notafraudster

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by notafraudster 4y ago
Well, in this case, you're describing Fiverr with a slightly better user interface for the hirer and an incomplete contract problem (because you expect someone to do the work before you award the payment, and also reserve the right not
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This all clicks with my experience with VR, but don't you think this is pretty small fry and additive? You've got some fun hobby-grade content production stuff, you've got a handful of good but small scale experiences, you&#x
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For me it's less about "sucking" or not, and more about understanding the limitations of what could be delivered even if it didn't suck. You could take every drawback of current VR and solve it and it'd still be add
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But the question here isn't "can Meta do Second Life better than Linden did?" (maybe). Or even "can Meta do Second Life better than Linden, Sony, VRChat, IMVU, Epic, Tower Unite, etc. did?" (maybe). It's "
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by notafraudster 4y ago
I asked a question a little while ago at a small stackexchange satellite site. It got a few upvotes but no responses. I used as much bounty as I could to feature it. It still got no responses. I was a bit bummed they didn't refund the
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by notafraudster 4y ago
It is true that (at least above the level of quantum physics) we tend to believe that reality is deterministic. When the meteorologist gives a chance of rain, in truth if they had perfect forward information on all of the clouds and pressur
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The biggest surprise to me is that he died of a heart attack in an airport, where presumably AEDs are in ready supply and people are everywhere so it'd be immediately noticed. I really thought the survival rate in such a circumstance,
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by notafraudster 4y ago
The air quotes around tortured are doing 100% of the work here. There may indeed be some nervousness associated with taking part in any sort of competition, but I think most people would stipulate that white collar adult professionals answe
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I think most people are going to find a moral equivalence drawn between "locked up children in cages" and "tricked Osama Bin Laden's relatives into taking a blood test" pretty hollow, even if an argument can be made
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The use of "small multiples" here in the visualization is excellent, and the layout of the first visual is provocative and eye-catching -- love the vertical line! Great job, author!
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I think people decided he’s cheating because he admitted to cheating the two times he got caught cheating online, denied ever cheating besides those times, has had a meteoric rise in terms of moving from low GM to his current state, was una
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by notafraudster 4y ago
This seems like an agenda-motivated post because even accepting your point as true, you ignored the actual subject of conversation and pivoted to the thing you wanted to talk about. Imagine the following headline: Academics make stronger co
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The person you're responding to is not speaking literally; they're using what's called a metaphor to make a point that employees of any company exert walking power. The point may or may not be useful, but you have to finish r
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But on a fundamental level you're not describing a technical hurdle, you're describing a social-policy hurdle. Like, wouldn't you agree that if there was policymaker will to make this process more efficient, it could be more
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The Senate routinely takes voice votes for which no rollcall division is recorded. But there is generally little incentive to make votes private because in general legislators want to engage in credible credit-claiming (including about marg
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by notafraudster 4y ago
This sounds like a bad experience. I find Wikipedia pretty daunting and I'm not surprised you got tripped up trying to edit. But as a lay person reading your post, I do not know what "Deaf Cultures and Deaf Educators" is. Is
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by notafraudster 4y ago
I tend to just manually translate "best", "greatest", etc. into "A great" in my head, and then it's just a love letter to an awesome scene. Which this is!
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You have given more of your attention to letting everyone know you don't care about dead people because that's life than I have to worrying about COVID, with the added bonus that your position comes off as sociopathic and mine doe
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Both the authors of this study and meta-analysts generally have followup responses and other diagnostics and models that work under degraded assumptions, so I don't think it makes a ton of sense to respond to "this is the absolute
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by notafraudster 4y ago
This is why my PIN is 9998.
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by notafraudster 4y ago
Based on present death rates, COVID will be number three for all cause mortality in the United States this year after all combined cancers and all combined heart disease -- possibly number two!; above all other infectious disease by an orde
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by notafraudster 4y ago
The easiest to understand diagnostic used to measure publication bias is the funnel plot. Suppose the true effect of interest is theta = 0.2. Then the observed effects in studies should be centered at 0.2; some will be higher, some will be
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by notafraudster 4y ago
(This is a clarifying question, not an oppositional one) -- would a potential response to a gap between crude and pump prices be lack of refinery supply? How are we able to rule that out? Or is it completely obvious?
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by notafraudster 4y ago
It's not just about chronic malignant threats like those countries; it's also about acute threats. Take as an example, if you were Ukrainian, you had about 2 months of runway during which there was ample evidence Russia was going
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I can't fathom the idea that you don't know what the person you're replying to is trying to say. I think the more likely scenario is that you disagree and are trying to invite debate. If you want to do, feel free, it's n
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She's flown twice since. The first time there was some odd pressure on the way back that freaked her out, the second time no issues. We're fairly frequent flyers. Docs did not recommend against flying. For stroke the general recom
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by notafraudster 4y ago
My wife (age 35), had a stroke last year, caused by a ICAD (one of her two carotid arteries dissected -- tore -- leading to a loss of blood flow). Hers was 100% occluded. Although some ICADs are traumatic, e.g. from car crashes or bungee ju
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At-will employment laws aren't an equivalent tradeoff -- which is why they are very uncommon outside the United States -- but the alleged benefit of such an arrangement to an employee is two-fold: 1. In places where termination is for
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At-will employment says you can be fired any time for any reason except reasons that are explicitly illegal. This would include, for instance, discrimination against a protected class; anything covered by whistleblower laws (FCPA, all the r
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by notafraudster 4y ago
I don't understand why "4. Stay at your company and try to change culture within by organizing collectively, either through the guise of a union or informally" isn't also something you are free to do, besides that you th

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