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by xracy 4y ago
"if all Bitcoin mining used renewable energy sources" I don't know if you've looked at the requirements for covering our current energy sinks with renewable energy sources, but it's not looking manageable in the tim
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by xracy 4y ago
Could you build a giant space straw that sucks out the molten core instead of peeling away layers, and otherwise leave the crust alone so you don't make volcanos everywhere?
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by xracy 4y ago
I disagree that overfitting is a better strategy. Because if you recognize why things are happening are unrelated to profit/work at the moment you can accept that you're going to have losses regardless, and try and plan past that
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by xracy 4y ago
> Very clear the market has now negatively reacted to high operating expenses that largely stem from excessive headcount. Are you saying that because stock prices are dropping that the market has reacted to excessive headcount? Cause I t
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by xracy 4y ago
Stand UP Maths has a relatively recent video that explains what happened here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sseSi0k3Ecg
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That's not how studies work.
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by xracy 4y ago
I'm going to point out (to the original commenter's credit) that your post has been flagged, that this comment of yours is a little haughty, and that based on the other comments the title for this is misleading and could more accu
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by xracy 4y ago
Why is this flagged?
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by xracy 4y ago
Sure thing! NIMBY-ism is at it's worst, not when people don't want homeless people in their back yards, but when people actively work against public policy that would affect their back yard, and improve the lives of homeless peo
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by xracy 4y ago
I will grant that Seattle is currently investing in public transit. And that in the next 10-15 years, they have the opportunity to improve that situation greatly (providing people good/consistent transit to downtown). There's a lo
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by xracy 4y ago
oh, yeah, I mean, clearly people want the symptoms fixed. And I think a reasonable number of people want to live in a city with low-income housing, public transit, and mental healthcare for all who need it. I'd be surprised if anyone
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by xracy 4y ago
This is definitely one of those "it's going to get worse before it gets better" kind of things, because the increasing price of everything means that people are not going to have better upward mobility (out of homelessness) a
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by xracy 4y ago
Huh, super common. What's your source for that info? Most of the 5-YO I know go to sleep at 8, so that doesn't pass the smell test for me. Where in the world are you that the average dinner time is 8pm? Also, I don't think an
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by xracy 4y ago
You're right, this is unreasonable. Please teach a class to 5-year-olds on intermittent fasting and why they should learn to do it to properly enjoy a sportsball game. It's only 3hrs without food if you eat immediately before and
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by xracy 4y ago
I feel like so many businesses are just focusing on the whales without realizing that part of what made them successful before was that everyone could've been a "Whale". Like, it seems so much more enviable to have 1000 regul
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by xracy 4y ago
This is a preprint study, also worth noting that the collection data for how they determined if the masks were being worn, was self-reported by the parents and school administrators.
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by xracy 4y ago
Yeah... how does that compare to the stock buyback program? The way the stock market is going it seems like securing more worker happiness probably would've done it. I would bet, that in the next year or so, the benefits of the stock b
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by xracy 4y ago
This was an A+ comment.
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by xracy 4y ago
that's a username you have there...
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by xracy 4y ago
togo packaging: Plastic Bags, Plastic(-lined) Cups/Lids, Plastic containers, But uhh, also, we should totally charge companies the cost to clean up the waste they produce.
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by xracy 5y ago
Would you be okay with people making a title Doctress? That's a better analogy, to me, for actor->actress, than guys vs. gals. Someone created a gendered term where one didn't need to exist (as demonstrated by the lack of other
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by xracy 5y ago
I don't think you can say that a gendered word is not gendered in all contexts. The recognition that "Guys" is gendered, means that "you guys" will read as gendered to people. And that it will be necessarily exclusi
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by xracy 5y ago
How do you feel about autocorrect?
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by xracy 5y ago
There is a counterpart to "guys". People, not infrequently, say "guys and gals" which means that the guys is gendered. "There is not always a counterpart", means that you recognize there is (at least) sometimes
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by xracy 5y ago
Is the counterpart to "Guys" a gender-neutral term when used collectively?
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by xracy 5y ago
9/10 times if you flip-flop, the way it is communicated is not with that level of nuance. So you can absolutely change your mind the correct way with given data, and the way it's communicated is with a headline that says "CDC
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by xracy 5y ago
You also lose people when you change your mind. There's an entire group of news anchors who dedicate themselves to pointing out where people have flip-flopped. It's pretty common. I agree the not changing your mind is worse, but
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by xracy 5y ago
The problem with this, is that people want action items. No one wants to go to the WHO and find out nothing about the virus. If you wanted to do that, you could go anywhere. So they're encouraged to put something down. That something
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by xracy 5y ago
Also, I will say that Doctors like to point to Pharma and Insurance as the problem. Pharma likes to point to Insurance and Hospitals as the problem. Insurance likes to point to Hospitals and Pharma as the problem. I think the assumption is
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by xracy 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... Not defending pharma which is known for lots of questionable practices... But was reminded of this, because of the question mark in the headline...

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