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gunshai

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    Comment #40014527

    An interesting side effect of clipping was essentially the discovery of Gresham's Law. The Bad Money drives out good money. While essentially understood/internalized by the merchan…

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    Comment #40014375

    Ya there isn't much here to dispute. However one side effect of this type of valuation was essentially the trust in measurement systems. This created barriers to entry for valuatio…

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    Comment #40014258

    Ya it's this guy apologies for not posting the link.

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    Comment #40005046

    If you look closely in the first image you can tell that some of those coins are "clipped" then the coin with ridges is not clipped. The ridges are to mitigate "clipping" which is …

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    Comment #39868846

    I thought that's what the article was going to be about tbh.

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    Comment #39208385

    Ya I think they are called loot boxes

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    Comment #39208347

    This seems highly suseptible to what a human might consider irrelevant randomness. Given random images just shuffling indefinitely a curious individual will just give up and say, e…

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    Comment #39208295

    How many loot boxes would it open under the same criterium? /s

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    Comment #38384312

    > This is how they got the tobacco companies to pay damages I'm not against this, but consider that those damages are future unknown liabilities from when the product was first sol…

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    Comment #38338688

    > To date, the response of the scientific establishment has been wholly inadequate. There is little attempt to proactively check for fraud: science is still regarded as a gentleman…

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    Comment #38309384

    There are trade offs and harm for nearly every product/thing. If you can think of something that when used does not have unintended harm please let me know. I agree that the topic …

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    Comment #38309278

    > Should you be able to knowingly create a product which harms consumers and provide it to them while failing to disclose that fact? With only this question as a guide the answer s…

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    Comment #38292430

    >Thirty-three states including California and New York are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people's mental health and contributing to the youth mental health crisis by …

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    Comment #38196562

    How are you integrating it in to your work flow?

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    Comment #38102436

    Pretty sure we are going to see a rise in the use of Oral Exams. The teachers that don't want to use them will continue to churn out students that score high and don't know how to …

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    Comment #37514686

    > the attention span of a goldfish on acid I happen to have quite a long attention span on acid I'll have you know!

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    Comment #37381657

    Replace democratize with lower the barriers to entry. Yes it removes initial skill but typically doesn't remove the skill cap.

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    Comment #37237714

    Ya probably hah

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    Comment #37211215

    How does it work when there are millions of these chips out there. I'm not an EE but is the interference a trivial probablem at this point?

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    Comment #37211191

    I'd probably buy Tesla stock if I thought they were going to announce this switch. It would mean real progress instead of what ever hell they're currently stuck in.

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    Comment #36698788

    This should surprise basically no one. I do aspire to be in a role where I can endlessly ask people why it is exactly they do the thing that they do. All the while dodging the foll…

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    Comment #36698703

    Phrased another way. What feature (if changed) would describe the highest chance of improving the success rate. What are the features involved in success, which ones are levers tha…

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    Comment #36525417

    You're welcome, next time I'll try not to have a stroke at the end of my comment. hah. For some reason I can't edit it. shrug

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    Comment #36510419

    The difference is small, but mostly as probing questions to interviewers. I take the mind the more you can speak the language the more comfortable people become with you. Here's so…

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    Comment #36507974

    Shit, I wish I read this prior to my interviews at Cash App.