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931.
by thfuran 2y ago
When you say "things", I assume you don't mean "to change deeply held values and cultural traditions".
932.
by thfuran 2y ago
Heritable doesn't mean genetic. Language and money are heritable.
933.
by thfuran 2y ago
Culture changes, but it's very hard to deliberately effect specific changes.
934.
by thfuran 2y ago
Why do most people have only one job? Wouldn't it be better to spend evenings at a second job and then have leisure when you retire?
935.
by thfuran 2y ago
Depends what the applicant pool looked like, but 94% seems almost certain to be an overcorrection.
936.
by thfuran 2y ago
That's a bizarre take. Something doesn't have to be useful forever to be of use. And mechanical printing presses were probably one of the most significant inventions ever, even if they're obsolete now.
937.
by thfuran 2y ago
Only if you can turn around or vector your thrust.
938.
by thfuran 2y ago
From a control system standpoint, if you have one control that rotates both eyes the same number of degrees left or right to determine gaze direction and another to rotate both eyes the same (positive) number of degrees inward to control fi
939.
by thfuran 2y ago
>a hallmark of a healthy consensus, is that no one is really happy with the decision No, no one gets exactly what they want (unless everyone wants the same thing), but that doesn't mean everyone is unhappy with the result.
940.
by thfuran 2y ago
>But I think there's a reason that there's a growing sect of people leaving to do everything from farming, woodwork, and even welding I think that's pretty much entirely because the compensation is good enough that a lot o
941.
by thfuran 2y ago
>I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end. What about their actions so far suggests that?
942.
by thfuran 2y ago
>A french door refrigerator with ice maker costs about $25 per month to run. Maybe if you bought it in 2005.
943.
by thfuran 2y ago
In the US, it's hard to be on such a budget that the energy cost of refrigeration is a major factor in food costs unless you have a really old fridge. A modern fridge probably costs less than $5 a month to operate. There are places wit
944.
by thfuran 2y ago
Isn't it actually tin plasma?
945.
by thfuran 2y ago
>at the expense of a soap opera feel The "soap opera feel" is precisely the goal of motion interpolation on 24 fps source. It reminds people of soap operas because they were often broadcast 60i instead of 24p. The weird part is
946.
by thfuran 2y ago
Paying with money is better.
947.
by thfuran 2y ago
Indeed they can https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-assignment.html
948.
by thfuran 2y ago
>A "done" application wouldn't reasonably get a new major version ever Did that company not want to make money? Even if they want to pretend their software is done, there is incentive to just change the name, add a new fea
949.
by thfuran 2y ago
It's common and fair, but it seemed it somehow didn't qualify as outright ownership.
950.
by thfuran 2y ago
Do you expect to receive a free car every new model year after buying one outright?
951.
by thfuran 2y ago
Good code becomes bad when the requirements change sufficiently in ways the original design didn't anticipate.
952.
by thfuran 2y ago
That's still too small for the average camel.
953.
by thfuran 2y ago
It's not pathetic, it's destructive and evil.
954.
by thfuran 2y ago
Maybe somewhat less, but effort doesn't really imply value and value doesn't imply successful extraction.
955.
by thfuran 2y ago
That's only like a decade after the Ottoman empire was dissolved.
956.
by thfuran 2y ago
Step 1 is always "Create the universe".
957.
by thfuran 2y ago
And it was cheap enough relative to its other specs that the DoD bought a ton and built a top 50 supercomputer out of them.
958.
by thfuran 2y ago
It would cost an untenable amount of money to rebuild all buildings, but that hasn't stopped us from creating and updating building codes.
959.
by thfuran 2y ago
So the defense for software is "I helped build a system so complex that even attempting to determine how it might fail was too hard, so it can't be my fault that it failed"?
960.
by thfuran 2y ago
>do I want to take liability I don't suppose most doctors or civil engineers want to take liability either.

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