lulmerchant

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by lulmerchant 8y ago
The theories are incompatible at all energy levels, it's simply that those are two examples where we can't use them to accurately predict outcomes. Another not-extreme-at-all example where quantum physics completely breaks down is
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
Basic Adjective 1. forming an essential foundation or starting point; fundamental. Your answers to those questions are either deliberately over-simplifying to avoid the question, or you don’t understand QED yourself. Your definition of a pa
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
An argument between ‘basic’ and ‘fundamental’ is a semantic one, and bordering on pointless. QED works quite well in most cases, but only if you don’t look too closely, and only if you ignore one of the fundamental forces. QED offers no exp
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
You might argue that what kept Elizabeth Holmes out of trouble was her public persona as well. Neither case has the aroma of justice as far as I'm concerned.
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
>relentlessly adjusted and overfitted and still appears very inadequate to fit all the evidence Welcome to physics. The Copenhagen Interpretation is the most concise and robustly tested theory in all of physics. Yet it was dreamt up by a
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
I agree with this 100%. In order to benefit from agile, your codebase and pipelines absolutely NEED to be built in such a way that they can easily accept and ship lots of small changes, and ideally should maximise the efficiency of your cod
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
How do you know where the requests came from without IP addresses? Do you log ASN or something?
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
Why not use Spreedly then? Way cheaper, and removes a lot of the headaches from the make-it-yourself approach.
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
That’s grade school arithmetic. We’re not talking about people who aren’t intelligent enough to do arithmetic, we’re talking about people who don’t have the correct mindset and motivation to make small, incremental investments in their futu
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
People aren’t property any more, we all have equal protection under the law, we have mostly reliable social welfare programs, and private charitable programs are bigger than they’ve ever been. Your analogy doesn’t hold any water at all. The
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
I don’t disagree with most of that. The loan shark maths is just one (rather contrived) example of how a person can break out of a particular poverty trap. It’s harder to break out of a poverty trap than it is to live with one, but it’s muc
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
The revision to what mean? The pre-British empire mean? Because pre-British empire wasn’t exactly a prosperous period.
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
At 200% you still come out ahead after your first packet of diapers. As somebody who grew up in abject poverty, and who lived in poverty for the first portion of their adult life, better planning will absolutely make situations like this in
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
I don't know if the numbers in the comment you're referring to are correct, but let's assume they're close enough and do the math. If I pay $5 every other day for 10 diapers, then I'm paying ~$75/month for 150
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
No I don’t, because that never happened. I do remember millions of soviet citizens dying from famine though, and millions more dying from state sponsored killing. I don’t remember any famines taking place in developed free markets during th
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
Absolutely, nothing has brought a greater level of prosperity and equality to the world than free market capitalism. This is simply an empirical fact. Just like it is an empirical fact that every socialist nation in history has created huge
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
But why is propaganda your preferred option over traditional content moderation? I doubt many people would considering it controversial to censor calls to violence. However when you start to focus on "hate speech" (which is where
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
I don't support any of the propaganda that Facebook pushes. This also doesn't have anything to do with ads. The issues is that when these mega-platforms decide that they are going to promote one side of a political issue, and supp
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
>How trivial would it be to make sure this leader in the article who 'never met a Muslim', was forced to scroll through a feed with positive messages about Muslims and religious tolerance? So when the users don't conform t
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
They're not really comparable when you look at the numbers. Facebook had 500 million active users, a steadily growing user base (1 billion was projected within a year at the time of the IPO), and a clear monetisation strategy. Snap had
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
I hope it does. Snap was clearly overvalued to an absurd level. If things like this don’t make investors more discerning, then you’ve got the workings of a bubble on your hands.
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
That's how I got my current job. I was working as a consultant for a company, and we all mutually decided that I should come in and fill a rather high ranking permanent role there. They asked me to write the job description for it, and
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
My customers trust me with millions of pieces of their confidential data, and billions of dollars of their money. I'm not going to start abusing that trust by hiring felons, for a lot of roles I wouldn't even hire somebody that ha
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
I own an F-Pace, and it's all for the luxury, not the coolness. Riding in it and driving it is simply a luxury experience. I'd consider buying one of these, except it's quite ugly and has the same dumb wheel aesthetic that BM
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
Perhaps we've just been looking in the wrong place for it. Spending all this time in laboratories, when we had it all along in the centre of our solar system.
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
We did something a lot like this recently when marketing demanded a wordpress instance.
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
Perhaps we need some form of central authority to regulate perceived value. On an unrelated note, anybody here interested in buying a Trabant?
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by lulmerchant 8y ago
>Just because the company has discarded this person it also means I must discard them as well? It kills me every time, but I NEED my paycheck more than I prefer to help my fellow human. I think they should have given you a personality te
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Nobody complains about the electoral college when their candidate wins. But when they do complain about it, you’ll notice they tend to only mention the shortcomings that support their point of view. For instance, you’ll never hear a Democra
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Neither candidate was campaigning for a popular vote, they were both campaigning to win the electoral college. Which Trump did because ~63,000,000 Americans decided, purely of their own free will, that he was the better candidate. No matter

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