scienceman

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by scienceman 7mo ago
Could we fix that with a vacancy tax for retail?
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by scienceman 7mo ago
You aren’t looking at it in the long term view. Yes that works for people who have been living by there for 40 years since the area was not so nice. But how they are rich (housing value increase) and no one new who is not rich can move it.
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by scienceman 9mo ago
Ah man this hardware looks amazing — I just don’t know if I could give up living on iOS…
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by scienceman 9mo ago
No such thing as free parking
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by scienceman 11mo ago
Yamanote line is a single line and does around 5 million every day.
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by scienceman 1y ago
Thanks brother
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by scienceman 1y ago
I would guess to account for any unfamiliarity from the operators (new systems, etc) and allowing more time to sort out any other kinks. (they also pad the schedules for old trains too -- this is to accommodate small slowdowns without causi
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by scienceman 1y ago
That all makes sense, but these don't look like police officers — these are guys wearing backwards baseball caps and surgical masks. Effectively, our trust that someone holds position of authority in law enforcement is based on their u
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by scienceman 1y ago
Not a bootlicker -- if the commenter said the video is of Lander assaulting law enforcement, I expect to see it. Edit: this was the video linked https://x.com/courtneycgross/status/1935010369077915990
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by scienceman 1y ago
Agents who are masked and don't have any obligations to present warrants before abducting someone... really are we saying this is reasonable?
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by scienceman 1y ago
I am not seeing the "assaulting law enforcement" in this video -- am I missing something?
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by scienceman 1y ago
"power exists to be wielded" citation needed
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by scienceman 1y ago
For the knee to be useful you have to go below it -- thus 15 mph is a much better neighborhood and school speed limit.
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by scienceman 1y ago
There is no one pareto distribution — it is a family of distributions, with different parameters meaning different intercepts, and therefore different levels on inequality.
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by scienceman 1y ago
you get a yes/no prompt every day after you are born though -- and most people keep saying yes until they're ripped out
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by scienceman 1y ago
People post things all the time and they flop or get little attention. Reddit may be one of the most-viewed sites on the internet but that doesn't mean everything posted on it is too.
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by scienceman 2y ago
Yes, living in NYC = driving in NYC
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by scienceman 5y ago
Presumably because we want to get hired by that place and what the hiring manager thinks affects our chances of being hired.
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by scienceman 5y ago
Interesting... I wonder if this is vulnerable to getting garbaged collected at any point during execution.
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by scienceman 5y ago
Most "straightforward" way I could think of: ``` import itertools, collections cnt = itertools.count(1) d = collections.defaultdict(lambda: next(cnt)) s = "abcad" [d[c] for c in s] ```
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by scienceman 5y ago
Fun fact: 青い (ah-oi) means both green and blue in Japanese. There is a more specific word for green 緑 (midori) but 青い is still commonly used to mean green. For instance, "green light" (as in a stop light) is 青信号 (ah-oh shingou) wh
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by scienceman 6y ago
I think there’s an implication difference between security professionals and cyber-security professionals.
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by scienceman 6y ago
Very cool. I think filtering tags like "[OC]" could make it look even better.
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by scienceman 7y ago
$.50 coins are also pretty rare. I can't think of a single time I've seen them used (or used them).
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by scienceman 7y ago
What if the chickens give you the eggs?
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by scienceman 8y ago
Here [1] is a somewhat understandable interpretation of the study (and why it might not be as groundbreaking as it looks). 1 - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2017.0055...
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by scienceman 8y ago
Doesn't work well with youtube links.
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by scienceman 8y ago
Not OP, but probably to make sure the contents of a file are not changed by hardware errors.
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by scienceman 8y ago
Except that back button doesn't function as expected.
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by scienceman 9y ago
In the context of matrices, its pretty clear what inv, adj, and det mean.

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