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Anyone more than ~300 points below the players can only contribute to the discussion in a superficial capacity though

I hear your point, but there's literally a homeless NPC and an NPC suffering from combat PTSD. Another way of looking at it might be that you're empowered to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those people which feels good.

What kind of 5k time did you hit with that training?

Big tech would never ship anything that fast.

Deepness was well worth it.

Wheel of Time, on the other hand, I was very glad to give up on right around the same point as you.

There would have been some students at West Point in 1828 whose families owned slaves. Slavery was only abolished in New York State one year prior to this. "Incessantly racist" is probably underselling it.

That your situation is of a different magnitude (and it sounds terrible; I'm sorry) does not make the relative change in another person's life any easier.

> Name one new product that Facebook built from scratch (did not acquire), launched, and made a sustained success of since their original social network.

Marketplace?

I'd be more open to this if we hadn't already seen wild swings in the crypto market (BTC is down ~50% from its 12-month peak) without much in the way of broader implications.

> I can get hired as a software engineer wherever, but I’m only mediocre at doing the job.

I feel exactly the same.

Mind if I ask how you deal with this?

I recently left software (not sure if temporary or permanent yet) and I'm pursuing tutoring in an unrelated field. So far I'm liking it more because I feel better than mediocre.

> For AWS, it allows them to make hardware investments early on

I can't imagine this deal (signed in April 2021) has that much impact on either AWS's hardware budget or their usage projections.

Are there minors on the top-level Chinese teams?

> aliens being here would imply FTL is possible

Why? There are plenty of stars within a sub-light-speed radius since events that could've announced us to the galaxy: advent of radio, first nuclear tests, etc.

If you read the rest of the sentence GP was correct

> The GP has put a "your" instead of "you're" in (almost) the very next sentence

Correctly so

Where do they say that?

On a per-unit basis, sure. There are way more cars than buses or delivery trucks though.

ICC used to have it (probably still does)

The Bilbao Chess Masters [0] used a 3-1-0 scoring format.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilbao_Chess_Masters_Final

Collective action has worked in the past. We did it with CFCs.

The latter part is italicized in the GP.

I don't really understand the legality argument though. Canada is a sovereign nation.

This is giving them a lot of benefit of the doubt. Do you have any evidence?

> his

her

I think they meant Pixelbook.

This made me laugh because it's maybe the first negative piece that I've ever seen about Stripe that wasn't "they stopped processing my payments for reasons that I don't like". The delivery is very good.

I don't see why an earnest benchmarking firm would let manufacturers know details like the name of the testing app.

I recently acquired a DeskCycle and so far it seems like a great solution to this problem. It's much cheaper and less bulky than a treadmill desk and fit under my existing desk with minimal reconfiguration.

The only problem is that I now have to wear shorts to work or I get excessively sweaty during the day, so it may not be feasible in less permissive work cultures.

> pinnacle of nature's great evolutionary process

> bunch of bastards to most life on Earth

seem almost synonymous, unfortunately.

> The sole way a government can kill it -- any government -- is to invest >$2B into getting >51% hash power, then launching coordinated malicious doublespends for the purpose of shattering faith in bitcoin.

How much hashing power resides in China? I was under the impression that it's >50%.

It would cost the Chinese government a lot less than $2B to raid all those farms and take their equipment.

I've long wanted to be able to make a "The Year of Linux on the Blockchain" post title.