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by ineptech 4y ago
> If you, and everyone elses, actions says "Actually we want to sort out this problem of stray dogs and cats in my community" maybe we need to examine why I think this is exactly what EA is trying to say! Think about what you
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by ineptech 4y ago
This is an extremely uncharitable take. If people are starving in your hometown, donating food to them will be very effective. If they're not, donating food to some other town where people are starving will be more effective. That&#
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by ineptech 4y ago
Agreed, the way to increase its value is to take away features, not to add them. Its value proposition is being the boring, ubiquitous way to connect to your kids' PTA group and to organize your neighborhood cleanup or family reunion
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by ineptech 4y ago
> New York Will Receive Over $5.4 Million for More Than 176,000 New Yorkers That's $30 each for users who are already onboarded and very likely to use this high-margin product again next year. As customer acquisition strategies go,
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by ineptech 4y ago
I think in-office culture does work better in a lot of ways, but we as a society spent a century building and optimizing that. We've only been WingFH for a couple years, and it seems (to me) blazingly obvious that it won't take lo
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by ineptech 4y ago
I think 2FA is to guard against someone gaming their "lost my password" process as much as against someone brute-forcing your pw.
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by ineptech 4y ago
I'm confused - was OP's account compromised, or not? It sounds like it was, but he doesn't seem very fussed about how it happened or keeping it from happening again, just annoyed that Twitter's response to it isn't
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by ineptech 4y ago
InComm | Engineering Manager / Dev Manager| $140K-ish | Full time | US Remote Us : Large, stable, growing company that builds the software that makes gift cards work. About 2/3 of us are located in Portland OR, but we are now full
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by ineptech 4y ago
Eh, the coins weren't important, that's just an easy thing for me to visualize. If one graphs that emergence -if one graphs the number of nodes in a graph against the chance of finding some structure in a graph of that size - I h
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by ineptech 4y ago
I'm trying to visualize this. I go to Wolfram Alpha and type "chance of getting 504 heads in 1000 coin flips" and see the answer is about 1/40, and when I change 504 to 505 I see the odds are about 1/41 - only slig
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by ineptech 4y ago
I cited specific tricks, explained how I think they're done, and asked if you agree or not. Genuinely no idea what the answer is. Ah well.
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by ineptech 4y ago
Oh, I've had a planet since 2016 or so I think, I boot it up once a year or so and check out the updates. I agree that the platform is big enough to be self-supporting in a technical sense. By "chicken and egg problem" I me
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by ineptech 4y ago
I agree that urbit has far outlasted all of the nay-sayers in a technical sense. People have been saying "this is some elaborate joke" for years, but the project has made steady progress and really is pretty usable now. It does
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by ineptech 4y ago
The use case is that you can host your blog on it and store your bitcoins in it and it won't crash, can't get hacked, and is easy to move from one VM host to another. The network architecture is an implementation detail to get me
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by ineptech 4y ago
shrug there are giant for-profit corporations relying on software written by Richard Stallman. I don't think the intentions of the founder matter much. I don't like Yarvin either, but I do want a product that meets this use cas
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by ineptech 4y ago
> I don’t buy this. I'm not selling it, just explaining it. More info here: https://urbit.org/blog/toward-a-frozen-operating-system
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by ineptech 4y ago
I'll try. First, what it is: Urbit is a virtual machine OS for server-side applications. If you imagine a future in which it is common for non-technical people to rent cloud server space on which to host server-side applications (say
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by ineptech 5y ago
Presumably because someone with the rights to distribute it, either you or your school, uploaded it to them. A more interesting question is, if these companies do well and stay in business a long time, won't it become increasingly diff
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by ineptech 5y ago
> I see -- we are using different definitions. Let me provide mine... You misunderstood that whole section, so I'll try again. Those words are just labels, it doesn't matter what they are but it very much matters that they be
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by ineptech 5y ago
> Not sure what the claim about guessing means. By "guessing" I meant the opposite of "trickery". The latter, I remind you, you described as meaning, "basically, already know the answer." I hope you'l
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by ineptech 5y ago
You're making this much more grandiose than it needs to be, bringing up Randi and the supernatural and all that. We're not arguing about what's physically possible, we're arguing about whether performers do certain tric
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by ineptech 5y ago
> The latter claim wouldn't pass an Amazing Randi challenge. Randi's challenge was for people making claims of genuine supernatural powers, i.e. the mentally ill. I don't see how it's relevant here. > 100% magic a
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by ineptech 5y ago
Thank you, I had the same reaction - there's a nugget of truth here, but the article can't find it due to the author's innumeracy. In my experience, the typical aging parent who has some-but-not-a-ton of assets (a house, som
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by ineptech 5y ago
> An NDA isn't a particularly impressive feat. I think you're underestimating how bad people are at keeping salacious secrets about celebrities. Remember when Bear Grylls had to apologize for the "stranded on a desert isl
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by ineptech 5y ago
...or it can be done unreliably. Again, I can only suggest leaving the realm of theory and going out and seeing someone do it.
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by ineptech 5y ago
Then I admire their confidence (and wonder how they think he did it before social media). edit: For example, here's Derren Brown reading the name of a woman's first crush in his stage show in 2005: https://youtu.be&#x2F
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by ineptech 5y ago
That's pretty much the opening of every medium's act, right? Have you ever seen one? It would save a lot of explanation, and I'm sure you'd see through it pretty easily.
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by ineptech 5y ago
Where can one find out more about your book? I'm a casual fan of mentalism and a book about it by a computer scientist sounds interesting.
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by ineptech 5y ago
I admire your confidence; I don't claim to know how any of his tricks are done. But certainly he has done some that unambiguously rely on hypnosis and/or psychological manipulation and some that unambiguously don't. edit: Bu
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by ineptech 5y ago
He does all sorts of stuff - card magic, big stage props, coins, mentalism, memory tricks, hypnosis, walking on broken glass, you name it - and as with any magic act, part of the fun is figuring out which is what. I did think the lottery t

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