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    Comment #49060692

    Yea, it's like people don't understand that it's a probability machine. We're steering it to the best probable outcome. It's not magic, it's math.

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    Comment #48971196

    - 5-min refuel These brave souls, touting the advantages of gasoline. The website is almost satirical in places.

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    Comment #48874992

    Combination of a swipe text keyboard and mild dyslexia. I'm looking for a more accurate replacement to help.

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    Comment #48874936

    I think you just described most of the reason I like it. Plain text sites tend to scale text, allow pinch to zoom, and are just generally faster. Post deletion we've seen used for …

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    Comment #48836671

    It's almost like there is no replacement for human expertise when we need to make usable products for other humans.

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    Comment #48797097

    When we were in college, one of my friends joked that their stream library was their largest financial asset. When stream trading was more of a thing, and we had a ramen diet, it w…

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    Comment #48796952

    I feel like the obvious answer this topic is circling is that the left expresses more empathy to those outside their immediate circles (caring for the planet), while the right focu…

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    Comment #48710869

    It's very true. As a merchant acquirer, everything is BigDecimal, only the auth path needs real performance, and FX occurs at a fixed rate per-day which is easy to reconcile. It's …

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    Comment #47960184

    About 60 litres if liquid gold. That's 30 2 litre soda bottles for scale. Who needs a banana

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    Comment #46927234

    I view the current tools as more of a multiplier of base skill. A 1x engineer may become a 5x engineer, but a -1x will also produce 5x more bad code.

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    Comment #46746897

    Can you say more as to why? The concept is not complex and in our situation at least provides a lot of benefits.