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by zeroer 10y ago
What do you use for lists of lists?
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by zeroer 10y ago
The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is deterministic. It's one of the (many) qualities that makes it so attractive.
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by zeroer 10y ago
I meant next for me, but yea, you're right.
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by zeroer 10y ago
I have always had the habit of taking out hard drives of computers before handing them over to Apple's Genius Bar. I don't know what I'll do when the next generation of laptops has the hard drives soldered in.
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by zeroer 10y ago
But it is correlated, and not weakly either. I suspect the causation runs in both directions.
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by zeroer 10y ago
> Or maybe you live a very frugal life It's this one.
127.
by zeroer 10y ago
Yea, but it doesn't help.
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by zeroer 10y ago
I'm retired, so unlikely.
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by zeroer 10y ago
There is a continuum of species, but they don't exist at the same time. Take a human woman. She holds hands with her mother. Her mother holds hands with her mother, and so on. Take a female chimpanzee. She holds hands with her mothe
130.
by zeroer 10y ago
Sure. Just concatenate a 256-bit nonce to your PIN, calculate the SHA-512 of the concatenation, and then type the last 4 hex digits of the hash. Easy!
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by zeroer 10y ago
That's not true. You can see what the other party wrote without writing a review if you can wait for the review period to end, which is 14 days -- not that long. It must be so because reviews are public.
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by zeroer 10y ago
That's a great point that I forgot to mention! I will only book a place with sparce reviews (under 5 or so) if the host is very new (listing is less than a month or two old).
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by zeroer 10y ago
> I have poor eyesight, no amount of practice would ever allow me to throw a spear and hit a wild animal. What, specifically, is your eyesight problem? There's some growing suggestive evidence that our eyes need time outside in bri
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by zeroer 10y ago
It's certainly true that making more money will lead to an easier life (otherwise what would be the point?), but I don't think you're addressing my central argument. Whether someone saves money prior to an emergency and then
135.
by zeroer 10y ago
AirBnB reviews are massively inflated. A 4.5 average means you should carefully read between the lines of what the previous guests wrote. A 4 average means you should probably reconsider staying. Hades itself would probably rank around 3
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by zeroer 10y ago
I realize there are income differences, but I don't think it's terribly relevant. Even if I have low income (and concomitant low expenses), then my choice is to save money consistently when times are good and then spend extra mon
137.
by zeroer 10y ago
Is it really that common for people in India to live so close to the edge without savings that they regularly need help? I know my friends and I (in the US) all have buffers of at minimum a few months of expenses. I guess it's not inc
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by zeroer 10y ago
I feel the same way you do. I couldn't find a commercial product that I liked. I'm on OS X, and I made an encrypted disk image that holds a plain text file with login credentials and important numbers/info. I made a couple A
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by zeroer 10y ago
I didn't answer that question because I'm less certain that I know what I'm talking about. Sure, shame motivates. Maybe fear of shame could even be called a strong motivator? I don't know. Is it "especially"
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by zeroer 10y ago
To your last two questions: Yes and yes.
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by zeroer 10y ago
Their engines don't consume dilithium. Rather, it's a catalyst to the matter-antimatter reaction.
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by zeroer 10y ago
It spoke to me and accurately described many parts of my experience of the world. You may not be the target audience.
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by zeroer 10y ago
Hmm. I don't think so. I've consistently heard "rationalist" to mean someone committed to or pursuing rationality. This is very different than "rationalization", which is coming up with reasons to believe some
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by zeroer 10y ago
I've never heard this and it runs contrary to what I've read. Do you have a reference?
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by zeroer 10y ago
That's a real catch-22.
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by zeroer 10y ago
Maybe not if you work up to it.
147.
by zeroer 10y ago
Something like 30% of US households own guns. I'm not so sure gun ownership is higher amongst terrorists.
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by zeroer 10y ago
You make a great point about expected value of damage done, rather than focusing on the probability of an attack. But I think an attack with guns has a low upper limit on the number of people you can kill (maybe around 100, plus or minus?)
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by zeroer 10y ago
Why is camping in there at all? Do terrorists go camping more often than the population average?
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by zeroer 10y ago
I don't think camping fits. Take out camping and you get a person with a history of violence, a large arsenal, obsessed with terrorist books. Still pretty scary. Technically speaking I really doubt interest in camping is any higher

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