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by gbear605 6y ago
Scott Siskind is his real name while Scott Alexander is his pseudonym that he’s used for writing online.
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by gbear605 6y ago
Or on the other hand, it seems that the real crime is that you have to pay to see the movies. Art and entertainment are both the shared inheritance of all humans, and all humans have the inherent right to freely and indefinitely enjoy them.
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by gbear605 6y ago
You can get places nearly that cheap without leaving the US even, you just have to be willing to be in a cheap state.
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Web analytics should at least meet the standards of informed consent(drewdevault.com)
63 points by gbear605 6y ago|24 comments
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Pain is not the unit of effort(lesswrong.com)
2 points by gbear605 6y ago|1 comments
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by gbear605 6y ago
SpaceX was well underway, but they would have gone bankrupt without investment from NASA.
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by gbear605 6y ago
Ten years ago, it was unknown if the technology behind SpaceX would pan out. No one doubted that the economics would work if the technology also did.
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by gbear605 6y ago
The 13” Intel MacBook Pro only had two ports. It was occasionally frustrating to deal with, and the only reason it wasn’t more so was a USB hub. Source: I had one up until last week.
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by gbear605 6y ago
I don’t own any Bitcoins and I never have, but if I did, I could at least buy some goods with them. Not most of those, but I have in fact seen real life stores that accept Bitcoin as currency.
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by gbear605 6y ago
Having a monopoly isn’t illegal. Using a monopoly to give you market power in another area is illegal. Windows can have a monopoly perfectly legally, they just can’t use that monopoly to give themselves a monopoly on, say, web browsers.
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by gbear605 6y ago
It doesn’t load correctly on my recent iPhone. The text doesn’t display and the images are glitchy. So apparently they’re not trying to sell to anyone with an iPhone.
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by gbear605 6y ago
It doesn’t work well on my iPhone either, so they’re just not making it for phone users of any kind, which seems like a poor choice.
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by gbear605 6y ago
Huh, I don’t know what’s up with that page, but it works horribly on my recent iPhone. Like, not just that it’s conceptually bad, but the text flickers, images appear for a second and then disappear, and it’s not smooth at all. Maybe it wor
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by gbear605 6y ago
The difference is that healthcare is paid on top of the 25% (or higher), in addition to many other public services that are provided for in many European countries.
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by gbear605 6y ago
The issue comes when the politician comes back to you and says “Hey, I gave you a great deal on that painting, can you do a favor for me?” Extracting money from bad sources is good as long as you absolutely positively don’t extract anything
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by gbear605 6y ago
The context here was for the Switch, where emulation is not a problem but a very wide screen is.
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by gbear605 6y ago
The problem is not just the 3D effect, but more crucially the two screens.
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by gbear605 6y ago
It’s not cynicism that he’s interfering when it’s obvious - literally Trump making statements on his Twitter. As for the money into his pocket; no need, the reasoning for Trump is that it makes his voters like him (since they dislike China)
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by gbear605 6y ago
I had covered teenagers earlier in my comment, and so I wanted to cover younger children with the rest of the comment.
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by gbear605 6y ago
...perhaps other than the breakfast part, that’s exactly what most teenagers do every morning (at least in non-COVID) times. Certainly children don’t, if you’re only talking about prepubescent children, but they’re also not particularly rel
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by gbear605 6y ago
Some passwords are too long - I wouldn’t expect any website to accept a gigabyte long password - and I wouldn’t judge a site that doesn’t accepts \0 either.
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by gbear605 6y ago
Imagine a life where you had to strenuously hunt for 30 hours a week and then partied for the rest of the time. It’d result in both a high level of physical fitness and be pretty pleasant. I don’t know if that’s an accurate description of t
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by gbear605 6y ago
It depends on what you mean - climate change is already affecting some regions of the world significantly while not affecting others at all. Climate change was a significant factor in causing the Syrian civil war [1], while I haven't b
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by gbear605 6y ago
My reading of the comment you were responding to is that they were saying "We needed to leverage fossil fuels to get to the state of development where we can build rockets, and if we didn't have that fuel in the ground, we'd
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by gbear605 6y ago
Gigabit speeds are great, but 80% of the value of Starlink is just getting the 11 Mbps to the people who can't get even that speed in any better way. There are many (millions?) of Americans who don't have that. So let's calcu
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by gbear605 6y ago
Much of astronomy and astrophysics, for one, doesn’t even have the concept of experiments. They observe past behavior and predict future behavior, but they can’t do anything like the causal trials that define other sciences. Same with geolo
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by gbear605 6y ago
One part is that while unemployment is up, a number of large costs are down. Obviously, costs like transportation don’t have to be paid for. On too of that, evictions are suspended so rent payments can be leased and many loans (including mo
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I want to contribute to your project, how do I start?(drewdevault.com)
17 points by gbear605 6y ago|1 comments
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by gbear605 6y ago
More accurately, a lot of credit card debt was being used to initially finance emergencies and then (after they’re in debt) to finance required purchases. A lot of middle class families are bogged down by a very costly mortgage or apartment
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by gbear605 6y ago
I’m not an Apple fankid but the predictive keyboard and speech to text work wonderfully on my iPhone and I use Siri everyday with no problems. Google’s is probably better, but the different is not a meaningful one from what I can tell.

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