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dorgo
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dorgo
6y ago
> Nothing that involves exponential growth should disregard total numbers If total deaths grow exponentially then deaths/million also grow exponentially, do they not? So you can disregard total numbers and still pay attention to exp
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dorgo
6y ago
is the sensor density in cars not high enough yet to detect and notify?
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dorgo
6y ago
And the minimum amount must be >= last donation. Edit: Wait, are we reinventing poker?
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dorgo
6y ago
I don't really have a citation, just personal experiences. But your wiki link already states: "David Remnick believes that mat has thousands of variations" The german version of the wiki article has some examples: пиздеть (pi
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dorgo
6y ago
only 32 words/parts are allowed in a query. https://www.google.com/search?q=test+-site%3Aa1.com+-site%3A...
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6y ago
What? only 151 russian words? The russians have an own dedicated sub-language which consists solely out of bad words. No idea or concept is too complicated to be expressed in bad words alone. They switch from normal russian to bad words rus
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6y ago
If all players would act rationlly then Google would have no incentive either way. If Google would show more (irrelevant) ads then the cost per click would be reduced and Google would get the same payout. But most advertisers are still peop
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6y ago
>reassures me that we'll not see intelligent targetted advertising in my lifetime. The only thing which prevents this are incentives. Content provider are paid per click. Intelligent targeting would reduce clicks. Advertisers would
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dorgo
6y ago
That's the problem with advertisement. It's ok to annoy 95% to sell to 5%.
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6y ago
I don't know. Amazon knows exactly what I bought over the years (ublock or no ublock) and still tries to sell the same or weird stuff to me, or recomends the same books I already bought. I think advertisers just don't care.
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dorgo
6y ago
Upvote and downvote buttons become invisible. Edit: my fault. I have too many dark mode addons/stylesheets enabled at the same time.
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6y ago
Is it doom complete?
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6y ago
Is there a service to make quick little landing pages to gauge if people are interested?
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dorgo
6y ago
Maybe it's too early, but I don't get it. If the spammer doesn't strip "+<secretKey>" then you get spam in your real inbox. Btw, what is so secret about the secretKey if you post it on the internet?
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6y ago
Maybe men just answer the question more literal and find the real average (50%). Women understand the question more figuratively. Below average is what they don't like and they don't like 80% of men. Why even ask for above/be
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dorgo
6y ago
Google (or Twitter) could offer on demand customer service. To open a ticket you pay $50. If you don't need customer service, you pay nothing.
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dorgo
6y ago
>Strong typing means only that > a = "a" + 1 >fails. String a = "a" + 1; works in Java. So Java is not strongly typed?
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6y ago
German government declined the herd immunity strategy with the argument that for it to succseed in a year's time we have to increase the rate of new infections every day to 70k. No way our health care system can handle this. And there
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6y ago
as far as I understand this would only work for users who don't have access to "deleted" rows. Are access rules a good way to handle this? Serious question. My solution would be to have views as "guards" for every t
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6y ago
>On the other hand, "is deleted" flags end up causing issues when you forget to put "where not is_deleted" in your queries. My solution would be a view for every table. Are there drawbacks? Other solutions?
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7y ago
>if advances in technology will one day ... >... make the rest of humanity slaves at best and completely worthless at worst.
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7y ago
neither inventions nor discoveries have to be interesting. >squirgle florb snozbar yes, you invented something (i think you can even claim copyright on that). I agree that it is not very interesting. mathematicians usually/sometimes
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7y ago
lol, yes, you discover how mathematicians think, but what they think is still an invention. In the end, I agree that if we expand the definition of the universe beyond physical world to contain "everything" then yes, every inventi
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7y ago
> "arbitrariness or choice" is an illusion after reading a little about quantum mechanics I'm not so sure any more. >Even the arts can be seen as a process of discovery, specifically, the discovery of what processes and
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7y ago
>The apparent distinction arises from our separation of physical and mental processes. You make the distinction based on (physical or mental) processes involved in the discovery/invention. I wouldn't care so much about how the
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7y ago
>That’s not even close to acceptable. Is there a choice?
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> with bare shelves yes, this is a mystery. Free market should have fixed that. Even if the last roll of toilet paper would cost $1000000 the shelf should not be empty. Is the price regulated in some way?
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7y ago
You can even refuse 500USD in hope to get 1000USD...
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7y ago
My interpreataion: Create and distribute a library of all possible images (except ones which look like random noise or are otherwise unlikely to ever be needed). When you want to send an image, find it in the library and send its index inst
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7y ago
This would also allow us to study the virus under controlled conditions. Maybe the way of infection (or some other controllable aspect) has influence on the severity of the disease.
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