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by me_me_me 3y ago
I would disagree with that on few levels. Blitz chess is already what a lot of people consider a variant. In Blitz format there are strategies and tricks that are outright blunders in longer time controls. The biggest improvement by far for
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by me_me_me 3y ago
They say you need to start as a kid for 2 main reasons, one as you mentioned time. Second is survivor bais. There are way more kids that suck as chess/whatever and stop playing than prodigies on path to become grandmasters.
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by me_me_me 3y ago
not really, Venus is an example of self reinforcing mechanism that will inadvertently destroy every ecosystem. Even though Venus is inside the goldilock zone. Besides the whole argument, the life will find a way is hardly encouraging. Its n
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by me_me_me 3y ago
There is another factor nobody will mention, countries in EU that accepted statistically significant number of immigrants from outside of EU are doing way worse on PISA scores. While countries like poland are not really that affected it see
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by me_me_me 3y ago
only if you could find people who have their way with words But that must be confusing for them too...
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by me_me_me 3y ago
> Hell, my vacuum stops moving when it detects it crashed into something (likely torque required to move wheels is larger than expected). Ha ha, that's a good take. Maybe you could help musk and point him to that vacuum :D On a seri
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by me_me_me 3y ago
> it was that it should earn back the money it cost by running an autonomous taxi service during night and office hours This was the exact moment i woke up from musk's spell. Why would corporation create a money printing machine and
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by me_me_me 3y ago
how come people with sliding rulers and navigation computers 'knitted' by local grannies have lost 0 Saturn rockets. But now an explosion is an expected outcome for your million dollar hardware. That approach works in software dev
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by me_me_me 3y ago
not many people have seen it, these days only limited and niche people would see 2001. For that reason the stats on it would be skewed towards people who would view it more favorably.
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by me_me_me 3y ago
This movie doesn't work tonally. It tries to be both serious and satirical. And it fails to make both of those world work together. In the Idiocracy what made it work is that the satire applied to the whole world except of the main cha
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by me_me_me 3y ago
when you are young you have a lot of time and not a lot of money. Naturally attracted to piracy. When you are an adult you have more money then time. Naturally attracted to just buy it as its the easiest. You might never be able to root out
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by me_me_me 3y ago
Not many mention it, but it was valve who invented loot boxes and keys (TF2) and season passes (DotA2) they have item market place. They had original steam drm that people railed against at the begining. Valve and Gabe are not the second co
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by me_me_me 3y ago
All of what you say is true, yet there are ton of people here who still spew Elon Musk's propaganda like a gospel.
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by me_me_me 3y ago
> Anyone know what is being done to secure Bitcoin against quantum attacks? Do you mean that anyone will be concerned with bitcoin saftey after our banking system collapses along with other https dependent traffic (as its no longer http&
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by me_me_me 3y ago
is this a joke or not. Hard to say when discussing musk
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by me_me_me 3y ago
people dont realize that crumpled/bended material absorbs crash energy. Its a good thing as that energy is not transferred into a passengers, well apparently musk is one of those people
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by me_me_me 3y ago
another reason not to buy BMW added to the list
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by me_me_me 3y ago
on the internet, ALWAYS
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by me_me_me 3y ago
I am not sure, only guessing. But why would they ask for permission in the firs place? > They already did something with my biological samples I can only guess you were tested for something in the hospital. Samples are sent to the lab (s
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by me_me_me 3y ago
Well they did call you and tried to trick you into letting them use it. But assuming they obey the law they did not used your samples. So there are privacy laws in place? Also they could have been cleaning old results/samples and this
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by me_me_me 3y ago
"mitochondria is a powerhouse of our cells" its most banal summary used widely of what you aptly summarized. A legacy code of complex life that we cannot get rid of :D
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by me_me_me 3y ago
I would say it depends, if employee was set to be fired - there is nothing that they could do to avoid it, decision was made to downsize team, or they were assholes, had personal clashes with leaders etc. There are probably cases where pip
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by me_me_me 3y ago
Trivial, how? A corpo lawyer will tell judge they agreed with employee on improvement plan to guide and help them prevent firing. They did all they could to help them. How will you prove that you were fired before pip was put in place? How
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by me_me_me 3y ago
PIPs (at least in europe) are a way for company to prove employee was fired because they are incompetent. We tried to help employee X, see the paperwork? But they are not good enough. Its a system to shield company from local laws and lawsu
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by me_me_me 3y ago
well the weight of petrol disapears, batteries' stay the same. So petrol is more efficient in that way.
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by me_me_me 3y ago
I work in one company and the divisions there hardly interact cuz it costs a lot in overhead. I am pretty sure the guy is making shit up.
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by me_me_me 3y ago
there were plenty of 'crazy idea' cars prototypes. The reality is the current designs (tear shaped, front engine, forward facing seats with belts) are result of slow incremental perfections. Safety, fuel efficiency being two bigge
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by me_me_me 3y ago
one very interesting take i hear is those 'armored plates' might become a death trap in a car crash. As hydraulic cutters might not be as effective on them in case firefighters need to cut people out of a vehicle.
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by me_me_me 3y ago
Story is real or not aside, why would you not laugh it off? At that stage nothing can be changed, money was lost and bug was fixed. You can only look forward and plan for the future and the guy is going to be paranoid in the future deployme
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by me_me_me 3y ago
and that's just the beginning. Heavy rain, snow, fog. There are tons corner cases and yet they couldn't have something working in a continuous loop

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