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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Not picking any candidate at all doesn't matter if you are just trying to optimize your probability of picking the best one. Choosing one which you know not to be the best is not considered any better than choosing none.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
This is obviously artificial because after x months, you are not going to buy something much worse than previous things you've rejected just because it's the best remaining option, rather than wait one more month. But having to do
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Your take is that having sex with someone who you believe to be asleep is ok if that person has chosen to sleep in the same room as you and to take cannabis? This is obviously rape apology.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
You also answered the GP's question as to why we should care about this. If you're reading and seeing multiple stories all over the media about what a wonderful, altruistic person someone is, the information as to whether that per
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
But aren't blockchain solutions a form of centralization? The blockchain itself has a decentralized structure. But when we use it as a basis for our naming scheme it becomes a single point of failure. It isn't possible for some pa
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I didn't say that they are logically incompatible. If Henry the Eighth said "I am not perfect, but I have treated my wives far better than anyone else in the world", then the admission that he is not perfect should not be suf
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Racism?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
This is a survey which simply asked people whether or not they have racist attitudes, essentially.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The claim that the US is not perfect and the claim that it is far less racist than the rest of the world are very very different.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I think the trend towards touchscreens has to do with the halo effect of the iphone. The fully touchscreen phone was much more modern-feeling, and also better and easier to use than previous phones with buttons. The irony is of course that
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
But looking for a red book on the red shelf is much harder than looking for a red book on the 'history' shelf, or even on the 'second from the top in the front room where I saw it last' shelf!
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Everyone dies eventually.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
'The HN gestalt' seems to mean that you have taken comments by completely different people with different preferences and synthesized them as though they were all said by the same person?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
4 & 5 are simply nonsense. 3 does not really apply in France. There are extensive swathes of country which are hugely monocultured already with food crops. At the same time small farming, economically uncompetitive types of farming, and
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
These are two contradictory reasons. Rabbits are considered invasive because there is a non-zero chance they will escape the hawk and reproduce.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Would you rather be released from prison into a dangerous world or executed?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I feel sleepy after meals, but if I go for a brisk walk not long after the meal, I start to feel extremely faint.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I do worry about this, but I also have two counterpoints when I think about it: 1. There are things which I write which are private, but if they were forcibly revealed then I would stand by my truth, including mistakes and things I'm a
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
A lot of poor people, maybe most of them, have more cash-denominated debts than cash-denominated assets.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Do you include the UVF, the LVF and the UDA when you refer to 'the British'?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
There was a huge financial fraud involving a Belgian company, Lernout & Hauspie, which acquired many of the other startups doing voice recognition and then went bust. The guy who built Dragon NaturallySpeaking and owned Dragon Systems w
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Perhaps with your phone being able to remember 10-digit numbers for you, this leaves you and/or young people today with more mental space and energy to do more interesting mental tasks such as exploring recreational mathematics. And pe
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I bought the cheapest Brother laser printer in the early 2010s because someone on a forum gave me this same advice. It has worked without issue ever since. A few years ago I plugged it into a Raspberry Pi so that I could share it via CUPS t
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
A classic, classic move in the UK when you want to get govt money to do something of marginal or negative social value is to find some way of 'helping the NHS'. Take a look at Greensill Capital. They were running a politically exp
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Your claim is that the high price of housing is not one of the pressures on working class people???
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
You are right and the GP is wrong. When I worked for near minimum wage I was very conscious of exactly what I would get in each week's paypacket. Either a couple of extra hours or a small payrise (eg. 40c per hour for being kitchen tra
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
This is vaporware. It's being announced by a lame duck government who want to point at something in the future and say the equivalent of 'I took steps to ... invent the internet'. If this actually consists of anything at all
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
> Nuclear power promised "too cheap to meter", I'm not going to believe the same promise from renewables. Of course, this is fair. But there are fields where technology advances are so effective that meeting past needs is
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Arguably this is a populist reaction to a situation which is heavily in Norway's favor. Instead of thinking in terms of 'Danes and Germans taking our electricity', Norwegians should realize that they are able to export an ext
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I mean, I wrote about how there were lots of interesting engineering problems between where we are now and this state. It is hard and it isn't cheap yet and I did not suggest otherwise. Perhaps saying "current promised tech&

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