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by skulk 3y ago
From what I read on Wikipedia, Madoff didn't make a single investment with the money given to his wealth management program. He deposited it all into a bank account and paid people out of the same bank account. This is notably differen
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by skulk 3y ago
I don't know if this is the right time for you to hear this, but don't establish your identity around things that you haven't done. Or fine, do it, but once you have done them, you'll immediately realize how dumb it was
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by skulk 3y ago
How does your second paragraph ("they design") not directly fly in the face of your first ("mistake this for an active, purposeful goal")?
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by skulk 3y ago
> What is your source for this assertion? Having eyes and keeping them open. You should look up the term "sealioning". Then stop doing it.
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by skulk 3y ago
Why are terrorists bound by these international laws when the CIA clearly isn't?
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by skulk 3y ago
I'll provide a weak counterpoint. Yes, if a student claims in good faith that they need to use the bathroom, there is no excuse for not letting them go. However, expecting students (some of them) to behave in good faith is silly. Stude
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by skulk 3y ago
> The CIA is not the US military. This distinction would be laughed at by a terrorist as pure sophistry.
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by skulk 3y ago
How would multiplayer work with the turn-based aspect? Do you have to wait for other players to take their turns? This would be terribly boring IMO. Do you instead allow anyone to take a turn whenever? That turns the game into an RTS. I&#x2
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by skulk 3y ago
For the 8080 emulator, you need the c_basic.bin (renamed to just "C") and c_bios.bin to be in the same directory as the executable, as per the article. I tried this and it dumps me into a BASIC shell. So cool!
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by skulk 3y ago
I'm not going to be able to convince you that what Israel is doing post 10/7 is wrong (nor can I even convince myself entirely). But what I do know is (was) wrong was the attempt to found an ethnostate in the center of a political
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by skulk 3y ago
The phrase "best-efforts to avoid non-combatant deaths" is _extremely_ load-bearing in your post. Israel is locked into a multigenerational existential conflict with people who utterly hate their guts for just existing. Similar fe
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by skulk 3y ago
The continued existence of Israel in the Middle East is like fire underwater. Without a serious continous injection of energy, it'll die out instantly. Everything I've read hints that the Arabs will wipe them out completely if the
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by skulk 3y ago
While the US violently cleansed the land of various indigenous peoples, there was no Internet through which stern condemnation could arrive. The Israelis have to do the same but broadcasted to every single person's palm. It's quit
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by skulk 3y ago
(on mobile so not going to bother with pasting references) The threat model is, IMHO, absolutely ridiculous and assumes that humans have already delegated all tasks to an LLM. The mere requirement that _people read their own emails before s
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by skulk 3y ago
Maybe not the same thing but holding a finger 1cm away from your face between your eyebrows creates a very strange sensation.
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by skulk 3y ago
Your maligned "US progressive liberals" were handed an impossible problem: millions of people addicted to 100% LEGAL prescription opioids (doctors ignored warnings and received kickbacks from the Sacklers[1]) and a lack of funds t
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by skulk 3y ago
Even without thinking too hard about purpose prisons actually serve in society, it's self-evident to me that prisoners and their families should not be thought of as piggybanks from which value should be extracted. This creates a perve
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by skulk 3y ago
That chart does abysmally little to support your claim, for a few reasons. 1) How many of those people in the green live on less than $5 a day? $1.90 per day is an absurd and arbitrary limit which feels cherry picked to make a Pinker-esque
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by skulk 3y ago
I used to play a MUD that has a sizeable player population that used Mxit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mxit It was... strange. I still don't understand how it could have possibly worked.
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by skulk 3y ago
Also see: hledger, a Haskell-based clone. The main benefit of using hledger seems to be better documentation, but I haven't tried ledger. Comparison of the two: https://hledger.org/ledger.html I'm trying to start
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by skulk 3y ago
Because they're temporarily embarrassed founders who could _totally_ see themselves having to make a decision like this.
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by skulk 3y ago
I find the original discussion to be far more interesting than whatever I just read in TFA: https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=sLz0CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA13&lp...
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by skulk 3y ago
This is also wrong. Unexploitable strategies can still be -EV. This video does a good job of breaking it down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuXD0YADIM
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by skulk 3y ago
Panem et circenses, the one-stop-shop solution for alienation.
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by skulk 3y ago
This all works in evil-mode as well, and by default you get the cool live-preview (not sure how to enable that for the vanilla C-M-%) :%s/$[0-9]+$)/\,(1- \#1))/ will turn 1) one 2) two 3) three int
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by skulk 3y ago
The nostalgia is overwhelming. This (Scratch 1.4) is where I learned how to write and read computer programs. In a way, this environment is my home. Unfortunately, keyboard input doesn't seem to work. Try making a [Forever if &lt
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by skulk 3y ago
YMMV with this approach. For some people (myself included) and for some reason or the other, anxiety can increase with repeated exposure. Talking or perhaps writing about the experience after it happens might help combat this effect.
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by skulk 3y ago
There is no satisfying answer to the question of what axioms one should take. You either can't prove what seems obvious or you end up with some very strange theorems.
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by skulk 3y ago
I've used bash for the last 10 years but never read the man page, probably never even opened it once. Is there some nugget of knowledge that I've missed out on by learning it entirely from Google searches and Stack Exchange?
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by skulk 3y ago
So because there are only 220 of them, they don't matter? Sure, propublica has bigger fish to fry but I appreciate this look into a community and power structure that we might never ever get to see otherwise.

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