Fargren

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by Fargren 5d ago
It's certainly not possible to keep a Jenga Tower growing forever. For each floor you add you need to leave at least one piece in a lower floor. Eventually you run out of pieces. It's possible to "complete" a Jenga Tower
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by Fargren 23d ago
Let me restate what the OP said. (quotes used for paraphrasing, not for quoting) "Restaurant owners set a price on their dishes, because if everyone payed at will, the owners know they would make less money. Therefore we can assume own
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by Fargren 23d ago
If I need anything, I will call for the waiter. I do find it intrusive and patronizing if they come and check if I need anything. I'm not "upset" about it, but it does make my dining experience worse. It also gives me the imp
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by Fargren 1mo ago
In Argentina at least, you can get a fine[1] for taking a picture of your ballot. Certainly a hard law to enforce though. [1] https://www.perfil.com/noticias/politica/elecciones-2025-de-...
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by Fargren 2mo ago
USA is the exception here. In most countries, even people who are not football fans are pretty aware of how it works. I don't often watch football outside the world cup. I don't support any teams. But I know how football is meant
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by Fargren 2mo ago
You can own and appartment and live in it. For some reason ownership every discussion with USAmericans seems to come with the premise that home ownership implies houses. The vast majority of home owners I know personally own a flat.
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by Fargren 2mo ago
Many (all?) EU countries have a national ID card, and most (all?) IDs has a chip that can be used for secure document signing. I don't know if it can be used by itself for age verification. Maybe it would need to contrast your signatur
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by Fargren 2mo ago
Customer protection absolutely is regulation. Saying otherwise is a No True Scotsman. Good regulation is good. Bad regulation is bad. Being anti-regulation is dogmatic.
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by Fargren 3mo ago
> Which raises the question, why would you work hard to create value for others in a system like that? Because creating things for others is a fulfilling way to live your life, and creates a richer society. Valve does not want to maximi
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by Fargren 3mo ago
> I read on HN that AI's can just interpolate the data they have seen in training No. That can be said about LLMs, but not about all forms of AI. The technique used is not a LLM. Sadly we've bastardized the term AI that, if it
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by Fargren 3mo ago
Because you can inherit capital. You can also inherit talent, but "the descendants of those worthy are worthy" is a belief humanity spilled a lot of blood to get away from.
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by Fargren 3mo ago
The study that defined the 10x engineer defined him as 10x as good as the worst engineer. If there is a 0.1x engineer, and a 1x engineer, that 1x engineer is the very definition of a 10x engineer.
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by Fargren 3mo ago
> Lines of code has always been a terrible metric. But all else being equal it is a measure. A terrible metric is _worse_ than no metric. A terrible metric can _only_ lead you in the wrong direction. "No metric" means saying we
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by Fargren 4mo ago
Just because it's impossible to solve a problem 100% doesn't mean that it's impossible to improve the state of things. Perfect is the enemy of good. There aren't that many people doing random chaotic damage, and it'
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by Fargren 4mo ago
Freedom of speech is not defined by the US constitution. Free speech is an ideological stance, not a legal definition. US laws protects some forms of free speech and not others.
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by Fargren 4mo ago
Same, none of the ones I worked on. But I did more work for Nickelodeon than CN, so I'm not really surprised. I only remember one CN one I did, but I might have worked on two or three that I'd know if I saw them again... There are
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by Fargren 5mo ago
It's easier (or at least different) to say to your friends "let's go to a phone free bar" than it its to say "let's go to a bar, phone-free". In the first case, a third party came up with the idea, and you
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by Fargren 6mo ago
Government regulation has mandated USB-C in all devices, which helps me every day. Just to name something in the realm of what the article is about.
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by Fargren 6mo ago
A system where this can happen is healthy. The alternative is a system where once legislation fails to pass you are forbidden to modify it and try again. _That_ would be a broken system, where compromise is impossible, and attempting to mak
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by Fargren 6mo ago
The point of PRs is not to avoid mistakes (though sometimes this can happen). Automated tests are the tool to weed out those kinds of mistakes. The point of PRs is to spread knowledge. I try to read every PR, even if it's already appro
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by Fargren 6mo ago
I think you are discounting the mental, physical and social toll of being locked up for 10 years. Without autonomy, without privacy, without access to your loved ones (some of whom might die, and the rest will likely have irreparably damage
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by Fargren 6mo ago
At no point in my life would I choose to spend 10 years in jail for $400m. Only if my current living situation was very poor and this was my only way out of it. I can sort of imagine why one would... but it seems like an awful decision to m
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by Fargren 7mo ago
The title doesn't match the article, and it's also not true. The term may have become more widespread after the 2013 book mentioned in the article, but it certainly existed prior to it.
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by Fargren 7mo ago
Do we know that we don't see adverse health effects on those populations? I couldn't find any studies on the subject. I think it would be very hard to measure, since you can't really compare without comparing populations of d
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by Fargren 7mo ago
"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape, than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long & generally approv’d" The amount of damage these cameras have caused is totally disproportional to
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by Fargren 7mo ago
The first word of UBI is universal. The entire concept relies on that characteristic.
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by Fargren 7mo ago
I think if you materially support the nazis, you are a nazi, regardless of what might be your internal justification. This is a distinction without a difference.
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by Fargren 8mo ago
This is not my experience at all with Facebook. Since six months ago or so, Facebook is saying my three option are to pay them a subscription, accept tracking, or not use their products. I went with option three, but my reading of the GDPR
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by Fargren 8mo ago
That would fall under Reuse rather than Recycle. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are in the order of best to worst. Recycling is the last ditch effort to not completely waste something. It's always going to feel like a half measure, because
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by Fargren 8mo ago
If salvaging 100% of the materials that make up something is the only way to "properly" recycle, we are not recycling anything properly. Some components are not recyclable. I won't speculate about whether the plastic on the b

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