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kaibee
4y ago
I had success with donefirst.com
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4y ago
> That would lead to people claiming FB bans accounts to make money. More realistically it probably would lead to FB banning accounts to make money. Theoretically you could setup the incentives such that money from banned accounts can o
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4y ago
> But how do you protect a continuous line of a few thousand km? Cameras/sensors, and fast response time. You could put a sensor package every couple km. Given the amount of power this installation delivers, it wouldn't exact
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kaibee
5y ago
Scenes are serialized as text files (optionally) and you can save objects to prefabs, which can also be set to be serialized as text files.
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5y ago
> My reasoning is that these taxes increase the price of all goods, including food and energy. If you do a cash transfer to low-income individuals funded by the tax, it is entirely possible to make the tax progressive or neutral instead.
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5y ago
It is going to be cheaper for poor countries to go directly to renewables. There is no law that says that you need to pollute to become wealthy. The pollute-y kinda tech was just more cost-effective in the past.
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5y ago
The land has gotten so expensive that the kind of people who can afford a SFH lot for their personal use, not to become a duplex or quadplex or whatever, can also afford to build a 2400 sqft house without it really mattering. Now a quadple
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5y ago
> We already know that the observer effect is real. If you're talking about the quantum mechanics effect, then you're misunderstanding it. In QM 'observing' just means measuring something about a system. The only wa
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5y ago
> I generally wouldn't define algorithm as such, although I can see where the lines between them can become blurry. Its pretty clear cut tbh. An algorithm is a set of steps to follow to produce some output. A trained model is, &#x
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5y ago
> They like their neighbourhood exactly how it is, and if they could mandate perfect stasis they would. Y'know, if a community wants to have _perfect_ stasis like that, it should be allowed. Which of course also means that when you
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5y ago
> I don't see how this isn't anything but virtue signalling, and forcing citizens to bear the cost. It is the same citizens who are ultimately funding the Russian military with their taxes. I understand it isn't by indivi
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kaibee
5y ago
Not reading the article in the link you're replying to is a heuristic that almost always works ;)
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5y ago
From a political perspective, it is easier to profit (in terms of political capital or actual capital) from a crisis than it is to prevent it. If you prevent it, then you've spent a lot of capital all for most people to say "well
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5y ago
> Well the cool thing about Western democracies is that nobody cares what you think about what they spend their money on. The cool thing about democracies is that we could democratically decide to tax the ultra-wealthy at a much higher r
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5y ago
Roblox already IPO'd.
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5y ago
> I'm in security, and one thing I always try to stress is that if the security software is causing work stoppages, it should be treated with the same importance as an outage. Just as you wouldn't tolerate an internet connectio
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5y ago
My favorite phone tree implementation is the ones where it takes twice as long to hear all of the options because it has to tell you the keyword(s) and the equivalent number to press (since I guess they don't have enough faith in it ot
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5y ago
It also creates a disincentive for holding onto IP without using it. Its kind of an LVT on intellectual property. I like it a lot.
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5y ago
Have you ever tried to hold your hand next to the edge of the pot..? A lot of the heat is not going into the pan.
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5y ago
If you had a smooth transition between high and low density, the total area covered by housing would be smaller. So oddly enough, even the lowest density housing would now be closer to jobs in the city. Furthermore, since public transport
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5y ago
> are opposed to high density housing because it is built in places that lack infrastructure to support high density housing. I've seen this objection a few times now but never actually seen it sourced. Do you have a source? I feel
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5y ago
You're being down-voted because this > The question then, is at what point do a bunch of people become a government? What is the magic number? And on what basis does a government have greater rights than the individuals it purports
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5y ago
> Capitalism had a similar experience in the Great Depression, was changed by it, but the name remained. Unfortunately a lot of those New Deal changes were reverted since then. For one, the minimum wage was supposed to be a living wage
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5y ago
> There is no such thing as a monopoly on something that does not cost anything. This is the wrong way to think about it. How much would _Google_ be willing to pay to maintain that position? Well, Mozilla's primary source of reven
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5y ago
Tbh, I have no idea who 'on the left' you could be talking about (except Sinema I guess)? The labor side of the Democratic party has been enemic for the last 50 years.
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The issue is that we have like 40 years of UX improvement for desktops and now have super high resolution monitors that make that UX experience usable. We have like 5 years for VR and 0 years with a high enough resolution to make it usable
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5y ago
I'm not sure what you think happens 5 minutes before the end of class on a Friday, but it isn't diligent learning.
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5y ago
The incentives for homeowners to prevent new construction would cause the same issue regardless of corporations getting in on it. The lack of new construction (in areas where people want to live) is the driving cause.
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> With social media, it is nearly impossible to connect physical or psychological harm to a platform over the course of someone's life. The papers that draw conclusions in this space are based on limited studies and polls that could
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5y ago
Notably, all of those things are in fact, banned for people under the age of 18 or 21.
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