john_strinlai

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by john_strinlai 26d ago
the reason i brought up cost is because gambling addicts having a mental crisis are not typically sitting on piles of cash. a canadian gambling addict would be more willing to visit the ER than a us one because of the cost of the visit. t
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by john_strinlai 26d ago
is the sense that it wont immediately bankrupt you, yes, they are different. but my skimming of the study itself is that something else occurs (mental episode of some sort, such as anxiety attacks or suicide attempts, etc.) and gambling i
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by john_strinlai 26d ago
> I fail to empathise with gamblers [...] because I have never found gambling appealing as an activity. that was a strange sentence to read! the whole point with empathy is being able to do it despite not sharing the same feelings or po
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by john_strinlai 26d ago
it'd be cool if you expanded on that thought for the rest of us
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by john_strinlai 26d ago
same, but i'm not sure how that's related to my comment. workarounds or alternate articles without significant new information are typically posted within the same submission, not separate ones.
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by john_strinlai 26d ago
do the articles have significantly different information/coverage to warrant two submissions?
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by john_strinlai 26d ago
> As a Canadian, this feels like hopping on board a sinking ship. i have to think that many people would consider the current situation with the usa is already a sinking (sunk?) ship.
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by john_strinlai 27d ago
there is no perfectly secure system and defining everything as insecure is useless. outside of english class "secure" is relative and context-dependent, not binary.
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by john_strinlai 27d ago
it's silly to think about computer security as binary secure/insecure.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
please point out specifically where i complained.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
they are free updates. i do find them generous. that sums it up.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> This, right here, is the most commonly repeated trope in "tech" circles whenever the topic of education comes up. just for context, i am a teacher. i am speaking from my experience, not repeating a trope.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> Also what was it when the game released? It was waaay negative. yeah, it was. and now it isn't. this is known as a "turnaround".
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
256GB galaxy z fold8 is ~$1900
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> There is no such thing as a turnaround. this is very obviously untrue, as evidenced by no man's sky.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
i bought a game that contained X with no expectations of more content. the game now has Y and Z. i did not purchase the game expecting those updates. i did not pay for those updates. so it seems completely reasonable to consider those updat
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> And the features they've bolted on "for free" haven't why scare quotes around for free? they were free. > haven't addressed any of the core gameplay or emptiness issues people have with it. i went from h
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
at the time of posting, i think every top-level comment except one is negative. so, i'd like to balance it by saying that i have never seen a better executed turnaround than what the no man's sky team did. they cratered their re
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> If you want a city to pass a law prohibiting changing the traffic light timings, then go campaign for a candidate that has that on their platform. people love saying this as if its some sort of gotcha. ive been campaigning for candida
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> That's why we have an independent judiciary. which is something that only happens after abuse occurs, is costly (time and money), presents a risk of retaliation, and offers no guarantee of being made whole. > What's the a
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
the ones we want to prevent abuse from are the ones making the laws. police and governments break existing laws all the time. > they can't be manipulated if you want something that cant be manipulated or abused, the solution is t
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
great question, which you will either not receive an answer to, or you will receive a deeply unsatisfying generic response from dang/tomhow. in either case, it really leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
its not a legislation issue
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
stories below. they were generated with chatgpt 4.0. pair 1: https://osf.io/d8f6m/files/yjahv pair 2: https://osf.io/d8f6m/files/sjph3 pair 3: https://osf.io/d8f6m/f
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
i'm confused by your reply, sorry. what part of my comment are you referring to? if this is a response to "world is moving fast", i didn't mean "arithmetic is moving fast". i meant technology, the economy, geop
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> Is the purpose of school to make you do things that you'll enjoy? ideally, yes, enjoyment should be one purpose of school. it's much easier to teach when students are enjoying learning. learning to engage with something that
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
i think lack of parental support has been around for ages though, which makes it hard to attribute the very recent and sudden drop in reading comprehension, math scores, etc. to it. ive had to make pretty significant changes to my courses i
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
i'm sure generic 'screen time' is partly to blame, but i think the world is just moving fast and the education system (alongside everything else) is struggling to keep up. the constant stream of negative news, layoffs because
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
it's in the third paragraph of the link
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by john_strinlai 1mo ago
> because the jagoffs at Microsoft REMOVED Remote Assistance from every version of Windows used by people who are likely to need it. when did they remove quick assist? i thought i used it recently (within a month or two), but maybe im m

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