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Re:Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode
on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @03:53PM (#43988528)
Sorry to hear that. Sister had an aneurysm a couple years ago. They coiled it, lasted two weeks, then gone. Best wishes for your father and your family.
Re:The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans
on Saturday October 12, 2024 @10:27AM (#41819311)
Put another way, if spending maybe $100, maybe even a couple hundred bucks, might save you thousands, is it really that bad of an idea? For the first few years?
Re:Kotlin Money
on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @11:49AM (#41778702)
Nice. Looks like it satisfies all the requirements detailed here [0]. Also, good discussion of the major difficulty dealing with money here [1].
[0] https://cs-syd.eu/posts/2022-08-22-how-to-deal-with-money-in...
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/wmqv3q/standards_for_...
Re:Dynamic Pricing at Major Grocery Chain Can Vary Prices Depending on...
on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @04:41PM (#41250278)
Why stop at groceries? Make everything variably priced. Vary the prices enough so that no matter how much or little you work, in the end everyone's costs (and wealth) are equal. Da komrade!
Re:PySheets – Spreadsheet UI for Python
on Sunday April 28, 2024 @10:16PM (#40193723)
Kudos to you. I would be quite flattered to have built a thing that competes with what a small startup built.
Re:Porsche's Active Suspension Is Mind-Blowing
on Thursday March 21, 2024 @06:00PM (#39784933)
lol 5200lbs curb weight
don’t care how good the suspension is, that thing ain’t getting around corners very well
Re:Take Ownership of Your Future Self
on Monday March 18, 2024 @12:30PM (#39746604)
In behavioral psych terms what you've identified would technically be referred to as "rate of responding." Its identification as the primary focus of observation in the clinical setting (
and in fact a variable even worth examining!) might be Skinner's greatest contribution to the field.
House votes to restore Section 174 expensing for US-based R&D investments
Re:Alternatives to Adobe
on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:15PM (#37921676)
Never found anything better than Fireworks for the user who only rarely needs to make basic edits to images
Re:Getting Beyond Generative AI
on Friday September 08, 2023 @07:44PM (#37440683)
they're taking the piss
Re:Record low sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor ...
on Thursday August 24, 2023 @09:53PM (#37256946)
Two readings are relevant here:
1) Tragedy of the Commons by Harding
2) Overshoot by William Catton
There is a sliver of hope that we can successfully decommission fossil fuel energy and master climate engineering, i.e. employ technology to solve global, systemic problems created by technology. But it is hard today to distinguish optimism from delusion.
Oh well, better luck next time humans…
Re:Mark Stokes: I’ve been battling cancer last 2 years only have a few...
on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:23PM (#34046356)
five week, five days a week radiation? was this "proton" radiation treatment?
Re:Beeple Mania
on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @06:16PM (#26257499)
Watching TV at home "wastes energy." Going out to dinner "wastes energy." Doing anything except working on a cure for cancer "wastes energy." In fact, even people working on a cure for cancer or a covid vaccine will only see the fruits of their righteous labor used to enable millions to....waste energy.
This is literally the worst argument against crypto.
Re:Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C: study ...
on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:52PM (#25816081)
The energy "waste" argument against Bitcoin is really one of the silliest there is. One man's waste is another's treasure.
"Unlike other economic activities, the bitcoin scheme produces absolutely nothing for all this waste."
Does playing video games "produce absolutely nothing?" Some would say so, others would say not, that it produces positive emotions in players. But the entire ecosystem of gaming no doubt "wastes" more energy than bitcoin mining. Who gets to decide, to decree, what constitutes "waste?" That it's ok to engage in certain activities, like gaming, which some people would classify as "waste," but not ok to engage in others.
And the climate change argument as the cherry on top. Time to power down everything then. No more bitcoin mining, no more cars, no more travel, watching movies, it's all "wasteful." Shut it all down.
