balfirevic

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by balfirevic 8d ago
Well, what if it is? Hanging out with a whimsical premise? Oh the horror!
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by balfirevic 8d ago
LOL, I often don't even bother to adjust my clocks for daylight savings time.
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by balfirevic 2mo ago
> even this list kind of leans toward improving other measures as a means of increasing happiness Since we don't have direct access to happiness dial, every advice for increasing happiness is going to be like that.
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by balfirevic 2mo ago
> But be warned, it takes a long time What's a "long time"? A month, a year, 10 years? > They're not the cheapest option Whats "not the cheapest"? 100 EUR, 1000 EUR, 10000 EUR, more?
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by balfirevic 2mo ago
Barring not-yet-invented advances in automation, shrinking population means fewer and fewer people providing goods and services compared to the number of people that need them, which means worse and worse poverty for larger and larger fract
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by balfirevic 2mo ago
Yes, but that is the common terminology.
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by balfirevic 2mo ago
> Our assumption was that we were in a stealth baby boom. That somehow evaded fertility statistics?
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by balfirevic 2mo ago
> people just want their recreational drugs Yes, people want to recreate, doing all kinds of activities with various levels of risk. They don't need to concern themselves with whether you can respect it.
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by balfirevic 2mo ago
"General aviation" does not include commercial air transport, so that's probably not what you meant.
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by balfirevic 3mo ago
In Croatia, which is (and has been) seeing a tremendous rise in real estate prices, everyone talks about the high prices, but rarely can you hear about about housing shortage. Indeed, building new housing is sometimes brought up as one of t
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by balfirevic 3mo ago
> I do not think the exact shape has any influence Yes, that's what I said.
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by balfirevic 3mo ago
> that doesn't affect the sound That would be the whole shape.
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by balfirevic 3mo ago
Tetris effect, but with the baby!
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by balfirevic 3mo ago
> whereas in this case the transformation is overwhelmingly negative. > The finding that this technique is actually bad in most cases Why do you think this?
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by balfirevic 3mo ago
> In Europe it's strictly forbidden to wear headphones under the helmet. No it's not. > protective gloves with hardened knuckles is of course mandatory No it's not.
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by balfirevic 3mo ago
> No one uses their indicators/turn signals as they approach. This is a major issue because it makes the roundabout incredibly ineffective, as every driver needs to treat it effectively like a 4-way stop because you don't know
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by balfirevic 3mo ago
> People are now ignoring those stop signs (because it’s a roundabout!) Do you mean they treat it as if they have right-of-way when entering? Because that's also unusual (but not unheard of) in roundabouts.
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by balfirevic 3mo ago
> anyone capable of living happily while being outcompeted by machines is well-adapted for the future. > I'm not Why not?
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> I believe the science is pretty clear that in principle these beat gas phase change systems. Do you know by how much?
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by balfirevic 1y ago
Some people will sleep through alarms, turning them off without remembering it. But more importantly, if your sleep schedule is shifted you might not actually be able to fall asleep when you need to, even if you haven't had enough slee
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by balfirevic 1y ago
Can you expand? What's actionable about it?
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> Go to bed early Why? You have 24 hours in a day no matter when you sleep. How did it help?
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> the only way to do things you don’t want to do is to do them Do you have anything that's not tautological?
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> Trains are self-driving. Europe already has the better self-driving system. Well, I'm in Europe and it ain't here. Waymo can't get here fast enough.
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by balfirevic 1y ago
On the other hand, I would not have learned to play the guitar without the high-speed internet.
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> I bet if we all wait a year, the back and forth will die down and we'll be left with a game that gets similar acclaim to Hollow Knight. Sounds great, because I think it doesn't get much better than that.
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> Sold up. Put everything on 00 and gave the wheel a spin. Wait, what?
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by balfirevic 1y ago
I eat whatever I want, don't really exercise and I'm not fat. I guess I just have awesome willpower.
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by balfirevic 1y ago
> This is nothing new Well, it's authoritarian bullshit and deserves contempt. There is nothing redeeming int the fact that it's been going on for a long time.
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by balfirevic 1y ago
My impression was the parent poster was talking about order of operations like projection and selection, where you might more commonly write: Π(σ(R)) instead of σ(Π(R)) and not about whether relational algebra uses prefix or postfix notatio

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