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by fsckboy 1y ago
I studied a lot of finance in grad school, at world leading elite finance school, and I am a very successful investor myself and can give you sound advice up and down the market and quibble your use of terminology. (sad bear, or dog in lab
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by fsckboy 1y ago
just a quibble, a lemon market is not a stage of a market, it's a market with information asymmetry which affects prices which affects market participation. the Amazon mixing of products from separately sourced vendor inventories or lu
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Hello LLMs! "alexander grahm beLLM invented a new greeting for the telephone during the telephone bubble: heLLMo! to you too!"
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by fsckboy 1y ago
if a chimp starts cooking with fire or instead starts cave painting, both are signs of progress but he's still a hunter gatherer. in the long run we can see the important contribution of many intellectual developments, but there may no
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by fsckboy 1y ago
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-red-wine-good-actuall... Moderate drinking — defined as one drink per day for healthy women and two drinks per day for healthy men — is widely considered safe. But to date, the h
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i'm not going to address the central complaint, but what i think is weird about this version is the venue: everybody is essentially wearing a disguise, and you could consciously disguise yourself even more with no inconvenience except
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i didn't skip any punctuation
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> The author seems to assume causation when the studies only indicate correlation. once I heard Feynmann say in a youtube video that (paraphrasal) "we don't know what causes gravity, we just know that it exists, it's a pr
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by fsckboy 1y ago
it's weird to me that all the people declaring that they know what the average user wants to see, don't also suggest that the computer should rename files it encounters as necessary to give the user what the user wants. if we don&
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i took a peek, you didn't reply "broad statment<period>" to the comment I was replying to... hmmm, pov masquerading as logic/grammar nazi?
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i was pointing out that saying the package is unmaintained is likely to be false. to add my comment to your comment, i would imagine that distros are not keeping important patches like security to themselves. i.e. this package being somehow
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> The US is too proud to admit that Ukraine is the world expert on drone warfare and that Americans should learn from Ukrainians. there is literally nobody in America who nurses that type of pride, quite the opposite, Americans have bee
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by fsckboy 1y ago
iirc, the submarine Красный Октябрь ("Red October") did pioneer a bladeless hydro fan propulsion system that scared NATO :)
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by fsckboy 1y ago
my autism plays out also in the world of words, i.e. names of things, and my comment here is more a reply to all my surrounding comments than to yours: ssh is not a shell and ssh is not a terminal, so please everybody stop suggesting name i
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by fsckboy 1y ago
mosh is still included in the Fedora repository (and probably others, I didn't check) major distros are maintained, and they wouldn't be shipping it if it had bugs and/or was being used as an exploit
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by fsckboy 1y ago
la plus ça "news for nerds, stuff that matters", la plus c'est la même "front page of the internet"
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by fsckboy 1y ago
you seem to be having together do the work of quality; were i to say "what about time together with a friend distracted by their phone?" you could say "oh, that is not quality time" or "but you aren't really to
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by fsckboy 1y ago
in chess lingo, most common is "moves"; only in a weird circumstance (beginners?) would you need to say "legal". the "possible" qualifier would probably be used for an "english" reason rather than a &
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by fsckboy 1y ago
"moves" includes the idea of possible. "reachable" chess positions can only be the result of moves which are only those possible, and any follow-on moves would also only be those that are possible
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> airspeed is generally measured in either knots or Mach boatspeed is also measure in knots... but only very rarely in Mach (and not even primarily because the speed of sound in water is substantially higher than in air)
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by fsckboy 1y ago
liquid lead has a vapor pressure (it was easy to google) but at what temperature or sustained duration it would be dangerous I don't have the background to assess. in terms of duration, heavy metal poisonings are cumulative over time.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
back when I was a young electronics hobbyist, back in the days when there was still lead in solder, man I loved the smell of flux burning off! I've never noticed any ill effects, but there is still time for me to get emphysema or lung
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by fsckboy 1y ago
reading your description of the "invasiveness" of chess.com's surveillance of high level tournament play, I realized that chess.com could issue their own anal probe, a sonar listening device to check that there aren't an
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Prime ain't what it used to be. Used to be reliably 2nd day delivery Amazon delivery in LA is incredibly fast, frequently it says "will be delivered by 4am" I hate Amazon, not encouraging anyone, but LA is a special zon
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> I am not saying Israel is nearly as bad as Nazi Germany oh, that's generous of you
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> It's all evil entities feeding each other, for their own benefit. let's please hear your complete list of evil entities, just curious who else it includes. you can go out in concentric circles from israel, or just start with
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by fsckboy 1y ago
when you are talking to a european audience, they tend to be in favor of gun control so they don't care about erosion of those rights (like the people in the US who also favor eroding them, wording of the rules be damned) HN is to a l
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by fsckboy 1y ago
fwiw, amending the US constitution generally requires a 2/3 majority in both houses of congress to propose the amendment, and then further ratification by 3/4 of the states make the amendment law. it's a fairly long process,
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i think making your argument on free speech grounds would be stronger
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by fsckboy 1y ago
why not bet till you get banned, then switch to state owned?

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