dumbotron

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by dumbotron 3y ago
> [cheating] was a cultural difference that had to be respected What he meant to say was "they pay sticker price"
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by dumbotron 3y ago
I'm not being smug about CA's grid. It has rolling blackout on hot days. Its problem is it doesn't let anyone build power plants.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
> Cities can compete against each other to attract businesses - no? We've seen this with Walmarts. They get cities to compete for their stores. Amazon did it for HQ2. The problem is the winner's curse. The winning city will oft
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by dumbotron 3y ago
> Having everyone lock themselves inside and exclusively interact via video chat is not a good thing, IMO. Sounds like a Black Mirror episode.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
There's an argument that you want consistency across the state. Having snowflake jurisdictions is a headache for businesses.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
> SF is being gutted because the only equipment a programmer needs is a computer I think that's only half of it. The other half is a lot of people were only in SF for the money. When given the opportunity to leave and make the same
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by dumbotron 3y ago
I'm sympathetic to concerns that some kids (mostly girls) are doing it because it's a trendy thing to do. I'm worried things like The Genderbread Person send the wrong message by gendering clothes and activities. It tells a
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by dumbotron 3y ago
You're confusing misdirection for divide and conquer. Divide and conquer would mean the US splits up so China can be the superpower.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
I'm surprised mass shooters all love ARs. A cheap plastic 9mm pistol with hollowpoint rounds is plenty deadly.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
> Some of their stats resemble third world countries. Have you walked through the TL? Comparing California and Texas can be interesting because the states are both dominated by a single party, so you see how both ideologies can go wrong.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
> my hobbies tend to be populated mainly by the conservative demographic What are conservative (and liberal) hobbies?
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by dumbotron 3y ago
> No area is thriving right now thanks to the recession We're not really in a recession. Tech was probably in a recession in 2022, but Google and Meta both had good earnings reports, so maybe we're through that. Finance is havi
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by dumbotron 3y ago
I saw this today. It looks at mass transit funding in big metros. Mass transit is interesting because it's a proxy for downtown health. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-09/us-public... The
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by dumbotron 3y ago
This joke's getting tired. Jersey Shore did just fine, and that was a decade after The Real World showed MTV they should downplay the music. They just didn't have the next big thing, and now kids are into TikTok dances. Next you&#
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by dumbotron 3y ago
People like to criticize subscription models, but this is why you actually want them. It's easier to keep everything mostly up-to-date than do a big migration every decade, and if the pricing is set right (it usually isn't), it wo
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by dumbotron 3y ago
This isn't just a tech thing. People redo their kitchens and bathrooms every so often because they start looking dated.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
We also set up concentration camps for Japanese-Americans.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
The best part about over-treating as a dentist is there's no evidence, and the patient might never know.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
Once I sunk a day into a take-home test. It went well, and I got to chat with a manager for half an hour. They said they weren't interested with no added context. Setting aside that take-home tests favor people who have time on their h
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by dumbotron 3y ago
The yellow flag to me is less the job hopping and more that you were only obviously successful at one company.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
> is there anything that isn’t meaningless, then? Invert a binary tree.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
> The exploited host workers then do everything for them, from taking care of their brood to protecting and feeding them. Such a relationship between species is called obligate parasitism, because the parasites cannot survive on their ow
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by dumbotron 3y ago
> I suspect what's going on here is that in music, it doesn't matter if you understand it right the first time. So there's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdz5kCaCRFM and more interestingly https:&#x
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by dumbotron 3y ago
Realizing no one's going to change a language with 900 million speakers, do you think it's because there's a lot of ambiguity, or is it because it's a cognitive load people aren't used to? Mandarin is a newer langua
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by dumbotron 3y ago
But it's the wrong straw. The reason people played with their Oculus for a day, then left it on the shelf wasn't insufficient model training.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
He misses the forest for the trees. It's not this one case, but it's a pattern with him. He's not wrong about these things, but when he calls them out rather than calling out more meaningful, high-level issues.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
Marijuana literally means "big numb" in Chinese? Or "big horse" if I mispronounce it?
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by dumbotron 3y ago
> As an English native speaker who learned Mandarin, I really didn't find the lack of spaces harmful to learning the language. Definitely. The logograms and being in a completely different language family are the real hurdles.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
Hence expertsexchange.com
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by dumbotron 3y ago
I got curious about something with tonal languages: how are song melodies written for them. For some, the melody matched the tones of the word. Then there's Mandarin. Mandarin just follows the melody, and you can figure out the word by

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