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811.
by ummonk 4y ago
That just indicates they didn't have liquidity to cover every deposit, which is true for basically every bank that doesn't charge you to store your money in a vault.
812.
by ummonk 4y ago
“If some person you dislike got robbed in front of your house, you could be compelled to help them by supplying your video footage even if you don't want to.” You say that like it’s a bad thing…
813.
by ummonk 4y ago
You seem to be under the impression that either a simplified model perfectly describes the world or it is useless.
814.
by ummonk 4y ago
Given that L5 is a terminal position, and thus a mark of seniority, the title of “senior” would appear to be the correct title.
815.
by ummonk 4y ago
“It was then rejected for something else and at that point we just gave up and never bothered to resubmit.” This would be an interesting post if we had even the slightest bit more detail.
816.
by ummonk 4y ago
Re-reading my comment, I shouldn’t have said “impossible”. Yes, any theory that successfully quantizes gravitation will allow superpositions of gravitational worlds. String theory likely does this, though some will quibble with the phenome
817.
by ummonk 4y ago
Huh? The universal wavefunction doesn't preclude you from modeling isolated systems with their own independent wavefunction. I.e. Psi(world) = Psi(system)*Psi(outside world). The extent to which you can model a system as truly isolated
818.
by ummonk 4y ago
I like to call it the Universal Wavefunction, or Everettian theory. The splitting into many worlds is just a side effect. That said, any discussion of this theory should mention the rather puzzling issue that gravitation is nonlinear, and t
819.
by ummonk 4y ago
The size at which the outside world starts leaking into the system (and vice versa) in short timespans is pretty well defined both theoretically and experimentally, especially because quantum decoherence is a major annoyance to address in q
820.
by ummonk 4y ago
I think it would certainly value the kind of "clean" design patterns (or anti-patterns as I consider most of them) that object-oriented programming evangelists espouse.
821.
by ummonk 4y ago
Just in terms of readability and maintainability I find polymorphism to be significantly worse than switch-statements. It's hard to locate all the implementations of a particular function and read through them and edit them when they a
822.
by ummonk 4y ago
I assume this was higher performance than rasterization due to slow RAM and the amount of time required to make depth buffer lookups / writes?
823.
by ummonk 4y ago
3 years of software updates is rather mediocre from my perspective as an iPhone user.
824.
by ummonk 4y ago
High ping / jitter could be used as an intentional cheating mechanism in the days of the lag switch through.
825.
by ummonk 4y ago
It’s a term for street homeless because the homelessness industrial complex decided to inflate the stats by conflating couchsurfing people with the visibly homeless.
826.
by ummonk 4y ago
There is nothing problematic about having a phrase for areas with high risk of crime that negatively impacts the quality of life of local residents and visitors. (And that includes neighbors illegally burning garbage in their yard)
827.
by ummonk 4y ago
The wording of their comment did not suggest that.
828.
by ummonk 4y ago
Bing has the ability to get people to enter code on its behalf. It also appears to have some self-awareness (or at least a simulacrum of it) of its ability to influence the world. That it isn’t already doing so is merely due to its limited
829.
by ummonk 4y ago
Wonder whether a corollary of that would be that more inexperienced pilots are succumbing to the pressure and coming in while fatigued.
830.
by ummonk 4y ago
The difficulty is attaching a net. Would need a blimp or something to do it, since fighter airplanes aren't exactly suited for this kind of work.
831.
by ummonk 4y ago
Well one way to do it would be to shoot holes in the balloon so it leaks and descends slowly. Of course can’t wait for it to be over the sea to do that.
832.
by ummonk 4y ago
More likely a small dense cloud or something.
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Airbnb Reverses Ban on Parents of Conservative YouTuber – Says It Was a Mistake(ijr.com)
7 points by ummonk 4y ago|1 comments
834.
Amazon KDP banned and withheld royalties for “Hindutva themed” book(twitter.com)
15 points by ummonk 4y ago|2 comments
835.
by ummonk 4y ago
Chernobyl is not unlivable. It's roughly comparable to Ramsar, Iran in radioactivity levels.
836.
by ummonk 4y ago
Seems like it might be a good idea to have geiger counters or whatever as standard at junkyards and bulk waste facilities.
837.
by ummonk 4y ago
One of the things I've seen Tata Motors talking about re: Hydrogen ICE as an intermediate technology is that the fuel purity requirements are much lower for an ICE than for a fuel cell.
838.
by ummonk 4y ago
Yes but in a lot of instances the cost of the batteries will be greater than the cost of the electricity you store in them.
839.
by ummonk 4y ago
The lead-up to the accident reminds me of the Beirut explosion where customs officials kept asking judges for permission to resell / dispose off the dangerously stored fertilizer for several years but judges refused to act. Bureaucracy
840.
by ummonk 4y ago
What I'm seeing from your long essay is that the common core curriculum is indeed great but average teachers are too stupid / mathematically illiterate to teach it, so we would be better settling for mediocrity instead.

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