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by nck4222 7y ago
By that logic, the library of Babel owns the copyright on every piece of literature that could be written, which would be a terrible idea. https://libraryofbabel.info/
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by nck4222 7y ago
It's not just property values/landing percents. If you can get a "low value" monopoly more quickly through the auction, because combined players happened to land on all the orange spaces first time around the board but t
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by nck4222 7y ago
Right, that goes back to my original comment: >there is an element of strategy in Monopoly (or can be, if you take the time to learn it). Buying every property you land on immediately from the bank for listed price is not an optimal stra
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by nck4222 7y ago
>Park Place you have to land on it first. Not necessarily. The games rules include an auction that is frequently removed in house rules. What's supposed to happen is if the player who lands on the space (Player A) doesn't buy i
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by nck4222 7y ago
Believe it or not there is an element of strategy in Monopoly (or can be, if you take the time to learn it). Not all spaces are landed on equally, and not all properties have the same return on investment. Playing with common house rules te
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by nck4222 7y ago
Is there any sense for how accurate the case numbers are? I've been thinking about it and I can't fathom how we would know of every case. What percentage of adults who get the seasonal flu go see a doctor and get diagnosed, 10%? C
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by nck4222 7y ago
Coronavirus isn't like the flu in this regard, and is actually less severe the younger you are, including children. No one under 10 has died from it, and only one person under 20. The mortality rate for people under 50 is about .2% (co
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by nck4222 7y ago
MVC does not comprise all layers of an application. You might as well be asking which layer represents the repository layer while you're at it. You can add other layers and frameworks in addition to using MVC. That doesn't mean MV
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by nck4222 7y ago
Which is the point of the tax deduction in the first place.
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by nck4222 7y ago
>something to the effect of that I didn't get to enjoy having friends, I just got to miss them. >I am typically watchful and quiet, on the periphery of any group. >I have faked it and been unable to make it I know other people
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by nck4222 7y ago
I don't mean to suggest that moving is never the right decision, but yes those results personally give me pause in whether it'd a good idea to move. Also it seems in general more thought is needed around what can be done to help k
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by nck4222 7y ago
Anecdotes about personal experience, people you've met, and unsourced trivia don't disprove studies about populations as a whole. Celebrities may have a much higher rate of suicide (2.9%) vs the general population (.013% in the US
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by nck4222 7y ago
Tangentially related to this article, but moving/uprooting children can have fairly large negative consequences that affect them the rest of their lives. Here's one article [1] that found: "Elevated risks were observed for al
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by nck4222 7y ago
Those quotes are interesting. Seems like the prevailing opinion is that Nintendo made a mistake cancelling this deal with Sony because it opened up the door for Sony to become it's largest competitor. In reality it seems like it was So
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by nck4222 7y ago
On the one hand, the term serverless is really frustrating to me. On the other hand, there's a certain amount of amusement I get from seeing "the cloud" become a marketing buzzword in the mid-late '00's, and now see
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by nck4222 7y ago
Regardless of legality, you shouldn't be taking sand as a souvenir. Beaches are a natural resource for both people (recreation) and animals/plants. They provide food, breading grounds, habitats... Leave no trace.
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by nck4222 7y ago
Huh, I just updated to that version and I no longer have the flag either, guess they got rid of it... One more reason to primarily use firefox. Looks like there are extensions in the chrome store that essentially do the same thing though.
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by nck4222 7y ago
chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode Firefox has this feature enabled by default and displays an icon in the address bar that you can click to reload the page in reader mode.
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by nck4222 7y ago
>The fact that power swings from Republicans, back to Democrats, back to Republicans, and so on, illustrates that there is a very weak majority in this country That only holds true if you believe that the two political parties accurately
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by nck4222 7y ago
Well they didn't foresee the formation of political parties. That alone upended a great deal of how the different bodies were supposed to interact. Half of congress is now lead by the executive branch, which completely undermines the c
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by nck4222 7y ago
>it was in the end based on fallible guesswork Right, that was my point. I wasn't suggesting they invented democracy.
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by nck4222 7y ago
>Democracy is mostly a facade in the US anyway. But I agree, the US government isn't functioning 1) as originally intended or 2) for the benefit of the majority of the people it 'represents.' Although it's worth notin
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by nck4222 7y ago
Or alternatively: 3) this will cause prices to start dropping, which increases uncertainty, and causes additional sells. 4) thus we enter a loop where uncertainty increases, which causes more selling, which causes price decreases, and the m
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by nck4222 7y ago
I think it's hard for many people who are emotionally and/or deeply connected to something, see it changed, modified, and reinterpreted by someone else. Even in the world of software, how many of us have worked on a project for a
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by nck4222 7y ago
>What's the take-away for us? My takeaways: 1. If your goal is to try and make money, being focused on one idea at a time is probably better than deep diving in to several narrow niches. 2. I shouldn't be discouraged by not (y
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by nck4222 7y ago
The research wasn't done to test a "blatantly disingenuous" claim, it was done to determine the effect of advertising on mood. They're able to quantify how much of an effect it has on happiness as well. "Our analysi
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by nck4222 7y ago
That question is addressed in the article: "Their line is that advertising is trying to expose the public to new and exciting things to buy, and their task is to simply provide information, and in that way they raise human well-being.
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by nck4222 7y ago
Also pointed out in the article, the "copy cat" map was made 2 years before the official MTA map that it's so similar to.
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by nck4222 7y ago
I feel like there has to be a razor stating something like "It's more likely that our expectations were wrong due to a lack of initial knowledge, rather than the explanation being aliens." Because it seems like time and time
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by nck4222 7y ago
The "well they drive fast in Germany every day" argument doesn't hold water either. 1) Even on the parts of the autobahn with unrestricted speeds, 130km is still the recommended upper limit, and you're more liable in a c

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