MRD85

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by MRD85 7y ago
I doesn't physically cost any practical amount of money to read an article, a tiny amount of processing power and data transfer. A physical meal costs orders of magnitude more. I understand why we should pay for articles but if you enf
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by MRD85 7y ago
When I was young I remember pay TV being marketed in Australia as "TV with no ads". It's slowly shifted to a premium content with ads model that I find hard to justify when I have access to ad free online services. As a paren
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by MRD85 7y ago
Normal could be defined as a range if you use the English usage of normal.
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by MRD85 7y ago
The way I'm reading this code is that the cases aren't that distinct. Look at lines 4367 to 4390 and you see 23 distinct cases that could be handled by a range and Mod 3.
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by MRD85 7y ago
I'm a second-year CS student that is still learning in this realm. Is there a general way that most developers would rewrite lines 5261-5284? My assumption is I would look to find some rules I can apply to simplify the code but I'
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by MRD85 7y ago
Name, date of birth and contact details (phone and address) are often enough data for a fraudster to commit some serious damage. If I call up my phone company or bank that's probably going to cover the questions they ask me to prove id
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by MRD85 7y ago
Neither of my parents finished high school and didn't value education but they did value hard work and they encouraged me to get a trade. I joined the military, got a trade there, and now in my early/mid 30's I'm complet
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by MRD85 7y ago
Depending on the size of the effect, 11 participants can be very valid in an experiment. For example, assume you have 11 participants having a hormone measured after an experiment. If normal readings are 300 with a SD of 30, and at the end
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by MRD85 7y ago
A decent amount of your electricity bill is related to supply. Modern countries have a lot of rules around the reliability of their energy supply so companies spend a lot of money to guarantee that infrastructure is up to scratch. You'
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by MRD85 7y ago
I'm sitting here considering the possibility of making my own bot to play low stakes online poker ($1.50 sit n go). Run it on 6 tables at once and I imagine it would be facing really poor opponents and would have a steady flow of cash.
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by MRD85 7y ago
Success isn't the best possible outcome vs worst possible outcome scenario you're describing. I made a decision at 30 to improve my life and three years later I'm reaping benefits. Consider an obese man looking at a fitness m
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by MRD85 7y ago
How could someone sell shares in an asteroid? Wouldn't it be shares in a mining operation? If another country or business finds a way to mine that asteroid then they won't care about your paper claiming ownership.
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by MRD85 7y ago
How does it feel to use? It's unfortunate but tin + lead solder is just better than the other options on the market.
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by MRD85 7y ago
Aren't planes horrible for climate when compared to other systems?
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by MRD85 7y ago
In terms of long distance travel can bullet trains compare with flights, especially if they shave time off with an easier check in system?
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by MRD85 7y ago
It could be related to gameifying it. Finishing a task isn't simply a task, it's an item moved along the kanban board!
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by MRD85 7y ago
Are you doing this solo or do you have a partner? My experience as a single dad is that I can go entire days without having a single conversation with another adult. My adult friends aren't too interested in hanging out parenting. They
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by MRD85 7y ago
My point is she thinks it would be great to have no one expect you to be a decent parent and she passes it off as men having it better in her article. I'm saying, that for a dedicated parent, it's worse.
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by MRD85 7y ago
Thanks. My two children are doing amazing. My long term goal is to raise them into healthy adults with a good chance of being happy (nothing is guaranteed).
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by MRD85 7y ago
I made the opposite choice. I'm a single father and I've prioritised my children over my career. I'm not going to pretend it's an amazing lifestyle. If you're intellectually driven then looking after two young child
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by MRD85 7y ago
He was also only 16-17 years old at the time, completing an exam for university graduates. EDIT: This was his second year, so he was 17-18 years old. Also note this qoute: All in all, I probably only did about two weeks’ worth of preparatio
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by MRD85 7y ago
How was it full if you had booked? Do they sell more rooms than they have available?
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by MRD85 7y ago
In the 2005 era when I was a young video gamer I used to play World of Warcraft. There was a site, Thottbot, that players would use to find out information about things in game. I picked up a keylogger malware from their adservers. One of t
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by MRD85 7y ago
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient".[2][3][4] Censorship can be conducted by a gov
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by MRD85 7y ago
I'm actually sort of scared with the way that censorship of different views is becoming the norm. I'm predominantly left leaning but I'm seeing more and more moderation where the only allowed opinion is the correct one. I see
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by MRD85 7y ago
It's not just going. It's nearly any word ending in a g. Ending = endin Surfing = surfin In Australia "Gonna" = "Going to"
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by MRD85 7y ago
I'm not actually sure how I feel about this. Australian English is distinct, and one of its key features is heavy use of shortened words and dropped letters. For example, the word "going" becomes "goin".
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by MRD85 7y ago
Imagine an easy mode planet in a system with multiple habitable planets. Now that I've typed that I'm also considering how Mars would look from 12 light years away. Is establishing a colony 12 light years away easier than transfor
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by MRD85 7y ago
Some guy in the UK did this. It's fairly hard to manage however, because there is a lot of regulations around his legal requirements i.e. needs to disclose that it's a paid number, etc. He make a bit of sidecash off it and a surpr
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by MRD85 7y ago
Even with that house analogy, I'd argue that you shouldn't store large volumes of other people's sensitive personal data in a house that has the bare minimum security. The issue is organisations being reckless with our data a

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