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mandelbrotwurst

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mandelbrotwurst
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
Why would the fact that it failed to follow one instruction increase the likelihood that it failed to follow others within the same response?
mandelbrotwurst
·11 maanden geleden·discuss
Those conversations are an important part of the job. You can, for example, agree that something works in the sense that it is currently possible to use it to obtain a desired output, while simultaneously failing to work in various ways: It might fail to do so reliably, or it might only be able to do so at great cost.
mandelbrotwurst
·11 maanden geleden·discuss
In what sense? An investor seeks a return on their investment. The former achieves this. The latter spends money for pleasure. I suppose you could argue that they are an investor seeking non-monetary return, but in that sense everyone is equally an investor, just with different goals.
mandelbrotwurst
·11 maanden geleden·discuss
The article does state they were included, but is it "obviously" true that they should be? Who is more of an "investor", someone who purchases a primary residence to build equity or someone who purchases a second home to vacation in, spending large amounts of money to maintain it and allowing it to sit empty for long periods of time?
mandelbrotwurst
·vorig jaar·discuss
How do you estimate they will judge process legitimacy?
mandelbrotwurst
·vorig jaar·discuss
It seems rather disappointing if typical management would make such impactful decisions so rapidly that their "on paper" analysis couldn't be made clever enough to consider more than a single variable.
mandelbrotwurst
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
> what actually led to the immigration

Great point, and just FYI: "emigration" here.
mandelbrotwurst
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Out of curiosity, where are you located?
mandelbrotwurst
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Was he actually doing nothing?
mandelbrotwurst
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Yeah, that's exactly much what I was thinking, that when you take a look at their activities, it's clear that the definition of what's considered political here is fairly narrow.

Re: your hypothesis, after learning about 501c4s from Jeff in this thread and reading about for 10 seconds on Wikipedia, it seems that those actually serve that purpose quite well ("super PACs" are apparently 501c4), so I don't think the 501c3s are highly likely to get used in that way.
mandelbrotwurst
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Oh, interesting, thanks. The only one I verified before posting was EFF, and I hadn't heard of a 501c4 previously.
mandelbrotwurst
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Coinbase is far from unregulated, they're subject to and enforce the same KYC rules that banks do, go ahead and try to buy some BTC there anonymously and see how far you get.
mandelbrotwurst
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Wait, really? Dont many (most?) 501c3s have highly political missions? E.g. EFF, ACLU, NRA?
mandelbrotwurst
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
I think about this in terms of how much clock time has elapsed versus how much working time I spend on something - i.e. I am very often able to trade an increase in clock time elapsed (taking more breaks) for a decrease in working time, and vice versa.

As with most things, this comes with diminishing returns as you push toward minimizing one over the other.

Sometimes, even negative returns, e.g. because of increased context switching costs, or confusion and general malaise caused by staring at something for too long.
mandelbrotwurst
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
When you've invested that much into something you're not very likely to suddenly decide to make that sort of strategic blunder for giggles.
mandelbrotwurst
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Wow, that does sound great! Are they doing that in store only (like separate bins?), online, or both?
mandelbrotwurst
·7 jaar geleden·discuss
Makes sense. I suppose no need trying to quantify more specifically if we're nowhere near that line.
mandelbrotwurst
·7 jaar geleden·discuss
Yeah, that came to mind for me as well / seems like a pretty serious drawback to say the least.
mandelbrotwurst
·7 jaar geleden·discuss
Thanks!
mandelbrotwurst
·7 jaar geleden·discuss
Thanks, sorry, misread. Was asking because am curious about how the deaths break down overall as this would affect what we might want to focus on when attempting to reduce them.