descent probe but I believe it’s atmospheric, not surface like the Venera missions, right? Still cool though. What I personally want to see in my lifetime is a return to Neptune and Uranus. I
815.
by cletus 5y ago
If we're talking about what humanity's future off Earth might look like, it's actually highly unlikely that it's on planets at all, given how hostile such places are, the huge energy costs of entering and leaving gravity
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by cletus 5y ago
It's wild we have any images of the surface of Venus at all given how hostile Venus is. Given how hostile it is, it seems unlikely we'll go back anytime soon. These images were really a product of the Cold War where the US focused
817.
by cletus 5y ago
Cosmic-ray bit flipping is real and it has real security concerns. This also makes Intel's efforts at market segmentation by not having ECC support in any consumer CPUs [1] even more unforgivable and dangerous. Example: bitsquatting on
818.
by cletus 5y ago
So I have one bone to pick with these posts talking about "x% of people considering quitting". That actually doesn't mean anything. People consider doing lots of things all the time that will never happen. It's no diff
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by cletus 5y ago
It's crazy how violent these events are. I remember reading about one of the first where an estimated 5 Solar masses were converted into energy in about a second , which is why it distorted space a billion light years away. I have som
820.
by cletus 5y ago
So I did Spanish on Duolingo for awhile a few years ago, as in the whole way down the tree. In the end I wasn't really satisfied, for several reasons: 1. Honestly I'm not sure I remember any of it. I found the retention to be pret
821.
by cletus 5y ago
Yeah, this couldn’t be more misguided. It would be the very definition of a boondoggle. The key point here is chunking. Mentally you can process the + as a plus sign. It’s been single concept. It’s association with addition probably means t
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by cletus 5y ago
It's interesting you say they've focused on base building because (IMHO) they need to double down on this. It's come a long way but it's still so awkward to build bases and do basic things like flatten ground, snap a lot
823.
by cletus 5y ago
I've honestly been meaning to get around to playing E:D for years but it never happened. First I tried No Man's Sky at I think the Atlas patch, which is the point where it started to become really good. And then... other stuff. P
824.
by cletus 5y ago
Hot take: trying to appeal to both PvP and PvE players is the biggest mistake game designers make. History is littered with the corpses of "WoW killers" in the MMORPG genre and nearly all of them touted PvP as their killer feature
825.
by cletus 5y ago
Star Citizen is a cautionary tale about how too much money can be a curse. Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous came around at roughly the same time but Elite has been a complete game for years. Elite did things right in the sense that they rel
826.
by cletus 5y ago
> Boomers were raised in an era of optimism to believe in following their dreams. It depends on what you mean by "boomers". If you mean "baby boomers" then no, that's not true at all. Baby boomers entered the wor
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by cletus 5y ago
The poor job prospects for history PhDs in particular and humanities PhDs in general for literally years. I know I've read about history tenure prospects 10+ years ago. I know for history PhDs at least it can often take 8+ years to get
828.
by cletus 5y ago
One thing stuck out to me: > Or, as Vox’s Jason Del Rey writes in another story this week [see below], “Amazon corporate managers have goals for “unregretted attrition” — basically a percentage of their staff that should leave the compan
829.
by cletus 5y ago
In my experience, internal competition in a sufficiently large organization is inevitable. This may be a hot take but I think it can be healthy. Also trying to eliminate internal competition can often be worse than internal competition. Why
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by cletus 5y ago
The War on Drugs was and is: - Virtual signaling ("tough on crime") of the worst kind as it capriciously incarcerated minorities to the tune of millions of man-years; - Fear-mongering for political power; - Suppression of minoriti
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by cletus 5y ago
A lot of thought has gone into this area. I think the parameters of this simulation are too conservative, which is perhaps the point. Several issues: 1. Speeds are likely to be much higher. We largely rely on chemical propulsion plus gravit
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by cletus 5y ago
The status of English is... complicated. So all the languages of EU members are officially recognized. This has become increasingly unwieldy as you need translators in the EU Parliament for every combination and there probably aren't t
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by cletus 5y ago
> Do you mean more risk-averse? I do. Thanks. Corrected. > Europeans have very set schedules That's another way of describing conformity, in this case to cultural norms. The best way I can describe it is like this: in the UK (and
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by cletus 5y ago
Thanks for highlighting this. Honestly I missed this subtlety but it does make it even clearer: SCOTUS is asking the Appeals Court to revisit if bots constitute "unauthorized" use (under CFAA). Van Buren decided that if an authori
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by cletus 5y ago
Hot take: the problems here are cultural. Consider these data points: 1. The US is a country of migrants (ignoring the blight of slavery for now), whether those be those seeking a better life from Europe originally, later China and later st
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by cletus 5y ago
The Supreme Court curtailed the broad scope of the CFAA recently in the van Buren case. I personally agree with that decision (and also find it funny as it continues the long trend of Clarence Thomas being on the wrong side of history). Whi
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by cletus 5y ago
When I read stories like this I always wonder how much of this is groupthink. Speaking as someone who has played a ton of different, complex games over many years, groupthink can be really pervasive and often explains why someone swears a p
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by cletus 5y ago
Given the current state of the Senate, it seems unlikely there is going to be any big legislative changes before 2024. 2022 is still eons away (in political timescales) but a fairly likely scenario seems to be that the GOP will narrowly gai
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by cletus 5y ago
Part of the problem there is we allowed investment banks to switch from being unlimited liability partnerships (ie like a traditional law firm) to being a limited liability corporation. By the way, I’m not defending backs here. The banks ac
840.
by cletus 5y ago
This is a tricky subject. Take the TARP loans post-GFC. These have pretty much all been repaid (and most were by 2011). So while it still qualifies as a bailout there's a difference between extending a line of credit and just giving ba

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