marklgr

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by marklgr 10y ago
Parent's comment about the big game is accurate; they were all friends waiting for some whale to show up, so playing there doesn't mean you're one of the best players in the world, skill-wise. Up to 2010, Negreanu had some up
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Back when I played poker (up to ~2010), Negreanu was mostly a celebrity, as well as a pretty good blog writer. He was no match for the best pro players, but perhaps he has dramatically improved. Ivey was pretty good at managing his image, t
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The language is heavily loaded. What about tobbaco being punishing for society (especially passive smoking), or tobacco companies being punishing for their addicted user base? Taxes drive people to meth? This badly sounds like fear mongerin
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In the same vein, very little attention is given by capitalism to the details of what is the value of things that don't have a price, like, ecosystems, or human dignity. The assumption of perfect efficiency and that the free market mag
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It does not invalidate anything, but that's beside the point; it's not about valid or invalid arguments (their first one is almost always valid or defensible), it's about getting into what you might think is a honest discussi
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by marklgr 10y ago
A lot of arguments can be seen as sensible until one realizes they were pushed by people with a hidden agenda. It's often just the motte part of motte-and-bailey arguments. That's why there are people (eg. in Europe) who aggressiv
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Will take a look, but 'history-search-backward' fills most of my needs in that regard.
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by marklgr 10y ago
Yeah, let's put peer review into perspective. In a topic about Trump, censoring scientists. I can see the "give science back to the people" anti-intellectual slogans coming up.
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by marklgr 10y ago
> adds a lot of good functionality. Parent's comment is misleading, then. As someone who already has a pretty solid grasp of Bash, when I peeked at Fish it looked like there was nothing that it would gain me -- though I understand t
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I would have replaced carbohydrates by ego, but that would have been a bit too rich for him to say.
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Can't help thinking about Amigara Fault -- but more seriously, yes, nice zen/taoist perspective.
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This often is a euphemism for "making money is good". Except for the worst cases of rents (or scams), if you're making money, this means someone found what you do valuable, so hey, you're creating value. The tacit coroll
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> Companies cannot be soley profit driven if at same time they artifically reducing supply of eligable candidates. If there is a strong shortage of supply, you can be sure a lot of people will get over their prejudice -- but in labor mar
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by marklgr 10y ago
"Websites love talking about how much their readers are cheap, and how, no, they don't publish crappy content, they would totally check facts and whatnot. Let's be honest - many websites are after monetizing whatever they can
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> Also, it should be computationally infeasible to find any other word which also hashes to [...] He knows there are collisions, he just chose to start with the simplest explanation and add the useful details as he moves on. It's fi
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by marklgr 10y ago
You're refering to true libertarians, but many people like the idea of being one, or at least tell others that they are, even though you're correct that they're often just after some "free market" which is not free
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by marklgr 10y ago
Rosa Parks, gay people, now terrorists: are you going to enumerate all the dubious parallels you can make about this to try and hit an hypothetical moral blind spot? I'm not against moral debates, but if you're just throwing rando
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True, but I was including real life discussions, with friends, colleagues etc.
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The essence of your sophistry is to bring on highly symbolic and emotional subjects into the discussion so as to get some halo effect on your side of the argument, ala Godwin, while pretending all along to stay at the purely logical level a
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by marklgr 10y ago
Endure the amount of abuse, beating and killing that the civil rights movement was about, and you can have your Uber. Is that a deal?
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by marklgr 10y ago
> the default assumption of almost everyone around me seems to be that regulation is the way to deal with almost anything we don't like. Well, in my experience, people are very polarized about this: either they want to go to the gul
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by marklgr 10y ago
Some people specialize, and get more and more efficient at the same specific tasks; but I believe it's more common to widen one's experience in various areas (languages, tools, platforms, non-functional requirements etc.), leading
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by marklgr 10y ago
In that context, to me, tactics is writing & debugging code, compiling stuff, settings things up to work with other libs--ie. mostly hands-on tasks. Strategy is more about planning, architecture, knowing about the real pros and cons of
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One kid, seven. Got three brothers (the eldest got four kids). Most of my friends got kids too, some of them "difficult". For what it's worth, I was a pretty difficult child too.
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> Maybe they are written by non-parents or their children are much easier To be frank, the article tips are pretty sound and well-accepted, including from specialists who deal with much more difficult children then you and me on a daily
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> The number of Macs I've unlocked by creating a new admin by removing the "install is finished" file in single user mode is in the teens. What's the procedure, in case I need to unlock a mac someday?
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Thie is a charming free-market story, but the problem comes when people construe it as "unplanned, unregulated and competitive is always better". The idea that things can "work themselves out" to a better result than if
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Those gambling machines are much closer to the shit the tobbaco industry has put on for decades, with all the chemical additives they included so as to maximize the addiction.
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The assumptions behind "unlimited full free speech" is that 1) speech is just speech and has no consequences, and 2) it is all or nothing, either anyone can say anything they want, anywhere, or there's no free speech. Another
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> I guess I will not spend time on this task. Then why do you comment at all? Your post brings nothing to the discussion but appeals to popularity and shaming gp.

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