expazl

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by expazl 4y ago
Roblox is a gambling addition mascarading as a game for children and really it should just be banned outright for anyone under the age of 21. The current laws surrounding video games are naive and are akin to letting minors into casinos in
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by expazl 4y ago
> Gaussian distributions are symmetrical, which means every argument about what happens at the high end equally applies to the low end. That's only relevant for the shape of the distribution. Any usage of the distribution will certa
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by expazl 4y ago
> The background knowledge that is required to do that is not really related to the outside world, unless you're a Westerner. The "background knowledge" is an odd term to use, since it's neither knowledge nor a backgr
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by expazl 4y ago
Both wrong. Labor costs are high in Europe too, and people have as much money to spend. Also, if that was the reason, American patients would just buy the European products since they where cheaper. Also the drugs sold on the two sides of t
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by expazl 4y ago
Yes, I get what you're saying. At our old startup we didn't setup a bank account either, why bother, we just had investors deposit the money into our CEOs trading account, seemed easier that way.
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by expazl 4y ago
> SecureBio’s co-founder, Kevin Esvelt, a biologist at MIT, says the nonprofit is avoiding use of its Future Fund grant money for now, except to pay the salaries of the three newly hired people. “We don’t think it is right that anyone sh
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by expazl 4y ago
We don't know how much money he paid to the person he's talking to. We only know that he _did_ pay money to the person he's talking to, since it's added as a disclaimer in the article. Also it would be silly of Vox to le
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by expazl 4y ago
> surely a skilled manipulator would know better, or could at least present himself in a positive light? My bet is that he lost his back country. He was until recently the front-person for a hugely successful enterprise who donated money
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by expazl 4y ago
Well you see, he wants to take those $8B and put them in a box, then start printing box-tokens that he can lend to his trading arm, then he can build a market for those box tokens giving them intrinsic value, while he siphons the 8B$ off to
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by expazl 4y ago
It this real? Is he really THAT stupid? His defense against "you took user deposits and gambled the money" is "No, I took user deposits, loaned them to myself and then gambled the money". I mean this is like nested laye
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by expazl 4y ago
With this setup I wonder why even have the motor on the ship? It's using an extension cord to get power to the ship so it can pull on the wire guides, but you might as well just have put the engine pulling the wire on the shore and hav
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by expazl 4y ago
Having an unrealized gain does not mean you made money if you cannot realize it.
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by expazl 4y ago
My take is more like "We might technically be in debt since our system recorded exchanges of now worthless crypto for other denominations, but we're going to manually go back on those orders and claims its due to system errors.&qu
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by expazl 4y ago
Sure, but that's no more interesting than a ML generated picture of a cat with a speech bubble saying "I can has numbers?"
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by expazl 4y ago
Convergence artifacts are due to the algorithm converging poorly. This is why it's a "pity" the interesting structure you see in the picture has nothing to do with the distribution of numbers and is just a bug in the algorith
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by expazl 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken
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by expazl 4y ago
Genuine question. What makes you feel that -a is an ugly flag?
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by expazl 4y ago
No, it's not easy to manipulate. You're thinking in linear terms which isn't what lines of code changed is useful as. You can't use it to distinguish which of 4 different productive programmers is most or least productiv
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by expazl 4y ago
> consider the thought experiment of Apple funding a startup to sell an infinite amount of worthless $0 phones that are just advertising backed so that they have 1% of the smartphone market due to number of devices ‘sold’ Yes. lets proce
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by expazl 4y ago
I'm curious to know which part of the parsing becomes easier with Select moved later in the statements? Typical argument for the "From table select column" are due to better matching evaluation logic and improving type-ahead