obelos

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by obelos 5y ago
It’s exciting to see another community replace the most pessimal voting method with the second most pessimal one! (In terms of Bayesian regret). I hope the experience is not so frustrating that they end up repealing it as several other muni
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by obelos 5y ago
Someone used Bing?
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by obelos 5y ago
Several times while watching the show I’ve had my suspension of disbelief interrupted by thinking “There’s no way all these computers would interoperate so seamlessly, without vendor walled gardens and layers of security constraints.” It is
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by obelos 5y ago
I've renovated four houses with my minivan.
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by obelos 5y ago
We co-slept with our kids until they were 3-ish. Made sleeping a pleasant experience for everyone involved.
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by obelos 5y ago
And we had imagined we'd all die in a flood of something vaguely cool, like nanotech grey goo. But no, it's going to be something as stupid as a conflagration of SHA-256 hashes.
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by obelos 6y ago
Exactly this. Fossil-based energy is enormously subsidized by a deferred carbon tax. No fossil/nuclear comparison is really meaningful without internalizing that externality.
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by obelos 6y ago
Make that five times...
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by obelos 6y ago
Hopefully the DOE will continue to be led by a person who didn't previously campaign on disbanding it!
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by obelos 6y ago
It depends on the voting system. Some methods like Proportional Approval Voting are less prone to this kind of gaming in PR/MMD settings: https://electionscience.org/problem-solution/
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by obelos 6y ago
Impartiality is not a defining attribute of journalism. Having and expressing opinions (when not immediately involved in a scene), setting an editorial slant, and being embedded in events are not counter-journalistic practices. Journalists
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by obelos 6y ago
Also sue cities. It's not always possible because of liability constraints for government entities, but sometimes victims of traffic violence can demonstrate negligence and get a foothold into a liability case. City officials often pay
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by obelos 6y ago
“The hackers are ‘highly sophisticated’” Has anyone ever said they were hacked by a group of unsophisticated group of script kiddies?
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by obelos 6y ago
Same for me. I only ever use stash in cases where I don't materially care if I never see the content again, as with an experimental approach.
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by obelos 6y ago
It's not perfect because the wrong keystroke sequence can cause you to lose a chunk of information in a way that goes unnoticed for a long period of time (or is just never noticed), but I run a cron job that just blindly checks in any
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by obelos 6y ago
I don't care what these run on, they don't belong in cities.
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by obelos 6y ago
Direct result of the “Billionaire Vacuum Cleaner” sucking all the wealth out of our economies.
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by obelos 6y ago
How does one disentangle interruption of medical care due to nuclear emergency from interruption of medical care due to tsunami?
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by obelos 6y ago
The autocorrect in iOS 13 is fully worse than what was in 12 or what's available in any of the 3rd party keyboard apps that I've tried. The only reason I stick with it because of privacy issues.
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by obelos 6y ago
More to the point, where are the far-left analogues that get a shout out from the POTUS and have ambassadors likely to get elected to Congress in a few months?
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by obelos 6y ago
I've worked with Unicode for years and thought I had a good handle on its mechanics until I discovered this feature of the system last year. I was puzzling out why some symbol code points sometimes render in flat character style and ot
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by obelos 6y ago
I don't know if there's data specific to SARS-CoV-2, but this is the mechanism behind inoculation (as opposed to vaccination). This method was used to reduce smallpox deaths before vaccination had been developed.
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by obelos 6y ago
They're in the extremely well ventilated outdoors, and at least at the protests I was at there were very few people not wearing masks. Also, people in these gatherings tend to mill about, which means any contact with a stream of virus-
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by obelos 6y ago
I think this is it. Everyone's painting the roses red because spritzing some sanitizer on every surface costs a minuscule fraction of the massive revamping of indoor climate that's actually required to reduce risk.
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by obelos 6y ago
A recent article in The Atlantic details a number of examples of “good cops” getting disciplined, bullied, threatened, and fired for reporting bad, corrupt behavior or even just trying to de-escalate a situation when another cop gets too wo
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by obelos 6y ago
It’s useful to contrast “orthodox privilege” with what I like to call “privilege privilege,” which is a condition where one is so fully ensconced in a variety of privileges that they think an opposing minority opinion actually reaching thei
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by obelos 6y ago
I had the same issue. Rebooting my Mac fixed it, strangely.
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by obelos 6y ago
We don’t have a public health crisis. We have a billionaire crisis.
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by obelos 6y ago
The purpose of TTI isn’t necessarily to eradicate the virus altogether, which does seem unlikely. It’s the alternative to lockdowns. Like lockdown, it reduces the new infection rate. Unlike lockdown, society is more able to carry on with so
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by obelos 6y ago
It’s also to slow the rate of infection in order to buy time until we figure out more effective treatments and potentially a vaccine, and also to improve detection and isolation practices. The goal isn't “spread 1,000,000 deaths out ov

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