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by davidgay 4y ago
> “Even Caesar was replaced” -very insightful! Though when the replacement requires a civil war, it may be a step too far for most companies ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberators%27_civil_war )...
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by davidgay 4y ago
> I always thought the "bystander effect" was a load of propaganda. I can personally confirm that standing by smokers / staying in smokers' houses is quite good for triggering asthma. So I suggest you tampen down your
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by davidgay 4y ago
> During pre electricity time humen woke up after 4 hours sleep, got awake for some time and then continue to sleep. The confusing thing with this claim is what did people actually do during this time, given bad (and expensive!) lighting
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by davidgay 4y ago
Try having a bad asthma attack, and then get back to us :(
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by davidgay 4y ago
So clearly, I can start a toxic chemicals factory in my basement, next to your house? (I'll move elsewhere of course) Or, absolute principles are rarely absolutely applicable.
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by davidgay 4y ago
> So now companies don't put that as the termination reason, & fire them anyway for 'culture fit'. Or leave the term reason blank, b/c 'At-Will'. No, for large companies (those at risk of being sued) it
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by davidgay 4y ago
> Well, for Europeans (and I'd guess Canadians, Latin Americans, etc.) there is a line, and the Dems never cut it. This is overly simplistic. For instance, the US (left?) has been ahead of Europe on issues like accessibility for the
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by davidgay 4y ago
The actual title is "What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It". Not exactly a neutral title edit... Especially as this comes from "a part of DARPA's SCORE program, whose goal is to evaluate the reliability
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by davidgay 4y ago
You are deluding yourself if you think the US is doing well on traffic fatalities. From the graph at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/upshot/road-deaths-pedest... we can see that US car deaths/cap
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by davidgay 4y ago
> This is how many (most) jobs work. US jobs, really. The concept of sick days / requiring taking time off from some pool always struck me as a) horribly abusive, b) ripe for employee abuse (sick days when not sick), c) bad for ever
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by davidgay 4y ago
> I assume the big brands get part of the way there by mixing old and new wine, though. I don't think they can - wine is usually sold by vintage year. "Origin" is usually weaker (e.g., 50% of grapes must be from the declar
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by davidgay 4y ago
> Really? You don't look at the stack machine that runs the .pyc files and go "jeez this is just Forth with some syntactic sugar on"? No, because stack machines, including stack machines for use as interpreters of compiled
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by davidgay 4y ago
> But does FTX have the right to agree to this? That makes no sense. They are incorporated under Bahamianan law, so that law takes precedence over any contractual agreement. I.e., FTX cannot enter into a contract that declares implicitly
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by davidgay 4y ago
> > Firstly, you can't predict the future so really you're working off your biases. > Um, are you saying that this implies that people should just throw up their hands and donate to whatever causes since who knows? No, it
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by davidgay 4y ago
I think we need a name for the fallacy that a process which accepts nearly every application is the same as no process (the same comment repeatedly shows up for warrants). With the former, you only get things which are designed to pass the
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by davidgay 4y ago
> A minority in a prejudiced society is always fucked, but especially fucked in a democracy. The history of genocides and ethnic cleansing, plenty of which happened historically and recently outside democracies, disagrees.
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by davidgay 4y ago
> Also, Ryzen 5000 is going gangbusters outselling everything else. Which is why they just dropped their prices? (see, e.g., https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/amd-has-dropped-5000-se... )
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by davidgay 4y ago
> Many people still feel anonymity gives them carte blanche to be a jerk, I don't think it's even anonymity, for some, indirect communication is enough: I once had a roommate who would leave unpleasant messages on the answering
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by davidgay 4y ago
> For example, you can take a for loop that applies a function to a list and then creates a new list. You can't "easily" add another for loop that then applies a second transformation. This is quite unconvincing. Easy solu
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by davidgay 4y ago
86=lda a (which I still remember), is all I have to say.
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by davidgay 4y ago
> In 2022, I would almost expect to see mobo designers and chip manufacturers start rolling out deca-socket designs for compute and automotive use It's called the PCIe bus. And before you say "but it doesn't meet my needs
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by davidgay 4y ago
> They basically remove the concept of exposure entirely and simply pass the sensor photon counts to the neural net. That sentence does not make sense. There's no such thing as a count without a corresponding interval that count occ
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by davidgay 4y ago
> But as soon as they need to roll over their debt, everything collapses. They'd need to increase revenues by 2-5x, and they can't. That would imply that debt-servicing is their dominant cost. That seems wrong (e.g., a grocery
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Thirty-two Rats From Casablanca (1944)(newyorker.com)
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by davidgay 4y ago
> Well that's cause his _actual_ point is that they shouldn't have to, and that public schools should be run differently so as to eliminate the advantage of rich people just circumventing them, ya dig? I'm all for that poi
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by davidgay 4y ago
> > The greatest source of admissions inequity is childhood socioeconomic status > If we are talking about the US, no, I disagree. > The greatest source of admissions inequity are shit K-12 education. You've missed the step
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by davidgay 4y ago
Adobe Lightroom works quite nicely, I use it to edit photos I take on vacation while on vacation.
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by davidgay 4y ago
> Yes I am upset the ID requirement for a bank account is higher than the ID requirement to bring firearms into the bank. It's fairly clear to me that the problem is with the latter's weakness and not with the former's str
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by davidgay 4y ago
I'm sad at the terrible translation of the "Théorie du Bordel Ambiant" as "Theory of the brothel environment", which is quite meaningless. "Theory of the Ambient Mess" is more like it, though that misses
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by davidgay 4y ago
> Like paying schools from taxes and never have kids I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of people paying taxes for school have actually enjoyed the benefit of free schooling. It can be helpful to think of things that way... (ano

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