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by goialoq 9y ago
Many adults have an aversion to new words. Foods too! Over time, they grow accustomed.
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In the OP, $130 is for a full Prix Fixe meal on New YEars Eve. > $130 meal is a once in a lifetime type celebration (e.g. 50th wedding anniversary, Most "traditional" weddings (like you see in TV shows) cost $130 per guest for
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by goialoq 9y ago
Olive Garden may be acceptable (I'm no snob), but no one considers it _fancy_. It's the least-expensive lowest-grade of sit-down meal.
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Yes, that's the meaning of Michelin stars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin_Guide#Stars 1 Michelin star: "A very good restaurant in its category" 2 Michelin stars: "Excellent cooking, worth a
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by goialoq 9y ago
I don't have a research background, and I know not to feel good paying $60 for a pair of tweezers. What prevents procurement from buying from Amazon? https://www.amazon.com/Tweezees-Precision-Stainless-Steel-Tw...
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Corporations are owned by individuals.
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It's still cheap as free compared to the cost of accessing the same information/media pre-Internet. Google used to brag about how using Google was more energy-efficient than going to the local library.
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Really, you'd enjoy sitting in your car for 2+ hours every weekday? That's incredibly unhealthy.
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by goialoq 9y ago
Smoking wasn't banned until very recently, after tremendous damage was done. Even now, smoking is only banned in places where it harms other people. You can smoke at home as much as you like.
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10X returns are easy -- just put the money in a savings account. What's your _timescale_ for generating 10X returns? That's where it gets tricky.
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by goialoq 9y ago
> With proportional fonts the spacing is already clear enough with 1 space. That's your opinion, and a bizarre one at that, since one-space isn't any more clear in a proportional font than a non-proportional font. Proportional
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by goialoq 9y ago
Opting out of consumerism is one of the easiest ways to engage in direct action for social change -- it just requires you to do _nothing_, and be proud of it! The only difficulty is maintaining emotional strength to resist bullying, and the
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the performance of the existing indices _is_ bad in many cases.
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That adversarial quicksort only applies under specific constraints (2. Pivot-choosing takes O(1) comparisons; all other comparisons are for partitioning. ) that are easily worked around.
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B-trees incrementally rebalance on every insert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree
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The novel part is using machine learning to implement that data awareness, in principle this means that the data owner doesn't need to use any human knowledge or heuristics to build an efficient index -- the machine running a general a
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by goialoq 9y ago
This seems like the kind of bug that can cause a lot of harm (if a malicious actor wants to track someone's location) but not so much profit (no generic mass-account-stealing). And that's a situation that the US legal system i
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by goialoq 9y ago
This says that the most successful people in the the business-software space are people who have domain knowledge and software skills, and write software in their domain. And those people do quite well, dominating their various industries (
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by goialoq 9y ago
The dose makes the poison.
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For those who don't know, Bitcoin forked into 1 "new" Bitcoin (kept the name, changed the model from currency to speculative asset), and 2 Bitcoin Cash, that continued development along the original crypto- currency design.
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by goialoq 9y ago
"emergent phenomena" isn't quite the term for this. An emergent phenomenon is simply a phenomenon that arises form the interaction of components, and so can't be explained purely by reduction to components. https:/
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The article makes no connection between Facebook and Capgras syndrome (which is the feeling that someone you know has been replaced by an impostor). It's just a luddite scientist who doesn't understand the concept of online social
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by goialoq 9y ago
"Internals" is a poor choice of term. "Data structure" is a better term. Git is "plumbing and porcelain". The plumbing is the core of git. Porcelain are shortcuts. In general, Torvalds projects (Linux, Git) ar
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by goialoq 9y ago
> sheer benevolence of the hospital employees. and willingness to push back against intense economic pressure from management.
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by goialoq 9y ago
Is that an appropriate comparison? If I pay my insurer $X in premiums, and they pay $X for health care, is that 2*$X GDP , vs if the government collects taxes (not GDP) and then pays $X for my healthcare?
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by goialoq 9y ago
Yes, ad sales finance the products. But most of the products are not sold. A product/content creator doesn't need to do sales, if they are willing sign up for whatever the ad business is offering ($X CPI, user activity data, etc).
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by goialoq 9y ago
Do you mean "Getting to YES" ? "Getting to NO" is a book about breaking habits.
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If you can't choose to get your referrals and imaging done at a different hospital, then it's a bundle deal, not a loss leader. If you can transfer to a different hospital/clinic for referrals and imaging, it's a loss le
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by goialoq 9y ago
Molars aren't dangerous because we cook food. Molars are dangerous because our brains were so useful that they took over the head space that molars were using, and tooth problems were less harmful than bigger brains were helpful
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by goialoq 9y ago
According to modern physics, all of us are wave oscillations.

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