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by mckirk 5y ago
I know we're not supposed to post reddit-style "slowclap" comments here, but a mere upvote just could not express my appreciation for this comment. Please carry on the good work.
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Could you elaborate a bit on how you weren't allowed to listen to your body as a child, and what kind of difficult real-time decisions that meant you had to make? Also, how did you work on improving that as an adult?
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Alright everyone, check your Bingo cards!
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Any public company, perhaps. Private companies could decide to care about profit not as much and be genuinely 'nice' -- though the invisible hand would probably come along at some point and replace it with something more profit or
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Congrats! :) Since I haven't seen it mentioned here so far, there's a typo in the screenshots: 'Play without distrctactions'.
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Thanks for the insight! I'd never thought about this way, but it makes a lot of sense intuitively. Did you formulate that yourself, or is there some source that might hold similar nuggets of wisdom?
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by mckirk 5y ago
Oh Tiberian Sun... That game (and the whole Westwood era) will forever hold a special place in my heart. And I'll forever be sad about what EA did with the studio and the franchise.
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This is of course completely silly, but kudos to the company regardless. They had a chance to capitalize on the crypto-absurdity and might have managed to hit exactly the right kind of 'silly' for that crowd, which is still an ach
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Until they actually show their partisanship, I'm skeptical that guilty-by-default assumption should be made.
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> The findings of this study demonstrate that running economy is improved and feelings of fatigue are lowest when using a combination of a dissociative-external focus of attention. So, optimal training would be chasing your Ketamine deal
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The 0.5 derives from 'in a hundred year interval, there's a 50% chance to observe the event', which was my intuitive interpretation of a 'hundred year flood'. But as so often in statistics, that intuition was wrong
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Small correction: Each year you have a (1-0.5^(1/100))≈0.69% chance of seeing a hundred year flood, if I'm not mistaken (and assuming hundred-year-floods happen independently of each other). At 1% chance each year, it would actual
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It's a vastly more useful comparison than simply going by absolute numbers, though. A larger country will have more people to vaccinate, but also more infrastructure to get this done. If you want to compare countries by how well they a
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I believe this is the graph you want: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccination-doses-p... Yes, China is far ahead of India, but Cuba, the UAE and Urugay are far ahead of China.
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I absolutely adore Tim Minchin. Every now and then I'll go down a YouTube rabbit hole rewatching everything I can find of him. And despite clearly being a genius, he's not taking himself (or anything for that matter) all too serio
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If you consider Sweden's sparse population density (except for a few hotspots like Stockholm) and their 'natural tendency' towards social distancing, it's really quite telling that they've managed such a rate of exc
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Thanks for mentioning this effect; I sadly seem to primarily have friends in the 'can't gain weight no matter what they eat'-group, and if I try to keep up with their eating-habits, I gain two pounds a week. And yes, I do exe
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In which sense is your hearing 'so good it might count as a disability'?
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Because they're living in the past and are constantly digging in other people's lives?
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I agree completely. I've had the chance to slowly grow up with video games and witness their evolution, and still it's really hard to withdraw myself from the allure of 'just one more round of Apex Legends' and the like.
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I don't think he claims the traditional media contains more of it -- I believe he rather seems to imply that 'since the same problems exist in traditional mediums, the criticism of these modern platforms is misplaced'. I&#x27
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The gaming industry would like to have a word... In a sense, companies are right now incentived to develop the most effective 'digital crack', because anything that hijacks the reward pathway of the brain more effectively leads to
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Anybody who's ever played Satisfactory knows to keep a few old-school biomass generators around for that reason... I'm guessing Facebook upgraded everything to the highest level tech and inadvertently got thrown back into the ston
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Yep, it's interesting to wonder about the implications of that. Maybe the only reachable fix-point would be economic disaster, i.e. 'the only way to be right with certainty is to get people to panic by telling them they'll pa
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Dune was such an awesome movie. I'd almost forgotten the feeling of having high hopes for a film, and then sitting in the cinema and actually enjoying every second of the experience. On the way home, I tried listening to my usual music
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I think you are confusing Coinbase with another exchange. Coinbase, as far as I can tell, tries to stay away from USDT and rather deals in USDC.
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Given the Evergrande development, it might pop rather sooner than later. Tether's 'reserves' are largely backed with commercial paper after all, and it stands to reason that much of that is intertwined with the China debt-bub
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It "rewrites itself upon infection"? I'm not aware of any such mechanisms, could you elaborate on that?
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He is talking about uploading though. Synchronous 100 Mbps connections are sadly not so common.
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What Does Evergrande Meltdown Mean for China?(carnegieendowment.org)
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