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by raldi 5y ago
Mods, please fix "smart" quotes
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by raldi 5y ago
There's no way to know this until you first tap "Get My Location".
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by raldi 5y ago
The computer doesn't have to be perfect; it just has to be better than a human.
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by raldi 5y ago
Why does the customer-service system even reveal the sensitive info before the agent inputs the code? It could be sent out-of-loop so it wouldn't even be possible for them to bypass. Related question: What should happen to a customer w
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by raldi 5y ago
Would a perfectly rational person duck if there were a 50% chance they were about to be punched? Or would they do nothing?
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by raldi 5y ago
Maybe I don't understand what you mean by "perfectly rational". I'm using the definition from the article: A perfectly calibrated individual will be right X% of the time about statements in which they are X% confident. A
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by raldi 5y ago
I don't see how the second sentence makes sense of the first. A perfectly rational actor would not do nothing; they would carry out the most reasonable action given the information available.
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by raldi 5y ago
The lasers could even leave a dim colored trail behind them, so that all the deadly space in the room gets shaded over time.
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by raldi 5y ago
I’d like to see a version of this where the barriers are colored and the lasers are monochrome, but when a laser hits the barrier, instead of disappearing, it takes on that color. That way, you could see which barrier saves the target at an
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by raldi 5y ago
Your opening sentence makes no sense. If you and I don’t know the results of a coin toss, and I offer you a two-for-one wager on the result, the rational choice for you would be to take that bet, even without knowing the most relevant fact.
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by raldi 5y ago
Another function of these probes could be crypto time capsules. For instance, years ago Google implemented an internal policy of deleting all company email after something like 90 days. This included all the ancient ones, which would have b
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by raldi 5y ago
Nope; Venus has a very thick atmosphere and thus a rocket ride off the surface would require a prodigious amount of energy.
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by raldi 5y ago
I guess the ending is supposed to be a joke, but because the piece never explains what | means, I couldn’t figure it out.
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by raldi 5y ago
Why do the interrupt service routines read both pins? At the time of call, don’t you already know the value of the interrupt-tied pin is 0, since the interrupt is triggered on its fall?
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by raldi 5y ago
Or, relatedly, you ask someone a question while juggling several conversations or projects, and they reply by initiating an unprompted call, throwing away all the value of the asynchronous-communications platform you’re trying to leverage.
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by raldi 5y ago
> For the record, this is what genuinely useful people look like: “Is there anything I can do to help?” Maybe. As anyone who’s played Overcooked knows, if you’re the critical resource in a crisis, too many “what can I do?” requests can
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by raldi 5y ago
Huh? Big unsolved crimes receive unending fame.
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by raldi 5y ago
It’s expanded the first time it’s used (in the sentence preceding the one with the abbreviation).
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by raldi 5y ago
Note that the Arecibo message diagram in this article is wrong; the image is flipped left-right from how it’s typically displayed, so when the opening is described as “the numbers 1-10 from left to right”, it’s actually from right to left.
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by raldi 5y ago
As it would have to be ;)
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by raldi 5y ago
The reverse is also possible: https://youtube.com/v/ar9WRwCiSr0?t=17m
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by raldi 5y ago
Some favorites being discussed on Twitter, e.g., https://twitter.com/RonAmadeo/status/1412909940474265602
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Google's “court jester” quits, releases 14 years of previously-internal comics(markets.businessinsider.com)
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by raldi 5y ago
The word comes from the French hôtel, which just means hall. Historically, many "hotels" were places that housed medium-to-long-term guests, either exclusively or alongside short-term visitors. Like the Eloise books, which took
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by raldi 5y ago
Yep, my position isn't that EZ was invented in the 70's; that's just when it swept the nation, and in particular, the Bay Area.
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by raldi 5y ago
The laws of supply and demand are being manipulated by the powerful: They're suppressing the ability of supply to rise to meet demand, which has the effect of granting windfall profits to the haves while keeping the have-nots away from
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by raldi 5y ago
As the threat of litigation became a new constant, the San Francisco Planning Department slowly began to craft a new approach to development. The city’s 1971 Urban Design Plan was the first to codify the shift in values from the Modernist
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by raldi 5y ago
Housing discrimination persisted well beyond 1917. See, for instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining It wasn't until the late 60's / early 70's that explicit racial discrimination was final
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by raldi 5y ago
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fair-housing-ac...
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When you prevent housing from being constructed in cities, the families that would've lived there don't disappear; they sprawl elsewhere and — as confirmed by statistics — go on to have more children than they otherwise would&#x27

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