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by wwweston 4y ago
> the landlord will do their best to extract any surplus value you generated through your skill and ingenuity It sounds like you're describing landlord behavior where they don't simply arrive at a target rent and happily collec
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"I like playing video games" would be analogous to "I like dining out." "I like making video games" would be analogous "I like to cook." Of course "I like making video games" might not mea
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by wwweston 4y ago
Can you elaborate on this? I'm sure there's more to it and it could be great to know what some of the specifics are, but it also seems like someone who likes to cook is going to need to be present for a good restaurant
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What level of chemistry do you need to know in order to benefit from reading the text?
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A fair portion of the time people are on phones where they have no idea how fast/reliable their connection is going to be from moment to moment. Whether that (among other cases) creates an obligation in everyone to account for semi-f
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by wwweston 4y ago
I read that passage as "men who received a second dose of the Moderna vaccine had a very modest increased risk of myocarditis over those who both did not receive such a dose and remain (apparently) uninfected" -- eg, it's p
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by wwweston 4y ago
There's a lot of daylight between "recommendations for some higher age groups, no recommendation for lower age groups" and "recommendation against for lower age groups." The international recommendations cited above
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At a first approximation, everybody is charitable with Exxon, as demonstrated by continued popular uptake of their products across at least two spectra of political beliefs. Some may also embrace critical beliefs about exactly how much ov
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> That’s not a controversial statement as people tend to rationalize their own behavior to justify themselves in all manners of behavior. When someone advocates for a given ethical standard that permits their activities, how would you te
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I have yet to meet a single person anywhere in my circle of acquaintances from conservative religious practitioners (who nevertheless endorse some sort of non-monogamy, as believers in the bible who have actually read it would tend to given
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> I feel like there's a missing realization lurking at the center of this history: the separation of concerns in the web stack was designed for documents, not layouts or visual designs. I think that realization had solidly set-in th
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This is a really interesting point. What I'm seeing is that infix lends itself to chunking subterm "nouns" of the whole expression, where prefix/function is "verb oriented" and feels more like trying to remembe
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by wwweston 4y ago
The GP is invoking the idea of a compelling understanding, one that produces action by buy-in. If you're confused on that point vs sinister authoritarian actions, then the risk of other people lying to you is far from your biggest prob
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by wwweston 4y ago
Suspicion: this is because a positive integer is a linked list. Every integer is defined by a unary root element and then a series of successors until its cardinality matches the corresponding symbol (counting is correspondence). > fin
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by wwweston 4y ago
Back in late April/early May I was doing some travel and realized I had totally forgotten my 96 W charger for my work Macbook Pro at home. "Well," I thought, "no fun to spend my own cash on a new charger, but better than
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by wwweston 4y ago
If everything was on shelves that rose out of the fridge on open, you could conceivably get 3-sided/~270° access to items on all levels. That's kinda what big door shelves are accomplishing in upright fridges, of course, and I h
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by wwweston 4y ago
I see these topics regularly debated on Twitter and HN.
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"I would like to take this time to repeat my claim that important topics are being silenced without recognition of any obligation to actually even make the pretense that I'm replying or otherwise engaging in discourse, which may
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by wwweston 4y ago
> because to mention a controversial topic is to risk being accused of supporting it. Identifying topics which are controversial or perhaps even contextually verboten can be done pretty easily without implying support. > Alex Jones or
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> The problem is that it's not really about censorship the way that people think about it; it's not about blanket banning the discussion of a topic. Then we're far away enough from the topic of censorship that we should be
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> a lot of content, however well presented and rationally argued, just cannot be digested. Can you name the topic areas where even cautious presentation will not be sustained on twitter?
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It’s hard for me to imagine what “scary actual censorship” is happening — that is, to identify topics or perspectives that cannot be represented in net forums. If such topics/perspectives exist, then the effectiveness must be near tota
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Is people leaving and founding a different forum with different rules really a failure/degradation?
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The output is transformative. But in order to use it as an input to a training set, you're effectively making a copy that may or may not be authorized, not to mention at some level the intermediate representation might well present a
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by wwweston 4y ago
> There's nothing inevitable about it. Laws exist to protect people. Amen. I think one thing we're going to have to look at is having the expectation of a separate agreement for having ones work go into a training set. Maybe eq
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As if that isn't enough, it isn't really the web if you can't "view source" and get roughly useful semantics for documents. The browser didn't beat out a handful of VMs because it was just another VM.
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"Just" seems to be doing a lot of work in that last sentence. I'm sure you know the idea behind vacancy taxes is to incentivize owners to offer rents that not only serve nominal purposes in making finance/accounting work
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> Do Stories and Reels not get in your way? I've made a pretty concerted effort to avoid clicking on them. I might click on one once every two months. Over time this seems to have resulted in modest levels of presentation. OTOH -- t
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> who are these people who are still using Facebook every day? I'm using it pretty frequently, often daily. It may not be the place where everyone is posting their frequent updates, but I still have hundreds of acquaintances who pos
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Either this means commercial-use space isn't as overbuilt as people have been claiming, or vacancy taxes are really needed.

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