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by bjl 4y ago
So it's not available, then. 1080p isn't even close to on par with 4k HDR, not sure why you bothered mentioning them.
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by bjl 5y ago
> The average person is simply unable to evaluate competence, especially from news clips and "debates". The median voter is not a highly competitive white collar knowledge worker with a background in STEM necessary to evaluate
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by bjl 5y ago
So you're incentivizing being racist on the internet to make it harder to fire somebody.
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by bjl 5y ago
Not even a little bit...
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by bjl 5y ago
> Search HN threads on the topic, read people who agree and people who disagree then make your own opinion I honestly cant tell if this is parody or not.
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by bjl 6y ago
Well, if I was black I'd probably like to know if my psychiatrist associated with HBD cranks. Or if I was a woman, I'd want to know if my psychiatrist wrote apologia for incels. And that's just two examples of the countless a
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by bjl 6y ago
Shorting serves a valuable purpose. It removes capital from the hands of people stupid enough to believe fraudsters, and reallocates it to people who dont. The whole purpose of markets is to facilitate the efficient allocation of capital, a
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by bjl 6y ago
> 5) [It's a wild west...] Respectfully, this is an unkind or perhaps bigoted statement. I have many friends in crypto who are thoughtful, kind people. They think deeply about the ethical implications of the systems we're build
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by bjl 6y ago
> Why they felt the need to ban discusions of marxism or a general strike is beyond me. Because it was built to be a fascist recruitment channel, and the talk of 'free speech' is just a smoke screen that they don't care ab
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by bjl 6y ago
> That leads me to the question: can anyone here recommend a good Indian author from the same era as Kipling? (Yes I know Kipling was born in India). While not a direct answer to your question, I think The Location of Culture by Homi B
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by bjl 6y ago
What a terrible look for Datacamp.
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by bjl 6y ago
It's hard to imagine a more boring place than a city full of only techies.
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by bjl 6y ago
Economics doesn't have anything to do with these. - Eat Right - actually cheaper than eating unhealthy - Exercise Often - possible to do free - Groom regularly - very cheap, the cost of a haircut every couple of months - Develop a pers
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by bjl 6y ago
Heartily disagree. If you have time to play video games and endlessly post on reddit, then you have time to get in shape and take a shower. Willpower's even easier barring mental illness (in which case they should see a doctor, not whi
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by bjl 6y ago
None of the things listed are difficult at all. They take willpower and time, of course, but they aren't rocket science.
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by bjl 6y ago
Because the men that are willing to put in the effort are still having sex. Its not hard for a man to become attractive: eat right, exercise often, groom regularly, dress well, develop a compelling personality, cultivate relationships with
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by bjl 6y ago
Disneyland with the death penalty. No thanks. I prefer to live in a society that doesn't execute non-violent drug dealers.
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by bjl 6y ago
Yep, because harassing interracial couples is so hilarious \s.
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by bjl 6y ago
I mean, yeah? I think you were trying to give an example of a hard to understand notation, but that page is relatively straightforward and concise. In fact, I can't think of a more straightforward (and non-ambiguous ) way to express t
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by bjl 6y ago
Vernacular English isn't capable of describing some concepts succinctly enough to be useful to mathematicians. If English was superior people would be using it. This 'argument' always just seems to be a thinly veiled excuse t
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by bjl 7y ago
JP Morgan and Goldman were completely solvent during the entire financial crisis, they were forced to take bailout money by the government (to disguise which banks were actually insolvent). Where do all these nonsense memes about the 2008 c
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by bjl 7y ago
> BAT If one of your examples is a charity fraud scheme masquerading as a crypto-currency start-up [0], I'm not sure you have a very good argument. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
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by bjl 7y ago
We have absolutely no evidence that AP is safer than human drivers because Tesla (tellingly) refuses to release information comparing AP miles to comparable miles driven by other luxury vehicles. Their refusal to release that information co
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by bjl 7y ago
Not even randomly accusing innocent people of pedophilia?
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by bjl 7y ago
You're right, to my knowledge neither Trump nor Kanye have publicly accused innocent people of pedophilia.
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by bjl 7y ago
> The extreme/rare event is Tesla got hundreds of thousands of people to put a down payment on a car with zero marketing costs. According to their SEC filings Tesla spends tens of millions of dollars per quarter on marketing costs.
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by bjl 8y ago
Or, rather than postulating some shadowy conspiracy theory, we can guess that the SEC is a law enforcement agency, and Musk has repeatedly (and in plain sight) violated the law.
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by bjl 8y ago
Unless tomatoes, Parmesan cheese, and aged beef also give you headaches every time, then its guaranteed not to be the MSG.
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by bjl 8y ago
We have absolutely no idea whether or not SpaceX is profitable.
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by bjl 8y ago
> IMO, if he had said this in an earnings call, or presented it in a way that made it seem "official", then I could get the problem, but it's twitter. TSLA stated five years ago that Musk's twitter is an official sour

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