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by yarou 10y ago
Doesn't really matter, on the whole. Some shady Chinese pharma lab will create an analogue that is x times more potent, and the drop shipping "legal high" e-commerce sites will start carrying it. If anything, this will cause
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by yarou 10y ago
> If you're willing to look slightly outside the most desirable neighborhoods, it isn't that hard to find an apartment. Not trying to be pedantic but "willing to look slightly outside" is pretty ambiguous for a city l
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And hopefully their children will roam the stars.
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I think your response is more a critique of the system of control we live under. You can never truly connect with people anymore, only through cheap channels (mainly walled gardens) that trivialize friendship to begin with. Friendship as a
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by yarou 10y ago
> Oh, and quite a lot of math and science dates back to pagan Platonic and Vedic philosophers. FTFY.
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Replace "anonymous pay" with cash, then you'll find your reasons.
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by yarou 10y ago
So in other words I have to be a sycophant? Because I don't agree with your (and the vast majority's) viewpoint?
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by yarou 10y ago
Everybody wins insofar as you don't challenge the status quo. If you do, they will isolate you (i.e. not promote you) and/or terminate you. This stifles innovation and creativity. There are no places left anymore like Bell Labs -
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by yarou 10y ago
You're right, they also steal credit for work they didn't perform. Management is another parasitic job that needs to be removed and automated away.
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by yarou 10y ago
I wonder how useful an ELO system would be for evaluating performance. If one were in place, I don't think we'd really need managers at all. The system would supersede and replace managers. Your rating would be hidden as well.
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Exercise also increases BDNF gene expression, which deficits of are implicated in depression and addiction.
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> In all likelihood, the UK will leave the EU, but retain access to the single market through the EEA. This will enable us to enter into free trade deals with the rest of the world, which we are not able to do as EU members. There is not
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by yarou 10y ago
This is really a historic moment. It could signal the end of the Maastricht experiment. A long and protracted disengagement period will only worsen volatility in the market, because of uncertainty around trade deals, as well as the politica
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by yarou 10y ago
Work/life balance is a false dichotomy. In the ideal world, one's work is one's life, and conversely, one's life is one's work. But that's a discussion for another time. I was merely commenting on the fact that
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by yarou 10y ago
I'd hate to be an SRE working for Google right now - the stress must be crazy.
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Seems like hyperparameter optimization to me. These techniques will be useful in general when selecting your model.
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That's interesting, care to elaborate on why? On the surface, it would seem that the engineering requirements for space tend be greater than those involved for the deep sea. But you have a different set of trade offs; for example, you
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by yarou 10y ago
That's basically the definition of a merger arbitrage strategy - short the acquirer and long the acquisition.
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What is objective here? The only objective truth is biological determinism. The rest is political garbage that I have no interest in discussing.
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Alcohol and tobacco are several orders of magnitude more dangerous than anything currently scheduled.
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Cocaine and its related metabolites have accepted medical use. Particularly by ENTs and such. Schedule I drugs have no known medical use and high abuse potential, which marijuana currently falls under. Whether or not you agree with that cla
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A puppeteer can also be a ventriloquist.
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Exactly. Also, queue on a low population region at say 4 am when many players from said region are not on.
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by yarou 10y ago
I imagine it's a form of Dunning-Kruger: account buyers feel that they are more skilled than the rating they received after calibration. There are also those who legitimately enjoy griefing dota: their account is probably so deep into
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by yarou 10y ago
In order to sell a high MMR account. This explains why there is massive amounts of MMR inflation across regions. Prior to ranked matchmaking, the top 1% was typically around 4.2k hidden MMR. After ranked was introduced, it became closer to
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by yarou 10y ago
That depends, there are two distinct states. One is triggered if there are network connectivity issues, in which case the game isn't scored for anybody. This is to get around the MMR abusers that would queue bots to leave on the other
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by yarou 10y ago
Depends how low. In the very high skill bracket (3.8k+), I've found players on US East and US West are extremely toxic, and the playstyle is relatively boring. So these days, I queue on EU West or EU East.
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by yarou 10y ago
By all means, let us take rape accusations seriously. But let us also be careful to do proper due diligence, instead of rushing to destroy a potentially innocent person's reputation. Our forefathers envisioned a fair and impartial judi
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I'd still venture a guess that you are fairly (within a few standard deviations of) normal. I miss the days of the Internet when it wasn't just a virtual extension of one's life. The same social memes are now embedded digital
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He's a curious child - he may even become an engineer one day.

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