lpilot

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by lpilot 6y ago
Well, this is also how casinos work. Games are invented so that asymptotically, the gamblers will, on average, loose money. Insurance companies achieve the same thing by setting your premiums according to whatever they assess the risk to be
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by lpilot 6y ago
You've identified a difference in motive between recreational gambling and insurance, not a mechanical difference. The woman in this article had different motives to the usual insurance customer. The point is that one party says to the
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by lpilot 6y ago
Well, insurance is just gambling with extra steps. Usually, you bet on something bad happening like your house getting burgled or your flight getting delayed, and the insurance company takes you up on that bet. In a very abstract way there&
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by lpilot 6y ago
I haven't got my config to hand, but essentially I've binded leader-y and leader-p to copy and paste respectively both using the system clipboard. Since doing that tmux has been so much more useful to me.
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by lpilot 6y ago
I might be a little late to the party here, but I don't entirely agree with him. What I do agree with: UIs have gotten worse on the usability front, this is undeniable. Each application does its own thing when it comes to layout, and e
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by lpilot 6y ago
Powerful and fast at doing what? From the title it could be solving differential equations or drawing phalluses on my screen.
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by lpilot 7y ago
Santander in the UK does this too. You can tell because they only ask for 3 characters out of your password whenever you log in. What's ironic is that whoever did that propably thought they were being super clever.
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by lpilot 7y ago
I kind of see where they're coming from with this one, although I don't think it's true. The definitions of trivial and correct can be moved to fit whatever they're trying to say. Rephrasing it as something like it'