BariumBlue

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by BariumBlue 2y ago
By that logic a one party system is the most superior system, since by definition everyone is on the same page. We got Trump in part because people felt unable to fully express their opinion - they felt it was either the status quo person o
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by BariumBlue 2y ago
My lens is that the military is a federal agency, and our soldiers are federal employees. This EO combined with the "he who saves his country breaks no law" quote points towards an eventual attempt at a coupe or similar use of for
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by BariumBlue 2y ago
It's a way to add emphasis on "They did a good job". We could translate it as "I'm somewhat biased against BlueOrigin, but BlueOrigin managed to overcome my personal bias with how impressive their launch was".
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by BariumBlue 2y ago
I know we've got cuprates, superconductors formed with copper oxide, useful up to 133Kelvin, higher than Nitrogen cooling's capability of 77K. I've read of them being used in wind turbines and particle accelerators, as well a
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by BariumBlue 2y ago
Ehh the issue is features tacked on w/out regards to existing ones. Lotta apps like that end up with multiple ways to do the exact same thing but with very slightly different use cases
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by BariumBlue 2y ago
> Part of what made it so enthralling to read was this grand act of human perversity that a single woman would endure This is part of why I enjoy watching a couple of RuneScape YouTubers. The sheer time commitments they put in for seemin
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
There was a study investigating people's preferences for living type ... I don't remember whether it was 40/60 or 60/40, but the preference for SFH or for apartments is not universal. Honestly it's weird that people
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
Good point actually - when teaching absolute newbs, I found they'd often confuse the point of a while with a for with an if block. GOTO is super unambiguous and probably a better introduction to program control flow while they get used
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
The Malthusian argument is incorrect and I disagree with the concept of physical infrastructure being the end-all-be-all. Japan, South Korea, Germany, as well as the USSR had explosive growth after WW2 not because they had massive existing
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
My 2c is correlation with exercise. I'd expect that the study would control for a known factor like exercise, but I would imagine those who perceive themselves as being less on the phone would value and participate in more active activ
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
Wasn't there analysis that company performance is inversely correlated to CEO compensation? I remember seeing a chart, though I don't remember whether the analysis was well done & researched or not
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
Ahh, I think I get what you're saying now. For "This proposition suggests that we should give concessions to developers in areas where there is a need for more development." Development is a good thing. Maintaining your house
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
Property tax: The more of your money you invest into your property, the more you pay for taxes (punishing investment) Land value tax: Your tax is unchanged on how much you invest in your properties. A rundown parking lot pays the same amoun
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
I personally think Unity suffered from success - I suspect they grew to match their fairly outsized success, found out they were fairly large and needed more revenue to sustain themselves, and so they increasingly looked to and focused on p
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
You can actually design roads to encourage attentiveness - by using road trees, narrower lanes, roundabouts, non-straight roads, or obstacles like bollards or similar. These aren't popular though because people want generally want to z
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
self-driving cars are also much worse at handling the ambiguity of mixed vehicle-human spaces. They work best when the infrastructure is specifically dedicated to them - a place designed for cars.
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
There can be harm, as piracy can theoretically reduce demand for the premium non-pirated products Reduced demand leads to reduced income/revenue. If someone did some action that directly definitively reduced your income, bringing you f
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
I got into an MRI once, a while ago. Iirc the most alarming aspect of the sounds was that they gave the impression of massive objects spinning, whirring, and moving rather fast around you.
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
If an LLM was trained to always say "I don't know", that'd be a useless LLM, so they're trained to NOT say that, even when they don't actually know. The LLM was happy to give you 'happy' but incorrect
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
Is Assange a journalist? I would argue that there's a difference between someone who just dumps documents on the internet, and one who tries to inform and bring attention to issues. I don't consider folks who leak documents on dis
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
I've seen office leaders try to shoehorn project management software into their office. There were meetings of, for Jira/Trello, "how can we organize things", or "what's the best way to do this", ... but i
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
Quick math, it takes 10+ times more energy to scrub and then store carbon from the air, then you get by burning natgas for the same amount of CO2. (1 ton of LNG produces 100 KWh and 2.76 tons CO2, and the thermodynamic minimum energy requir
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
Taiwan and Japan have friendly relations, and supposed to be a popular destination for Japanese tourists (this I couldn't find real stats on this). There is also internal Japanese tourism - such as to Okinawa or Kyoto
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
Yes! That was exactly what I was thinking of! I love one of the comments - "But might this physical stretching then also allow room temperature superconductors, if not why not?" They were thinking of stretching at a macro scale (l
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
Ohh ... this could actually be relatively big. From abstract: "The superconductivity of LK-99 originates from minute structural distortion by a slight volume shrinkage" There was previously research done investigating how changes
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
>Mouse clicks and distance are two of the most basic metrics. And straight forward. So why wouldn't you optimize there? That's the McNamara fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy Basically
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
The perfect UX is the interface is that displays and works exactly how the user wants and expects. The perfect UI is the interface that has the quickest, most optimal workflow to accomplish a user's tasks
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
The article also mentions fruit bats also showing paralysis symptoms
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
Are you implying that the US is cursed, forever pathologically unable to have bikeable places, because it's too large? If only the US was smaller...
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by BariumBlue 3y ago
The US has the largest cultural blocks on the western internet, but I don't think they quite form the majority, just a plurality. There's a lot of internet out there, but usually it's easiest (for consumers, and for content

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