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by themeiguoren 5y ago
Through the conversation, you learn the idiosyncrasies of the other person. In a culture where haggling is normal, their “style” gives you insight into their personality and how they might act in other scenarios. And it identifies you as an
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
Bitwarden is free, 1password for yourself costs $36/yr. That was my reason for using it - I try to avoid subscriptions like the plague.
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
Who's the author for Immune? There seem to be quite a few books with that title.
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
As a backpacker, Nalgenes are vastly overrated for real trekking. They’re rugged for no real reason - you’ll do well swapping your nalgenes for dead simple 1 liter cheap plastic water bottles from the gas station. When they’re empty they we
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
This is sweet, I love things that are both performant and not totally black magic. > Seeing how every change I made affected the compression ratio was quite exciting. I’m curious, do you have a rough breakdown of how much each of the tec
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
The fallacy here is that we can only measure whether AZ is playing human strategies, by comparing against our own known space of strategies. Sure, we human have developed good heuristics the AI has also found, but we can’t know if it has be
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
Thankfully when it’s cloudy, your peak loads from AC are a lot lower.
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
Yeah, I would love this camera setup to be upgraded to a stereo pair.
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
I’d expect natural immunity to be more robust to future covid mutations than vaccination, since our bodies will have been exposed to and responded against all parts of covid’s biology rather than just the spike proteins.
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
It’s an anachronism that doesn’t fly today, but to be fair this seems descriptive rather than prescriptive.
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
> And if even one person starts using less plastic because of that, it was a success. I can buy not relying on the first order impacts of banning plastic straws for the coat-benefit analysis, but relying on second-order effects doesn’t m
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
This is the best single source compendium I’ve seen on the question: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
> we don’t distribute copies of humans A bit of a tangent and it’s fictional, but I really have to recommend the tale of MMAcevedo. https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
Worth noting that human sound perception is logarithmic, not linear. A 90% reduction in sound is -20dB, which is significant. But in human perception terms, that’s only about a fifth of the range of the typical soundscape which ranges from
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
FakeSpot and ReviewMeta are up on different tabs every time I buy something new on Amazon, and they do a pretty good job of alerting you to scammy reviews without any internal Amazon info. I can’t imagine it’s not something an internal team
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
Well that’s just because we understand internal combustion engines well enough that we can abstract away a lot of the details. Software engineering is nice because by design it is at a level of abstraction that we can grok it. We’re basical
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by themeiguoren 5y ago
I don’t think there’s a convincing argument to be made for complaining about new full-time residents. For second homes and Airbnb’s however, I see a lot of potential for degradation that comes from having transient community members of that
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by themeiguoren 6y ago
I’m thinking a shipping container zipline.
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by themeiguoren 6y ago
It hasn’t hit the reserve price, so I imagine that was set to something ludicrous and he never intends for this performance to actually be sold.
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by themeiguoren 6y ago
I’ll also add that it’s more convenient than I expected - the three credit bureaus all let you unlock your file temporarily up until a specified date, after which it will re-lock without you having to log back in.
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by themeiguoren 6y ago
I would not at all be surprised if the long load time made for a sunk cost that kept people playing for longer sessions rather than picking it up for less than half an hour at a time.
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by themeiguoren 6y ago
The low resolution and fuzz is also because they still have the lens caps on - they are of course transparent lens caps in case the explosive bolts that will release them fail. Redundancy!
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by themeiguoren 6y ago
IMO understanding the arguments is useless without understanding how they were built, and what their caveats and assumptions are. Otherwise you end up parroting talking points without actually having thought about it. I’d rather people not
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by themeiguoren 6y ago
You were helping google, but you were also helping everyone who used their maps from that day into the future. Your comment gives off the air of someone upset they helped the wrong party in a zero-sum game. IMO, this is clearly a positive s
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by themeiguoren 6y ago
> Boiling meat is pretty much the worst way to prepare any cut of meat Pulled chicken and pork would like to have a word. The trick is to let the meat cool down in the water after boiling so that it reabsorbs the fluid it lost. You get w
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by themeiguoren 6y ago
Laughs in autocoded control systems
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by themeiguoren 6y ago
Not to mention even with the original comparison, AirPods + the case are 1/5 the material of a good pair of cans. Hell, even just the thick cord of nice headphones is the same amount of material as one set of airpods. Don’t like that y
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by themeiguoren 6y ago
This is all true, I just wish that commits to my forks of dead/strict projects showed up on my activity graph. I’m strangely proud of that thing and half my work doesn’t end up on it because things are no longer maintained upstream. :&
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by themeiguoren 6y ago
I backup my iPhone to my hard drive monthly. I really don’t think there’s a pressing need to have a live backup on your phone. On average, if I lose data, it’s only 15 days worth. If you’re this paranoid about security then back up every we
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by themeiguoren 6y ago
The mobile app requires you to enable notifications to turn on smile donations on in-app purchases. Talk about a dark pattern.

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