jamwil

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The point of group projects is not to make the best project, it’s to learn to navigate working with other people and all the messiness that entails. Soft skill development and the slackers are a feature not a bug. Doing group projects solo completely defeats the point of the exercise—I’m surprised you got approval from any profs for that.

há 8 diasdiscuss

Because Meta is a harmful company, for one.

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I just read this fact in Hail Mary, but it doesn’t fully add up to me. If you fall flat on your back and wind yourself (phrenospasm) that triggers an immediate suffocation response which has nothing to do with CO2 and seemingly everything to do with a lack of oxygen.

há 14 diasdiscuss

Canada is not a third world hell hole, but our tipping culture is just as bad as the US. Perhaps even worse.

há 23 diasdiscuss

The great capitalist rug pull continues.

há 23 diasdiscuss

What did you do prior to 2023?

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I doubt it’s an effective channel for promoting liberalism (or even rationality). In North America at least the folks most engaged on Facebook tend to be media illiterate and reactionary leaning. The smart people left long ago.

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They were just being jocular.

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I was talking about this with someone the other day… How many real terrorism threats have been preceded by the terrorist telegraphing their intentions with a phone call beforehand? My prior is that this number is essentially 0 and we should ignore bomb threats as a society.

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Actually no I can’t recall the last time I tried to ride a bike in the snow. But I know inherently that snow itself would be alright, but snow is almost always accompanied by a layer of ice below, which simply can’t be fine. This is the case in Canada at least.

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The author’s point was more nuanced than ‘tool bad’.

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Without studded tires it’s very difficult to ride a bike on snow or ice.

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What does it mean to be ‘in intelligence’ in this context?

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This is a bucket of slop.

há 2 mesesdiscuss

What is wrong with you. This isn’t a customer/employee thing at all. That’s, like, the entire point of Burning Man.

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“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.” —Jobs

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Of course. My point is that your profit still decreases as you approach max usage, ceteris parabis. It may be acceptable but it is less. Your costs are variable and your revenue is fixed (at least on a unit basis).

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Within each tier, each marginal token is an expense with no marginal revenue to offset. So yes. The platonic ideal for any subscription business model is zero usage.

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Not when their customers are paying a flat rate subscription.

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100%. Trump’s going to do his tariff thing and we all understand that. But the sovereignty threats were an outrage, and most of the Canadian response is motivated by a sense of deep betrayal.