stvltvs

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421.
by stvltvs 3y ago
Yep, this year would have buried my family in medical debt, or buried one of us, without health insurance. Insurance sucks, but we USians haven't created a better alternative yet.
422.
by stvltvs 3y ago
But do I have a local backup if my webmail provider deletes my account?
423.
by stvltvs 3y ago
My guess is that it allows the prosecution of both the forger and the one who uses the forgery, the utterer I suppose, in cases where they are different individuals.
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by stvltvs 3y ago
> derivative of acceleration Was this intended literally? I'm skeptical that saying something so precise about a fuzzy metric like rate of innovation is warranted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics)
425.
by stvltvs 3y ago
The people paying for the server's bandwidth care.
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by stvltvs 3y ago
My experience is that many established companies are still struggling to get adequate operational reporting. Data engineers are still helpful to move the data necessary to make that happen. DS and ML become useful later once there's a
427.
by stvltvs 3y ago
Direct collusion isn't necessary if the major players independently decide to ride the rising tide.
428.
by stvltvs 3y ago
I agree that CTEs are a solution to some of the pain listed above, but CTEs aren't exotic. Lots of the major RDBMSs support them.
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by stvltvs 3y ago
I don't agree with the fatalistic attitude. At the very least it makes it too easy to strengthen surveillance. Legal restrictions can be imposed.
430.
by stvltvs 3y ago
This is a study of cancer patients, not the general population.
431.
by stvltvs 3y ago
The study population was cancer patients, so low dose aspirin was studied as a cancer drug. It doesn't say what the effect would be in the general population. Don't take aspirin just because it might help cancer patients, but if y
432.
by stvltvs 3y ago
If styling email makes it more reliable to filter into spam or promotional...
433.
by stvltvs 3y ago
The nostalgia I feel is for the experimental DIY vibe and doing stuff for free just because it's fun or you want to contribute to a community. Hustle culture and corporate walled gardens have sucked the fun out of the old web.
434.
by stvltvs 3y ago
Argument from lack of authority?
435.
by stvltvs 3y ago
Interesting, in the States, that term is no longer used very much and was never shortened AFAIK.
436.
by stvltvs 3y ago
What is the distinction in your mind?
437.
by stvltvs 3y ago
In other words, the list is usually only useful to insiders.
438.
by stvltvs 3y ago
The point being that there are a limited number of human beings, including prosecutors, that can make the system work, even plea deals are rate-limited.
439.
by stvltvs 3y ago
As long as we don't automate the court systems, that should rate limit prosecutions. On the other hand, we're already automating things like early release through machine learning scoring of likelihood of recidivism.
440.
by stvltvs 3y ago
This is asking if subjective meaning is objectively meaningful which, by definition, it isn't. Subjective meaning is choosing to find meaning in things even though they don't matter in the grand scheme of things.
441.
by stvltvs 3y ago
That's a charitable take.
442.
by stvltvs 3y ago
With !g being right there when you need Google, it doesn't need to be all-or-nothing. I started out resorting to it every day. Now it's only maybe every couple or weeks.
443.
by stvltvs 3y ago
Bank runs are what FDIC and similar insurance are for. I don't have enough friends to bother a bank or their insurers.
444.
by stvltvs 3y ago
Isn't it fairer to say that LLMs in the context of a lot of other systems can do these things?
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by stvltvs 3y ago
They probably wouldn't sell at a loss, but they would sell if their profit is bit less than when the market was higher.
446.
by stvltvs 3y ago
That's fine for the occasional festival, but for something that happens every seven days, that's a huge adjustment to make.
447.
by stvltvs 3y ago
Like a reverse Johnny Appleseed, pretty cool!
448.
by stvltvs 3y ago
It's not hyperbole to say that having a shared calendar is a pillar of civilization. Things would quickly fall apart without one.
449.
by stvltvs 3y ago
But if your sabbath falls on on a Tuesday this year, Monday next year, etc. it's going to cause lots of trouble with store hours, work weeks, school schedules, and so on.
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by stvltvs 3y ago
This is a pretty common approximation, but the average lunation is closer to 29.5 days.

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