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by krisoft 1y ago
The article says this: “Taking an active stance on political issues is just a small part of the obligations we acquire as humans, citizens, parents, employees, residents of some apartment block, and so on. And our free time… They might as w
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by krisoft 1y ago
Probably not years. My guess is that scurvy, beriberi, or some other deficiency would get you in at most a year.
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by krisoft 1y ago
> Adding flashing for a strong stop ~~ >0.75g would be a bonus. Is that a good idea? A flashing brake light could appear as if the brake was let go, which is the exact opposite of the message you would want to send in that case. Or ma
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by krisoft 1y ago
> Pakistan is not economically strong enough to participate in a war They have nukes. They don't need to be rich to do massive damage. Sure doing so would have terrible consequences, but cooler heads sometimes don't prevail. Or
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by krisoft 1y ago
Or alternative interpretation: Parrots are highly social creatures who love hanging out and socialising with other birds. Even a relatively happy parrot who is kept with a few other birds to keep them company, and has access to rooms to fly
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by krisoft 1y ago
> fixing clothes is also the work of many tailors. with getting custom tailored clothes falling out of fashion These are all good reasons for semantic closeness, but semantic closeness and being synonyms are not the same thing. That bein
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by krisoft 1y ago
I think you are onto something with ‘tailor’. If we take it as the verb ‘to tailor’ that is the synonym of the ‘to fashion’. Tailor as a profession is not a synonym of the noun ‘fashion’. But it is enough for them to be synonyms in one sens
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by krisoft 1y ago
Some of these are very cool and fits their definition exactly. But some others are very forced. Who would think that “fashion” and “taylor” are synonyms? And they are both further synonyms of “fix”? Or in the “Cold Fusion // Cool
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by krisoft 1y ago
> Did you think my post was illustrating that camera based self driving cars were infeasible? You said this line: “The car is traveling 1.5 feet between each frame interval” As I said before, this is a true statement. What I’m asking is
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by krisoft 1y ago
> while you read, do the math in your head and think about what OP was trying to say. I did the math in my head. Before i read their comment in fact. Did calculations both on paper and spreadsheets too. Run simulations, and field tests t
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by krisoft 1y ago
> Not sure what are you even trying to say with your last sentence, pretty self-contradictory. Not self contradictory at all. The sentence i was responding said hundreds of thousands want all to live “at the same place”. But they don’t a
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by krisoft 1y ago
> These are not trivial problems My complaint is that it is not clear why you think what you describe is a problem. You describe that by the time the next image arrives the car traveled a certain distance. And that is correct. But you im
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by krisoft 1y ago
I can’t quite understand your comment. > Assuming a 60hz camera, there would be a 16.67 ms gap between each frame. The car is traveling 1.5 feet between each frame interval. Ok? So? You are just stating this as if we should understand th
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by krisoft 1y ago
I could answer questions about the lines I used, yes. Doesn’t mean that I studied the subway maps. But my point is that the “everyone in X calls Y Z” kind of trivia is not reliable way to say if someone is in X. For example because not ever
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by krisoft 1y ago
> ... this is the situation literally everywhere in the world, capitalism or not. Where in the world do we not have capitalism? Are you talking about the North Sentinel Islands? > disregarding hundreds of thousands wanting exactly the
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by krisoft 1y ago
> "Man, I went to NYC once and got stuck in traffic on that stupid highway that goes up and down the coast of Brooklyn, what was the name of that thing?" I lived in NYC for a year and I have no clue. My answer would be probably
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by krisoft 1y ago
I have a case for my iphone and the problem I have described is happening even with that on.
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by krisoft 1y ago
> I can’t scroll with my cursor on the page without crap happening that I don’t want to happen. Same stuff with the mobile youtube app. If you so much as graze the screen anywhere while watching a video the replay speed doubles. This is
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by krisoft 1y ago
I’m not sure that comparision makes sense. The magic of GPS is that it is one way. The satelites send signals and the ground receivers receive them. There space and control segment doesn’t know and doesn’t care how many users there are. The
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by krisoft 1y ago
> Try to speak holistically. That sounds very much like "Just believe me." or even more "The rules were that you guys weren’t gonna fact-check" > I have no idea what you're trying to argue. Presumably you know
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by krisoft 1y ago
Sure. But often you don’t know how to find the information or what are the right technical terms for your problem. In a more general sense sometimes, but not always, it is easier to verify something than to come up with it at the first plac
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by krisoft 1y ago
> Your initial criteria was all about the resilency against state-sponsored disinformation attempts and the gaming of systems. I believe you are mistaking me with someone else. Please pay attention to the usernames when you are re-readin
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by krisoft 1y ago
> Why get so mad at these researchers—who are acting in full transparency by disclosing the study—when nefarious actors (and indeed the platforms themselves!) are engaged in the same kind of manipulation. I’m mad at both of them. Both at
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by krisoft 1y ago
> Which part of my statement you find difficult to understand? I understand your whole statement perfectly. It is just wrong. My understanding is not the problem here. We are not comparing them to other samples. We say that out of the cu
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by krisoft 1y ago
> But in a real court, I can see the verdict and the laws that were broken. All in complicated, but readable english. Thats not really true either. There is a lot to unpack to understand court cases. Just the hearsay rule and its excepti
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by krisoft 1y ago
> There's a survivorship bias in play here as we don't have a good other sample or more to compare to. It is not survivorship bias to point out that the survivor survived. > Even Google's Knol project, which was intende
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by krisoft 1y ago
Oh, i absolutely get you! Was not intending to pen-shame you in any way. Just used it to illustrate that the postal process worked (eventually, and with a lot of inconvenience) even though you were not best prepared for it. But i have been
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by krisoft 1y ago
I mean it is the fallback method. The solution for the "I never heard of this internet thing, or something else is preventing me from finding the licence online" problem. Almost everyone will just use their search engine to find t
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by krisoft 1y ago
> And then how do I loan it to a friend without the rigamarole of adding them as an authenticated user? By making adding an authenticated driver not a rigamarole, but easy and intuitive. > What if I'm not able to add them as an a
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by krisoft 1y ago
I'm not sure what is the context of your link. Is it supposed to show that TSA employees are not permitted to wear dosimeters? Because if so, I can't find that in there.

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