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by retsibsi 6y ago
The causation flows the other way too. You're more likely to develop and sustain an interest in something that you're naturally good at.
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Important stories hidden in Google's 'experiment' blocking Australian news sites(theguardian.com)
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Where (when) else could we be? If all these lives exist (/will exist/did exist), what does it mean to say that you are living a particular one? Who else could be living it?
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by retsibsi 6y ago
The laptops were sent by the government to the schools, where the malware was found during initial setup.
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> Rapid tests are right 80% of the time. Two rapid tests back to back are right 96% of the time. I doubt the false negative % for two tests on the same person at roughly the same time are uncorrelated. (For two reasons: It seems logical
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Someone(s) competent to cover up aliens would also be smart enough to muddy the waters and lull us into complacency. I don't think the conspiracy theorists are wrong not to treat minor, easily-stageable signs of transparency/incom
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> There is an unfortunate increase in damage per instance but this again is no fault of the breed. I don't think 'fault' is really the point -- the question is whether they are more dangerous. The 'unfortunate increas
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> because there's a power dynamic. I can accidentally kill a pedestrian, a pedestrian can't accidentally kill me unless they throw a brick off an overpass. I think this point supports the other side of the argument. The pedestr
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Yeah, I guess this was probably going on even in some of the sports I played as a junior, like tennis -- it's just that I was never near the top tier, where that level of expense would begin to seem possible/necessary.
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Thanks (very belatedly) for the breakdown! It's one of those things that makes sense in detail but still feels surprising in aggregate.
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> These companies wouldn’t hesitate to kick you out on the street if they had to > Sharing inside info on an ongoing incident is a great way to get fired You're not disagreeing.
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> The downside is that Norwegians (or at least Norwegian institutions) can be distrustful of foreign academic qualifications; even those from a highly respected institution that is older than Norway, unless they have personal knowledge o
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Yeah, but the parent talks about 'raising taxes on people who had already gotten fabulously rich', not some kind of radical egalitarianism. You'd have to be very strongly money-motivated to be deterred by the prospect of mere
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by retsibsi 6y ago
In Udemy's case, I don't think the sales devalue the product, so much as the 'regular' prices are an attempt to inflate it. Semantics perhaps, but if you frame it that way then their strategy makes sense: they're no
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Take any suggestions with a grain of salt. Philosophy as a discipline has terrible quality control, and there is a great deal of status worship and outright charlatanry. Often the big interesting questions are unanswerable, so the field is
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> a few thousand a month Is this literal? How does it break down? I guess you have to travel to a lot of tournaments, fix/replace a lot of expensive equipment, and pay for private coaching?
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by retsibsi 6y ago
You may well be right on this point. But I'm still too ignorant of Urbit to be sure that it's simply pretentious (and fundamentally unimportant except as a fundraiser), rather than a sincere attempt to further Yarvin's politi
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by retsibsi 6y ago
As someone who can't stand Yarvin and suspects that Urbit's obscurity is a manipulative tactic to dress up ideas that might not seem so interesting (and a product that might not seem so attractive) if they were easily accessible,
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> funny stories dealing with obsessed players aka sad stories of the mentally ill people your company was exploiting.
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by retsibsi 6y ago
I know he's probably significantly richer now, but did people really perceive him as an underdog after he made millions from Viaweb?
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by retsibsi 6y ago
That might depend on what 'truck' means to you! Is it equivalent to the British 'lorry', or does it include pickup trucks? I'm Australian, and for me 'truck' means 'lorry', pickups are a kind of
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> Aldi had great success posting "hauls" until they were caught astroturfing. Is there a decent rundown of this anywhere? I tried a couple of google searches but didn't find much. (I often get the feeling this is being don
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> As an aside, who exactly was the target viewing demographic for Garfield? Garfield was never funny for me as a kid. Never. Are you comfortable sharing roughly how old you are? Or the era of Garfield comics you were reading, if you were
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by retsibsi 6y ago
This may be a very dumb question, but could the filtering be done client-side? As in, DDG's servers do their thing as normal and return the results, then code is executed on your machine to weight/prune the results according to yo
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by retsibsi 6y ago
> When we got there it turned out the glowing reviews were all written by the owner's son. How/why was this revealed to you?
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by retsibsi 6y ago
This makes sense, but in my experience the other kids seemed to somehow gain this knowledge at a young age. It's no surprise that I didn't make any real progress, since I wasn't learning an instrument and my school teachers
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by retsibsi 6y ago
I was going to respond with the factoid about the World Series being named after a newspaper, but a Wikipedia check (and subsequent googling) revealed that it's probably false. Not news to you, but maybe of interest to others who, like
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Yes, the point is that it's often unsafe to eat a food item that has gone mouldy, even after removing the visibly mouldy bits. The implication of the "people used to die for no reason" line is that 'we always did x in th
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by retsibsi 6y ago
Can you be more specific about what he gets wrong? I don't have much of a preconception here, I've found him interesting/fun at times and been put off by his glibness at other times. But I'd like to know if there are spe
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by retsibsi 6y ago
The associated book ('The Elements of Computing Systems') was eye-opening for me. Not sure if 'today's computers' is quite right -- if I understand correctly, a lot of the simplicity has been optimised out of the ha

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