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by saalweachter 6y ago
I've actually had the opposite experience working as summer labor for facilities maintenance. It was extremely 9-to-5; well, technically, 7-to-3:30. Most people worked most of the time, because it was hourly, but if you needed to arra
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by saalweachter 6y ago
Have you tried using made-up or downgraded curse words? Fracked, frelled, dren, sparks, slontz, gorram, jagweeds, cheese&crackers, crackers&toast, etc? It will probably make you feel silly, but you can meditate on it being literall
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by saalweachter 6y ago
Money, power, sex and elephants.
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by saalweachter 6y ago
Please, the anecdote alone is worth far more than $20.
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by saalweachter 6y ago
I am as skeptical of TSLA as the next fellow, but at least the company can capitalize on its rising stock price to convert it into physical infrastructure that provides a certain floor to the company value.
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by saalweachter 6y ago
My favorite portmanteau for this was "errorgance": "errorgant means to be twice as certain as someone who is merely arrogant while possessing only one-tenth the requisite facts."
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by saalweachter 6y ago
Googling [why does rob rhinehart hate the new york times] yielded https://www.vice.com/en/article/epd4je/soylent-founders-unhi...
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by saalweachter 6y ago
> It's only since 2010 that there's evidence of interbreeding. But Clan of the Cave Bear was published in 1980!
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by saalweachter 6y ago
At one point this was approximately true; I'm honestly not sure if it still is. The problem was how the difficulty was decided -- it looked at the last N blocks that were successfully mined to decide whether it needed to up or down the
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by saalweachter 6y ago
Hell, just consider that it's a store of value that costs $12B+ / year to secure.
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by saalweachter 6y ago
This feels like the internet equivalent of increasing the line spacing and font size because you don't have that much to say. The point where I had to frantically scroll to have elements fade in horizontally is where I gave up. I thou
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by saalweachter 6y ago
It was a leap month, for the same function as leap days and seconds.
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by saalweachter 6y ago
I would also note that (Android Auto, at least) will stop you from doing a number of things. When the car is parked, you can use the on-screen keyboard to type in your searches; driving, voice search only. If you scroll too deep in your Au
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by saalweachter 6y ago
Is there any possibility the cyphertext is wrong ? Either generated with a bug, someone hit the wheel halfway through, copied down wrong, etc? Is there a checksum that authenticates this as a valid cyphertext?
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by saalweachter 6y ago
It's mostly your motherboard form factor -- ATX, ITX, etc etc. Check what the rack mount case supports, same as any other case. Some very giant desktop motherboards are ~impossible to find rack mount cases for. (Eg, old EVGA motherb
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by saalweachter 6y ago
Glyphosate itself was discovered back in the 50's; patents around that would have expired ~50 years ago. The patents around glyphosate resistant soybeans expired five or ten years back; someone immediately produced and released an unen
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by saalweachter 6y ago
Does 80 percent per annum mean that carrying the short for ~9 months will cost roughly the same as closing it out today, assuming the price remains constant for the next 9 months?
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by saalweachter 6y ago
What made you decide to jump in at this point? If I had a time machine I can imagine jumping in last week, or last month, but I feel like I've missed this bubble and it could pop any moment.
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by saalweachter 6y ago
I think programmers in general have an overly optimistic expectation of the lifespan of their works. "The great thing about software," they say, "as opposed to buildings or hammers, is that you can write code once and use it
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by saalweachter 6y ago
Eh, correlating two time-series trends is almost a gimmick. If you saw that the per-capita cheese consumption of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets was twice or ten times that of the baseline population, that could still
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by saalweachter 6y ago
About $2.6 billion. Which means selling shovels is still roughly 30x better than buying shovels.
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by saalweachter 6y ago
Keep in mind that correlation doesn't prove causation, but it does go along with it. Any time you find correlation, something goes along with it. Maybe A causes B. Maybe B causes A. Maybe A and B have a common cause C. Each of
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by saalweachter 6y ago
> Also, why not consider that by using the complex web of tax laws to their advantage allows them to sell products at a lower price. Don't business taxes (whether US taxes on profits or European VAT) ignore the costs of goods?
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by saalweachter 6y ago
The interesting thing to me is that -- in so much as this is being done for profit making and not more abstract reasons -- if 90% of the jumpers-on lose their money, it won't necessarily dissuade that many people from the community in
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by saalweachter 6y ago
I wonder how hard it would be to do a survey to turn anecdotes into data, rather than trying to do some sort of test to simulate corruption. Like, I've been using ZFS for about 10 years without a problem -- I had a disk in a mirrored s
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by saalweachter 6y ago
Honestly a lot of the furniture I've purchased one or two steps up from IKEA ended up being thoroughly underwhelming. Based on my survey of what's available on the market, you have to go up nearly two orders of magnitude on price
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by saalweachter 6y ago
> ...but apparently "fuck astronomers" is a popular opinion. They know what they did. (Leap seconds.)
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by saalweachter 6y ago
Even in the ideal case, where your central planners are competent and moral indefinitely, centralization is a swingy strategy, for countries or companies. Every investment is ultimately a bet, that you have correctly predicted the future n
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by saalweachter 6y ago
To a certain extent, both Silicon Valley and Hollywood owe their existence to being inconveniently far from New Jersey, a different circuit court, and thus more easily able to ignore the patents of the tech giants in New Jersey.
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by saalweachter 6y ago
The security of the network is proportional to the amount of work put into it. If the network wasn't consuming absurd amounts of hardware and energy, anyone could waltz in and use a perfectly reasonable amount of hardware and energy

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