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by wisty 6y ago
I could try to explain how banning the right (starting with the extremists and now including the POTUS and presumably about 20% of the USA) would just push them into the online equivalent of desert training camps. But why bother? People wil
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by wisty 6y ago
You seem to be contributing to the discussion, but people are downvoting without actually voicing any disagreement. This seems to be common when you take the conservative "side" even if it's not really a partisan position you
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by wisty 6y ago
I can think of a number of historical examples where the decent people were wrong. I'm not saying this is comparable, but people will say it is.
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by wisty 6y ago
I think what really annoys the far right is how the far left seems to get an easy ride. There's plenty of left-wing conspiracy theories. The current ones seem to be that the Capitol Police were allowing it to happen (not just through i
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by wisty 6y ago
There does need to be a middle ground. But there are definitely dangers when charities try to maximise revenue: 1. They are (to some extent) competing for donors. If it's zero sum, then more marketing spending means the least efficient
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by wisty 6y ago
Extraordinary results, but even the author's graduate student had difficulty replicating them.
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by wisty 6y ago
> it doesn't serve as a deterrent (based on talking to ~50 prisoners about this) 1. Talking to prisoners doesn't mean it's not a deterrent for the rest of the population. This is a massive selection bias, it's like s
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by wisty 6y ago
It's funny how people complain about "motivated reasoning" and demand an immense amount of rigour when someone says something they disagree with (say, whichever side people take on the "Google's ideological echo cha
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by wisty 6y ago
Maybe that's because retiring them would make it clear that the US has a viable replacement, and any hypothetical replacement is a secret.
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by wisty 6y ago
> What are Stories? > Web Stories are a web-based version of the popular “Stories” format that blend video, audio, images, animation and text to create a dynamic, less formal consumption experience that goes beyond a simple play butto
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by wisty 6y ago
If it's verifiable by the compiler, then it shouldn't need to have a pragma, just optimise it automatically. (OK, it might be useful as a hint). I'm guessing there's grey areas where this would be some kind of halting pr
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by wisty 6y ago
No, they're not almost pure starch. They are about 17% carbs (including 2% dietary fibre and 1% sugar, the rest being digestible starch). For context, corn chips are over 60% carbs. Vegetables (even "bad" ones with less prote
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by wisty 6y ago
There's also developer education (see mongo db), support, tooling, ecosystems ...
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by wisty 6y ago
Potatoes have a decent amount of water and fibre (almost as much as apples). There's some dumb internet idea that the type of macros are what really matter, so potatoes are bad because they're all carbs (not protein). Really, if y
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by wisty 6y ago
There's no money in backends unless you have a great enterprise sales team. SAS, Matlab, Oracle, Arc, there's lots of really boring backend systems with plenty of FOSS alternatives but you need sales. If the customer is the develo
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by wisty 6y ago
There's also the grey area of self-medication. I generally trust people with physical disabilities to "self-medicate". If someone with a wheelchair says that something will help them live like a normal person, I'm inclin
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by wisty 6y ago
Japanese just naturally has a smaller natural column-width due to the density. Everything gets broken into smaller chunks, and those chunks get put into small columns. The pictures are small because a big picture will throw things off. I&#x
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by wisty 6y ago
Having seen a couple of Jobs interviews, it seemed like he was very well informed of all the trade-offs he was asking. He had some idea how all the bits in his project would scale (in various ways - with more users, programmers, parts, etc)
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by wisty 6y ago
Didn't Steve Jobs usually greenlight 2 or 3 teams to design then just pick the most promising one to go to production? Sometimes it makes sense to have a bit of competition, but having multiple prototypes (often with slightly different
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by wisty 6y ago
I guess you could argue that a single discovered extant usage is not single use, it's quite possible that there will one day be a reconstruction of the script (maybe with some more samples being discovered).
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by wisty 6y ago
There's 2 factors, medium and platform. PC is better for long text. Phones are better for photo / media. Both have pros and cons. There's also the platform. A lot of phone content ends up siloed into auto-suggesting apps, whe
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by wisty 6y ago
OK, so is this your point? Something could flip California and Alabama (example, Trump starts defending Roe v. Wade and in response Biden somehow manages to sound like he's opposing it). This would probably be some latent hidden variab
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by wisty 6y ago
Apparently Minix3 is 6k and can run a lot of NetBSD on top. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX_3
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by wisty 6y ago
Free speech is a Monte Carlo method - it certainly delivers a probably good solution.
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by wisty 6y ago
Chinese and Indian schools might be run like a boot camp, but that's better than running the school like a prison (forced attendance but less structure).
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The eight-legged essay, said to have caused China's subsequent stagnation(en.wikipedia.org)
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by wisty 6y ago
A "startup" (according to Wikipedia and most others) is essentially a business in search of a business model (see Steve Blank's work in particular). A small consulting business is not a startup, it's a small business tha
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by wisty 6y ago
> Pay for work not time spent on the computer. Which is fine for stuff that can be done as an individual contract. Otherwise, there's this thing called "Theory of the Firm" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by wisty 6y ago
Expecting medicine to work with any doctor on any patient is what made doctors stop making excuses for bad medicine - "It works when I do it" or "It works if you use it on the right patient" when they're just talkin
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by wisty 6y ago
> I'm honestly insulted Sorry you feel that way. > "a few technical skills for teenagers" Oh OK, yes STEM (for the most part) is pretty good. Now there are valid criticisms of the way it is done (much of the best critic

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