Re:Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: Self-Destructive Last Months of Zapp...
on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:10PM (#25310601)
> I didn't like the way Utah was moving though
Can you elaborate on this if you can spare the time? Genuinely curious...
Re:Do Covid-19 death rates by age suggest a path to staying open in a ...
on Monday April 20, 2020 @12:31AM (#22921103)
I think Andrew Gelman raised some serious concerns with that study.
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...
Re:Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board of Directors
on Monday February 03, 2020 @07:11PM (#22230878)
Re:S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US
on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @04:04PM (#21766813)
Re:Simon Peyton-Jones on computer science in school curriculums [video]
on Thursday November 28, 2019 @01:22PM (#21659260)
SPJ is an absolute beast, though whenever I hear a talk of his all I can think of is the Impressive Clergyman.
Who’s Using Amazon Forecast?
Re:Jackson Pollock's painting technique
on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:14PM (#21423218)
I have zero artistic ability. My father is a very accomplished amateur artist. I've got into this discussion with him several times. Rather than Pollock's work, the best exemplar supporting the argument that artistic value is arbitrary is, in my opinion, Rothko's color field paintings [1]. My father explained to me that the reason it's in the Smithsonian is because he did something no one else had ever done before, he reduced the traditional landscape painting to it's absolute minimum. Same thing for Pollock, he did something no one else had ever done before. At least according to a very small clique of New York Jews. (Joking. Kind of. Not being anti-semitic, I'm an atheist Jew.)
Of course, the fact that this guy [2] is not also in the Smithsonian is strong evidence that it is in fact completely arbitrary.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_field [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owSZs7H24UY
Re:New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
on Saturday June 08, 2019 @04:52PM (#20135093)
These days, holding all other factors constant, SV companies will generally hire {gay|female|trans|minority} candidates before {male|white|indian|asian}. So companies are apparently not at all concerned about hiring members of protected classes, rather they prefer to hire them.
Now, if you want to make the argument that older employees don't boost the companies D&I numbers, while at the same incurring the risk of a protected class, that's a subtly different argument....
Re:Dividends and Buybacks Now Larger Than Total Reported Earnings for ...
on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:29PM (#20005445)
Buyback Derangement Syndrome
https://www.wsj.com/articles/buyback-derangement-syndrome-15...
Re:Random Forests for Complete Beginners
on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:47PM (#19639590)
Re:Schumer and Sanders: Limit Corporate Stock Buybacks
on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @05:02PM (#19090380)
They might be off base on this one....
https://www.wsj.com/articles/buyback-derangement-syndrome-15...
Re:SEC Names Valerie A. Szczepanik Senior Advisor for Digital Assets a...
on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:29PM (#17243938)
Re:Bitcoin: Evidence of spoofing, wash trading, and a scheme known as ...
on Saturday August 05, 2017 @10:17AM (#14935826)
98% of orders are canceled limit orders. The average duration an order is open ranges from 1.5 to 20 or 30 seconds, depending on the time frame you look at. The entire market is "spoofing." It's crypto not NYSE.
Re:Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2029
on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:20PM (#13889716)
Worth linking to PZ Meyers takedown of Kurzweil's ignorance of biology. [1]
[1] http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/21/kurzweil-still...
Re:Why Clojure? (2010)
on Friday December 30, 2016 @01:42PM (#13286201)
For me, Clojure is the most satisfying language to write in. The design of the language feels impeccable most of the time. Working in the repl, with all of your application code loaded into the runtime, sitting in an adjacent terminal or editor tab, is immensely satisfying, much like the experience of a craftsman working with hand tools. Unfortunately, I find Clojure code to suffer in terms of readability, and I think it suffers from the same problem all dynamic languages suffer from, they just don't scale to larger applications and teams as well as static languages do. Proof of this is the fact that pretty much every dynamic language out there eventually looks to graft something like a static type system on after the fact. Basically I think people advocating Clojure outside the context of small, high ability teams are (mistakenly imho) prioritizing write mode over read mode.