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by maest 4y ago
Clicking on the builder.io link redirects me to: https://uc.appengine.google.com/_ah/conflogin?state=%7E ... which says: An application is requesting permission to access your Google Account. Please select an
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by maest 4y ago
My favourite example of macro usage: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
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by maest 4y ago
r/tipofmytongue has also been useful to me in the past.
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Most pending M&A deals will get arbed to almost perfection, so I doubt the strategy you're suggesting here will make money, for 2 reasons: 1. it's a lot more likely that you're going to lose 5% than make 100% (in reality
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I think the author thinks they have to have kids as instructed by the bible: "As human beings, our primary mission in life is to be fruitful and multiply, and take dominion over the earth. If that sounds like Bible talk, it is. This is
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by maest 4y ago
Not necessarily in this order: Exercise, cutting caffeine to basically 0, f.lux to control blue light at night, eye mask, ear plugs. Things that didn't work for me: * not eating late * meditation
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by maest 4y ago
I disagree - I think you are conflating 1. "how to punish someone" vs 2. "whether to punish someone". You are arguing that we should change 1. by allowing violence. But in the examples you gave, it's not an issue of
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by maest 4y ago
> the best case - maximum bonus - just equates to a "meh" Can you elaborate on this? I find it surprising since bonus pays are very commonly used in many industries (and, in fact, relied on very heavily in e.g. finance)
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by maest 4y ago
GP clearly meant the gray colour common for stainless steel objects: https://im01.itaiwantrade.com/f741c34e-0130-464b-a4d0-1607a2...
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by maest 4y ago
> I'm going to ignore that you chose the MTA, a famously corrupt organization that is responsible for tunneling under the densest metro area in the country, as a baseline for the cost of rail. Sidenote, that's called apophasis
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by maest 4y ago
More generally, I believe this is a monad structure.
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I think tox was designed to solve that problem. https://pypi.org/project/tox/
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by maest 4y ago
> I was making a (what I thought was) very thinly-veiled commentary on the current political discourse regarding guns in the media. Sure, but by doing that you were insinuating the only reason the author fought against guns in space (and
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by maest 4y ago
Surely adding the 1001st way is a way of increasing the chance of things going wrong. I don't understand why some people refuse to accept this is a matter of tradeoffs and the presence of a gun isn't an absolutely good or bad thin
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by maest 4y ago
> If an astronaut develops a mental health problem in space, what’s going to stop them from opening the hatch or probably a thousand other things that would result in the deaths of everyone aboard? Guns are just a distraction in this cas
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by maest 4y ago
Parent's referencing this meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moons-haunted
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by maest 4y ago
Nobody is claiming they were banned because guns are absolutely, intrinsically bad. It's just that the safety tradeoff didn't seem good enough. From TFA: "Of course, plans were to use it only in special circumstances on retur
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by maest 4y ago
By that logic, when you pay for potato, you also pay for the gas used to transport the potatos. But you already pay for gas when you drive around, so you're getting hit by inflation twice.
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by maest 4y ago
I find his Smut routine hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyoyLl0_a2M I really like the idea that he's just sitting on stage saying rude words - it's quit a silly concept, but elevated by the execution.
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by maest 4y ago
While generational shifts are a pre-condition to becoming _that_ wealthy, they're not enough. Plenty of people were alive then (and had the resources required to bet big), but there's only a handful of Gates and Bezos. To make it
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by maest 4y ago
Honest question - how does he fund these giveaways?
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by maest 4y ago
> I wonder how others do this kind of thing. We did the exact same for a text classification project. The multi-week grind was awful, but it meant 1. we had a really good understanding of our data 2. we discovered surprising edge cases t
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by maest 4y ago
I am very excited about a future where there will be almost no petrol engines getting revved at stupid volume levels only because it's "fun".
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by maest 4y ago
The Sky article is actually worse quality. The original article quotes the full CEO statement, which is what I care about.
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by maest 4y ago
Good point re being signed in. Logged in: Watching RedLetterMedia video, get recommended a clickbaity video about comic books: https://postimg.cc/QVkc7QwQ Watching Colombo snippets, get recommended some celeb Net Worth tras
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by maest 4y ago
But it's problematic to assume these problems are in a 0-context vacuum because that would mean your actions don't actually have consequences. If the world ends immediately at the end of the experiment, then your choices in the ex
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by maest 4y ago
> But these kind of judgements based on use case isn't something the database can do, and you're likely to end up with dozens of semi-useless indexes eating up your disk space and insert performance That is an empirical questio
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I'm sure the YT PMs have proof that this improves engagement. On a similar note, I've started noticing the third video in the "related videos" section on the right-hand sidebar is usually a new video with _extremely_ cli
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by maest 4y ago
That's lower than I expected, tbh.
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by maest 4y ago
You're lazily strawmanning and failing to offer an alternative to a constructive suggestion. This comment has negative value.

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