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by ericb 7y ago
I think there should be a "prepper" kit with a durable laptop loaded with wikipedia, spreadsheet, CAD program, videos on survival, repair, whatever else. Maybe thingiverse local copies, a 3d printer and a couple square feet of sol
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by ericb 7y ago
If you look at the causal end, sure. But if you look at the symptom side, why not? At the end of the day, pain is reducible to neurons firing in succession. If you can stop it, interrupt it, filter it or block it, you would have something.
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by ericb 7y ago
> The only ones that are (negatively) affected are ... Not true. GDPR imposes costs on every company. Specifically there are the legal compliance costs, software compliance costs, support costs, and that's if you're a "g
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by ericb 7y ago
Just because you don't want to hear from anyone via email doesn't mean I don't.
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by ericb 7y ago
> GDPR only affects the companies abusing current system for unsoliticed advertising No. Have you looked at the thing? It affects every organization willing to do business or communicate with the EU.
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by ericb 7y ago
Just because you associate emails with spam doesn't solve the problem of every charity, business, church, school and group needing to communicate with large numbers of email subscribers. Like anything, bad actors make it worse.
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by ericb 7y ago
This is the conclusion people come to naturally when one assumes all the other variables don't change in response to the wage. but they all change The number of rides change as the price of the ride goes up, which happens when yo
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by ericb 7y ago
Out of curiosity, how does it get data? Is it from satellites, or some other method? I've always wondered if small ships at sea are anonymous, or no.
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by ericb 7y ago
I can understand a cut cable and a humans stealing something worth 300k. But in what scenario does a torn cable make sense?
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by ericb 7y ago
Why would anyone accept an unbounded liability for no benefit?
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by ericb 7y ago
Who are you using for lead enhancement?
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by ericb 7y ago
I claimed some people don't play status games and their opting out is not some other type of signalling. If we can agree that one hermit, living alone in the woods, exists somewhere in the world, then we can agree that my claim is
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by ericb 7y ago
I'm not claiming there are no status games. I'm claiming that it is possible to see them for the empty thing they are and opt out, and that some do to an extent, without that opting-out really being just another status signallin
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by ericb 7y ago
This was before all that. I couldn't even find a book. I found Keto by going through every diet subreddit and looking for which ones had the most before and after photos that were significant, and not sponsored by for-profit programs (
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by ericb 7y ago
This might be hard to accept if you're a status-game player, but some people don't play, or if they do play, they know it is silly and try to minimize it. I could give examples, but you'd mistake them for some sort of signall
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by ericb 7y ago
I tried really hard to find a profit motive as Keto was catching on a couple years ago, and I couldn't. Nobody was selling much. I'd lean toward anti-keto.
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by ericb 7y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db121.pdf https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46302780 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4254585/
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by ericb 7y ago
So, what are the possible outcomes now? He does not have the bitcoin, so what can he do? - Flee to another country? - Admit he's not Satoshi? - Claim the trust "malfunctioned"? - Appeal? Do these ultimately boil down to flee
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by ericb 7y ago
Allergies. Something has changed to make us allergenic to a degree that was never previously the case. We need to understand and fix it.
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by ericb 7y ago
To quote myself: > although it has some uses in comparisons So we agree about that. In terms of EBITDA's "other uses" your example proves my point? From an EBITDA perspective, those companies look the same, so if you wan
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by ericb 7y ago
Another way to reason about it is "earnings before bad stuff." Your explanation makes it sound like it is a superior measure by painting the other GAAP measures as "financial engineering." EBITDA is vastly inferior, alth
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Show HN: BrowserUp Proxy-Network Traffic Testing for Selenium WebDriver (FOSS)
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by ericb 7y ago
This looks very cool!!! We maintain an open source testing proxy that lets you do things like make assertions about performance, network requests, and other things like capturing a har. It would integrate really well with this if you'r
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by ericb 7y ago
> Any attempt to persuade is an implicit acknowledgement of free will. > But your if-then exhibits no independent action. Attempts at persuasion don't imply free will, they just change the input to the if-then in a downstream det
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by ericb 7y ago
Well, actually no. The vast majority of bulk email is done via 3rd party providers like constant contact or mail chimp because delivery is important. You can't just check an address--you have to check against the particular mailing lis
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by ericb 7y ago
> It's disingenuous to both argue that free will does not exist and to proclaim that we should do anything. Not at all. Maybe you are a free-will-lacking if-then bot that takes whatever suggestions someone says we should do and exec
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by ericb 7y ago
No, I think the point made above is that you can still choose punishment because even with no free will involved, the future decision calculations need to observe a strong penalty to deciding yes for murder. This doesn't require free w
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by ericb 7y ago
Yes, but the key ingredient for human lying is a theory of mind, and a theory of mind is difficult to formulate without your own consciousness to generalize from. To get to even the motive for lying in the first place, you'd need aware
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by ericb 7y ago
> He is not just a local crank. Agreed, he's gone global.
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I'm working on a way to re-use your Selenium page objects for load testing. Thesis: The reason, instead of automating browsers, that we collectively started making HTTP-level load scripts and investing expensive labor hours in "co

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