Cpoll

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by Cpoll 3d ago
Not etymologically related, just homophones; barb (from French) and barbarian (from Greek) have distinct roots.
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by Cpoll 6d ago
Did you come up with anything? Because I'm drawing a blank.
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by Cpoll 7d ago
Nature's "made" natural nuclear reactors (Oklo), but we had to make the hydrogen bomb ourselves.
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by Cpoll 8d ago
Not sufficient, given reports of TVs and other devices automatically creating mesh networks. Your disconnected TV could talk to your neighbour's connected one. If anything, I wonder why LG isn't already doing it. Edit: Getting pus
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by Cpoll 10d ago
I think you can find a Miyamoto interview where he claims he chose the name from Zelda Fitzgerald.
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by Cpoll 15d ago
You won't really get much out of it playing 3hrs/week though.
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by Cpoll 18d ago
30-player lobbies isn't exactly "massively" multiplayer though.
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by Cpoll 18d ago
Grind addiction aside, the gameplay was legitimately good. PvP was compelling, raiding was compelling, even the grind was pretty fun (especially compared to your usual free-to-play MMO).
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by Cpoll 20d ago
> nobody has a competitive advantage This presupposes that a company's competitive advantage comes primarily from their CEO. It also presupposes that success is zero sum and winner takes all, which isn't always the case (exampl
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by Cpoll 20d ago
> So many things I would have completely missed if it weren't for this. This is the "unknown unknowns" problem. It sounds like the agent is a reasonably good source of obvious-in-hindsight problems that a experienced found
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by Cpoll 21d ago
I don't understand. The 10year view on the site you linked shows a spike in unemployment in 2020 after Brexit took effect, and current rates are still higher than pre-Brexit rates. Is there an explanation for why the 2016 vote would be
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by Cpoll 22d ago
I don't have a horse in this race, but sources I found claim Brexit was economically detrimental to this day, including but not limited to the wiki page and its citations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_eff
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by Cpoll 24d ago
> Deckard certainly isn't supposed to be a good one. Why not? He's a seasoned detective with a track record, why's it so hard to believe he picked up some tricks?
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by Cpoll 24d ago
> Are there any other wars that are not of aggression? There are concepts like wars of necessity or just wars (e.g. of liberation), but that depends on how cynical you're feeling.
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by Cpoll 24d ago
Those European countries are miles ahead on metrics that matter, like maternal mortality rate.
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by Cpoll 26d ago
> cyberpunk > horrifying totalitarian dictatorship with a market economy These things are totally compatible, and usually basically synonymous.
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by Cpoll 28d ago
> not sure if all A fair amount, but far from all of them. AFAIR it was largely a technical decision with trade-offs; games that did it could offer CD-quality music, but wouldn't be able to read data from the disk and play music sim
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by Cpoll 29d ago
I assume it's just people mimicking/cargo culting content creators, who are indeed being oppressed by the dark forces of the algorithm and the de-mometizer.
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by Cpoll 1mo ago
In my experience, conversations on Facebook also cause cognitive damage.
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by Cpoll 1mo ago
Video games can be any combination of those three. They don't even have to be fun in a traditional sense to be engaging. In any case, they're probably looking for transferrable skills, not gamifying ATC.
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by Cpoll 1mo ago
> unprocessed corn and soy You mean edamame and sweet corn? You can grab an ear of the latter right off the field, husk it and eat it raw if you'd like. Or is there something about megafarms that prevent that? > Most people don&#
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by Cpoll 1mo ago
> Mass starvation probably. We aren't prepared for it. Give it 10 years and maybe it could be done. How do you figure? The same logistics lines that carry animal feed and then the animal can just carry the ~animal~ human feed direct
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by Cpoll 1mo ago
> For the exposition crawl, they use standard capitalization except for two variants Three variants; "Robot" is capitalized though it is not a proper noun.
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by Cpoll 1mo ago
> 550,000 moderators You can bring this number down by only reviewing new/low-reputation advertisers, increasing minimum spend, rate limiting, etc. You can also pre-filter for "definitely not CSAM" and only review the more
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by Cpoll 1mo ago
As far as I know, that assumption generally holds. If we're talking "trivially easy for a state actor," then it's not macho to say that pilots need to be able to safely conduct flights with a missing engine and a cracked
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by Cpoll 2mo ago
I don't think an ansible is "hard sci-fi". Hard sci-fi deals with known physics, and FTL communication violates that.
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by Cpoll 2mo ago
> motivation to oppose junk food. On social media, making dubious claims about food science or food ingredients, then following up by selling some "clean, unprocessed, organic" product is big business. (I make no claims about t
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by Cpoll 2mo ago
> issue tracker I contend that issues/tickets are as much a part of the code as comments and commit messages, and tightening the link is valuable, especially when you need to decide whether to take down an old fence. Which is a conu
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by Cpoll 2mo ago
Well, not any sort. We'll just have to stick to wireframe glasses.
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by Cpoll 2mo ago
And yet lotteries are billion dollar businesses.

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