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by omegaham 11y ago
This. Plays were the movies of their time; they were meant to be watched. The scripts are great, too, but they're supposed to accompany the play, not the other way around. It's like reading the lyrics to a song. Sure, some lyrics
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by omegaham 11y ago
The biggest reason is tone and the motives of the person who is disagreeing with you. The worst arguers on the Internet don't just disagree; they bring a moral judgment along with it. "You're wrong for believing in X, and the
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by omegaham 11y ago
> An example is people tweeting food, if you follow thirteen people who post pictures of their lunch, then you will only have a comparatively good lunch once every two weeks. This is a great example, and it applies to everything. Looking
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by omegaham 11y ago
It's a classic example of the prisoner's dilemma - the best outcome is gotten from everyone working to solve the problem, but it's in everyone's individual self-interest to fuck others over. As a suburban dweller in Oreg
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by omegaham 11y ago
I have relatively few outlets, (House was built in 1968) and I don't see the point either - you keep everything unplugged until you have to use it. I typically keep the rice cooker, crockpot, and all of the other "occasional use&q
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by omegaham 11y ago
Yep. It makes me think of programming quines. Except deadly.
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by omegaham 11y ago
What? My life exclusively consists of getting off work on Friday night to drink beer at some tailgate / bonfire out at the county line and finding some girl in Levis and a ballcap to jump in my truck and taaake it slooow on some back r
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by omegaham 11y ago
Reminds me of Pixar's Inside Out , where memories are portrayed as little colored spheres, with different colors indicating joy, sadness, disgust, fear, and anger. These spheres end up getting stored in enormous warehouses, with enorm
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by omegaham 11y ago
The NFL's past behavior has shown that they want to increase their market. Making football games available to everyone is one of the best ways to get international fans. There are obstacles that prevent, say, a German or a Frenchman fr
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by omegaham 11y ago
All he's saying is that you need to qualify what exactly the other person is arguing before you start arguing against it. It's a way of preventing strawmanning - you want to get the other person's central viewpoint out in the
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by omegaham 11y ago
According to this site[1], felons incarcerated for drugs comprise 16% of the total prison population. 64.8% are incarcerated for violent offenses and property crimes, both of which have victims. The most interesting part, to me, is the &quo
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by omegaham 11y ago
I think that one of the biggest things that policymakers should keep in mind is that frequently, there is no good solution . There are only less bad solutions . Take payday loans as an example. The entire industry is extremely exploitativ
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by omegaham 11y ago
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by omegaham 11y ago
I don't think that Sam is Baghdad Bob, but Medium is the exact opposite - it's "American tanks are going to roll through Baghdad tomorrow! Run for the hills!" Doomsaying is only interesting when you get it right. I think
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by omegaham 11y ago
There is a great passage from Feynman's autobiography, where he visited Japan for an academic conference and learned some Japanese from an American WWII occupation phrasebook. This was not well-received, and he couldn't figure out
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by omegaham 11y ago
The most interesting illustration of this was John McCain calling his wife a cunt in front of reporters ... and he got away with it because none of them could actually report on it due to it being so shocking and offensive. This wouldn&#x2
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by omegaham 11y ago
I agree in a sense, but one thing to keep in mind is that all automation requires a large investment, especially in systems that cannot fail. If the cost of that automation (programmers, testing, etc) is greater than the cost of training
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by omegaham 11y ago
4WD can be a hazard solely because of the hubris. "I don't need to go more slowly, I have 4WD!" Cue Slip 'n' Slide. It's just enough extra performance to make people think that the road conditions don't ma
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by omegaham 11y ago
I actually don't mind Lync where I work, although I exclusively use it for IMing and sending pictures of chips back and forth. I'd personally prefer an IRC chat that everyone is logged into, but my guess is that the less technolog
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by omegaham 11y ago
But with stability, you also get stagnation. The State being able to crush upstarts to protect their own interests means a lot of those 1 billion people won't challenge the powers that be.
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by omegaham 11y ago
Here's how I would explain it to a 5-year-old - when you make laws like this, you make everyone else not want to do business with you. This means that you only get to business with people in your own country. 7 billion people with idea
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by omegaham 11y ago
I'm worried that the FBI could respond to the latter with "Well, that just means that you're not allowed to build something like that." That, personally, is far more terrifying than Apple giving the FBI one phone. Becaus
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by omegaham 11y ago
Close as in widespread deployment, coming soon to a parking lot near you? No. Close as in "doing proofs of concept and being adopted for experimental tasks?" Yes.
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by omegaham 11y ago
Yeah, seriously. Credit scores are what separate me from the idiots who are insolvent and going bankrupt. I would be pretty unhappy with paying higher interest for loans because some dickhead wiped the slate clean. "We're all equa
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by omegaham 11y ago
uBlock Origin doesn't run into any problems on Forbes.
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by omegaham 11y ago
Just outside Portland. Generally, I sit in the right lane and cruise along. I don't sit in the passing lane, and I keep my distance from other cars (which is easy, because they're usually going faster than me). If I can, I sit 200
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by omegaham 11y ago
> 2. More prone to breakage due to complexity I agree with a lot of the newer features, but it's a fact that old luxury features are now standard, (and more reliable than the old luxury features) and the regular features are more re
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by omegaham 11y ago
In many cases, you save much more on rent because you're not spending $1700 a month to live in a shoebox. What's really costly is time. That 50 miles in traffic is an hour and a half, so you end up spending 3 hours in traffic ever
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by omegaham 11y ago
I've gotten one. One was enough. At this point, I accelerate up to the speed limit and stick the car into cruise control unless forced to change my speed. Haven't gotten a ticket since.
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by omegaham 11y ago
I've used gdb a few times, but I've always defaulted to print statements. It just... it just works, okay? I get that there are definitely times when a legitimate debugger would come in handy, but I've never gone wrong with &q

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