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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Not quite stars, but this is super duper close: https://www.random.org/ > RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better th
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Another formulation (unless I misread the article and it's the same thing here) is the Shapley Value [^sv], where you divide up the extra spoils according to the value added by each agent. This works pretty nicely with high numbers of
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Terrorism doesn't have "terror as an end in itself" either. Almost no one ever has terror as "an end in itself". Not saying parent's defn is correct, but I don't like this one either.
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
They're synonyms for "Daylight Savings". Slow down before accusing people making an amusing pun.
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
It's not "Sunshine Protection" to make people feel good, those words are just likely to be recognized as synonyms for "Daylight Savings". (I actually didn't catch this on my own either)
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
The federal government gives 0.5 days leave per every 2 weeks worked. Note that that implies 0.5*(52/2) = 13 days possible to accrue in a year. I think showing the feds do it should sway you pretty far away from your above position. If
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Here's a page that showcases what the article is referring to: https://publicbydefault.fyi/
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Holy fuck, what if I sign up for <someonesemailVOID@theirdomain.com> (this will work for a ridiculous number of people if you just wait to get the GMail they use for everything or something)
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
That's interesting and completely changes my views on Amazon's actions. I thought they were blocking an action that is kind of "opt out" and you're saying they might be blocking an "opt in" action. Neat to
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
What are they supposed to do, say "Jeff the intern fucked up badly, and Christine let them do it"? What is this criticism supposed to mean?
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
I think you missed something here; parent wasn't insulting the author. They were inferring that someone who made an archiving tool probably has resources that help with archiving (bandwidth means access to documents and storage space m
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
I haven't had this problem, unless artists can do something that looks identical to this on the face. I had an artist take "Album 1", "Album 2", "Album 3", and "Album 4", which I purchased throug
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
I actually agree that it's an odd theory, but I do not see how someone would have a "source" for this. Did you mean to ask for "evidence" or "proof"?
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
I believe you're referring to a rumor (which may be true, I just mean it in the sense that it's out there and not something you or I have verified) about Target.
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
I don't think any advertisers would be able to offer "People who bought a washing machine 3 years ago" as a category that can be targeted without a riot
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
No, amusingly, it's a regulation thing. Health products are urged to list all negative outcomes seen in the experimental group, which can lead to some amusing outcomes https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/18/covid
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
God, this dumb post gets me every time. I just really enjoy the imagery in it.
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
It's a good idea to make a service that claims to help you be cheap. Duolingo doesn't have any intrinsic claim to take up a large space in people's lives, so it might be a good idea (if their goal is to help people learn lang
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Do you think it's been good for you to use Duolingo consistently? I think a lot of people are unhappy with the design patterns used in it because they feel it gives a greater sense of learning than it does actual learning.
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
I don't think this solves all of it since it makes some weird assumptions. Does the developer really say "Hmmm, I want to cause an unwanted negative experience for the player" before adding lootboxes? I am pretty sure they do
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
They made a fair point. While it might sound nitpicky to you, they were trying to fine-tune one of the points because getting an accurate summary of the issue is how you start on finding the solution.
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
I disagree with this and it's overly negative. This is pretty useful for places where you are unable to download applications.
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Some people name this as a fallacy: "The fallacy of generalization from fictional evidence". It's not very catchy, but it's nice to have some concept-handle for this oddly common mistake.
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Is there a way to make `watch` do this instead? It always goofs up my output, but it would be cool if you could use it here.
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
You should try "Envy" apples, though they may not have been around in 2013
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
I appreciate the recommendation to actually read it; it would have been a mistake to look up the article instead of just reading it. It wasn't long and I got a lot from it that I would have skipped over if not for actually reading it.
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
You can only get a scientific answer to an "ought" or "should" if you believe that morality is objective in the universe. Otherwise, you have a hidden principle "We should do what we like best", which itself ca
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
That's neither true (humans are less irrational than chimps) nor inspiring (screwing up and letting people die is bad, not good)
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Well, the god of the Christians doesn't seem to know that as there is a commandment written to not worship other gods. Either many gods seem to have missed the memo that they are identical to all other gods of their type or your concep
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
I'm on the side of honesty here despite the argument for secrecy, but I want to note your argument can be firmed up interestingly. You say "evil deeds require secrecy 99% of the time" which means that P(need_secrecy | evil) =

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