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This user has posted the parent post nearly verbatim twice. And the exact same responses about determinism several times.

They also did all that expansion with a focus on cryptocurrencies, and the hype has died on those so it makes sense to reel in investments there.

The some people win argument isn’t even really true for sports betting. Casinos just ban anyone that wins with any regularity. Of course any individual bet can win but casinos stac…

I've watched the Fedex truck pull up to my house and the guy walk up to the door and slap a sticker on it for missed delivery. Didn't even bother to bring the box, knock, or ring t…

That same management is the type to set rules where you don't get to assess if you're vulnerable, you just have to fix all the CVEs

> It's not a matter of "personalizing", it's a matter of recognizing that, just like you, the company is trying to get the best deal they can This is kind of untrue. The company ma…

Great grandparent comment said roughly "You can make chicken meat at home with just a chicken and a knife." While factory farming may be abusive, that is not what this discussion t…

For me switching between code and tests is a context switch. TDD approaches that I'm familiar with encourage frequent swapping between them which really drains my productivity. It'…

This is just insanely wrong-headed. Tests with no code are always negative value, the time it took to write the tests. Code with no tests might also be negative value, but it at le…

I haven't talked to any teachers about this specifically, but based on my impression of the school system and public philosophy around schools and teaching that I've gleaned from m…

I don't know enough about chess mid-game and end-game to know whether chess is the same as poker in this regard, but poker is absolutely not a game of memorization deeper into the …

You have a viewpoint that is shaped by a very niche experience. Your experience was with students that happened into an interest that was itself a project that can drive learning i…

I've used it pretty extensively in Windows to expand text, execute clicks on certain buttons in GUIs, execute clicks on specific coordinates on screen or within a window, and to co…

I feel like so much of the sentiment boils down to some people objecting to someone else benefiting from government spending and some other people having suffered so they think eve…

Another interesting one is https://alanaragon.com/researchreview/ For a few bucks a month you get articles by several of the people you mentioned, Alan, and others that evaluate pu…

This is correct. I believe some other countries do use this rule of thumb for their official purposes, but the US never has.

Recommendations I've seen that are targeted at people trying to lose fat are given in grams per kg of lean body mass. I can't imagine a mechanism for fat to increase the need for m…

If you take "just" to mean "justifiable", sure. That meaning doesn't really make sense in the context of this discussion though, so yes I am invoking one of the definitions related…

Whataboutism is a valid concern when discussing justice imo

It's also short sighted right? This was a successful worker that missed a few days of work with a medical issue, boom fired. And then we see memos like this lamenting that they can…

Technically 20 is a number of minutes... But yeah even as a software engineer I'm often torn about wanting to work for Amazon. They have quite a few interesting projects and the pa…

Seems negative across the board. A huge swath of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and can't afford a $500 emergency. As inflation increases the cost of goods and services …

Or you could argue that they have too much capital and can't make productive use of it. Maybe taxation can help?

Can you point me to any resources that go into more detail on why the US cannot construct nuclear power stations? I'd love a cliff's notes version if you want to write it up, but I…

Of course people are always greedy. The "cover" provided by an inflationary environment just boils down to people are less price elastic when the environment primes them to expect …