ummwhat

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   by ummwhat 7y ago

   There was once a mathematician who got caught at the airport with a bomb. They took him in for questioning. When asked why he had a bomb in his suitcase he stated "the odds of there being a bomb on your airplane are less than one in te
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   by ummwhat 7y ago

   I think what you're missing is that economics has a serious case of physics envy. They like to imagine that their handful of reductionist principles can model a scenario as well as Newton's laws can model n bodies. The experiments
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   by ummwhat 7y ago

   No. A plurality of the gun deaths are suicide (%33). Accidents and homicide add up to more.
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   by ummwhat 7y ago

   It isn't destructive to curiosity if the algorithm puts you in the curious person demographic. The other week I got a video recommendation for how to extract lidocaine out of anal lube. I don't use lidocaine, I don't use anal
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   by ummwhat 7y ago

   Is he in favor of clopen borders?
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   by ummwhat 7y ago

   The article implicitly suggests Banksy is making money off his artwork with word choice like "won't let anyone else profit off it". The idea being to paint him as a sellout and a hypocrite. But is it true? By everyone's
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   by ummwhat 7y ago

   Literally taken from the wiki page on IPoAC https://i.imgur.com/DUH5Kre.png
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   by ummwhat 7y ago

   I don't envy the guy with the job of getting this right. The last train wreck in China is still being talked about. Not because of the tragedy of the accident, but because of how it became emblematic of corruption and cover-ups and rea
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   by ummwhat 7y ago

   I personally end every meeting I can with "time is a construct and we're all going to die".
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    At the point where all the people involved are dead because the world belongs to the living. About 100 years is enough.
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    >you cant store them on a cold wallet Literally the only wallet is a cold wallet. Cold hard cash.
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    You just demonstrated why "Mornington Crescent" is good shorthand for "a preponderance of edge cases and tribal knowledge"
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    Ironically, it sounds like the internet was cut because of rioting in the streets.
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    I say succinctly "you cannot silence the Americans. They don't know how to shut up". If the foreigner doesn't feel it, they'll at least find it funny.
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    Any media the viewer loses interest in immediately after climaxing.
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    I thought the difference between arrogance and confidence is being right.
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    I learned yesterday that the Koala population is projected to go extinct in 15 years because a highly virulent strand of chlamydia has rendered them infertile. Scientist are researching a cure for them. So yeah, I guess incomprehensibly adv
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    Sounds like a new Twitter handle for Nate Silver
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    Same reason I'm ok with the government building a road even though I don't personally drive. It's an economic multiplier. It increases opportunity overall by facilitating more transactions than were previously possible, and t
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    I don't think you understand. There are people going to work every day in China doing the job of censor and they reckon they are doing something good and patriotic. Even at the level of policy makers, the censorship is there in the fir
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    This is weird because the postal union was the one wonky, deep in the weeds policy where even the globalist agreed with the populist that something needed to be done. Way I see it there were 3 options. 1. Use international institutions like
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    I know this is a typo, and I don't usually point out such things, but maybe fix "rape archive"
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    I find when talking with computer people, just saying "if I could move a few layers back up the stack" let's you backtrack to problem 1 if you want. This only works if you have people who understand the idea of the conversati
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    I've also done long rail trips in the US and China. Shanghai to Hong Kong and San Francisco to New York. Only did the high speed in China though so I don't know what I missed there. I guess it will soon be too late, but the fresh
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    Millennials love old men telling them what they want.
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    The answer is yes it is still your data. There are relevant supreme Court precedents which resolve this unambiguously. Hence why you need a warrant to tap a phone line instead of just claiming "it's the phone companies signal&quot
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    In fairness, very few locks can stand up to LPL for very long.
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    I took the California Zephyr all the way to Chicago and then continued my rail trip on to New York. While the dining experience differs depending on the route, I can tell you first hand that on my way to Chicago I was slamming back steak an
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    by ummwhat 7y ago

    The thing that kills this niche is booking a sleeper car ticket on the capitol corridor. Amtrak does all this but better. Train is quieter, there's a full dining car with meals cooked in a legit kitchen, more space to walk around, fant