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by wikfwikf 4y ago
You don't have to believe in climate change to buy an electric vehicle. You might believe in energy independence, or you might just think it's going to work out cheaper.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
* No discussion of how these techniques were developed. * No discussion of why they were not found by other people in the past. * No discussion of how these techniques could be used on other problems. * A lot of calculations which would be
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Just as the incorrect proof by the amateur mathematician or crank is likely to be in a predictable form - a bunch of drawings of graphs with increasingly obtuse notation, reference to special cases within special cases, etc., isn't the
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
They still are.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
What real wage growth?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
It's not even a correctly normalized Euclidean distance.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
One can check this fairly easily. The iterative step is z -> z^2 + u, or in components a + bi -> (a^2 - b^2 + c) + (2ab + d)i Multiplying and adding real numbers between -1 and 1 are fundamentally stable operations when done with floa
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
They used to require players to put their two cards on a transparent spot of the table so that a camera below could id them for the television feed. RFID is much more secure than this, and it also reduces the times when cards can't be
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The RFID chips are there so that they can show exactly what everyone has during the hand. Televised poker is much more interesting when you know what cards everyone has.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Hear me out, what if we allowed people to access health care regardless of who has how much money?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Yes, to short them.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
What would the 'completely valid and compelling reason' be in this case? I can't think of one.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
But an 'abusive service' might still involve misconduct by the user in question. Suppose there is a service which allows you to watch free porn videos as long as you hand over permissions to star a bunch of repos using your accoun
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
How do you know this?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
An even better example is the Australian guy who was Bitcoin-adjacent in the early days, and has now convinced himself, apparently, that he created Bitcoin. He has spent years making both resentful accusations and meaningless grandiose gest
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The fact that t-shirts and mugs are available on RedBubble does not prove that anyone wants to buy them. The business model of RedBubble means that merch can be created speculatively for no cost to anyone until it's actually bought.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
a) Did the author really expect that he would be getting royalties to all the Minecraft end text teatowels and fridge magnets as part of the deal? Clearly, the success of these products is largely correlated with the success of the game rat
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I would be shocked if the Minecraft end text took 3 months to write.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I read the whole thing. It was somewhat overwritten. Not my favorite ever post-hallucinogen-trip essay. I agree with other commenters that the author is greedy and petty. He accepted €20,000 for his work, a decent amount. Then he decided th
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
It is am improvement from the restaurant's point of view. They get dine-in order and take-out orders through the same system, where they all appear instantly on a reliable system right in the kitchen. Paying waiters to walk to your tab
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
That seems like an over-estimate. Presumably if you stop taking bots down, they do not re-appear as fast?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
There are tens of thousands of engineers maintaining and supporting postgres and clickhouse in all the organizations where they are used, the vast majority of which are not on Twitter's scale.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
What seems interesting to me about many of these (all the HVAC, home automation stuff) is that a device with a voice interface sort of seems like a local maximum in terms of usability. You're spending lots of time getting info from Ale
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
My guess is that they also might do market segmentation analysis to understand what type of customer you are, and this affects the return policy. For example, you consistently buy small ticket household items and rarely return anything: wh
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Why do you assume that Amazon don't know what they're doing here? Although you returned the laptop, the annoying process might have discouraged many others from doing so. The shipping cost and the cost of processing the return are
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I don't understand the point about vertical integration. Amazon use their own hardware and services internally and AWS makes a ton of money of course. But if you were accounting for the profit or loss of Alexa specifically, of course y
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
data architecture is bloat? Have you implemented a system which stores hundreds of billions of pieces of media content and makes different slices of them immediately available to hundreds of millions of users?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Do you think that building a bridge is not a creative activity?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I think they mean places which use Visual Studio, (usually) C#, Windows Server, Azure, etc. Lots of components of this stack tend to work a bit better if you use all the others. Common in finance, because of Excel.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
or careful code review!

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