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by tshaddox 5mo ago
> If I build a house on undeveloped land and the electric company needs to run lines, do I also (in a much smaller way than a data center) increase the costs for all other customers? In some sense, sure, any time you buy something you ap
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
Yes, most index funds don't literally intend to own the entire market for any sufficiently broad interpretation of the word "entire." But the point is that we have notable index funds which are marketed to customers as havi
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
What makes this argument less compelling is that “year 1 AD” also didn’t exist at the time , and this isn’t a great reason to abandon the arithmetically sane approach of zero-indexed year numbering. The calendar was back-dated 500 or so ye
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
That ignores the actual issue here, which is the change in rules. Index funds already seek to own the entire market, and when most people chose these index funds there were rules about when newly listed stocks get purchased by the funds. An
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
It's a bizarre distinction, because "tool" does not imply "highly customizable" or even "repairable." In fact, even the distinction between "appliance" and "tool" is odd, since those ar
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
I kinda wish that the industry norms changed such that it wasn't so taboo to just name and shame these companies.
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
It’s not just innocent ignorance of statistics. There’s also deliberate lying in mass media, both for partisan political goals and simply because sensationalism attracts eyeballs.
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
While Spain does sound lovely, I don’t think “having anything to do” was really in my generation/demographic’s mindset while we roamed around the neighborhood. This was small town Midwest in the 90s. We just roamed around doing nothing
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
No one wants to live in cities any more. They’re too crowded, housing is too expensive, and the traffic is too bad.
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
Lots of types of contracts bought and sold between individuals are prohibited by law.
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
It initially populates with the first 3 options, but it also updates as you type, with what appears to be a case-insensitive prefix filter.
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
The datalist examples definitely work on my iPhone. They integrate into the autocomplete suggestions above the native iOS keyboard. There’s no way to browse all the suggestions, but I suppose that’s not an intended use case for datalist.
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
No worse than the closed source binaries of the games themselves, surely.
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
Bun isn't a node.js wrapper. It's an alternative to node.js that sits at roughly the same spot in the stack. Node.js is a distribution of the V8 JavaScript engine (the thing that executes JavaScript in the Chrome browser), along w
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by tshaddox 5mo ago
I've noticed that my local Costco business centers actually tend to have a larger selection of things like soft drinks and single-serving packaged snacks, and not in obscenely large quantities (any more than normal Costcos).
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
I haven’t actively surveyed all the airlines, but I happened to notice recently that United charges for carry-ons.
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
I’m relatively tall and have a generally rough (but tolerable) time with all domestic bottom-tier seats. I have no difficulty believing you when it comes to customer service. I’ve never had any issues requiring anything beyond the most basi
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
I’ve flown Spirit and Frontier several times, and Southwest many times (I know they’re not quite in the same category, especially after their recent changes). I genuinely don’t know what you’re referring to regarding the experience being wi
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
Do you have an English word you can recommend that refers to what (in American English) I call the entire government of a nation?
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
Presumably the Cloudflare network resources in question were not located in Spain and thus not under Spanish jurisduction. Or even if they were, it may be procedurally simpler for the Spanish government to compel ISPs to block IPs.
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
> Coal has lead to basically zero direct death, and a lot of indirect deaths. Huh? Are you not counting coal mining, which historically caused thousands of deaths per year and presumably still causes at least hundreds per year (not sure
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
Unknown design flaws in old nuclear power plants wouldn't be fixed in new nuclear power plants, unless if by chance.
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
No, that's precisely the common misconception that I'm referring to.
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
> time series are composed of anecdotes This is incorrect, and is a very common misunderstanding of what the term "anecdote" means and what the actual problem with anecdotal data is. The dichotomy is between "anecdotal evi
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
I don't think it's nominative determinism when the entity's name is determined by an attribute of the entity.
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
Is it really junk though? There are several comments in this thread like “people tell me I call stuff blue that they think is green and this quiz confirms that.”
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
Are there really people whose language treats “cyan” and “turquoise” as distinct colors which are not in the “blue-green” family?
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
It’s not really the same, because black and white strongly connote being at the far ends of their continuum (lightness), and are thus opposites, whereas blue and green are more vaguely specified as nearby spots on their continuum (hue).
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
I’m aware of cyan, of course, but it never occurred to me while doing this quiz, because the point was clearly to choose between blue and green. Of course there’s cyan, turquoise, teal, sky blue, etc., but the point is to make the potential
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by tshaddox 6mo ago
You don’t consider YouTube to be social media?

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