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by ldp01 3y ago
Hahaha, I need to go watch Hackers right now!
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by ldp01 6y ago
This just sounds like ad-hominem to me. How is this relevant to the truth of the statements in the parent comment?
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by ldp01 7y ago
Reminds me of a famous prayer... I think it's basically the same idea. "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
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by ldp01 7y ago
He probably means a table of standard ranks and salaries.
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by ldp01 8y ago
I think I got the conversation wrong... But it's definitely revealed at some point. My memory has gotten fuzzy! Definitely time to give it another play through.
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by ldp01 8y ago
Yeah it's Daedalus. I Googled it and I'm factually correct but I must have the conversations mixed up in my head... It might be one of the human characters who tells the player about it. Definitely time to give it another play thr
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by ldp01 8y ago
This reminds me of a detail from the plot of the original Deus Ex. Part way through the game, there is an optional dialogue with a benevolent AI. If you question it enough, it reveals that it is the rejected prototype for an anti-corruption
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by ldp01 8y ago
I wonder if you can get insurance against insurance companies not paying out?
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by ldp01 8y ago
> However, saying that renewables are the cause of this is the same as saying that nuclear is the cause of Chernobyl. Nuclear plants don't inherently melt down if they are properly designed and operated and renewables don't inh
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by ldp01 8y ago
The renewables were definitely a factor in the SA blackout. https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/Files/Electricity/NEM/Market... Failure of a meshed power system cannot be attributed to the failure of an
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by ldp01 8y ago
> I'm writing from Canada. Mother and/or father can share up to 35 weeks of paid leave under the national insurance program. This maxes out at, I think, approx $500 per week. It's not a lot. But it helps. This. I'm wr
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by ldp01 8y ago
> How can you say this with a straight face?! It's a fact that (some) women need to stay off work (bed-ridden before birth, in hospital after birth). It's also a fact that men don't need to. You're referring to a time
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by ldp01 8y ago
I don't understand the message of this article. > "This was a unique event, a moment that unveils a completely unexpected image of the power balance between inquisitors and the communities over which they held jurisdiction. The
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by ldp01 8y ago
There is! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_function I understand this is what actuaries spend their days tabulating. (I am an engineer not an actuary but in the past I been involved in efforts to apply the same
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by ldp01 8y ago
I don't think you're arguing against education, but it kind of sounds like you are, which explains the downvotes. I think your general point is correct though. We should be careful who we let set our curriculums and try to ride a
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by ldp01 9y ago
It's not really an apples-to-apples comparison anyway. In general, nuclear lends itself to providing reliable baseload power, whereas storage is most economic when used for peaking or responding to contingencies on the grid.
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by ldp01 9y ago
> Why would we? Asking motor vehicle drivers to "share the road" with bicycle riders is asinine, destined to fail, and uniquely American. Don't worry it's not uniquely American: http://www.abc.net.au/n
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by ldp01 9y ago
If I understand correctly- the pacifism of article 9 is broadly popular and part of their national identity now. It is an inspiring idea to give up weapons, even if it hasn't worked in practice.
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by ldp01 9y ago
Are you suggesting humanity will create real life furries? I guess it's the sort of thing you can count on someone doing the moment it's possible...
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by ldp01 9y ago
"I left stringsAsFactors=True and survived to tell the tale!"
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by ldp01 9y ago
Wow, $25.7 billion total employee compensation / 50,000 employees is $514,000 per employee. Err, that's not all in one year, right?
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by ldp01 9y ago
Funding research into search is good but the other options are impractical. If 4 is doable, it would take many years and involve many lawyers and potentially wind up achieving nothing. 1 and 2 involve directly interfering in the operations
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by ldp01 9y ago
The point of mathematical models is to be predictive. But I wouldn't call prediction "the whole point of science". That's reducing science to a means-to-an-end. I think science is more commonly understood to be about dis
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by ldp01 9y ago
> The elephant in the room is that humanities have zero predictive power. An absolute statement. Do you really think it's true? Are you really saying you can gain no predictive power by studying history? Ethics? Sociology? > If
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by ldp01 9y ago
Yeah, it's total nonsense. The current government in my state won on a platform of not privatising the main electrical utility.
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by ldp01 9y ago
gnaritas is being pretty hard on you and shouldn't resort to ad-hominem, e.g. saying you are terrible at x. I think you obviously care a lot about this topic and actually have a lot to offer. I will offer a perspective on this exchange
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by ldp01 9y ago
It's the Peter Principle! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
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by ldp01 9y ago
I'll buy that. I am expecting a lot from a random/free study on the Internet! But I think part of my gripe stands: the study is treating all these skills as independent when they actually seem pretty interrelated. There are also i
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by ldp01 9y ago
Unfortunately not, that would fall under coding- which is a useless skill.[0] [0] https://80000hours.org/articles/skills-most-employable/
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by ldp01 9y ago
Most of these skills seem pretty vague. How would you quantify "Judgment and Decision Making" in a generic sense? Seems a bit too context dependant to make that generalisation. Reaching a basic level of success in employment is wa

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