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by topmonk 7y ago
Your link doesn't work, actual url is https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregoryferenstein/2019/11/30/a-...
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by topmonk 7y ago
I like that, first you vote on the question, then the answer to the question.
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by topmonk 7y ago
Here's more information from the study: https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/n... Here is an interesting bit: ‘64 million unnecessary emails sent every day is contributing 23,475 to
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by topmonk 7y ago
How the heck does that work out? Wouldn't a single YouTube video, or even viewing a single ad covered javascript infested website completely dwarf the environmental impact of email? There is something bizarrely surreal about this aware
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by topmonk 7y ago
If you know Haskell, or are willing to learn, this is a brilliant explanation with code (you build a dependently typed language as you go). It ramps you up very fast yet each step is accessible. This alone really caused me to get bit by th
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by topmonk 7y ago
One thing I found using Anki for studying Chinese (for 1 1/2 years now) is that it's much better to limit the reviews you do each day in order to get new words in. First, because it will help you a lot in the long run if you learn
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by topmonk 7y ago
Exactly, remember the mystery of the disappearance of bees? And they finally found out (or rather. admitted) that it was pesticides that were responsible. Same thing here.
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by topmonk 7y ago
Sounds like the people you hang out with are narcissistic assholes. Maybe they have something to do with your predicament.
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by topmonk 7y ago
> What if the human emotional state is a byproduct of human consciousness. I have no idea what “human consciousness” is. I'm not deriding you, but I have never heard a satisfactory explanation. I kind of suspect it isn't actual
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by topmonk 7y ago
Yes, but not everyone is like that. Just as some people are taller, smarter, more artistic, etc. some people have a baseline happiness that is higher than others. Consider yourself lucky.
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by topmonk 7y ago
I think human emotional state is nature's tool to get us to procreate and improve the chances of our offspring to survive. If at anytime we become truly happy this hurts these goals. For example, if an old man could be building a wall
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by topmonk 7y ago
> And if God doesn't exist, then nothing matters anyways, so why worry? "Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder." - Homer Simpson You've not co
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by topmonk 7y ago
I know this is probably a very stupid idea, but I was thinking what if we shot ourselves out of rail guns into the air into a bullet shaped craft with fins? You could be shot out of one rail gun in San Francisco, glide for awhile, fall to t
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by topmonk 7y ago
Your rashly posted vague and demeaning comments should point you to who is being emotional here.
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by topmonk 7y ago
I would rather have a solution that helped poor people, rather than making it harder for them, as this does.
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by topmonk 7y ago
I'm not avoiding anything, I just don't have the time to try and guess what I wrote the parent has a problem with and then source it all. If he would just clarify what his issues are, it would help. But instead all I seem to get a
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by topmonk 7y ago
Giving insurance companies this information will make hospitals hesitant to give deals to those underinsured. Corporations will have access to this data, too, you know! > The link has nothing to do with it, I only included it because y
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by topmonk 7y ago
Surely you're not saying I need to provide sources for everything I say, even the most obvious, are you really that pedantic?
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by topmonk 7y ago
IMO Constantly comparing comments on this site to those from reddit is dragging it down to the level of reddit. > This is comment is vacuous and emotional. Emotional? Vacuous? Why do you think so? It almost sounds like, in a Freudian sli
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by topmonk 7y ago
> I cant imagine a logical thought process you could have gone through to conclude some people that you carve out would actually want less information I said the insurance companies would receive more information, and that would prevent
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by topmonk 7y ago
> If it is, then I'm still in the same boat where the Bitcoin network facing node can decide not to service me. Jesus, this is precisely what the lightning network is for! Please, do a little research before dismissing it wholesal
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by topmonk 7y ago
> But how am I supposed to convince a retailer to accept my off network payment? Because you're both connected to a common lightning node, at least indirectly. There are several public lightning nodes that accept connections and the
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by topmonk 7y ago
You've been misled... Edit: Here is an example of a lightning network enabled wallet that works as a lightning node itself. No payment processor needed: https://lightning-wallet.com
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by topmonk 7y ago
All environments are not created the same, and therefore not equal. If you feed 100 environments that are nearly identical to each other but favor A, and 4 other environments that all favor B but are all dissimilar to each other, then altho
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by topmonk 7y ago
How about one that displays a message that the battery needs to be replaced?
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by topmonk 7y ago
Facebook doesn't like Trump? I don't see that as a negative about him.
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by topmonk 7y ago
Effects can keep track of resources, such as open files, not allow writing to a file that was open for reading, and force the caller to acknowledge error conditions. It also doesn't have the issue with monad transformers and having to
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by topmonk 7y ago
Idris Effects are a lot better
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by topmonk 7y ago
> Brave compensates for this by presenting its own ads (which are still annoying, but less so to me) I exclusively use brave on android, linux and windows and don't have replacement ads. I've read that you can opt into viewing
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by topmonk 7y ago
So now you have just created a many-to-many relationship. Due to a bug in software, a child could now be linked to multiple parents, or even no parents. Part of good database design is preventing corruption of these sorts of relationships.

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