defertoreptar

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by defertoreptar 7y ago
I can't find the source, but I remember reading about how there's a lifecycle to stolen art. The thief sells it to a sketchy art dealer at a huge discount. The sketchy art dealer then sells it to a more legitimate dealer at less o
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
How about when people become upset when you simply disagree with what the group believes, when it's not even hurting anyone. I have seen people act upset, and then use that emotion to justify shutting down the conversation.
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
It could mean people who would be going give blood or provide essential services at their job refuse to out of irrational fear.
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
Looks like there are 1.29 million in the US military (0.3% of US population), with an average age of 34.5. (All figures from top search result of Google.) 59% of millennials lean or identify as Democrat compared to 35% Republican https:&#x
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
I was under the impression that this was because the left skews younger, and Gen X and millennials are more active and capable online.
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
Companies have always supported candidates and political parties of their liking with political contributions. What's different now is that these companies can now contribute not just with money, but by influencing the online discussio
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
Then they should remove those rule-breaking posts and ban the posters, but that's already the case. My point is that I think political minority users will believe that they may be punished for upvoting content that doesn't expli
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
Your assumption here is that the enforcement of the new rule will be executed perfectly and without bias, and further that people will believe it will be enforced that way. This totally misses my central point.
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
I wasn't just talking about the_donald, but the broader effects of no longer having the promise of a "secret ballot." When people know their vote is being observed, they change their behavior. My point is how this will favor
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
> This is only for being a moderator. Simply upvoting posts (that don't break any rules) in quarantined subreddits does not get you punished. That was a requirement given for being a new mod at /r/the_donald. There is also
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
Apathy, or they find more value in spending their attention and time doing something else, a feeling like their vote won't change a thing, or straight up laziness. I don't actually think it's important why someone doesn'
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
The abstract from the author's paper on the subject: > Human same-sex sexual attraction (SSSA) has long been considered to be an evolutionary puzzle. The trait is clearly biological: it is widespread and has a strong additive geneti
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
I pulled the Fide player database for standard play ratings. The set of ratings had a minimum of 1001, maximum of 2862 (Carlsen), an average of 1663, and a standard deviation of 349. The 25th percentile had a rating of 1428, 50th percentile
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
Shouldn't this figure be tied to the CPI?
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
Thermonuclear pandemic bad? Isn't that R0 similar to many other diseases? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
A trust score could solve this problem. Whenever someone flags a thread, the thread either gets globally flagged or not. If it automatically gets globally flagged, a mod may un-flag it. Or, it may not be automatically flagged, and a mod wil
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
The brand, the IP, is the whole company. Once a court rules that people can recreate the rules of Tetris and make money, then they will have to compete against generic brands, and probably lose millions of annual revenue. The thing is that
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
What part of Tetris do you think is copyrightable? The graphics and sounds are. The source code, yes. The game rules? No.
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
It's harder to walk away from a mortgage than a rental home. It's more work to sell a house. Since the mortgage-payer owns the house, has made improvements on the house, has an emotional investment in the house, there are strong b
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
Nihilist: the expected value is 0. I'll play just for the hell of it. Pessimist: the expected value less than or equal to 0. It's a meaningless game of chance, and it doesn't matter what you do. Existentialist: the expected v
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
If Asimov was still living, what do you think he would say about younger Asimov? The Civil Rights Act of 1991 happened the year before he died. There was a big change in the way people saw this behavior between the 80s and now. How many cel
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
Ok so you can't make bibles in USA. That doesn't mean you have to make bibles in China, though. There are other countries that have cheap labor who aren't the target of tariffs.
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
From what I'm reading, the Pentagon is saying that there was clear intelligence that he was planning an imminent threat to American lives (again), giving the president Article II authority to use force to act in self-defence. Unsurpris
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
I'm not sure I'm following. In the example, there's a sunk cost of dressing up and setting aside time. Then, other than sunk cost, there's the probable future cost of reduced cooperation as well as cost in rapport and mo
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
> When a senior leader within a nation is murdered by agents of a foreign government without even the decency of declaring war first, of course there will be calls for revenge. I don't see why whether there was a declaration of war
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
> The company in June 2019 removed 4,779 accounts it said we linked to the Iranian government. Most of those accounts tweeted international news stories with an angle that portrayed the government in a positive light, while others were f
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
> And the little I do speak is designed to appeal, as much as possible, to my audience. "How to Win Friends and Influence People" really helped me understand where I was running into problems when interacting with people. It wa
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
I wish I could afford to do that. I've got important calls coming in of which I don't always know the number. If I miss the call, it can be a headache trying to get the process going again.
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
I have found that there can be drastic differences in Go performance in the particular way you structure the program. Writing Go code in a Python-like way is going to be less performant than if you run escape analysis every compile and make
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by defertoreptar 7y ago
If you ask me, if this was to be done, s the following steps should be taken. 1) The government should commission an expert panel to investigate a system for assessing land value (or perhaps even crowd source it). A set of descriptors (size

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