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by mcphage 7mo ago
How was he ripping families apart?
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> Out of everything in the adult industry, to me, OnlyFans is one of the most sane. That is encouraging independent performers to get payed directly by their fans, taking only a reasonable commission. I kinda agree, but the prevalence of
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> What interests me is not the statistical rarity, but that 81% of elements are in one orbit — this means the reordering is highly coupled, not a bunch of small local swaps. But what is the significance of the reordering being highly cou
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> And then they liked Trump more after having him. And it only cost them their country. Not bad!
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> Basically, if Trump does a thing, they are against it, independent of the thing. Because on top of doing terrible things, the non-terrible things he does, he does incredibly badly . > There is no principle, just reactionary hatred.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> The LEGO Education version of MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor, SPIKE Prime, is still available Well, the Spike line is being discontinued also: https://education.lego.com/en-us/spike-update-2026/ But you’re right i
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> How quickly we forget how censored twitter was before he bought it About as quickly as he forgot “comedy is legal again” when people started criticizing him.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> The knowledge to build nuclear at that scale isn't in the coutry/continent anymore. You'd have to reteach an entire generation of engineers. Well you better get on that, then. It’s going to a lot worse in 5 years.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
What, you mean this entire administration? Well, you’re right.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
I have a 12" Global knife, and >95% of what I use it for is cutting up watermelon. In my defense: my family loves watermelon, we eat a ton of it, and I'm happy to have a special "Watermelon Knife".
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> socially progressive and fiscally conservative How about “socially progressive and fiscally effective”?
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> My guess is that it was a reaction to the pandemic-era trend of "over employment" I'm guessing the opposite: that these firms wanted to push back-to-the-office policies, and so either invented, or publicized, engineers d
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> Or much more most recently than WWII: not knowing that 1200 civilians were slaughtered by Hamas terrorists, whom palestinians did vote in power. And if you want to go even more recently, check out what the IDF is doing in Gaza.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> I cannot wait for "kid" to be a number one accessory to bring to a heist then. And when that happens then we can have a conversation. But as it is, you’re justifying slaughtering a family because of a story you invented.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
I remember Joel Spoksky talking at a conference when YouTube was new, and media companies were suing it for pirated content, and Joel said that media companies were afraid of users sharing media content, but what they should be afraid of is
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> We smiled and laughed for years that all of this technology and power is just being used to share cat videos. Well, cat videos make people happy.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> Unfortunately, this decision completely defeats the purpose of adding a function similar to Map.take!, as the goal of the function is to return a map where we are certain the given keys exist! I mean, if you define a function calling M
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by mcphage 7mo ago
I’m guessing people do advertise and astroturf here, but I’m guessing it’s for LLMs and stuff :-)
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by mcphage 7mo ago
Then I for one choose the million.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> So what you really want is to be in a state that will make you chose one box and you want to already be in that state at the time the predictor makes its predictions because the predictor will see this and place the million dollars int
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> that is essentially the same as saying "what I choose causally affects what my opponent chooses". No, it’s the same as saying “what my opponent thinks I will choose causally affects what my opponent chooses”, which is obvious
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by mcphage 7mo ago
I don't want to sound like a shill, because I don't know them at all, and I still spend enough money on actual Lego. But I am really happy with it. Pieces were great, quality was great, I love the lights, I hate Lego's stic
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> Why would you ever take both boxes? As near as I can tell, it boils down to this: no matter what the predictor has chosen, one you walk into that room, there's more money in both boxes, then there is in one box. But it feels like
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by mcphage 7mo ago
They are. I should have added that Lego’s designers are a bit better still. You can get botanical sets from a lot of manufacturers, but the Lego ones are just nicer.
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> but I've never heard of them, possibly because they don't spend as much on marketing as lego It’s a newer brand—they changed their name to it some time last year. But they seemed to spend a lot on advertising last Christmas—
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> A reputation moat is still a moat. It is, absolutely, but it’s a lot more shallow a moat than having a product quality moat. > Lego prices will drop as soon as they are forced to by competition, and not before, and this is fine. I a
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by mcphage 7mo ago
> As long as the quality moat persists The risk Lego faces is that they don't actually have a quality moat any longer. You can get non-lego sets with no stickers, plenty of prints, LED lighting, at a cheaper price, and with the e
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by mcphage 8mo ago
You don’t even need to go so far—plenty of posters here are happy to carry water for this administration.
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by mcphage 8mo ago
> Are they going to silently rename it in 6 months? Probably when they update it, if they decide to keep the product line going.
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by mcphage 8mo ago
> but try running Xcode + iPhone simulator (a basic development workload by Apple standards) with 8GB of RAM on Tahoe, and get ready for a lot of waiting and stutter I don't think that's what this machine is designed for.

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