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by scoofy 1y ago
For me it was when prime raised it's price to $125, they stopped giving me any credit when my prime deliveries were late (they were more often than they weren't), and so I decided to walk over to Target in my neighborhood and see
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by scoofy 1y ago
The logic here works both ways. The number of wars prevented by mutually assured destruction, and the number of lives saved is beyond nontrivial, and likely outnumbers the lives lost. I don't want to get into an argument about the dang
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by scoofy 1y ago
>a de-gentrified situation What does this even mean? Does this mean "low cost of living"? I feel like gentrification due to post-war generational housing shortages is now just a catch all term for increasing cost of living in g
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by scoofy 1y ago
Things are still being label "Russian propaganda" because Russia no longer has a free press.
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Market reflexivity makes an obvious indicator highly improbable.
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by scoofy 1y ago
I mean, that makes little sense. The desirability of the feature has a price. Putting a GPU in a phone is expensive and unnecessary. The point of something being a gimmick is that it’s a gimmick. I just got an iPhone with a GPU but I would
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by scoofy 1y ago
My background is in philosophy and formal logic. The idea that python isn’t the #1 language used is insane to me. Yea, I’m sure there is a lot of technical reasons to use other languages, but with python, you can just read it. I remember bu
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by scoofy 1y ago
This kind of "nothing can happen to this group because they have these advantages" line of thinking has causation backwards. They are privileged because they historically haven't struggled. The privilege doesn't preclu
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by scoofy 1y ago
My god, I haven't thought about this site in probably 25 years. I was obsessed with it. Wow, it's still growing. That's amazing!
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What words mean is actually pretty complicated. When groups of people start co-opting one word as a symbol, rather than having a name that word can easily become a name for that group.
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by scoofy 1y ago
Yea, what’s the alternative then? When anti-social behavior overwhelms the system, the only alternative is a complete system collapse rather than a removal of the anti-social actors. Many of us live in places where everyone, in the very sam
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by scoofy 1y ago
This is discussed at length in ancient philosophy. Reason is showing people why they should come to your position. Rhetoric, persuasion, manipulation are all ways of convincing people to take your side based on a story, rather than dispassi
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I suspect it is to prevent cascading mistakes. In aviation the controls move in the opposite way of the shift from the current vector of the pilot, that way, if you bump the control, you’re not moved in the direction to exaggerate the mista
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> Save your customer loyalty energy for businesses where you can actually establish a connection I feel like modernity has brought about an identity for people as consumers . Much like a pro sports team who you have no relationship with
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Don’t question the axioms… it’s a waste of time and the axioms enjoy it.
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by scoofy 1y ago
I always explain it this way: Balancing a cup on a tray isn't too hard. The skill comes in when you can balance 10 cups, and a tray on top of them, and then ten more cups, and another tray, and a vase on that... each step isn't di
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by scoofy 1y ago
Analytics are often used for demographic purposes, but they aren’t for that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytics Ranking comments by quality is absolutely tangential to analytics. It’s processing feedback, and
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by scoofy 1y ago
The essay seems unhinged. Data is useful. What the hell is wrong with that?!?
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https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUURA422SA0 37% increase in the last decade vs about 34% in all urban areas. I see your point. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL
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by scoofy 1y ago
Looking at the quarterly inflation rate makes little sense when discussing the cost inflation over the last decade and a half.
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I mean, I'm a Housing Theory of Everything guy, so, yea, the high minimum wage here is just part of the over all inflation spiral that is being fueled by the fact that there isn't enough housing for the people who want to live h
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by scoofy 1y ago
A really interesting essay. I'm genuinely surprised the author didn't delve more into philosophy here. I think the biggest issue this essay illustrates is the inductive-deductive jump that modeling (especially mathematical modelin
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>The worst comes when there are too many investors with margin debt and they start to get margin calls at the same time. This causes prices to drop and it triggers even more margin calls, starting an avalanche where stock prices drop jus
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by scoofy 1y ago
I am trying to build a Wikipedia for golf course architecture. Free shared info, genuinely about showing pride in your home club, printable yardage books if people make them… The biggest response I get is “yea but the info on my course is b
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by scoofy 1y ago
It really is funny and sad: "Ultra processed foods are killing us" Meaning: stop eating sugar cereals, doritos, frappuccinos, sweet granola bars, cheesy crackers, candy, and salted, processed deli meats Popular interpretation: sto
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Graham reads Taleb
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It’s definitely not an eternal September situation. It’s just hard problems, unsolvable really, that people have tidy solutions for, rather than dealing with the fact that they are very hard, and we probably aren’t going to know. LLM’s at p
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I studied philosophy. Got multiple degrees. The conversations are so incredibly exhausting… not because they are sophomoric, but only because people rarely have a good faith discussion of them. Is there Truth? Probably. Can we access it, ma
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by scoofy 1y ago
There isn’t really enough here that illustrates your aesthetic theory to allow me to respond well. If you are suggesting that some critics have “better opinions” then I’d basically reject that conception outright. Here I would reference How

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