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by rspeele 5y ago
I don't think it's gaming as in video games, but gaming as in Vegas.
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by rspeele 5y ago
> (and even if you know how, it might be worth the extra cost to just pay someone to do it faster on those rare occasions) Going off on a tangent: I thought that this would be the case when I switched to changing my own oil -- if I was
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by rspeele 5y ago
Depends strongly on how your represent the accuracy of your test to those using it. If you are up front about the level of accuracy it should be fine. But my limited understanding of this case is that the Edison machine was so inaccurate as
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by rspeele 5y ago
Sure, but anecdotally, most people don't have gas cans of significant capacity and many don't have any cans at all. I live in the American south and we had a gas shortage like this in the spring due to a ransomware attack. There w
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by rspeele 5y ago
95% is clearly a number pulled out of thin air, but it is likely that most people have not realized a profit from Bitcoin. Where would the money come from? The only way for a majority of investors to realize a (small) gain is for the minori
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by rspeele 5y ago
It's all about how much work the reward pays for. At current Bitcoin prices of around $43k, the block reward pays miners $14,125,500,000/year to spin ASICs all day. That kind of money buys a lot of wasted power. If PoW is still ar
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by rspeele 5y ago
I don't understand what the endgame of a locking down a country is, unless there is some better vaccine or treatment coming. As far as I know, COVID isn't going to stop spreading around the rest of the world. So as soon as the loc
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by rspeele 5y ago
Regarding the dead comment's "mysterious burst pipe", this may be of interest: https://securevotega.com/factcheck/ This footage was mainly released to counter the Giuliani narrative that secret ballots w
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by rspeele 5y ago
I remember last year, before the US elections, some of the conspiracy guys said "Just watch, after the election COVID will magically go away. This was all a ploy to make Trump look bad.". Others said "COVID will be around for
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by rspeele 5y ago
While the study did control for factors like socioeconomic status, race, and job, I think it's inherently difficult to control for the idea that somebody is much more likely to carry a gun when they perceive their risk of being attacke
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by rspeele 5y ago
> I've said from the beginning of this year that I'll get vaccinated as soon as the government gets out of it. At this point, the mandates are specifically why I refuse to get vaccinated. Do you find any irony in your decision
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by rspeele 5y ago
The global numbers may be somewhat skewed by China miraculously reporting almost no new COVID cases since March 2020.
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by rspeele 5y ago
The inherent value is that if you pay taxes in the US you need dollars to pay them with.
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by rspeele 5y ago
You claim the original $100 has been devalued. But has it? Person X, person X+1, etc. all owe money to the bank to pay back their loan. So it's not like we're all suddenly swimming in cash in this new $1000 economy and nobody care
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by rspeele 5y ago
> In fact, there seems to be grounds to believe that people are extra susceptible to infection and illness during the period between the first shot and the two weeks following the second. Can you link some data on that? That would certai
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by rspeele 5y ago
I see it as addressing two different concerns. Addressing somebody whose concern is "the vaccine might not be safe", it makes sense to point to the large number of people who have been given a dose and been fine. I don't thin
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by rspeele 5y ago
If somebody has only had 1 shot, it is fair to say that they "have received the vaccine safely", but they are not yet "fully vaccinated". Hence the discrepancy between the 197m and 173m.
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by rspeele 5y ago
The specific part you excerpted, by itself, is confusing. When I read just your comment, having not read the article, I interpreted it as: "it takes eight times as many antibodies from a vaccinated individual to block the virus [compar
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by rspeele 5y ago
I'm not in charge of making public policy, but the target that makes sense to me is hospital capacity. It seems that since COVID is highly contagious and not going away, we are all going to get exposed to it and have to fight it off wi
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by rspeele 5y ago
It had almost as much finesse and imagination as "HOT SINGLES IN $YOUR_AREA".
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by rspeele 5y ago
I don't mean to imply that long COVID isn't happening. Just offering a reason why death counts get most of the attention when we try to assess whether a vaccine/treatment/policy measure is effective.
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by rspeele 5y ago
Death count is relatively objective. There is some fudge factor for whether somebody died “from” COVID vs “with” COVID but other than that it’s cut and dry. That is a big advantage over comparing case numbers, which depend heavily on testin
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by rspeele 5y ago
In the case of image trustworthiness, it might actually be better for it to be accessible to the general population, if it's doable at all. Then the public knows that images are unreliable evidence.
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by rspeele 5y ago
What can crypto verify here exactly? What stops me from: A. Writing my own software "camera" that does the same gyrations a real camera would do to sign its raw image, but applied to an arbitrary unverified image file on my comput
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by rspeele 5y ago
The way LINQ in C# works allows a good amount of type-checking to be done on the expressions fed into the ORM. So you can compose queries in a much more sensible way than string concatenation. The only downside is that LINQ makes it easy to
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by rspeele 5y ago
Pretty much every web app I've written has had some sort of search feature with a table of results, where the user can filter on multiple columns of the search. That requires either: a. Dynamically adding "and SomeColumn like @som
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by rspeele 5y ago
> In practice, this means that a service provider exchanging crypto on behalf of a customer would have to record their name, address, date of birth and account number, as well as the name of the intended recipient of the transfer. As usu
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by rspeele 5y ago
Example of unfalsifiability: Alice: Trump won Georgia, but the Dominion voting machines flipped it. Look at how many votes came in for Biden late at night. Bob: It took a long time to finish counting the mail in ballots, and precincts repor
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by rspeele 5y ago
I love F#, it's my #1 favorite language by far. But I code in C# at my day job and I gotta say, while I haven't exactly kept count, it's hard for me to agree that F# has fewer constructs. To be fair, much of that comes from t
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by rspeele 5y ago
On the other end, how about: A. The mainstream media, M, is biased and sometimes delivers incomplete or inaccurate information. They tell $mainstream_story. B. Alternative source, A, rejects $mainstream_story and says that actually, $altern

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