viknesh

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by viknesh 1y ago
Only a casual user of Linux desktop computing but my experience with ui stability seems to have gotten much worse after switching to Wayland.
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by viknesh 1y ago
I went and enjoyed it a lot. The variety of the exhibitions was great (personally I loved the watercolor pen plotter) and the age of the exhibitors - both very young and old, was delightful.
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by viknesh 2y ago
Just replaced a 17 year old Brother with a new one. Seems to work just as well, although I've always been using first party cartridges.
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by viknesh 2y ago
I believe Google explicitly stated that they used data collected from Ingress (arguably a predecessor to Pokemon Go) at the time. It's the reason Niantic was founded. It's hard to take these complaints seriously.
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by viknesh 2y ago
Sounds like a great opportunity for a startup to fix! In the country I live, there is a standard AML/KYC service that allows customers (banks, utilities) to easily perform ID verification in a few minutes.
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by viknesh 2y ago
It's possible it's fake, but you can type in the exact same prompt into Gemini and get very similar results. 2/3 generated drafts include a "safety" disclaimer about botulism, but 1 doesn't.
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by viknesh 2y ago
What's interesting is thinking about what (if any) parallels of "PFOS" exist in the tech industry - collective delusions of products that aren't harmful. I would vote for most social media apps, maybe?
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by viknesh 2y ago
The article does a good job of addressing the nuance, but the headline and most attention grabbing parts of it don't. Most of the new housing built may have been illegal under previous parking rules, but it doesn't logically follo
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by viknesh 3y ago
Given that the rocket blew up more or less at launch, it should be full of unspent fuel. How does one put out that fire? I'm guessing there's a lot of energy stored there, so letting it burn through doesn't seem wise.
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by viknesh 3y ago
I would disagree. Mathematicians certainly don't need to visualize everything but "intuition" is a commonly used phrase which is a notion of understanding. Although math merely requires proving some statement, often having an
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by viknesh 3y ago
The contents of the link are so far from what you describe them as it's hard to believe that you're arguing in good faith. Put another way, what is the government even bringing to the table? Clearly Twitter had the tools to attemp
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by viknesh 3y ago
Other than the practical reality of it being expensive to construct nuclear facilities (which may or may not be solvable), what is speaking against building new ones?
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by viknesh 3y ago
As someone who once had an NYT subscription (no longer) and now has an Economist subscription, I totally agree with the sentiment. The Economist absolutely has an angle, but it comes across with much more explanation of the objective facts
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by viknesh 3y ago
The reasoning is correct but the conclusion is backwards IMO. You should "adjust for inflation" (using other measures for inflation) to examine the current price of gold. If gold is still expensive, either the inflation adjustment
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by viknesh 3y ago
For me, the operative part of the comment is > To keep it simple, consider starting by reporting SMSes. > For robocalls, expect that many robocall CIDs are spoofed I pretty much only get spam calls (texts are pretty rare), and I'
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by viknesh 3y ago
Would you also agree that if NFL teams were tax exempt, it wouldn't matter anyways? I agree that the dollar impact of lost taxes on society is negligible, but the blatant unfairness seems worth fixing.
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by viknesh 3y ago
Is public housing the main driver of lower housing prices in comparable economies? I would have guessed that the HUD being unable to build more housing isn't helping us, but isn't the main reason that prices are skyrocketing in ur
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by viknesh 3y ago
Are there any factual assertions that you disagree with in the piece? Otherwise this seems to be more anti-Binance than crypto itself (although the author's viewpoint on crypto is clear).
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by viknesh 3y ago
Neat fact! I guess that's basically Martingales for life expectancy?
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by viknesh 3y ago
> it varies considerably by income, location, and whether you do drugs It's not even that complicated - if you've lived to age 54, you've already lived long enough to not die for the first 54 years and so your life expecta
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by viknesh 3y ago
This paper seems to not have controlled for vehicle weight, which is the most obvious thing I could possibly think of being a confounding variable (specifically, total force applied). They specifically call out the variables they controlled
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by viknesh 3y ago
It shocks me that this article could be written without mentioning the phrase "price elasticity" a single time (a word I learned in a class literally numbered "econ 101").
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by viknesh 3y ago
I think a meta point that is interesting here is that nobody could be more motivated to lobby for DMCA changes than large platforms like Google. Wrongfully targeted victims take out their anger on the platform, who thus far wrings their han
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by viknesh 3y ago
I think you could argue something like "Amazon is aware that it's ads broadly promote counterfeits but leave them up"
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by viknesh 3y ago
One thing you might not have considered is that some notion of "dissatisfaction w/ job" would increase both the likelihood of you wanting to join a union and your employer wanting to fire you or lay you off. Edit: also, anoth
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by viknesh 3y ago
…what? I get the idea, but having money shouldn’t mean you should be able to just choose someone’s land and decide its yours.
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by viknesh 3y ago
I didn't make it very clear, but I agree that the specific example isn't problematic. The false claims weren't meant to be any sort of targeted disinformation, and like you mention they reverted it in 48 hours.
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by viknesh 3y ago
This is such a short-sighted take. Who do you think pays for your $0/year premiums? You do, through reduced wages. The main difference between US healthcare and socialized health care is that in the US, nobody is responsible for loweri
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by viknesh 3y ago
I think one would have to weigh the pros and cons of this kind of research. In particular, the main cons (IMO) are: * users are misled about facts * trust is lost in Wikipedia * other users/organizations use this as a blueprint to inse
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by viknesh 3y ago
They really aren't that arbitrary, except for 110, but even that is reasonable given our decimal system: * Arbitrary but socially meaningful geographic boundary. Basically, a notable US city. * 1 year intervals are actually canonical g

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