ethbro

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by ethbro 6y ago
This presumably, finally explains why there's so much pineapple-motif furniture.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Which I guess sums as "If not that, then what?" And I haven't seen any alternate methods that seem superior and standard enough to follow instead.
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by ethbro 6y ago
I'd never considered this in my footnote indexing, but you make a valid point! I'll internalize that as Personal Rule 0 going forward.
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by ethbro 6y ago
When you're talking about fly fishing, you're already selecting for {time to fish} && {unwilling to pursue the most efficient method of catching fish}. So it's not a leap to && {slightly crazy}. (Said as a fly
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by ethbro 6y ago
>> Imagine someone disagreeing with PRISM, and making the same statement as above, but substituting "CCP" with "American government". > The problem isn't just the data, it's the propaganda and the r
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by ethbro 6y ago
> it's a general indifference to social consequences in China tho Interesting parallel to learned helplessness. [1] (Note: not making a value judgement, just using the psychological terminology) If (a) you are a company that exist
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by ethbro 6y ago
(Also househusbands)
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by ethbro 6y ago
TikTok is well within their rights to close their US business. If they want access to the US market, perhaps they should take that up with their own government.
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by ethbro 6y ago
> The world trusts US companies because unlike China the US is not a dictatorship, has a functioning, independent judiciary and generally abides by international law. I feel like this always get short shrift in whataboutism discussions
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by ethbro 6y ago
> Many people are robotic [...] going through the same steps day after day, file after file, and any change to the workflow is cause of extreme frustration, Work in semi-related process automation, and this . So much! Software enginee
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by ethbro 6y ago
> Specially now that we know surface transmissions are just anedoctal. Source? Last I saw, there was 48 hr+ viral persistence on plastic and steel. [1] [2] [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii
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by ethbro 6y ago
That feels like fuzzy, post-hoc rationalization. What about when we consider the opposite? How many insignificant-in-the-moment-seeming changes never effect any sort of larger change?
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by ethbro 6y ago
One of the commonly expressed intents for buying indices is lazy diversification. By having vastly unevenly-weighted indices, one fails to accomplish that aim. Assuming diversification is the goal, your comment would only be true (that 1+1
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by ethbro 6y ago
My point was that Asia already managed their way through SARS in 2002+. While keeping a functioning economy. And yet there seems to be a surprisingly little amount of "What choices did Asian countries make in 2002, 2003, and 2004? Whic
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by ethbro 6y ago
> but I think people sometimes underestimate the foothold of the CCP in mainland China and assume a coup would happen a week after YouTube was let in. The important point is not what people believe, but what the CCP itself believes. It
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by ethbro 6y ago
Because neither are numerous enough so as to constitute a legitimate threat. If we started seeing local governments having openly KKK or neo-Nazi majorities, the freedom of speech balance would substantially alter. First amendment rights in
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by ethbro 6y ago
That's definitely a mistake on the store's part and should have been a quick return / swap for you. What generally happens is: (1) associate is dispatched to pick an online order, listed by SKU and bring it up front, (2) they
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by ethbro 6y ago
If only there were a region of the world with experience suppressing pandemics while maintaining economic continuity. Perhaps somewhere we could take lessons from with regards to public health policy. Unfortunately, no country had ever deal
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by ethbro 6y ago
@dang Seems like an accurate and fair update
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by ethbro 6y ago
I'd say the kernel of that was the idea of encapsulation and separating functions by layer (really the same idea, from packet and flow perspectives, respectively).
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by ethbro 6y ago
> Being ahead of Intel in outsourcing manufacturing will help them keep up with demand. I don't think that follows. You realize the world is capacity constrained on leading-node fab capacity? And that by going fabless, AMD now has n
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by ethbro 6y ago
The irony is that the more of TSMC's capacity Intel contracts, the less AMD has access to.
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by ethbro 6y ago
There have been good and bad journalists since the beginning of journalism.
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by ethbro 6y ago
That's kind of like saying Uber allows drivers to retain a greater portion of the value of their own labor. When in reality we're talking about a greater portion of venture capital.
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by ethbro 6y ago
We'll see. Bargains come in many forms, and Taiwan certainly has things they want from the US.
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by ethbro 6y ago
> Do you mean throwing public money at a private company? How is that even doable in a capitalist country Lockheed Martin. Boeing. Raytheon. General Dynamics. Northrop Grumman. Huntington Ingalls. United Technologies.
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by ethbro 6y ago
That's more of the fault of Google Drive UI being terrible and failing to differentiate mine / shared / someone else's.
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by ethbro 6y ago
I asked not because I expected an answer, but because I figured you'd have an insightful opinion. It's essentially the performance of a composition vs the composition question again: at what point am I mimicking someone to the ext
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by ethbro 6y ago
The solution is to make media literacy and logical fallacies a required course in democratic basic education.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Out of curiosity, are there legal concerns? E.g. training off Schwarzenegger and offering an Arnold transform

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