Roodgorf

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by Roodgorf 7y ago
Saying that the reason FB is being targeted for anti-trust is that they are simply too successful feels like a vast oversimplification of the situation.
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by Roodgorf 7y ago
I'm pretty sure they're just referring to the immediate feedback of being able to practice by reading with one hand and playing with the other. You generally wouldn't be able to play a whole piece that way, but in comparison
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by Roodgorf 7y ago
I assume the complaint is that it doesn't word wrap so most of the text is cut off.
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
It may not have had good enough information to tell that she was a cyclist at all, and instead interpreted her to be something static/non-human altogether (in parent's example, a bush). Of course, without seeing the data its senso
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
I don't know that I would say contraceptives are the source of unhealthy attitudes towards sex in the US. Prudishness stemming from Western religious influences and the like seems more responsible.
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
> implies anything that encompasses cars. No, I believe that they're talking about the ubiquitous need of a car for any given task. It would be nice if areas were designed such that a vehicle wasn't required to do more or less
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
I think it's okay to have some amount of an echo chamber, they happen more or less naturally just because of who you select to be in your personal sphere of influence, but I think I disagree with the way you describe it. I don't t
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
Yeah, where did they get that number? As I understand it the FED hasn't met its target 2% inflation rate in years. Edit: It seems I was somewhat mistaken: the FED set the 2% inflation goal in 2012[1] and hasn't met it since, but t
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
There were also plenty of reputable political science models that actually did predict a Trump win, so, it all depends on who you put your faith in.
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
I agree. Placing a greater burden on the side of the producers to deal with the trash they produce seems like the most logical approach to me. If X company wants to make something with a bunch of plastic packaging they will have to pay for
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
That's what I was commenting on though; I very well may be wrong, but my understanding was that the weight of things like barbells is measured in pounds-force, not pounds-mass, so if you were going to follow that on the moon you'd
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
Wouldn't trying to deadlift more than 400 pounds be the same amount of effort on the moon? Granted, it would have to be that much more massive, so it would certainly LOOK more impressive.
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
More than two months is quite a bit of time to 'figure things out', even by military standards, and I don't see any good reason to deny him access to a lawyer during that process anyway.
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
That doesn't really sound like an ethical argument so much as the impetus for it.
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
Doesn't that still end up being financial? If someone is banned from collecting data and is later found to have been doing so anyway, the most likely recourse is fines, right? Or are you suggesting this would imply criminal consequence
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
If companies are duty-bound to act unethically (if legally) for the sake of share holder profits then I think that speaks to a flaw in the system driving these decisions.
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
I agree that taking the whole channel down for the flag is not the right approach, and I would have thought the "three strikes rule", in any form, would have enough evidence against it by this point to kill it for good. But I thin
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
Dr. Wallingford's blog is one of the few that I make sure to never miss an entry of, it's definitely cool to see him get some recognition on here.
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
That's fair. Though I will say I don't think any single armed approach to sequestration will be anywhere close to reasonable, so exploring any avenue with decent margins, especially if there's any current practical value to i
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
As I understand it a push for more bamboo would be great for this. It's relatively quick growing and useful for a lot of various building materials. You could sequester a lot of CO2 in bamboo that would be fairly useful and take a lot
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
Some sort of carbon capture and storage situation seems more likely at this point, though I haven't yet seen any proposals that I think would get the backing they need to be effective. Is this what you meant by terraforming, or somethi
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
I stay completely out of the realm of Twitter and haven't heard of any of this sort of thing short of the little spat with Tomi Lahren. Do you have any more noteworthy examples?
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
I don't think it has as extreme an impact as the people posting images of a self-service menu imply it does. I will concede that a lot of my aversion to the argument is from the disdain for people with lower-class jobs that I read into
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
Given the previous reactions to any sort of move by fast food chains toward anything like automation, I can't imagine this won't be picked up as fodder for the "look what happens when you ask for a living wage" contingen
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
Those seem to ignore a lot of important details in the story. No mention of the exaggerated and outright falsified accounts of the story? Nor the baseless conspiracy theories about the town and city council? All of which led to death threat
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
In most cases I think SNS is closer to what I want: multiple producers feeding into a single pipeline that notifies its consumer as soon as possible. The main thing from SQS is the ability to retry a failed message. If SQS were event based,
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
> SQS is not an event source :( I really don't understand why this is the case. Every time we need a queue for something we end up having to explain this again to whoever our newest developers are, which seems to me like a sign of h
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
I think you just described 0 friction with 50% efficiency. With 100% efficiency the weight of the truck alone would be enough to recoup the energy on the way down.
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
Do you have the numbers on how many miles Tesla's level 2 cars have actually been driven while using the feature? I see this sort of argument a lot in regards to Google's self-driving tests, and while it seems convincing to me, it
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by Roodgorf 9y ago
That strikes me as a very, very generous assumption. Even assuming this were the case, it still seems to me akin to perjury, that is, instead of being up front about what they are doing "I am recreating how and where I found these&quot

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