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by cortic 4y ago
I would just like to estimate that >99% of threads older than 10 years have useful information and the potential for useful discussion. I realize that where i am enthusiastic about older things, cars/bikes/tech/languages,
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by cortic 4y ago
Just a static image, no animals or anything to click on, tried on Chrome 83 (no add-ons) and FF 88 (uBlock, disabled).
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by cortic 4y ago
I don't mind, help yourself.
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by cortic 4y ago
I suppose my pointing out the obvious, isn't that obvious to people. But it strikes me as a crazy blind spot; Every serial killer, rapist, child abuser, blackmailer and swindler - had a job, in IT, in civil service, many more recentl
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by cortic 4y ago
Posted this two years and five months ago, but its still relevant: My nothing to hide argument; Nothing to hide is an incomplete sentence. Nothing to hide from who? surely you want to hide your children from abusers and predators? Don'
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by cortic 4y ago
..just step forward, and if your in a higher place.. I know you think you are saying something different but to me you just sound like a blind guy on a mountain. I'm not trying to convince people to give up, just don't kill yourse
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by cortic 4y ago
I never read these 'how to be successful' articles or studies, whenever i do i always have the same story pop into my head and they always line up with it to a large extent; Imagine some people on some open landscape, blindfolded
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by cortic 4y ago
Why can't i just be Jewish for ten minutes to get some ice cream? I can't think of a reason that is not also antisemitic. Motivation; We don't tell Jews they can only be Jewish if they have a reason we approve of. Time; no
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by cortic 4y ago
I expect there is a real answer and a PR answer to this question; The PR answer has something to do with missile guidance and crypto currency. But the real answer i fear is that limiting import/export allows wars to start more easily
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by cortic 4y ago
0.3/0.2% caps are for customers accounts (and don't cover missed payments which can be punitively charged). merchant fees can still be very high, and silently passed on to customers. The fact that the law obfuscates what the CC c
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by cortic 4y ago
Actually its not allowed to tell the customer about additional fees for using credit cards. The fees are still applied to the merchant, the law just forces the merchant to recoup the fees from all their customers. So in the EU, you are
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by cortic 4y ago
>It's usual for them to have ask for video proof that you're the domain owner. Putting aside the fact that it is just an insecure and undignified way of transferring data. Why not host the 'video proof' site on namec
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by cortic 4y ago
Its an absolute pain in my arse, i honestly don't know what problems i would have with an array system that started at 1, but since the length method sometimes starts at 0 and sometimes 1, (I'm thinking Perl vs JS) I'm alwa
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by cortic 4y ago
Had a horrendous experience with NameCheap where they basically stole my domain and some of my money after freezing my account and insisting i do a cam show with my credit card on some random site (not their domain) that had privacy guard u
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by cortic 4y ago
The inverse might actually be true, colder climate people tend to over-heat their houses and over-dress for cold making their core temperature on average warmer. Where as hotter climate people tend to under-dress and over cool their house
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by cortic 4y ago
In every example from Savile to Rochdale There were years or decades of kids coming forward and being ignored by police or branded troublemakers. Officials in public and private sector suppressing stories for various reasons. And in many
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by cortic 4y ago
Okay, so how do we know that A wasn't like that all along? edit; Been trying to read up on this, i think i get it; Its a random outcome whether B has been looked at or not, but when you check them later, they are opposite pairs random
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by cortic 4y ago
correction; If no, then how do we know A changed at all (when we observe B)?
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by cortic 4y ago
If A and B are entangled, and you observe B, would there be any way of knowing B was observed from observing A? If yes, that's binary communication. If no, then how do we know B changed at all?
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by cortic 4y ago
" don't complain that a worthless product is worthless " however sarcastically put, is not a very compelling retort. Because its not worthless, should not have ambition to be worthless, and is an expensive time sink for peopl
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by cortic 4y ago
I was responding to someone who was generalizing, its not in any way pedantic to put a generalization to the test. I'm also quite surprised that someone could imply overthinking as a negative on HN. Gaining a deeper understanding of
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by cortic 4y ago
> [I] would easily break the law in order to sacrifice one person in trade for five people. This is a quite disturbing statement. So many psychopathic examples; If you were a doctor would you randomly kill healthy people with compatibl
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by cortic 4y ago
In my thirties i regret not working more in my twenties, and in my forties i regret not working more in my thirties. However upon introspection, i realize that this regret is always based on not wanting to work more now. edit; to quote &quo
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by cortic 4y ago
If you really want to convince pro-life people that you don't think ending the life of a 27 week old fetus is murder; Allow it. Legalize infanticide under (28? 30?) weeks from conception.
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by cortic 4y ago
I thought it was pretty well established that consciousness is a kind of illusion; That we evolved the ability to extrapolate persona in others which was/is useful to predict future actions and form bonds. Consciousness is just this
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by cortic 4y ago
like to add; 11. Don't conflate correlation with causation.
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by cortic 4y ago
There is a risk here we are not talking about; Some significant number of people die every year trying low risk solutions to high risk problems, while not being qualified to judge risk. Probiotics, tinctures, vitamins and a gluten free die
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by cortic 4y ago
Its useful to think about natural selection like the R value for a virus. A gene + environment has an R value (like a virus + its environment. e.g. masks, geography, etc), if this value is higher than 1 it will, over time spread into the ge
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by cortic 4y ago
Good enough is also the enemy of better. Feels like you are getting caught up in some version of the repugnant conclusion.
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by cortic 4y ago
Its very likely that from a certain perspective the human brain might basically be a spreadsheet. Okay so the software and hardware are not familiar because evolution developed them instead of us. But we do appear to be very predictable i

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