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by foofie 3y ago
> Why do you say the correction is arbitrary? Because it follows a method picked and chosen by the corrector. > Are there papers arguing for corrections in the other direction? It doesn't really matter if these corrections sway o
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by foofie 3y ago
> Part of aiming for objectivity, and better understanding, isn't worrying about which direction a correction takes. At all. Only that it is a good correction. I don't think you fully grasp the implications of arbitrarily corre
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by foofie 3y ago
> Why not offer an agreement for off-peak use, and put profits into expanding capacity? I think there is no such thing as off-peak in hydro power. It's a big water reservoir that you can open and close the tap at will.
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by foofie 3y ago
> All wars have something in common: they end. That thought in your head about lack of hope of normalizing relations is just the current propaganda working. I don't think your comment is grounded on reality, and it's ironic how
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by foofie 3y ago
> Secrets are for the weak. Care to share your name, home address, and social security number? Unless you're weak sauce, that is.
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by foofie 3y ago
When Amazon announced it's new leadership principles, people were quick to note that "strive to be" is considerably different than "is". Also, it's also a cliche for abusive husbands to promise their battered p
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by foofie 3y ago
> I've wondered many times why a radar-directed machine gun isn't used to protect against drone attacks. You mean something like Germany's Gepard? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flakpanzer_Gepard
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by foofie 3y ago
> Anger does literally give a person energy and what can be labelled "courage" beyond their norm. Getting angry is renowned for leading people to do very stupid things that they would otherwise never do, because even themselves
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by foofie 3y ago
> On the contrary, I was forced to raise two that were constantly indulged and lied to (and despite my protestations was required to cave constantly) to humor them and it made them a nightmare to deal with while also severely hampering t
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by foofie 3y ago
> "Inexperienced” is the wrong word. That suggests that what they lack is experiential knowledge. That’s incorrect. For your hypothesis even to begin to hold water, first you would have to prove that babies are fully aware of facts
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by foofie 3y ago
> I see you've never had a young child. Thank you for pointing out a series of facts that are only obvious to those who have direct or indirect contact with children. It boggles the mind how some naive people believe you can have nu
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by foofie 3y ago
I wouldn't say irrational. They are inexperienced. They don't know the risks, and they don't know what they are risking with some kind of behavior. If you place someone who never set foot outside of a major urban center and p
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by foofie 3y ago
The options on the table is a) be petrified of the water, or b) risk falling into ice cold water, and option a) is the one that actually keeps your children alive. I wonder if storytelling is effective due to an evolutionary pressure that l
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by foofie 3y ago
> (...) and it gives us the energy and courage to do what must be done. I don't think that's true. Anger, by definition, is a primal/emotional response that leads people to act abruptly without any semblance of reflection
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by foofie 3y ago
At first glance this article reads as a gratuituous buzzword soup with little to show regarding software architecture. After re-reading it, it still sounds like the author dumped all the buzzwords he could thought of, and the software archi
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by foofie 3y ago
> You're implored to follow some lofty mission statement, that in reality means nothing. Didn't Amazon adopted its "strive to be earth's best employer" leadership principle right before its massive layoff wave im
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by foofie 3y ago
> Yes, I will be rude to you if you are lazy and don't read. I'll be blunt: you're acting like an idiot. You gain nothing, you help no one, you create a shit environment, you do not contribute to prevent the same issue fro
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by foofie 3y ago
> Obviously, a loss of global prestige and reserve currency abandonment could be the result, but if there’s no other country to step in that has that prestige or offers a replacement… I don't think the role of the US dolar as a rese
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by foofie 3y ago
> Omg.lol does that, but it is an address with superpowers, although I think you can buy .lol domains too. I've peeked at omg.lol and it looks like they aren't in the business of registering subdomains per se. They try to sell
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by foofie 3y ago
> No, you don't. I am French and have an .fr domain and was never asked for proof of anything. Namecheap disagrees. From Namecheap's support page: > Any company or individual residing within the European Union as well as in
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by foofie 3y ago
> The point was that its not the case for all ccTLDs. I don't understand. For .eu it is indeed the very same thing, isn't it? You still need to be either a citizen or have business there to apply for a domain.
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by foofie 3y ago
> Why is the blood on Amazon's hands and not the EU? What does the EU have to do with anything? If a company is faced with a scenario of either it's taken over by another company or it dies, having to comply with anticompetitiv
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by foofie 3y ago
> some ccTLDs in the EU require you to be a citizen in any EU country. (So .fr or .eu for example) I don't know about .fr but the .eu ccTLD is literally the European Union's TLD. The same exact requirements are applied: you nee
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by foofie 3y ago
> The only exception is if you are a resident of that country and have a valid passport to reflect you live in that country, and that the domain can be claimed & validated because you live there. Isn't that the whole purpose of
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by foofie 3y ago
> You can query databases, trigger events and handle the results smartly. A few posts in this discussion are pointing out the fact that these custom GPTs are unusable and unreliable. It's fair to talk about potential, but it's
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by foofie 3y ago
> They definitely are "ruling that even the mega-rich should still have to follow the law" (...) What are you talking about? That's the foundation of a legal system in a free and open society: equality before the law. htt
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by foofie 3y ago
> It's interesting to see the heavily growing demand graph. Is that because people want to adopt it, or is it being mandated or encouraged as "best practice" etc? FaaS is well justified from the point of view of an infrast
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by foofie 3y ago
> One could argue this judge has pushed the limits of the law (...) Who would argue that? And what does that actually mean? Do you have any concrete example that helps explain what you have in mind?
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by foofie 3y ago
> A box fan with a HEPA filter stuck to the back of it has been proven to work reducing PM 2.5. The EPA seems to think they are OK: You are free to MacGyver whatever you want. The moment you want to sell something you put together as a p
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by foofie 3y ago
> 1) the foundation, that does all the outreach, education and magazines Doesn't that count as marketing?

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