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by feoren 2y ago
Wouldn't that be leaving money on the table? The bank that accepts business with marijuana vendors is at a competitive advantage to one that doesn't, no?
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by feoren 2y ago
There's wrong, and then there's "not appropriate for the site". I accept that I do veer into the "not appropriate for this site" category sometimes, and I understand and accept why I get flagged when I do so. B
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by feoren 2y ago
And the RAM your computer is writing everything to is mutable! And someone could come along and bash your computer with a hammer -- it would feel awfully mutable then! Everything is mutable if you consider the upcoming heat death of the uni
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by feoren 2y ago
But you don't need to "walk through" recursion, you just need to assume the sub-calls do the correct thing. That's the magic of it -- like induction in proofs, if you convince yourself that the function does the correct
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by feoren 2y ago
Homogeneity also comes with its own problems -- smaller, more homogenous governments are much more likely to discriminate against the "out group", for instance. Government grows because what we do grows. We didn't need legi
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by feoren 2y ago
Sometimes I play Rocket League, where I'm intensely focused on the playing field and not paying attention to anything else. I'll have some random song or phrase in my head the whole match, just there in the background. And then th
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by feoren 2y ago
There's a considerable difference between the amount that hits the atmosphere and the amount that hits the surface of the Earth. My number includes average cloud cover. It's this order of magnitude, and a higher number only streng
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by feoren 2y ago
This flip-flopping happens because there is no commonality to find. One of the only (effectively) two major political parties of the United States is completely uninterested in governing. They have no policy. They have no plan for governing
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by feoren 3y ago
That doesn't address the frontlist/backlist question. A very successful book could easily sell less than 1,000 copies in the 52 weeks that occur 25 years after its initial publication.
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by feoren 3y ago
Technology is evil and evil kills everyone OMG cut to credits of B-movie sci-fi flick. No. That's trite and silly. There's a much, much more likely answer to the Fermi Paradox -- so likely it's obvious. So obvious it's
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by feoren 3y ago
Only if you have an attention mechanism.
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by feoren 3y ago
Use lots of photovoltaic power (light) to sequester CO2 and H2O and jam it together into more complex carbon compounds? If trees can do it, we can at least approximate it (trees come from the air, not the ground).
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by feoren 3y ago
This take only works if you tunnel-vision yourself to only looking at the United States. It's all too easy to say "we believe X and you believe Y; who's to say which is right!? From our point of view, you're the one in
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by feoren 3y ago
> the Hunter Biden Laptop fiasco While I agree NPR was too quick to reject and smear the lab-leak hypothesis, it doesn't help your case to include the Hunter Biden Laptop hysteria that was fabricated whole-cloth and never had an oun
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by feoren 3y ago
> He was brilliant. But also a con artist. Yes, it was very clearly stated that he was a liar. A "con artist" is a significantly bigger liar than a mere "liar". > You're projecting. Hmm. "It's not OK
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by feoren 3y ago
Almost all of these calculations work out extremely in favor of just giving the poor money. It's expensive to be poor, and not just for them. They cost more in healthcare, crime, and other support systems. Literally just giving all t
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by feoren 3y ago
Yes, this says more about how awful humans are at judging others than it does about the people committing these crimes.
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by feoren 3y ago
The company I work for has a lot of stupid bullshit. My coping mechanism for this stupid bullshit is to complain loudly about it, and try ineffectually to get it changed. What I will not do, ever , is lie to my bosses and use that bullshit
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by feoren 3y ago
This is a common kind of belief among rational people about how the world should work, based on a casual reading of early law. In general they fail to take into account the fact that there has been decades+ of many smart and awful people
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by feoren 3y ago
Not who you asked (and I don't quite understand everything) but I think that's about right, except in the continuous world. You pick an encoding scheme (either the Lagrangian or the Hamiltonian) to go from state -> vector. You
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by feoren 3y ago
This reminds me of those useless articles like "Donald Trump should resign". Okay, and? We should all have mansions and sex robots. It's utterly pointless to pontificate about should ; it makes it sound like you have no un
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by feoren 3y ago
And everything is always a critical business initiative, because otherwise some senior manager is worried everyone will realize his job is pointless.
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by feoren 3y ago
As I said: the name represents a statement I want to make about entities. Naming things is fine. I'm against categorizing things.
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by feoren 3y ago
> You face the same issues with table names though. Exactly right. You've succinctly stated the biggest problem with almost all modern database design. > So do you not name your tables? I do, but that name does not represent a Ty
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by feoren 3y ago
So your IDs are now tightly bound to whatever "types" you've currently decided you have, forcing a narrow view of what an entity is and making the entire system extremely brittle to change? What is a "type" even sup
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by feoren 3y ago
Yes, now take it further. Anyone not using components for all domain modeling is insane. Why does everyone assume this wonderful practice only applies to games?
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by feoren 3y ago
But ontological inheritance is the worst kind . Because your ontology is wrong. Similar things are kinda different. Different things are kinda similar. Your ontology is based on the linguistic remnants of taxonomic garbage from hundreds of
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by feoren 3y ago
Exactly. "Why does everyone use it?" is a false premise. I don't use it.
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by feoren 3y ago
You conveniently left out Arrival. Also, Blade Runner 2049 was not a remake, but a sequel with original content. Also, Dune was a book adaptation, not a remake. Also, that's just a weird reason to reject a director. Is it easier to dir
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by feoren 3y ago
Nobody said "infinite". The upper asymptote of an S-curve is often called its "carrying capacity". We expect an inflection point about halfway toward this point. What do you think the maximum capacity of global solar ene

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