mcdonje

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by mcdonje 3y ago
Nothing I said is shocking to anyone who is familiar with the subject. That's sensationalist. You took a word I said out of context and asked me something unrelated to my point. That's trolling behavior.
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No. How did you read my comment and think I might think that? This can't be a serious question.
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I get how the grid works. You don't get the market failure. In a normal market, consumers aren't service providers unless they happen to also sell something separate from what they're buying. They're using a service. Sel
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Yes, they're there to solve a problem not related to government revenue. Some cities use them as a revenue generator and they're examples of the effects of perverse incentives.
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The point of parking meters and tickets is not to make money. It's to keep the roads usable and equitably distribute a finite resource. Looking at parking like a profit center is perverse, and treating it that way creates perverse ince
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Saying they're "providing a service" by turning off in peak times is kind of a ridiculous phrasing. Normal consumers in normal markets don't buy at peak because peak pricing is quite expensive. Flipping the equation to p
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>...it would take a single GPU about a year to crack a password of average complexity with 500 iterations, and about 10 years to crack the same password run through 5,000 iterations. >However, these numbers radically come down when a
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^^^ This right here ^^^ Additionally, this cannot be an excuse to charge subscriptions or force lease agreements into the fine print for items consumers buy outright.
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Hanlon's Razor
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Thanks!
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Try improv. Everything is new all the time by design, you want to do a good job so everyone has fun, and sometimes you perform in front of an audience.
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I feel like I'm asking a dumb question here, but is that an actual app that gamifies being active outside away from tech, or are you simply doing that and metaphorically calling it an app? I did a quick search and didn't find it,
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You keep bringing up things that are completely beside the point. The scientists who wrote the paper weren't talking about wages, ethnic discrimination, etc. Why are you muddying the topic? Why are you pretending that scientists haven&
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This seems to be the most concise summary of the finding in the article: >the brain sorts its memories into different categories that are stored separately, with the neocortex used for reliable generalizations and the hippocampus for exc
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Not sure why you're talking about 'conflating with burning fossil fuels'. I didn't do that and neither did the paper. It seems like you're not read up on the topic. Staggering amounts of methane and nitrous oxide. M
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I'm tickled by how humorously opinionated and even judgemental many of the names are. Of course I'd be disappointed by the same thing in a context that demands more objectivity. But in-context, it's entertaining. The world is
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First time I've seen that. It's good they updated the reddish-brown circle to a triangle. A colorblind person would have trouble distinguishing.
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I was not wrong to say that the statement quoted from the paper is in-line with scientific consensus. Your assessment of how some rank their lists doesn't make the statement wrong. Most scientists who look at the numbers agree that ani
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They did a questionnaire based on a hypothetical menu. There can be bias based on the types of restaurants people tend to go to. If a restaurant primarily has meat dishes but they have one or two vegan options so token vegans can eat there,
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I assume by that you mean it told you their beliefs are in-line with scientific consensus. Because the quote is in-line with scientific consensus.
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Same with any other R&D once the findings become public domain, like NASA & university research.
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It made me raise my unibrow
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For large transactions, consumer trustworthiness is why credit agencies were invented. For smaller transactions where it doesn't make sense to run a credit check, there are other systems in place that would still need to be in place in
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This is a good lecture. It gets at the heart of the matter. The best use-case I've heard is adversarial companies who need to cooperate on a project and share data. However, in real life, they don't need blockchains because if a p
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by mcdonje 3y ago
>redditism Weird comment considering I'm explaining a point of view that many people on several social networks have. There are plenty of thoughtless knee-jerk comments in this thread in support of several different positions. Mine
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It could be that millennials are more familiar with the paradox of tolerance, at least in practice if not in name. It aligns with the relatively widespread notion that equality and equity are not the same thing. Simply put, a blanket freedo
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Not sure the "tip of the iceberg" argument is correct. My understanding is that a large part of the problem is an excess of fuel on the forest floor. Indigenous forest management would take care of that with controlled burns carri
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I would never use the OR operator instead of IN. Not unless perf massively favored OR, and then I would grit my teeth as I type it.
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Filter: Subject contains "new friends" Action: Play sound [if working in office], Forward to "[initial sender]", Mark as read, Move to trash
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When things are dire, or you're worried about them becoming dire, actively and purposefully do not lose hope. Do some exposure therapy. Think about the worst case reasonably likely scenario, then the next one assuming the first happens

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