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by mcv 11mo ago
It's absolutely worth looking at how effective the charities you donate to really are. Some charities spend a lot of money on fundraising to raise more funds and then reward their management for raising to much funds with only a small
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by mcv 11mo ago
I agree. I think the criticism of EA's most notorious supporters is warranted, but it's criticism of those notorious supporters and the people around them, not the core concept of EA itself. The core notions as you state them are
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by mcv 11mo ago
You know, I've been wondering why the Rebels in Star Wars don't just shoot down that Death Star, if that thing is such a problem.
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by mcv 11mo ago
> Why do our children spend more time in Fortnite than forests? Usually, we blame the change on tech companies. They make their platforms as addicting as possible, and the youth simply can’t resist — once a toddler locks eyes with an iPa
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by mcv 11mo ago
How did you get the url for curl? Do you personally look for hidden links in pages to follow? This isn't an issue for people looking at the page, it's only a problem for systems that automatically follow all the links on a page.
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by mcv 11mo ago
If it's a robot it should follow robots.txt. And if it's following invisible links it's clearly crawling. Sure, a bad site could use this to screw with people, but bad sites have done that since forever in various ways. But i
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by mcv 11mo ago
Isn't a corporation incorporated or something like that? With limited liability and everything? Or does it also cover tiny 1 person outfits? I admit English isn't my first language, but I've always understood it to a be a spe
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by mcv 11mo ago
Is a corporation really a group of people? Of course people are involved with the corporation, but the corporation doesn't represent its employees, shareholders, management or customers. It's a separate legal entity with complex r
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by mcv 11mo ago
The real issue is not so much the speech, but that money is considered speech in the US, so Citizens United apparently gives corporations the right to donate to political campaigns. A lot of people would like to stop that channel for corrup
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by mcv 11mo ago
It's still possible to grant press organisations rights that other corporations don't get without having to make both of them people.
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by mcv 11mo ago
Yeah, there's a difference between being a legal entity with limited rights, and being a person with full personhood. Citiziens United ignores that distinction. Just because people have certain rights, does not mean corporations should
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by mcv 11mo ago
> That's because in the US we don't give non-state organization power over other people. How are credit ratings maintained again? > At least not in the European way where you have to give your life to an org. I have to what!
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by mcv 11mo ago
SSO indeed. I forgot if it was ever solved before I left.
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by mcv 11mo ago
There are several people with my name at the company I work for. I frequently get email meant for someone else. Worst was at another company where a person with the same name has just left, so they gave me that email address. Turned out he
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by mcv 11mo ago
Yeah, you need to strike a balance. Maybe ambiguity is a better way to look at it than uncertainty or randomness; chess is fun, but the only random factor are the whims of your opponent. There's no randomness, but there is ambiguity ab
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by mcv 11mo ago
So would you say it's fine if China claims that some boats in the South China Sea are drug traffickers and blows them up without any evidence? Shouldn't there be some evidence at least that this is the case? Maybe capture the boat
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by mcv 1y ago
That is an excellent point, and indeed a problem when debugging. When I log objects to the console, often they don't get serialized until I actually click on them, which means I don't get to see the object as it was at the time, b
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by mcv 1y ago
I use Javscript mostly. Or Typescript actually, these days. I remember when ES2015 introduced `let` because `var` had weird scoping issues. But ever since, I barely use either of them. Everything is `const` these days, as it should.
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by mcv 1y ago
ChatGPT told me I function two pay scales higher than I'm being paid. I think that's going to be my response when someone cites ChatGPT as an authority to me.
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by mcv 1y ago
I don't understand how this is not wildly illegal fraud. They intentionally bill you incorrectly, charge you twice for costs that they know they're not allowed to bill you twice for. This is blatant fraud. Why is that not enforced
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by mcv 1y ago
I too prefer Vue over React. I still haven't checked out Svelte, and I'm completely over Angular by now. React looked great when I first used it for something really small. It looked horrific when I used it on a massive project wi
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by mcv 1y ago
You double check and verify. But now you know what to double check and verify.
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by mcv 1y ago
Exactly what I came here to say. It's not wrong to ask ChatGPT for advice; it can occasionally be very useful. But if I want chatGPT's opinion, I can ask for it myself. It's pointless to ask ChatGPT to review someone else&#x2
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by mcv 1y ago
This is completely bullshit. Sweden stayed neutral. Finland is a lot further from Germany than Sweden is. If Russia hadn't invaded, Finland could easily have remained neutral. It was Russia's invasion that drove Finland into Germa
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by mcv 1y ago
He's not the one denying genocide here. He's pointing one out that you're stubbornly ignoring.
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by mcv 1y ago
Struggling with this is exactly why I never quite finished my degree. All the papers where I had to choose what to write about, without having an immediate topic I just had to write about, never even got started. Thesis is an even bigger pr
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by mcv 1y ago
Indeed. A sphere is obviously a nopert shape. The question is whether there are polyhedral shapes with the property.
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by mcv 1y ago
I bet there are.
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by mcv 1y ago
The long side is three cubes long, the short side two. You can easily move the short side through the long side's shadow if you tilt the latter so it becomes wider than a cube's side.
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by mcv 1y ago
The shadow has to be bigger for the other shape to pass through. There's no way to orient a sphere so its shadow becomes bigger. For a cube there is.

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