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by khafra 15y ago
Set up a gamified alternative to the stock market with incentives pertaining to long-term growth?
572.
by khafra 15y ago
Even at the start, he was drawing significantly better than I can--but he actually did put in the 10,000 hours of focused practice (with feedback from a forum-full of artists to focus him) so I don't think you can attribute it all to native
573.
by khafra 15y ago
Famous people often have to deal with unauthorized biographies. Unauthorized autobiographies are a little rarer and less excusable.
574.
by khafra 15y ago
That was in reference to "thismismamterm," which took me several seconds to figure out.
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by khafra 15y ago
Can you torrent a full-auto sear for them?
576.
by khafra 15y ago
Interesting. I always hit the space bar with my right thumb, too.
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by khafra 15y ago
> My comment was about the direct real world impact. And also about the value of revolution to the first revolutionaries--it's common to see the first movers fall, and later opportunists capitalize on the momentum they started.
578.
by khafra 15y ago
Wow. Downvoted with no explanation. Not a single counter-argument ever given. I thought this would be one place I could question the attitude that popping out babies with no thought for the future is the god-given right of every person on
579.
by khafra 15y ago
What gives people the right to bring children into the world when they may not be able to support them properly? These are human lives we're talking about. I cannot think of any arrogance greater than assuming functioning genitals gives you
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by khafra 15y ago
I was very careful to separate the financial difference and the cultural difference, and I feel like you're ignoring that. Having kids at all is not a basic human need on the level of food, water, and shelter. It is a biological urge, si
581.
by khafra 15y ago
It would certainly be depressing to live in a world of John Nashes. On the other hand, if everyone were perfect bounded rationalists, we'd merely have to replace Causal Decision Theory and Evidential Decision Theory with something that can
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by khafra 15y ago
Social signaling (such as flaunting luxury goods) is a hardwired, biological imperative of the entire Hominidae Family. Gorging on foods rich in historically hard-to-find nutrients like salt, fat, and sugar is a hardwired, biological imper
583.
by khafra 15y ago
My parents didn't have kids until they could afford them. They were in their mid-30s when I was born. If I'd been raised in poverty because they had kids at 18 and dropped out of college, I would be entirely within my rights to question t
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by khafra 15y ago
Thanks for the demonstration of the mindset I'm talking about. Some people want children, other people want pets, other people want houses, other people want cars, other people want jewelry. All of these things cost money, none of them are
585.
by khafra 15y ago
More likely, some exotic bacteria gets in the cut and you develop necrotizing fascitis. Learning from your own mistakes instead of others' is a high-variance strategy. Our culture is better off because of the people that do it, but if you'
586.
by khafra 15y ago
Sounds like Splunk, to me.
587.
by khafra 15y ago
There's little financial difference between having children and buying Lambourghinis. The cultural difference is that only one of these is blameworthy if you get into financial trouble later. Perhaps both of them should be.
588.
by khafra 15y ago
Make sure your keyboard and monitor are very securely attached.
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by khafra 15y ago
He didn't say "effective." He said "honorable."
590.
by khafra 15y ago
What's the advantage you get from even more currencies that you don't get from today's basket of international currencies? The only one I see is that, if you build a big enough reputation to issue your own currency, you get to collect seig
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by khafra 15y ago
There is another in closed beta; I can't remember the name because I keep missing their enrollment windows. But when I get to my email account I can post it here.
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by khafra 15y ago
stevenwagner shows by example why this isn't so, but to spell it out: If you were buying a CPU as an investment like a share of a mutual fund, to buy, hold, and sell, you'd want to wait as long as possible. In fact, you'd never buy one; we
593.
by khafra 15y ago
If anybody comes up with a way to solve the exploration vs. exploitation dilemma for humans, I'd love to hear about it.
594.
by khafra 15y ago
Interesting, and disturbing. I sure hope that after every air disaster or near disaster, a new scenario is added to the mandatory simulator training.
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by khafra 15y ago
I've seen some content-free articles, but this one really takes the vapor-cake. It spends two sentences very nonspecifically talking about a technical development in wind energy, then paragraph after paragraph waxing rhapsodic about the won
596.
by khafra 15y ago
The Halo Effect is a well-known bias. Important things cost a lot of money, therefore if what you're doing doesn't cost a lot of money, it's not important. This happens in large institutions in the private sector as well, sections of compa
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by khafra 15y ago
I'm pretty sure all major airlines require a ton of hours on smaller planes, and often large cargo planes, before flying passenger jets--so perhaps experience is not the panacea, or must be more carefully tailored to include the right kinds
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by khafra 15y ago
Perhaps he has data that he doesn't want people looking at if it's lost or stolen.
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by khafra 15y ago
Try Opera--my only multifarous-tab problem is clicking on one to select it without closing it when I have so many open that the "x" is the entire width of the tab.
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by khafra 15y ago
Would you recommend that airlines publicize the experience of the pilot on each flight, and offer discounts for travelling with less experienced pilots? Because, other than with something like this, "experience" doesn't sound like an alter

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