saint_fiasco

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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
> Schools are not safe, but schools are safer than homes You know those jokes about the statistician who says that such-and-such thing kills fewer people than car crashes and people worry too much about it, and the other statistician res
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
It's a Protestant thing, I believe. Catholics have a central authority that is in charge of telling people more or less what to believe, but Protestants are free to make their own interpretations so they sometimes choose to believe stu
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
Apparently, someone repairing a car in their own garage can significantly reduce the value of this so called hard asset.
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
You just have to keep working and do a better job from that point on. If you make fewer mistakes than the person who replaced you if you quit, you will make up for your mistake eventually.
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
Didn't Google+ try to do that already? I remember they banned users with fake names, or with real names that looked like they might be fake.
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
That's one good thing about glasses. They alert you when you are not wearing your face mask correctly, or when your mask deforms and it's time to get a new one.
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
When it comes to reducing climate change, countries that are already rich don't matter so much. They can reduce emissions without reducing their quality of life too much. But there are lots of countries in the world that are not at hig
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
Keep in mind that both the SSP1 and SSP5 lines are optimistic predictions*, if everything goes according to its respective plan. If we choose the fossil-fuel development aiming for SSP5, but we get SSP3 or SSP4 instead, then we will mess up
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
Even if it didn't cost them any effort to do so, it would still compete against their other games while producing no revenue. For the majority of companies, that's enough reason not to bother.
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
It feels different when a game has a server and a client component. I can choose to airgap my ancient Macbook and never update it if I want to keep playing that particular game on that particular computer. I can also play it on Linux, and L
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
> This type of thing would not have happened in the US That's because the real police would intervene, not because murderers are afraid of social media moderators. That said, I do believe that if Ethiopian law enforcement can't
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
In this metaphor, the person will do what you say until they figure out a way to get cocaine on their own. For a computer, all they have to do is find the memory address that holds their virtual cocaine and increment it. Sure, we have techn
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
"Your dream is a powerful symbol of the inevitable change that is coming in your life. The golden head of the statue represents the highest potential of what you could achieve. The silver chest and arms symbolize the strength you posse
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
The normal way to fight back against it is to prevent it. You are supposed to generously compensate the armed forces at the expense of the entire rest of the country. Stroessner did that, but he was not single-minded enough about it. He cou
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
Stroessner ruled Paraguay for a long time, but when he was old and his generals staged a coup against him he only gave token resistance and fled to Brazil right away. As far as I know he lived peacefully there until he died. He could have f
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
The idea is that if the leader can live luxuriously in another country, they have an incentive to stop being a bad leader and retire in luxury already. If bad leaders got executed, then the incentive for bad leaders would be to stay in powe
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
Mighty is (was?) a company that made a cloud service that let you use a Chrome extension to remote into a powerful computer so that you could have hundreds of tabs open without slowing down your computer. Sounds silly, but suppose you are a
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
That's often the case, and it's a reason why being poor can be expensive. Poor people are more likely to rent the capital they need to work. In my country I've seen people rent cars, rent a smartphone, and literally rent some
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
Sorry, I forgot to directly answer the questions. - I think a platform doesn't have a specific responsibility to rebroadcast everything. If I don't like what things they choose to rebroadcast I'll find them less useful and st
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
With (2) and (3), I didn't mean to leap from is to ought right away. I think it's to be expected that companies that publish user generated content will choose to control visibility of content based on what it believes are the pre
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
The article explicitly makes the distinction between law and culture in free speech. Implicitly, that includes your concern about spam and porn, which are legally approved and culturally disapproved. For example, the article points out that
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
Not necessarily. Suppose that person has multiple reasons to want kids and multiple reasons to not want kids. They analyze the pros and cons and figure that the cons slightly outweigh the pros so they choose not to have children. If later t
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
I don't consent to receiving spam, so I don't mind if it's censored. I also self-censor my timeline aggressively by silencing, unfollowing and blocking accounts I don't like. I only dislike censorship when they don'
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
A regular person in Argentina around 1956 doesn't have many reasons to distrust the authorities. But if you are an old person in China, would you really believe that this one time the government really does have your best interests in
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
They have enough vaccines, they just can't persuade their vulnerable population to take it. Old people in particular don't trust modern medicine and don't trust the government. You know how some old people believe all sorts o
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
When I went to Minneapolis in winter a few years ago I brought lots of winter clothes. I ended up replacing most of it with cheap clothes from Target, except the coat and the boots.
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
Of course I don't live in a country that has actual winter, that's the point. If I buy winter clothes in my home country, the clothes will be ugly, expensive, and I have no way to make sure if they even work for their intended pur
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
You can buy the right clothing in Montreal. Since the stores in Montreal sell to people in Montreal, the right clothing will be cheap and easy to find.
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
Even better. If you teach them basic statistics first, you can teach calculus later and they won't have to wonder why. Just tell them they need calculus to make statistics easier. That's what my physics teacher did. Whenever he ha
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by saint_fiasco 4y ago
Surely there are ways to exercise one's brain that also happen to be useful in everyday life. It's hard to pick something that everyone would find useful and engaging, so I understand why schools just pick an arbitrary subject and

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