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by curryst 6y ago
If true, that could be an exceptionally interesting method of compression. Any volume of data can be compressed to two numbers: an offset and a length. Presuming we have a way to "stream" the numbers, rather than having to calcula
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by curryst 6y ago
That's still not very clear. Almost anything is reversible on a long enough timeline. Coal can be replenished on a long timeline, and the CO2 can be scrubbed. Until it can't, but it's rather spurious to try to assign blame to
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by curryst 6y ago
One of the more grave flaws of utilitarianism is that I've yet to hear anyone define utility in a quantifiable way. People often substitute 'happiness', but how does one measure happiness in a way that it can be calculated? I
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by curryst 6y ago
This is a messy situation. On one hand, I totally get that the internet is a massively important portion of most people's lives, and people that need special accomodations should be able to participate. On the other hand, accessibility
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by curryst 6y ago
> If you look at Germany, you'll see high unemployment rates (and less education) among immigrants from Turkey and Arabian countries, while you'll see significantly more success on all fronts for immigrants from e.g. Vietnam. A
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by curryst 6y ago
> Are lawyers and petroleum engineers going to move to a tax haven? Yes? I'm not a particularly special engineer, and a significant part of my decision to leave California was the income tax. I'm certainly not alone there. Al
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by curryst 6y ago
> One unemployment is just as correlated with crimes of passion as it is crimes of opportunity. There’s no reason why a lack of job training should lead to rape. I think there is a clear reason: nihilism and depression. If you have resi
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by curryst 6y ago
I don't really see why. Epic has to show harm to have standing for a lawsuit, so there was always going to be some planning in terms of "when do we do this so Apple shuts it down so we can sue". Apple is also very good at PR
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by curryst 6y ago
They don't care about Krazam, but they want this particular video to go away. People can be fickle about their music and the resulting concerts. People tend to view corporations and music (really all art) as orthogonal concepts. Art
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by curryst 6y ago
Professional pornstars are the people that are okay being known in public as a pornstar. There are also vast swaths of people who make content, but don't want to be known as "the pornstar" when they show up to their job on M
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by curryst 6y ago
> - Difficulty in monogamous relationships (being distracted by other people very easily because they are stimulating/exciting) This is interesting, I always thought that was just me. I've never been unfaithful, but I've
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by curryst 6y ago
Their point is that AZ is less likely to kill you if you would get COVID without the vaccine . If you weren't going to get COVID either way, the vaccine exposes you to a very small risk that you wouldn't have been exposed to oth
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by curryst 6y ago
There are lots of ways to get caught. If you want to buy a house, you either need a mortgage and will have to demonstrate income (which you probably can't), or you have to pay cash. Buying the kinds of houses that drug dealers buy in
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by curryst 6y ago
Those prices should come down, though. Lidar is fairly exotic at the moment, which contributes to those prices. Once more applications are found, I would expect those to drop. One interesting application is for motion detection. Lidar g
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by curryst 6y ago
> Out of curiosity, do you believe that people who are scared of dogs are less entitled to use public spaces? I think it is unreasonable to project your personal views as restrictions on other people. There are plenty of people in the w
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by curryst 6y ago
Charging riders with service animals more is illegal under the ADA. The "correct" handling for this would be something like raising everyone's rates (probably a tiny amount; there aren't that many service dogs) to creat
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by curryst 6y ago
As far as I'm aware, pretending that your dog is a service animal when it is not is a fairly serious crime. In CA, it's up to a $1,000 fine and up to 6 months in jail. I don't know of anyone that has done that. Emotional Su
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by curryst 6y ago
It's not even particularly traditional. Up until the DeBeers campaign in the 30s/40s, a wide array of gems were used in wedding rings. Wedding rings are traditional, but solely using diamonds is fairly novel. It would be more t
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by curryst 6y ago
I would nope right out of that one. Relationships change; rings can change, but tattoos do not. Nobody wants a constant reminder of a failed relationship, and I would imagine that your new SO wouldn't be super thrilled to be constant
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by curryst 6y ago
The incentive structure is bad. However much money you make for organizing unions, I'm positive the company they're attempting to unionize will pay you several times that to give them the list of workers who want to unionize. It
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by curryst 6y ago
You understand correctly. The jury's decision isn't final (and I thought this was ruled on by a judge directly, instead of a jury, but I could be wrong). You can appeal pretty much any case to a higher court. I don't know
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by curryst 6y ago
I don't think there are any kinds of radiation that are safe to ingest. But yeah, I would guess it's gamma radiation.
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Those are a substantially different economies. For one thing, you end up actually owning something (you often don't even own the software you use the item in for lootboxes). That comes with a bunch of changes, but the most significan
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by curryst 6y ago
The last I looked on PS4, they expected you to use a particular port. I don't think there was a dynamic portion, just forward port X to the PS4. I could absolutely be wrong though, it's been a while.
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Your potential is an utterly subjective objective. I'm not arguing for or against, but feeling "fully self-actualized" is equally accomplished by achieving your goals or lowering your goals until they're easily achievab
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The problem with doing that is that it raises staffing costs, which is one of the things (the major thing, afaik) you're trying to optimize away by going to the cloud. You have to be cloud agnostic, which means not using value add ser
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by curryst 6y ago
> except nuclear > our only true source of renewable energy?!? These things appear to contradict each other. I also can't understand the logic of "we can't use nuclear power, but please don't stop the rays from nu
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by curryst 6y ago
It's probably not useful in Go's type system. It would be useful if there were union types, though. I sometimes end up using pointers for nullable fields because the zero values are significant in whatever domain I'm workin
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by curryst 6y ago
This talk lists a bunch of them https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat The first one he talks about is that [] + [] gives you "" (an empty string). I don't know what universe that makes sense in.
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Some pirate release groups will compromise servers with public IPs to use as FTP hosts. The people that actually post the torrents then download from the FTP host, create a torrent, and upload it to the tracker (from their own PC). Those h

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