thfuran

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by thfuran 1y ago
Do you care if they do what you want? Because telling someone they're stupid and you don't care about their opinion is not conducive to persuading them to listen to you.
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by thfuran 1y ago
I believe your sarcasm detector is overdue for service.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Surely the punishment should be more than just break even.
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by thfuran 1y ago
By that logic, shouldn’t about 25% of US persons be 150, given the annual death rate of 9.28 per thousand?
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by thfuran 1y ago
Yes, and the scrappage rate is about 4.5%. A 40 year old car is not the norm.
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by thfuran 1y ago
I think you significantly overestimate people’s expectations for automobiles.
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by thfuran 1y ago
The last several comments were responding to >2^61 is still a very large number of course, but much more feasible to reach than 2^122 when doing a collision attack. This is the reason that cryptographic hashes are typically 256 bits or m
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by thfuran 1y ago
>American hate for wire transfers will never sound anything other than irrational to me. I'm assuming "wire transfer" means something different to you than what it means in America. In the US, a wire transfer is when you c
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by thfuran 1y ago
And it gets extended even more absurdly. I recall reading about a student being expelled for bringing cutlery to serve cake they brought in. But there's zero tolerance for knives, so what can you do?
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by thfuran 1y ago
You need to try chinchillas.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Cops in the U.S. don’t accept risk; they shoot whatever makes them nervous.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>zero tolerance on violence Why do you think kids should be punished for getting bullied?
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by thfuran 1y ago
Universal public schooling in its modern form is very recent and certainly not some sort of biological imperative. Before cheap books and universal literacy (which is frankly something of an overstatement), it wasn't remotely plausibl
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by thfuran 1y ago
They are explicitly to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. In practice, I think the terms are now much too long and the lack of requirement to actually use or cheaply license a patent makes the system better at generating p
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by thfuran 1y ago
I guess mathworks is one of the best companies ever.
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by thfuran 1y ago
And given that they can be a bit erratic, I wouldn't want to run something like that on my inbox and see what happens.
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by thfuran 1y ago
The EPA is only two decades older than you, and it enforced a bunch of brand new regulation on all the existing companies. There used to be a willingness to actually govern rather than cede everything to corporate interest.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>If DC were a country, it would be among the top 20 most murderous in the world. Unless other US cities were countries, in which case there push it off that list.
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by thfuran 1y ago
What’s your position on “finna”?
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by thfuran 1y ago
They weren’t exempt in 1984.
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by thfuran 1y ago
They would if their salary were more than ten trillion dollars.
532.
by thfuran 1y ago
Then we should just increase the presidential salary to 110% of the total 2024 US workforce salary.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>in their place will be other businesses that employ people of higher than minimum wage. Why would raising fast food minimum wage create these businesses?
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by thfuran 1y ago
Rinderpest (a cattle disease) and Smallpox are the only two diseases ever successfully eradicated. The smallpox vaccine was the first vaccine ever invented and it took until 1980, about 180 years later, to eradicate the disease entirely. It
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by thfuran 1y ago
Somebody somewhere might be Ramanujan, but the average person is going to be a whole lot better served by reading literature than trying to reinvent the field.
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by thfuran 1y ago
I don’t think any common conversions fall near there other than miles->km. It’s certainly not the case that the systems were designed to have the golden ratio as conversions between the two.
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by thfuran 1y ago
I agree based on the whole sentence in the article that that was probably an editing error.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>4K streaming on Netflix, to pick one salient example, only requires 16Mbps. Because they compress all their streams to hell to save a few cents and to fit through people's shitty internet connections.
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by thfuran 1y ago
My parents for fiber in a rural area too. It's roughly $100/mo for something like 20/20.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Yes, but they said seven-millionths of a second, not seven millionths of a second. Technically they're right that that's what it means, but I'd expect an editor to recommend against that phrasing in favor of the one you used

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