yifanl

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by yifanl 8mo ago
Notably, neither `1 + i > 1 - i` or `1 + i < 1 - i` are correct statements, and obviously `1 + i = 1 - i` is absurd.
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by yifanl 8mo ago
What if the earth exploded tomorrow? Who cares about what if.
93.
by yifanl 8mo ago
Well you have a data point of one, so I guess we live in the best of all possible outcomes?
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by yifanl 8mo ago
Paradoxically, the people who pay for adfree experiences would be the most valuable targets for ads, so I suspect any pay for no ads arrangement will be temporary at best.
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by yifanl 9mo ago
Infraction point*
96.
by yifanl 9mo ago
Poe's Law, mate.
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by yifanl 9mo ago
Proof by contradiction is a powerful tool.
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by yifanl 9mo ago
I'm sure he'll be happy to eat whatever sama frames in the MOMA too, but you can only protest what's in your reach.
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by yifanl 9mo ago
In general, whats the expected cost of being loudly, obviously, publicly and obnoxiously wrong? Keep in mind who the President is.
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by yifanl 10mo ago
This just makes the internet a place only for the overtly shameless, which is certainly different, but you'd need to convince me it'd be better.
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by yifanl 10mo ago
We pronounce epitome as "epitome" and not "epitome".
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by yifanl 10mo ago
Justin Trudeau when he was elected was the most popular politician in the country by a lot.
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by yifanl 10mo ago
The thing about breaking the law is that when you don't suffer any consequences, the strictly optimal thing to do is to keep breaking the law.
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by yifanl 10mo ago
Well arguably TV did destroy people's brains, just a lot slower and less efficiently. And in fairness, dosage is the difference between a painkiller an a heroin addiction.
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by yifanl 11mo ago
What lesson is there to learn here, is humanity at risk of moral homogenization? Is it practical for factions of humanity to become geographically distant enough to avoid encroachment by others?
106.
by yifanl 11mo ago
Notably, Dune is a work of fiction.
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by yifanl 11mo ago
Assuming they haven't massively changed operations to crank up supply, which seems to be the case, they shouldn't be massively hurt with a price drop. If this price goes on for a longer period though, I assume that won't be t
108.
by yifanl 11mo ago
I believe Eric has said he always makes his first solutions with Perl.
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by yifanl 11mo ago
I am 100% comfortable with anybody who openly discloses that their words were written by a robot.
110.
by yifanl 1y ago
If this was the case, then every company on the planet would be dealing fent on the side. Given this is not happening, we can conclude that there are secondary objectives of companies.
111.
by yifanl 1y ago
You're absolutely right, Palantir just needs a different name and then they'd have no issues.
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by yifanl 1y ago
The USSR did win the space race, but by demanding another spin double or nothing, JFK managed to annul that result with his literal moonshot bet.
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by yifanl 1y ago
How do you enforce a democracy is functioning properly?
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by yifanl 1y ago
We live in an era where its trivial for anybody to learn how to code, and every level of new goalposts you add before saying someone is a true techie is imposed purely by cultural forces.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Isn't it exhausting playing tone police all the time? Respond to the substance of the post or not at all.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Well consider what makes the tech industry different than any other. It's purely cultural forces that define if someone's a techie or not, so of course it devolves into politicking.
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by yifanl 1y ago
The supply of Gold is capped too, it's just further out.
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by yifanl 1y ago
A disappointing release from NVidia would pretty much be unrecoverable I imagine.
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by yifanl 1y ago
I wonder if reporting them gives them more engagement, since that would mean you watched it and paid enough attention.
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by yifanl 1y ago
The visual is extremely hard to understand how it relates to the description, given that it looks to be 1-indexed, but the description only makes sense for 0-indexing (4th element stores the sum of the first 4 elements), not to mention none

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