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by savanaly 6y ago
The more I think about the feminists-Voldemort part, the more convinced I am that the NYT was malevolent and not just incompetent in writing and publishing their article. If Scott is correct in his assumptions about the timeline of edits to
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by savanaly 6y ago
Yeah, it's pretty light on the exact details of what's coming. Although it does justify why that's the case in the last paragraph. In any case I'm happy making my side projects in Elm as it is and not changing is to me a
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by savanaly 6y ago
For those that are out of the loop on the programming language/app framework of Elm, or were never in the loop to begin with, allow me to present some context for why this is interesting: Elm's always been under the sole control o
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by savanaly 6y ago
There probably are outlets out there doing that rather than engineering trust. It's just that you haven't heard of them because guess what...definitionally hardly anyone trusts them!
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by savanaly 6y ago
Is Einstein the best example to use here? He famously derived the theory of relativity while working a "meaningless job". [0] Now, would he have derived it if he had had access to the HN and twitter skinner boxes? That's anot
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by savanaly 6y ago
You may be interested to read this article I saw the other day that claims that slave labor being used to build the pyramids was a myth. [0] I wonder if at some distant point in the future a similar mistake will be made by internet commenta
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by savanaly 6y ago
Pretty sure that was meant to mean "customer reviews" the amazon product. See also in the list: "marketplace" which I don't think they expect anyone to believe they invented either.
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by savanaly 6y ago
I know that people probably regard this as hopelessly naive, but on the 1% chance that you were asking sincerely: hedge funds are a reliable mechanism to allocate capital efficiently, which leads to economic growth which leads to gestures
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by savanaly 6y ago
Obligatory "misleading title!" (title at time of commenting is "Dunkin’ employee was fired for giving donuts that gone to waste to the homeless"). They were really fired for doing a social media hitpiece on their employe
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by savanaly 6y ago
Seems like another instance of straight lines on graphs driving reality: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/13/does-reality-drive-str... .
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by savanaly 6y ago
But we have markets in necessities and they work just fine. What's the difference from healthcare?
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by savanaly 6y ago
When it comes to short term deaths (like could be measured right now or in the coming years) I think the bigger mechanism would be pollution which causes deaths from people with respiratory illnesses and such in major cities. Not so much in
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by savanaly 6y ago
Is it possible that Sars-cov-2 epidemic will eventually save more lives than it cost, through the long term and short term effects of decreased pollution and climate change? If that's true, we have to entertain the theory that the viru
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by savanaly 6y ago
The crazy thing is my local Whole Foods always has a noticeable number of what I assume are Amazon Fresh contractors scurrying around buying large carts of groceries to ferry to people. Fair enough, except didn't Amazon's other em
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by savanaly 6y ago
So what's the argument you're making? That that was all ok? Are they hypocritical and correct, or non-hypocritical and wrong?
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by savanaly 6y ago
Why lump getting rid of the algorithm in with the other stuff? I don't use facebook but I use Youtube which also has a much ballyhooed algorithm. I've tried skipping their homepage (and thus skipping the algorithm) and just going
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by savanaly 6y ago
I would say it really started to click for me after the part where the main character fights a duel (events subsequent to it pull the trick for the first time that will be repeated many times over the tetralogy of recasting previous events
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by savanaly 6y ago
The economist you're responding to specified a competitive market, which is practically definitionally a market where there are no profits to reduce. Remember, since they're an economist they almost certainly meant "economic
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by savanaly 6y ago
If I choose to label them "incorrect" for their usage of "factoid", by your own argument I'm absolutely right.
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by savanaly 6y ago
It's probably because of Covid-19. I have been getting domino's delivered for years, but all the stores that normally would do have been "not available for delivery" in 2020. I'm not really sure I understand this--
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by savanaly 6y ago
Instead of making my own top level comment I'll just add onto this one: functional programming in general and Elm in particular. A lot of languages and frameworks promise to make programming fun, Elm is the only one that's held up
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by savanaly 6y ago
Entirely possible as well that the "basic HTML" uses different API service in the background that are snappier for comparative lack of users.
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by savanaly 6y ago
That's my favorite part of the film, in turn. A climax that's really an anti-climax (I too didn't realize the big finale had just happened on first watch) is a perfect fit for a film that pretty much makes a fetish out of bei
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by savanaly 6y ago
From the discussion in the article (especially the coin flipping example) it just sounds like distinguishing expected utility from expected value. This is a concept covered in beginner or intermediate undergraduate economics. I’m sure ther
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by savanaly 6y ago
Time has value, it takes time to get it. Also there are unknowns to any new medication and side effects of some vaccines. Of course there's also unknowns to getting covid, but it's at least internally consistent to favor one over
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by savanaly 6y ago
Definitely true. It's just that "bubble" means something, and that isn't "something you disagree with" even if those two coincide in most usages ("wow, the [other tribe] are all in such a bubble because of
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by savanaly 6y ago
How does that make it a bubble? Evidently, you're here, as well as countless others arguing against it. The appearance of arguments you disagree with isn't evidence of a bubble but of a healthy discussion. A bubble would be if eve
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by savanaly 6y ago
Tailwind itself has this [0] to say about inline styles vs utility classes. [0] https://tailwindcss.com/docs/utility-first#why-not-just-use-...
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What someone told me that was very helpful was to not become convinced that just because I had fallen into this pattern over and over I would continue to do so. Recognizing the pattern is the first step to breaking it, but there's no m
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by savanaly 6y ago
But not if they're paying for that all with offsets, right? Or do you hold to my proposition a?

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