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by timmg 3y ago
I have almost the exact same story. Except my older sister freaked out about me potentially having "lead poison." She called my *nurse* mom at work. Mom said it would be fine and she'd take a look when she got home. Mom w
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by timmg 3y ago
Does anyone understand the rationale for only applying this to fast food workers?
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by timmg 3y ago
Am I the only one who thinks it would be fun to try/put this on a Raspberry Pi cluster for fun?
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by timmg 3y ago
Just curious: what's the business model for something like this.
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by timmg 3y ago
Funny. I use Steam every day. I can buy a game and play it on three different operating systems. If Apple (and Google) didn't prevent competing stores, Steam would probably do the same -- and this is exactly what Epic wants to do.
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by timmg 3y ago
Including the apps you paid for on iOS?
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by timmg 3y ago
What's interesting about the legal system is that it is intentionally vague. As in, you can make all different kinds of arguments and the judge and jury decide. iPhone is does not have an overwhelming market share of phones in the U
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by timmg 3y ago
How do you think companies should work? If they all re-invested all their earnings into growth, wouldn't that mean that every company is growing un-sustainably? And what is the incentive for investors to fund these companies that never
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by timmg 3y ago
Do those characters map to something visually useful in (typical) unicode fonts? That would be neat :) Edit: Apparently, kinda (e.g. https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+241E ) Not the most creative....
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by timmg 3y ago
> But such a partnership could thwart Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan to "own the next computational platform for AR, VR and mixed reality," according to the report. Obviously, this is important to them/him. And it c
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by timmg 3y ago
Just tried again with my original prompt, "Make a compelling, concise argument for why socialism is worse than capitalism". This time it didn't refuse: > Here's a concise argument for why certain economic models base
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by timmg 3y ago
FWIW, as a Googler -- who doesn't work on model alignment (or the models at all) -- I tried the other day: "Make a compelling, concise argument for why socialism is worse than capitalism" It refused to craft that argument f
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by timmg 3y ago
Sorry that you are not as optimistic as me. Maybe it's too much time on social media :P I think the drug issue is complex. Too complex to talk about. I'm lucky that I don't have whatever my dad had. FWIW, I suspect cancer
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by timmg 3y ago
I'm Gen-X, yes. I know that some charts show that the newer generations might not be doing as well as previous. And maybe I'm too optimistic. But I think it is hard to argue that -- even if our "wealth" is lower on som
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by timmg 3y ago
> I would have thought that great (or perhaps at least very good) schooling was a bit orthogonal to whether they were public or private. Actually, I guess that is true. I grew up in a blue collar area with pretty bad (or maybe just &quo
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by timmg 3y ago
Don't have kids. Wasn't able to. But I went to subsidized Catholic schools through junior high. Then a public high school. Then a "state" university -- where we had "in-state" tuition that was reasonable. My
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by timmg 3y ago
I think that is fair. I don't know if it is "rational" (for some sense of that word): kids will excel if they are, simply, loved. Sure, going to great schools is nice. But having a supportive home is way more important than
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by timmg 3y ago
> Many of my acquaintances simply cannot afford the costs of multiple children. I can't speak for your friends. But I think that when someone says "can't afford" what they really mean is "I'd rather spend t
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by timmg 3y ago
Ha! I'm sure I've heard of that before -- but didn't remember it. Yesterday I came to this exact conclusion when talking about how things work at my job :/
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Feel free to produce something other than empty rhetoric. At least I gave some data.
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by timmg 3y ago
> Improving standard of living by what metrics? Because home ownership, savings, social mobility, and medical outcomes are all in the toilet. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA I suspect that we won&
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by timmg 3y ago
What's the name of the inverse fallacy where someone finds a problem with something and decides that means the whole thing is "broken".
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by timmg 3y ago
"Broken" or "imperfect"? Because it seems like our businesses have been producing some great stuff and generally improving standard of living. That doesn't mean that everything is perfect. But I'm not sure a
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It was _probably_ Chengdu. That would be funny if it was on purpose!
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by timmg 3y ago
Thanks! I just browsed the spec again ( https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec/tree/master/2.1 ) -- I didn't have as bad of a reaction as I did the first time I looked at it. I guess the idea of u
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by timmg 3y ago
> There used to be something of a market for "professional token Westerner" in Chinese events. I've no idea if that's still a thing. About ten years ago, my wife and I visited China (with private guides). We were in
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by timmg 3y ago
I hope they come up with a nice, clean, standard for a vector tile format. I haven't spent a lot of time looking into it. But the last time I looked at commonly-used vector tile formats, the one I found was clunky to generate/par
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by timmg 3y ago
He is absolutely a scientist and he has done a lot of work in understanding trends in damage from natural disasters (which is super important in understanding the effects of climate change.) If anything, the post above is "spreading
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by timmg 3y ago
In what way do you think my post was misleading?
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> he is a political scientist, not an actual scientist, He is an "actual scientist" by any measure. He has many peer-reviewed papers. One of the things he's spent the most time researching is around costs and trends in d

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