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by arafa 5y ago
Some folks seem to be able to switch and keep their old ability and some can't. I was able to switch back to Qwerty pretty easily, but it made my wrists contort in such odd ways that I never noticed before. So I generally wouldn&#x27
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by arafa 5y ago
I don't find myself to be any faster in Dvorak (70 wpm, like before) and from other users and people online, that seems to be typical. There are some possible gains at the high end, since from what I read most of the confirmed world r
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by arafa 5y ago
Seems like a pretty good analysis. I've been using Dvorak for 20+ years also. The keyboard shortcuts thing is annoying, though I hadn't heard about the wrist strain they cause. I didn't see this discussed, but I actually f
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by arafa 5y ago
"Some special circumstances" can also mean where stock prices go down low enough to bring employees below their compensation target. It doesn't happen much lately at tech companies because the stocks are soaring, but it used
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by arafa 5y ago
As mentioned in the article, it's because it's based off of Paul Ekman's facial recognition work (FACS), which infers a person's emotional state based on their facial expression. The only reliable markers Ekman found we
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by arafa 5y ago
This article reads like a longform version of why statistical power/effect size is important but doesn't mention it by name, only alluding to it. I suspect there would be much less of a replication crisis if, instead of just focu
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by arafa 6y ago
Just let me pay more for a non-ads version. Worked just fine for Amazon Kindle products.
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by arafa 6y ago
Probably investment banking.
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by arafa 6y ago
I always thought Hofstadter's argument (I see he's discussed elsewhere in this thread) was that consciousness was a convenient illusion, which is kind of like the idea that it's a feeling here. And that the key insight is th
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by arafa 6y ago
Another accidental method I found was leaving Javascript off by default. It's a bit more granular since websites experience different levels of breakage (if any) without JS. But it makes me similarly thoughtful. I can't count t
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by arafa 6y ago
You can also contact Customer Service about stuff like this and they'll handle it and that feedback often makes it back to the teams responsible. There's not a lot of CS contacts in Prime Video compared to retail but they can be
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by arafa 6y ago
The training is quite heavy on the sales pitch, I agree (and expensive). There were some useful bits if you dig around though.
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by arafa 6y ago
I appreciate the explanations, thanks. I don't have the trading context. Seems like tail risk or Black Swan events yet again. I hope they made enough money on these shorts that it wasn't "picking up pennies in front of ste
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by arafa 6y ago
Right, seems like a similar problem to banks and leverage. People can short more in aggregate than exists the same way the money multiplier exists for banks. But there are bank runs and it's built on trust, so that's risky too a
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by arafa 6y ago
So it seems the issue is that people have borrowing agreements that can be recalled early (seems like it functions like a margin call in a way). Call it half-naked shorting, I guess. Still seems risky. I feel like they could've just
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by arafa 6y ago
Please explain. I thought this was the whole purpose behind hedging, was to avoid the short squeeze. Are people reneging on the purchase agreements or overpromising? How can we know these aren't naked shorts and if so, why are they
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by arafa 6y ago
Am I missing something in the Gamestop news that isn't "hedge fund gambles billions on naked shorts and loses"? That seems like a real blunder on their part. In other contexts we would just call this gambling, I think. Sho
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by arafa 6y ago
I agree, the title is misleading. This doesn't have the traditional hallmarks of money laundering since the scheme is mostly transparent and fradulent. It's really just a scam.
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by arafa 6y ago
I also use ReviewMeta and it does handle review hijacking. It's not a great experience as a customer, but if I combine ReviewMeta and Amazon reviews and search I still get pretty good products. My basic guidelines are that it needs a
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by arafa 6y ago
I suspect that one day we're going to have to start logging into our TVs, and that will be a terrible day.
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by arafa 6y ago
SARs are merely suspected illicit activity. The feds investigate and see if the claims have merit. They can also have varying degrees of severity which can affect account closure decisions.
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by arafa 6y ago
If you have Spotify, you can also do this through offline syncing, but it's annoying to figure out. Less dodgy than this solution, though. https://support.spotify.com/us/article/Listen-to-local-files... Spot
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by arafa 6y ago
The UI isn't perfect, but the overall grade is fail even above the fold, which almost always means I won't buy the product.
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by arafa 6y ago
I see people mentioning Fakespot, I also recommend ReviewMeta and use it often: https://reviewmeta.com/
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by arafa 6y ago
You're of course right that it's hard to know (but not impossible to know) the permanent effects of a novel virus (because the damage could be like other diseases/conditions we've seen). Brain damage is just as concernin
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by arafa 6y ago
It's not just about the death rate, the long-term/permanent damage being caused (lung damage, senses, brain damage) and the fact that immunity doesn't seem to help much (perhaps a year) are other factors to consider. Long-te
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by arafa 6y ago
Gift cards are often used for money laundering and fraud, because they act as de facto currency but are not subject to the same regulations. I think the key is limiting the extent to which they can be used as currency, which is related to
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by arafa 6y ago
I like to tell people about programs like "LOVEINT" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT ). Where there is personal information available to others, it can and will be abused in ways you won't approve
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by arafa 6y ago
Today I learned that this name was actually an inside joke/reference in Godel, Escher, Bach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu I definitely didn't understand at the time I read, but it's so muc
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by arafa 6y ago
That book was great and I learned a huge amount by reading it. But, unless it's been updated (I read it years ago but it's also an older book), there were numerous typos and even some code errors.

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