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by routerl 3y ago
Agreed. Duolingo is great for first exposure. I learned how to read pinyin, ask short questions (e.g. where's the bathroom), make simple purchases, etc. Beyond that, I find it almost useless for learning grammar and vocabulary. But thi
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by routerl 4y ago
How's this one: I'm a competent, experienced, professional software engineer, who is utterly and completely incapable of grasping what and why urbit is, without seemingly investing far more time and cognitive capital than I&#x
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by routerl 4y ago
> makes the mental leap and assumes that just because there's something called 'anti-trust legislation' that it'll help I'm not trying to defend the author. But there's no "mental leap" here; that&
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by routerl 4y ago
Let's take it a step further: agreeable people don't care about good engineering. They can't, by definition. Standing up for an idea or principle makes one disagreeable. An engineer who is just "going with the flow"
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by routerl 4y ago
I considered that, but it doesn't cohere with "This is a lot better than the corruption being widely known". That is, the poster I was replying to seemed to be advocating "don't investigate, or else corruption will
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by routerl 4y ago
> This sends the signal that in Europe, corruption can come back to hurt you. Nah, it just creates an in-group ("we know that corrupt politicians can get away with it"), and an out-group ("let's avoid corruption, sinc
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by routerl 4y ago
I get your point, and I sympathize. But it is absolutely not cynical to assume that for each criminal person (forget politicians) who gets caught and charged, there are almost certainly more who didn't get caught or didn't get cha
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by routerl 4y ago
You seem to have read a different article than the one I linked, since your comment is incoherent given the contents of the linked article. E.g. the lists literally include the 1936 (Nazi) Olympics, which is just about the textbook example
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by routerl 4y ago
> bribed its way into using a global sports event as a massive PR push So common that it has a name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportswashing
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by routerl 4y ago
Definitely. That's why this is basically the only context where it makes sense to say something like "give or take an order of magnitude" lol
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by routerl 4y ago
Is a million dollars the same as zero dollars, to a billionaire?
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by routerl 4y ago
Estimates place the number of galaxies at around 200 billion, give or take an order of magnitude. The total energy produced by our sun during its entire lifetime is insignificantly miniscule compared to all the energy emitted by every star
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by routerl 4y ago
You're talking about counterfeit oil... By definition, it didn't follow Spanish food safety laws.
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by routerl 4y ago
I've gotten a lot more out Spivak than Bartosz. It might just be a stylistic thing. I can't quite pinpoint it. Edit: Eugenia Cheng also makes more sense to me than Bartosz.
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by routerl 4y ago
Bartosz's teaching/explanation style does not work for me. I have no formal critique of him, or even concrete things to point at to say why it doesn't work for me, but I wanted to add my comment in case someone else was als
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by routerl 4y ago
> you mean heating up ice faster? No, the idea in the book is to reduce/stop glacial motion (which is what causes friction and increases glacial temperatures) by pumping out the layer of water below glaciers (i.e. remove the cushi
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by routerl 4y ago
The script for this video seems written by an AI or something. The sentence structure is "<state a few facts>, because of this, <other things unrelated to previously stated facts>". He's speaking as though he we
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by routerl 4y ago
He was saying things that were clearly wrong (e.g. the client makes thousands of requests just to load the timeline), and easy to verify. So if that came from "multiple senior tech people", he's firing the wrong ones.
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by routerl 4y ago
BeamNG, the most physics intensive driving game ever made. https://youtu.be/Lqx2KKWI8aM
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by routerl 4y ago
I bet this will come with an exception for Super Verified™ or wtv it ends up being called, which will require extra money and a more intrusive identity audit.
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by routerl 4y ago
> it wouldn't be hard to imagine that in the future strategies will be tested virtually before being employed in real. Meet Max Verstappen[0], current reigning 2-time F1 world champion, who credits a lot of his success to how much t
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by routerl 4y ago
I would've had the same reaction a few months ago, so here's a brief summary for us olds (since every English speaker between the ages of 10 and 18 seems to know who this is): Mr. Beast gives away, or otherwise spends, enormous am
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by routerl 4y ago
When you hire the Pinkertons, you're hiring legendarily cruel people. That's the brand.
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by routerl 4y ago
> it would be some unholy union of state and business, a corporation that writes laws for itself, has an army and doesn't answer to anyone. William Gibson liked the term "Zaibatsu"[0]. See also the textbook definitions of
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by routerl 4y ago
You've echoed my point exactly. Different scenarios call for different approaches. Cutting costs is only one half of the equation.
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by routerl 4y ago
> Obviously everyone wants to cut all costs all the time Why would this be obvious? I've worked in companies whose revenue grew so quickly that no one could be bothered to cut existing costs. It literally wouldn't be cost effec
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by routerl 4y ago
This is due to the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. When efficiency gains mean that a business's main costs are labor, then attempts to increase profit will be focused on cutting labor costs. It would be hard to get away with ac
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by routerl 4y ago
That's... not how markets work... Discounts are often given to build relationships: Gillette razor handles are sold at a loss, so you'll keep buying Gillette razors; my loyal mechanic is willing to sell me a used car at a smaller
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by routerl 4y ago
I'm guessing it means "stop asking why before discovering the root cause". I.e. the analysis stops at a symptom rather than the cause.
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by routerl 4y ago
You just made something click for me. My parent was an electrical engineer. While their skillset was varied, and heavily weighted towards physics and math, their day job was mostly about knowing how to pick parts out of a catalogue, which c

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