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Who Does She Think She Is?(longreads.com)
5 points by yawaworhtttt 8y ago|0 comments
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
There's a bit of a Naked Emperor situation going on right now. Since Chinese manufacturers can make passable proxies (counterfeits), most people don't notice them from across the table and under two sleeves. Among people who do
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
Most of the decisions regarding reprints and the reserved list are influenced by a small clique of card hoarders, collectors and other stakeholders in bed with WotC execs and resellers, and they are known to whine a lot whenever a reprint t
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
Yeah, they've pretty much buffed creatures and nerfed noncreature spells. Savannah Lion and Kird Ape used to be huge, now even Nimble Mongoose (a 3/3 "can't be targeted" for G) is deemed underpowered by current Lega
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
MtG is relatively inexpensive if you play Limited formats (Draft, Sealed, "you play what you open") or newer Constructed formats (Standard). For older formats, which I unfortunately find the most fun, your best bet is online. WotC
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
What if I actually wanted the ability to get a thing going and quickly working within a few lines, while also being able to spell things out as needed when the use case arises? Crazy I know.
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
I was taking into account the human factor; most people are simply not willing to kill another human being in cold blood, whether it's sheer empathy or the risk of getting caught.
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
Reviews and escrows are a thing in the drug world. Generally speaking everything with drugs is easier: -It's easier to manufacture your own drugs than commit murder -It's easier to go unnoticed by law enforcement manufacturing, se
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
Hitmen don't actually make their service readily available* like a pizza restaurant's website, and the ones who do quickly get caught - natural selection if you will. I haven't ever heard of a case of someone getting targeted
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
I'm always wondering - how can people that are determined enough to access the dark web and buy crypto, and willing to instigate a murder, fall for such obvious scams? Do they really think the mafia hosts front sites for anyone to brow
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
I think the best way to explain it is with this link: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/p-hacking/
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
Pretty much all large cities are dirty. People like to stereotypically dunk on Paris but to be frank it's got nothing on London or New York. There's just something inherently filthy that comes with large concentrations of human be
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
You know, your arguments wouldn't sound so much in bad faith if you stopped implying IQ detractors were insecure or guilty of wishful thinking, as opposed to simply skeptical of the science behind it, especially in a field that's
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
I'm not sure how what you're saying contradicts my point (apart from vague accusations of 'wishful thinking'). What Taleb is arguing, what I'm arguing, what the original designer of IQ was arguing and what seems to
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
Examples of fields with hundreds of years of 'peer-reviewed research': -Alchemy -Phrenology -Humor theory -Spontaneous generation theory -Astronomical geocentrism -Ether theory -Graphology -Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis -A
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
Is it true though? There's plenty of evidence that IQ test performance can be learned (i.e. you score higher) with prior training. That's why it's often insisted that tests be taken "out of the blue" without any pre
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by yawaworhtttt 8y ago
...wasn't that known for years outside the tiny bubble of psychometricians? They like to go on about how it's the "best predictor" for whatever, forgetting that the absolute prediction itself is pretty lousy even when at