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by rabidrat 6y ago
> more than I like saving a few fractions of a percent of my hard drive space. Hard disk space is seldom the actual issue. Instead, it's bandwidth used (too expensive to download over a mobile connection, or maybe not even feasible
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I don't see how this is any different from the current group of "unskilled" workers who aren't valued (even if they are "essential"). At least with UBI they can live reasonable lives and create their own meani
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In October 1953, I coined the word 'software' (1995)(niquette.com)
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Here's The Atlantic article I was talking about, "How Manhattan Became a Rich Ghost Town" http://archive.is/PWOC2 And a NYTimes article similarly, "The Empty Storefronts of New York" https:/
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by rabidrat 6y ago
It's a common fallacy that rents fall when demand drops. In fact, they often don't, particularly for commercial space; the owners choose instead to let the spaces go unused. I've seen this happen up close with several build
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by rabidrat 6y ago
That's really cool that they got the information for even some obscure talents like BjÃ¶rk and BeyoncÃ©.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Do you live here in Seattle, Larry? Some smashed windows and graffiti are not "trying to burn down the community". 12 officers got some bruises on their knuckles as they punched someone, and the media runs with it. Meanwhile h
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I live in Seattle and I don't see anyone trying to burn down our communities. Someone threw a candle at a cop. That's not a riot and you're being fed crap by whatever media you're watching.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Sorry, no. Regardless of whether "something" needs to be done, that something cannot be "abduction by mute unmarked federal agents". I'm amazed that you accept and apparently condone this end-justifies-the-means t
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by rabidrat 6y ago
America is very different from Japan, and Americans respond to different social signals when choosing who to follow. This obviously a terrible idea for society in general, but you gotta promote to the market you're in :/
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by rabidrat 6y ago
> You never use the exact amount of force, or fall from exactly the same angle when typing either. None of that metadata is recorded, or could ever be revisited. But when I write with a pen, I can see the differences and sometimes it cl
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by rabidrat 6y ago
The feature article is "inheritance using composition"; how/why could you consider strict composition first? Isn't the problem almost entirely multiple inheritance, then?
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by rabidrat 6y ago
His whole schtick is "plain talk about enlightenment". I agree that it "sounds" egotistical, but if someone really had attained arhatship, and thought that the best way to promote spiritual training was to talk about
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Mastering the Core Teaching of the Buddha might be up your alley. I won't strictly "recommend" it, as the path it espouses is intense and engineered for enlightenment, which is (perhaps ironically) "no fun", in con
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Does it make sense to build an Incubator if you haven't built any kind of company yet?
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by rabidrat 6y ago
"over", hah. All signs point to COVID-19 becoming endemic within our (US) population, like the flu already is. Even if we develop a vaccine, chances are it would not grant long-lasting immunity, and chances are even better that
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by rabidrat 6y ago
35 rooms for $200/night? That's incredible.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
The authors are trying hard to stay anonymous for some reason. They're giving a bunch of advice but it sounds like they're rehashing the same old stuff that you hear everywhere, like they're trying to SEO or something. I do
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by rabidrat 6y ago
If you are not a founder, you have <5% options (likely <1%) which are not preferred and if you are no longer with the company, they will be diluted with every funding round and restructuring. You will have no control over this. This
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by rabidrat 6y ago
> If a whole bunch of people stop eating beef (which I hope I'm part of) then we'll start to see some reduction in production. It doesn't seem to work this way either. First there will be a long period of beef sources try
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by rabidrat 6y ago
The article is about Scott, as a person who runs a popular blog. The source is named "Scott Alexander". There is no need to publish his personal information. If the NYT wants to verify that he is actually a practicing psychia
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I would venture, insular communities and bad luck. Maybe also something to do with cultural mores around visiting family when sick, or insufficient "how to mask/distance/etc" materials in Spanish. I think it's lik
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by rabidrat 6y ago
So that we can take a picture of ourselves and have it tell us which famous person we most look like when blurry?
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I saw the blurry picture of Obama and my brain thought "I think that's Obama". When it was 'enhanced' it became a (white) person that I would never recognize as Obama. In fact I did not recognize them at all. The
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by rabidrat 6y ago
This paper runs contrary to your opinion. Simulation is not sufficient. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2782506
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by rabidrat 6y ago
"how the rich got rich" is survivorship bias. Private equity is also how many people lost some or all of their life savings. I myself have "invested" tens of thousands of dollars in a few startups that have actually go
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by rabidrat 6y ago
OTOH nuclear weapons decay and we're rapidly losing the tacit knowledge required to make new ones (at least here in the US). If the Test Ban stays in place and is enforced, it may only be a few more decades until we as a species would
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Thank you for the clarification, I misunderstood that point. Whatever law-enforcement entities we will have to replace the police, should certainly have independent oversight, I agree. However, for the current police regime, it is still t
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Have you ever improved an overfunded team by giving them more resources?
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Free will is questionably a thing. If you are trapped, hungry, thirsty, threatened, and you see your neighbors beaten for minor infractions, then some kind of "mayhem" is not an unreasonable choice. Or would you rather they qu

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