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by gexla 5y ago
Book this is extracted from and the passage is here... https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=-4ODDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3&dq=... They don't seem to have a source. Not linked anyways. Sources might be listed at the end of
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by gexla 5y ago
Hopefully the climate change issue could motivate to change this. Even if this stuff is piling up in a place sight unseen from the origin, it's still coming back to that origin in ways which we don't well understand. Just as the p
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by gexla 5y ago
In the Philippines it's Ukay-Ukay, which originates from a term which means "to dig." So, they're digging for good finds. ;)
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It's like a hack for the owner to show prices at a <insert tip rate> discount to the meal. If everyone has a shared expectation that the tip is a certain rate, then that's the pay. Why not remove tipping and add that cost to
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by gexla 5y ago
Seems similar to "He Who Shrank" - I didn't read the book though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Who_Shrank ETA: Seems that was a popular story line from that time. Also seems similar to Inception, wit
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by gexla 5y ago
Shooting from the hip here as I'm not a "game economist." Money comes in through whales paying for rare items and relatively fast progression. This isn't a new idea, as games such as WOW had a gold farming economy. As wi
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And how would it be universal basic income if you're still having to work? No play, no pay. The big story in play for play, has been Axie in the Philippines. Many Filipinos can't afford to buy the required assets to play, so they
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by gexla 5y ago
Great comment. Seems tech people love them some memorizing. Live a memorable moment, load it into an Anki deck, then review memorable moments for the remainder of your days. Do one last review right before you check out.
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The tag handling and search are critical for me, and they work together. Because I name all files based on the date, I use the tagging system as a way to put files into buckets. I also create a "field" in the markdown file for a d
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- Lively ecosystem of extension developers - Acts as a GUI to manage markdown files which live on your system - Works well as a dump of info - Gives you features such as search and tag handling to your MD files I feel like I have tried all
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by gexla 5y ago
I haven't met anyone who believes in a flat Earth. I'm also wondering if anyone here has. Or if anyone anywhere has. I wonder if they really exist. My current theory is that the belief is a wildly successful joke which has created
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Isn't this basically scrum? Instead of doing an estimate at the start, you determine the throughput of the team and then give an estimate based on that measurement. That's my understanding of it anyway, could be wrong on that.
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by gexla 5y ago
Right, it ends up being a good deal. And I don't see how censorship resistant becomes a thing. If the government wants to block my participation on the system, then I'm sure it will find a way. If the government can't block p
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by gexla 5y ago
Author is a content marketer, I assume this article is more part of his content strategy than being something which I'm a target audience. The "why" of reading the book is maybe the only thing I care about here. Depending on
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by gexla 5y ago
Also read "To Pixar and Beyond" by Lawrence Levy, who Steve Jobs hired to save the company. It tells the Pixar story from the CFO perspective.
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You're selling a product (service.) You need to market the product. You also need to handle administration of the business or outsource those tasks. Regardless of who is putting in this effort, your business needs to pay for it (your t
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by gexla 5y ago
Right, I have never heard "mean" being used in the context of casino games. I get what they are trying to say though, at some point the variance should start evening out to reflect the odds of the game. But we should be practical
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by gexla 5y ago
Nice points being made here. American roulette has double zero, European roulette has a single zero. The zero(s) represent the house edge and that's what the casino makes its money from. Even funner fact, even if there isn't a zer
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by gexla 5y ago
Look up Nassim Taleb on Fat Tony about flipping coins. If 50 consecutive reds come up on a roulette wheel and you bet on black each time, then you might be a sucker. Someone was lying to you about that wheel being honest.
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by gexla 5y ago
> Yet the illusion of streaks or certain outcomes being “due” is powerful, and such thinking is almost ubiquitous among gamblers. It derives from our tendency toward pattern recognition (apophenia), seeing illusory patterns in random noi
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by gexla 5y ago
I'm convinced that procrastination is a rats nest of things which is constantly changing shape and that nobody can give you advice for your unique situation. Getting past procrastination is like hitting a plateau in a gym and everyone
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True, but in my sidebar in Github, I have an option for "Projects (Beta)" and "Projects." Confusing.
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by gexla 5y ago
It does seem confusing. This is referring to changes which are now in beta. These do seem to be big changes, meant to be a different way of working with your entire repo. AFAIK, projects has always been a sort of bolted on project managemen
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by gexla 5y ago
Does it matter? The article is talking about typing competition. The WPM is in this context. There's lots of competitions which seem to have no real world practical value other than people believing it's enough to put together a c
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I assume they would be converting the crypto to USD.
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Both AWS and Azure provides this as a service with either Windows or Linux. There's also a relatively new service called Mighty App, which streams just a browser with the idea that you can manage 100's of tabs with all the browser
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> The upcoming Pull Stay is, as you would expect, modeled around his principles and requires players to protect their hikikomori master by basically beating people who try entering his house for whatever reason. I detect anger issues. An
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by gexla 5y ago
Do you feel that depression is a problem outside of this? Maybe you should talk to someone about the depression. Personally, I value my man-cave and my free time. I view "things" and a big house as more shit I have to deal with in
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by gexla 5y ago
You can use something like Nextcloud to run your own webDav server, if that's something you are okay with. I haven't tried this, but I believe you can then share out files using Nextcloud via a unique link. Actually, I know the sh
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by gexla 5y ago
Isn't arrogant and narcissist describing two completely different things? Narcissism is social. You can be an arrogant asshole and become and hermit. A narcissist wouldn't choose to be a hermit, because that person feeds off inter

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