dustyleary

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by dustyleary 2y ago
I thought it was considered "well known" that the Rotten Tomatoes audience rating is not trustworthy because of ballot stuffing by the film studios.
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by dustyleary 2y ago
Datum: I am always happy to see them. They work great for me on desktop Chrome with uBlock Origin and Adblock Plus enabled, and they work great for me on ipad and iphone Safari with no adblocking enabled.
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by dustyleary 3y ago
Yes, Jimmy Hoffa is a "famous" disappeared person case here in America. There are only a few "famous mysteries" that became such widespread memes in American culture. The ones I can think of are: 1. What happened to Jim
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by dustyleary 3y ago
It is a shitty thing to do, but there is nothing particularly special about the fact that it is a grave, or that there is a particular person involved. Society suffers, because people do not wish to be subjected to the sight and smells asso
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by dustyleary 3y ago
> If is a shitty thing to publish it against the author's will when they are alive, it is equally shitty to do it when they have died. It's definitely not _equally_ shitty. It's arguable whether it's shitty at all.
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by dustyleary 3y ago
I would still argue that this is not music. It's definitely Art, in that it is making a statement, provoking a response, etc. But, it's just a nearly continuous sound, except for the pitch change every few years. It's a Sound
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by dustyleary 3y ago
What did she say on social media that makes a six year prison sentence justified?
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by dustyleary 3y ago
It's not a question about difficulty, it's that nobody really gives a shit. I'm sure everyone on this site knows that it would not be difficult at all to implement this. Perhaps there is some valid legal concern over remember
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by dustyleary 3y ago
Is it possible to point out that you disagree with something without being rude or aggressive in speech?
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by dustyleary 3y ago
Add the toggle. When a Rio de Janeiro customer clicks the toggle to request doorstep delivery, pop up an error dialog saying that doorstep delivery is not available in this area for driver safety. With this setup: The feature exists if the
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by dustyleary 3y ago
> What about 20 years? What about 1 year? Those are all irreversible. You are using linguistic tricks to make a bad argument. The fact that the past is immutable doesn’t mean that things can’t be reversed . If you’re planning your day i
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by dustyleary 3y ago
When someone is arguing from a position of strength, they don't need to resort to petty jibes. You are already arguing from a position of strength. When you add petty jibes, it weakens your perceived position, because it suggests that
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by dustyleary 3y ago
It is technically true that ilk is not always used derogatorily. But it is almost always derogatory in modern connotation. https://grammarist.com/words/ilk/#:~:text=It's%20neutral.,a%... . Also, note that
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by dustyleary 4y ago
That was the same impression I got when I saw the light patterns pictured in the article. I had to slow down a second to "figure out" what I was looking at. The study claims that "improved lighting could result in other moto
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by dustyleary 4y ago
"Eating" chickens aren't nearly that heavy. I don't know about egg-laying chickens. We usually eat animals that are "children" or "adolescents", because they are more tender or taste better. The arti
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by dustyleary 4y ago
There are a few different kinds of 'secure enclaves' implemented on chips, where you can have some degree of trust that it "cannot" be faked. E.g. crypto wallets, hardware signing tokens, etc. We could imagine an imaging
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by dustyleary 4y ago
> Without a doubt it's straight up gambling Not “without a doubt”. Gambling means a game of chance/luck. Court cases over poker, regardless of which way the decision goes, hinge on whether the Court is convinced that poker is
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by dustyleary 5y ago
> And yes, it's incredibly partisan for you to claim that republicans are trying to "reduce democracy." Is it, though? My belief is that voter fraud is basically a non-issue, that it doesn't really happen very much at
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by dustyleary 5y ago
Yeah, if there's one thing the worldwide politics of the last several years has shown us, it is that punishment is swift and severe when governments knowingly lie to their citizens. /s
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by dustyleary 6y ago
In other words, "Automation hasn't increased unemployment in the past, even though some pesky scientists and economists said that it would eventually be a problem. Some of those people were wrong in the past, therefore automation
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by dustyleary 7y ago
There is a problem with our intuition about gradient descent that blinds us, a little bit. For a local minimum to exist, that means that the function we're looking at has to have a local minimum when sliced in every dimension. In our i
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by dustyleary 7y ago
Wow, that is amazing. I don't see how anyone could look at the poem referenced in the post [0] and conclude that the editor did not intentionally change a work of art into something only loosely connected to the original. And this is
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by dustyleary 8y ago
That's a big assumption. What purpose does Goat Simulator http://www.goat-simulator.com/ serve to solve/understand issues in our universe? How do you know our universe is not a child's toy for a race of deity
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by dustyleary 8y ago
> "Buy" doesn't mean "host it for me online forever". Yes, it does! That is precisely the problem. My grandmother was born in 1939. Apple tells her that she can "buy" her copy of the Andrews Sisters G
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by dustyleary 8y ago
How does a wooden screen door on the back of your bank vault affect the security of the vault door?
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by dustyleary 8y ago
I had PRK done at Stanford about 10 years ago, right around. I wasn't a candidate for Lasik for a reason that I can't quite remember (thin corneas? large pupils?) For me, it was a complete success. Healing took about a week (PR
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by dustyleary 9y ago
What about a legally emancipated 17 year old? What about a 16 year old born in a country where the age of consent is 14 and the US’s views on sexuality are considered overbearing and puritanical?
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by dustyleary 9y ago
Yes, but he said “ludicrous bet” that no rational investor would make. As a rational investor/gambler, when I hear that someone is willing to make a “ludicrous bet”, I’m happy to book their action.
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by dustyleary 9y ago
It feels qualitatively different to argue that “he and I disagree on firearms but we continue to work together” is the same basic concept. Imagine you’re a gay man, happily married. You work at Mozilla. Don’t you think it would be difficul
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by dustyleary 9y ago
The great thing about having a real futures market available is that when you’re 100% certain that you’re correct, as you seem to be, you can put your money where your mouth is and reap a big reward. How many of these call options have you

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