LodeOfCode

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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
>If I'm spending my money on a slot, I have the chance to get my money back. The risk there is of gambling addicts "borrowing" money with the intent of winning back their losses/debts, losing and repeating (as claimed
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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
I'd argue the "experiencing unbearable suffering" part is redundant anyway, since "I'd literally rather die than continue to experience this" is about as close to a definition as you're going to get. And w
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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
Depends where/how you want to live. Retiring at 35 you should be able to get away with a 3.25% SWR [0], which'd give $65k/yr from $2M. But a) that'd be mostly long-term capital gains, which have lower taxes than regular
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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
92.6% of children by age 24 months https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/immunize.htm
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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
>Is your opinion that anyone can renege on known consequences of their actions? That's usually how medical treatment works, yes. We don't tell people who fall off a ladder, slice their finger chopping vegetables, or break a bon
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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
>I don’t know if that completely makes up the difference, but the real disparity is nowhere near the numbers that get thrown around. It’s apples vs oranges. The CDC[2020] reports an infant mortality rate of <0.6%. Excluding all of i
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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
>require 3/4 majority in both houses of Congress 2/3rds of each house, 3/4ths of the states
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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
>study examined the effect of a school-based program encouraging outdoor activities on myopia. "Outdoor activities" is a terrible way to differentiate between sun exposure and large environments
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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
Hard to tell, since the article doesn't bother to cite any sources for most of its claims. Including this paragraph without a single source is just incredible to me >Meanwhile, that big picture just keeps getting more interesting. V
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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
>Quelle surprise, the staff never unplugged their smartcards, and instead borrowed someone else's card when they needed to move around the building. And now that the staff is used to lending out their cards an attacker pretending to
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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
Local charities don't even fully cover the holes in the existing welfare system. Why would you expect them to be able to bear the full burden in its stead?
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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
>he should instantly know the pair if both numbers are prime That should actually be "if the product of their respective smallest prime factors is over 100". 7x11 can't be ruled out since 1x77 also produces 77, whereas 49x
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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
For that you'd want to look at when the death probability exceeds 50% (108 for men, 109 for women). By 112 there's only a 40% chance you'll live to your next birthday
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by LodeOfCode 4y ago
>They do everything they can to block, blacklist, and crush campaigns of progressive primary challengers. They could do that to the "moderate" members who don't want to pass any legislation at all, if passing that legislat
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by LodeOfCode 5y ago
From a dietary perspective it's mostly irrelevant: due to thermodynamic inefficiencies, raising and consuming animal( product)s will inevitably involve farming more plants than eating them directly. So unless only some plant species ha
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by LodeOfCode 5y ago
Even with Bayes' theorem, if your prior is zero, you can ignore any evidence - no matter how strong - that doesn't absolutely require the hypothesis to be true.
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by LodeOfCode 5y ago
Oh, yeah! My profs'd also post the list of which TA did each (sub-)question, so that if we had questions about why we lost marks we knew who direct them to (although all grading disputes had to go to the prof, to disincentivise peopl
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by LodeOfCode 5y ago
With the LED they'd only need to go look at the screen when there's a question. Actually, if you put the laptop in the middle of the front row, set the font size large, and used a clicker to go through them, the teacher could prob
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by LodeOfCode 5y ago
>shouldn't need to spend their own money on basic COVID-19 supplies Not covid supplies, school supplies pre-covid (which they also shouldn't have needed to, but did need to nevertheless). And hiring enough surrogates would ea
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by LodeOfCode 5y ago
The grading (and lesson planning/assignment & test writing, though those scale anyway) would be split between the teacher giving the lesson and the one acting as a surrogate, so they'd basically still have the same load each.
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by LodeOfCode 5y ago
>whose job was to monitor chat/messages from the virtual attendees and raise his hand to ask a question to the instructor Seems like a human solution to a (mostly) technical problem. Basically you just need a way for students to mar
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by LodeOfCode 5y ago
>tradeoffs (fewer rooms, multiple students per room and/or higher cost) they would require You can increase the house plan from 22 windowed rooms (counting the double room twice) to 32 without changing the shape of the building by m
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by LodeOfCode 5y ago
Those should only differ by a factor of 2 [the collision rate for an image is the number of collisions it has divided by the number of other images, so the average collision rate is the total collisions divided by n(n-1) vs. n(n-1)/2 p
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by LodeOfCode 5y ago
I'd guess the fare review only covers the $9.06 listed as fare, and not the service fees/net earnings
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by LodeOfCode 5y ago
For #10, both buttons say the black button is opt out. Since the question says at most one is true, they're both false and white is opt out.
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by LodeOfCode 5y ago
It actually calls aurochs bovine, so I think the parenthetical was supposed to be a separate list item "rhinoceroses, wild horses, an extinct wild bovine called aurochs, and people."
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by LodeOfCode 6y ago
With thanks to dn3500: "Development of the Field Artillery Observation Battalions" has the story about the toilet told by Bragg himself (on pg. 8) [0], though apparently it was an improvement of an existing process. [0] https:&#x
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by LodeOfCode 6y ago
I remembered hearing that on QI, which was enough to turn up this[0]: > "The panel are shown a photo of a man and are asked how his bare bottom helped Britain win World War One. The man is William Lawrence Bragg, a physicist and the
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by LodeOfCode 6y ago
Maybe they have a separate computer for that? As long as it doesn't have anything secret on it, it shouldn't matter much if it's infected. Though they'd still have to be careful that what they search doesn't give an
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by LodeOfCode 6y ago
>Otherwise most European countries should explode since social distancing is no way taken as serious anymore. A cursory look suggests most of them actually have been exploding in new cases since mid-july/early-august

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