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by mathgeek 2y ago
Every so often when I was younger, I’d do the same with movies, buying and setting up a nice surround sound system to get the spacial effects just right. Every time I would thoroughly enjoy it until rearranging/relocating and not makin
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by mathgeek 2y ago
It's great that both are relatively cheap as they both have their advantages and use cases. Mostly depends on how "hot" your archives need to be.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Some details on the Stripe solution at https://stripe.com/blog/how-we-built-it-smart-retries
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Do folks generally still believe that the "masters" are/were born great, rather than being born with an advantage of some sort (whether by nature or environment) and then leveraging that to achieve mastery of some craft?
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Sounds like a great excuse to remaster/remake Endless Sonata.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Likely tied to how quickly we produce novel things in general, making the dangerous subset sufficiently large. That’s a root of a common argument you’ll see around regulation stifling innovation.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
There are already more channels than that, as bots training off the media produced by bots will just continue to grow.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
For folks who work to live, yes. Folks who live to work generally are more divided.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
“The average days is longer than 24 hours” is always a fun one.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
As the article says, since everyone responds differently to different materials, the only truly fair playing field is to run naked and barefoot. Obviously that isn’t going to happen so someone will always be left out of having the best gear
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by mathgeek 2y ago
A good way to frame addiction is via perceived rewards. You can be addicted to many things if you look at it as “the person expects a reward for an activity, often errantly”. The worse addictions get into “the reward isn’t even expected wit
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by mathgeek 2y ago
I’m sure the irony of the blog post spoiling several classic movie scenes is not lost on the blogger.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Both suits, since they went before several courts, established specific actions that companies should avoid (and ones that they could get away with).
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by mathgeek 2y ago
We already exist in a world where most of the revenue for film companies comes from formulaic productions. Studio execs certainly worry about how they are going to create profits in addition to any concerns about the qualitative cultural va
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by mathgeek 2y ago
From experience, I can promise you that even if kids value their parents’ and grandparents’ recipes, things that are written down get lost, thrown away, or not remembered it’s too late. Making backups is important whether it’s in writing or
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by mathgeek 2y ago
I usually think of abandoning and finishing as two different ways to resolve a project. Resolution is a good goal that allows you to be explicit about what was finished or not before stopping.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Criminal _suspects_ are not the same as criminals.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
> Sound cards and network adaptors were an integral part of custom PC builds for years, but those eventually got swept away as motherboards improved and started to integrate those features. If audio and network technology needed and were
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by mathgeek 2y ago
I think it’s a combination of things. There is more competition, the brand is not trendy with younger generations, plastic containers are neither stylish nor considered healthy, the company is probably typical of most older brands in regard
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Seems low enough to become a cost of doing business rather than a deterrent.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
That’s an example of why I phrased things as I did. At least one human understands they will die. If we prefer to define that as natural death, that’s acceptable for the purposes of this discussion. I was not referring to anything beyond th
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by mathgeek 2y ago
I am not sure whether I would be more surprised by the truth being “no other animal at any point in life understands they will die” or “some animals at some point understand they will die.” I would be pretty confident that not all animals d
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by mathgeek 2y ago
I think we’re coming full circle back to identifying what this company is trying to solve for.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
I find it rather amusing that there’s bound to be an incoming wave of “knockoff bags” using this design.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
> I suspect that Nicholas Cage is similar. Probably, although it’s also well documented that Cage took a lot of roles to pay off his extensive debts after blowing through nine digits of his wealth.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
You probably don’t want more conductive lenses, though.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Traffic circles work wonders for these behaviors.
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by mathgeek 2y ago
> When Homer Simpson reads magazines at the convenience store without paying A more specific example would be ripping off the plastic packaging to read a magazine. The ones without extra packaging are designed and for a long time expecte
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by mathgeek 2y ago
> Trust shares its root with truth. It’s directly related to believing in the veracity of something. Would you mind sharing your reference on that? All the etymology sites I rely on seem to place the root in words that end up at "so
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by mathgeek 2y ago
Registration is generally done when the consumer takes possession of the vehicle.

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