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by mathgeek 4y ago
This isn’t really relevant to the current discussion about how much extra time is spent on “work” beyond normal working hours. Working ~40 hours a week and choosing to spend most of your other conscious hours consuming media is a different
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by mathgeek 4y ago
Can you elaborate on why you feel this proves that the host's knowledge is important in deciding on whether to switch after a goat is revealed from one of the two doors you haven't chosen? As far as I'm aware (but it's b
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by mathgeek 4y ago
Also a bit of survivorship bias. No employee who literally makes use of the perk is around to say how useful it is. Thus we debate how valuable it is if you never actually need it.
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by mathgeek 5y ago
The games in question are for handheld systems (Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, specifically).
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by mathgeek 5y ago
Plenty of carriers subsidize Apple hardware. Apple also has https://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program
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by mathgeek 5y ago
This is relative to the density of where you are playing. The default radius out in rural areas doesn't have enough roads, for example. A customizable radius or geofence sounds appealing.
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by mathgeek 5y ago
Along the same lines as "the tallest blade of grass is always mowed" and "the late worm misses the bird".
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by mathgeek 5y ago
Check out the thread for context to understand what I was replying to (assuming this isn't an automated comment of some sort).
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by mathgeek 5y ago
> There should be a shorthand phrase for "I agree with all parent nodes of this". Like a pseudo OOP-type syntax. +1 to everything above
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by mathgeek 5y ago
I imagine that a silent disco setup would provide this rather well. Might need one with a better form factor for walking outside, but the technology for broadcasting locally to headsets has existed for a while now. Museums likely have these
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by mathgeek 5y ago
Stripe | Technical Solutions Engineer | NYC/SF/Seattle/Dublin or Remote (EMEA or Americas) | Full time We are the team that owns the developer support experience at Stripe. We interact with our developer users more than any o
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by mathgeek 5y ago
The game is sufficiently solvable as a 5-by-5 map without any concern for the words in each cell. Generally, it’s more interesting to study the actual gameplay around word association than to study the optimal winning strategy. There is som
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by mathgeek 5y ago
In addition to Ireland and the UK, we can also hire in Belgium, Germany, and Sweden. Paris and Madrid are also options.
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by mathgeek 5y ago
Stripe | Technical Solutions Engineer | Onsite or Remote (EMEA or Americas) | Full time We are the team that owns the developer support experience at Stripe. We interact with developers more than any other team at Stripe, and we're dev
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by mathgeek 6y ago
An adjacent philosophy to “leave the world a better place than when you entered it”. You won’t care what you left behind, but those who are still around might (if you’re lucky, for either kind of luck).
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by mathgeek 6y ago
> most importantly, not be even close to a dirty/offensive word in any language used in a major market The most important reason is actually to make sure it doesn’t sound like any other named drug. Good article on that at https:&#x
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by mathgeek 6y ago
> 3,700 people die every day from crashes Can you provide your source please? Closest I could find is https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/global-road-safety/index... which states that “[e]very day, almost
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by mathgeek 6y ago
Apple doesn’t make any models with AMD chipsets. They went from PowerPC to Intel and now their own chips.
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by mathgeek 6y ago
The article has a section that addresses this.
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by mathgeek 6y ago
Actually there is. If you view all data as statistical probability, data from the past is simply a 1.0 possibility of occurring, and future data is less than 1.0. We can easily see this by looking at weather forecasting, as a common example
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by mathgeek 6y ago
“The Peter Principle” by Laurence J. Peter
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by mathgeek 6y ago
Likely for the same reason we rarely use lead paint anymore, or why micro plastics are a concern in bath products. Just for a couple of examples of products you don’t consume ending up in animal bodies.
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by mathgeek 6y ago
I’ve been working now and then on a turn-based text RPG that is played in Discord (but really it’s API-driven so other clients are certainly possible). Passion project of mine from my childhood love of MUD’s and JRPG’s, up through early MMO
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by mathgeek 6y ago
Naturally, but it's also a way to approach death if you don't consider it a horror.
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by mathgeek 6y ago
While this is true for personal emails, the linked article is really talking about marketing emails to strangers.
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by mathgeek 6y ago
> We all want to cling to existence somehow and want to leave a mark on the world when we leave. Not everyone wishes to leave a mark on the world after we are gone. There are entire philosophical branches dedicated to the idea of embraci
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by mathgeek 6y ago
Almost like a bunch of folks worked together to make this happen, but only a relatively small number worldwide know who they are.
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by mathgeek 6y ago
Previous discussions for perusal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=266040 (2008) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17995031 (2018)
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by mathgeek 7y ago
It definitely existed in some form by the late 90's. I recall very basic surveillance and remote control software being installed on school machines back then.
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by mathgeek 7y ago
Not OP, but here's a Lancet correspondence on the topic (includes references): https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

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