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Just recently went to Disney land myself. We did the tour hopper on a day when California land closed early for a Halloween event, unfortunately we didn’t book well enough in advance to get tickets for the event, but that’s just bad planning.

Anyways, the trip was amazing and magical as ever, there was no mysterious lack of black people, OPs experience is completely foreign to my own. The fast track wasn’t there, and we too looked puzzled at a group going through anyway until we realized they where accompanying a disabled guest. I don’t know if they also have some VIP thing, but I don’t mind waiting longer so someone in a wheelchair and their friends can have a nicer visit to the park.

We knew we wouldn’t be there at 7am, so we planned on being ready to join the RoTR virtual line, instead of being in a ride when it opened, and we got a spot, amazing ride, though I’m puzzled why after a virtual line we still had to stand in a real line for 1 hour, they could just call in fewer groups at a time. The ride was still worth it all though, absolutely amazing, I would recommend it to anyone even with the 1 hour line.

Cost wise, yes Disneyland is expensive, but as a european who also has to book expensive flights on top, I still think it’s worth it.

You cannot have PoW running on burning a free or cheap resource, the entire point of PoW is that the resource you are burning is costly, which pushes up the amount burned to close to the break-even point.

The amount of energy consumed now is not at its current level because of some fixed power requirement of the network. It’s there due to competition. If power was cheaper miners would run their ops using more power and the only thing that would change would be more energy would be wasted.

Yes I could. No issues. Save to photos on iPhone.

> they simply don't have the same taste profile

People who eat meat aren’t the target audience. The target audience are people who don’t eat meat but still go to MacDonalds or Burger King, it’s a growing segment, and don’t worry, noone is going to try to force you or others like you to join, but just like there are likely 90% of the clothing brands out there that you don’t care for but are still hugely successful, it’s ok that you aren’t in the target audience, they can still be successful.

If I met this person on the subway, I think it would be a good lesson to go over to them and tell them that they are a complete piece of shit in my opinion and spend a considerable time doing so. Why? Well it’s not illegal to do so, and since I’m just sharing my opinion it’s not really unethical to do so. I don’t even have to care about consent. At the end of the day it is just rude, and apparently that doesn’t matter the least bit to this person.

Honestly it’s surprising that a photographer would even think about ethics of consent when faced with a shitstorm online cause by being rude to a mother and her two children.

Imagine if the response to the woman throwing a cat in the garbage had been an article detailing the ethics and legalities of doing so. Would that be suppose to convince anyone that she wasn’t being an asshole? Incidentally that situation was captured on video in public, but for some unexplainable reason people weren’t discussing the ethics or legalities of the video taping someone in public, and instead focused on the subject being a human piece of garbage.

> How is raising somebody else's taxes going to fix that?

Just raise the taxes on peoples 3’rd or 4th home. It will definitely screw over a lot of real estate investors and banks, but that’s sort of the deal with investment risk, and after more than a decade of state guaranteed return on this investments it’s about time for and quite fair with a state guaranteed shakedown.

This will cause the market to drop, and the unfortunate ones who overspent on their primary recode are will have a big loss, which you help reduce through tax breaks for people owning no more than one home.

You propably need to spend a year haphazardly watching YouTube videos and Reading papers on social interactions while applying your learnings in practice before being able to actually compare the two.

It sounds like you think just living will somehow imprint social skills unto you, but this is as silly as thinking that you’d learn machine learning from working 18 years as a cleaning assistant at an ML company.

Saying a company that literally sent a car into space has a zero dollar advertising budget is just a combination of Hollywood accounting and delusion.

You can’t compare a hipster wanting to flash a cane with a senior citizen giving up going up and down stairs in pain because a painless alternative exists.

> But the complete failure to consider the possibility that I might also be intelligent, educated, and able to understand the applicable research just because my day job isn't in medicine immediately disqualifies a doctor for me.

It’s not that doctors think you unintelligent, but you are not a doctor. It doesn’t matter how many YouTube videos you’ve watched on a subject or how many hours you’ve spent reading about your current symptoms to convince yourself that your special intellect justifies doctors paying closer attention to your opinion, if you haven’t gone through the 7 years of education and passed the exams, then you are not a doctor and you will not be treated as one. Patients should be more accepting of this fact. It does not make sense in general to have doctors ask their patients to self-diagnose, even if their patients are intelligent, it doesn’t add value.

The problem is that every gambler will tell a statistician that actually their odds are abnormally high. And it’s true, if you pull 5 cards from a deck, the odds of getting exactly the cards you drew are incredibly small… no matter what you draw, so when you try to post rationalize events that have already occurred you even feel that statistics will back up your claim, but that’s not how it works, you can’t do that, just like patients being correct occasionally does not mean they should be treated as doctors because they don’t have the required education and experience.

Snowflake must be kicking themselves hard now for letting a story that was “Databricks is a viable alternative” turn into “Snowflake has absolutely no integrity and will fling mud even while they are gaming the statistics”

Really can’t see what they can do now short of “bending” to Databricks and entering the competition. And naturally it’s no longer just enough that they show comparable performance. They have to hit their games stats somehow otherwise any news even of they beat Databricks will be reported as “see, we told you they where cheating”

> most people in the EU don't have passports

Do you have a reference for this? It might be true, but I live in a small European country and have never met or heard of anyone not having a passport, so it sounds very unlikely to me, though of cause we are a small percentage of the total, but is it really the case?

centralized profits, decentralized risk.

Why didn’t you answer the question?

> What was Google's incentive for engaging with Pinterest?

> and might not be the most significant force behind its adoption.

You say that, but if you where using tiktok you’d be one of the roughly billion people who didn’t know about the signal a month ago but then recently learned about it. Trust me, Tiktok was the absolutely major force behind this knowledge becoming widespread, and it’s perfectly reasonable that it’s mentioned. Just like Gangnam style coverage mentioned YouTube. It’s not about clicks or some infatuation with the platforms, it’s just objectively the case that these major platforms have an extreme reach and that’s worth including in your coverage. Especially since many readers like yourself don’t understand just how influential the platform has become, because they haven’t known about it for more than a year or so.

The way art works, the 999 authentic fakes will end up being worth more than the 1 boring original.

Blockchains are extremely widely used, almost every coding project on the planet is using a blockchain for managing and versioning through git.

The crypto blockchain is a different story of cause and the reason it is being hyped without bounds is the same reason everyone is getting e-mails from Nigerian princes that just can’t seem to get reliable wire transfering services.

Why should any concrete details be mentioned? For all we know he might have eaten a burger from some poplar chain on the day he died, but that doesn’t make it ok for media to publicly in a non-scientific way to speculate “did McDonalds kill him?”, or try to imply that the family has some sort of responsibility for publishing enough details to exclude such a possibility.

It’s up to the doctors handling his case to make conclusions, and to the clinical trials of the vaccines to determine if there are connections of concern that should be taken into account when evaluations if they are safe. Which as many people getting it as we have, we can’t draw conclusions based on individual events that crackpots decide to dig into on Twitter based more on how known the patients are than on any real scientifically backed concern.

You won’t ever see in a scientific study mentioned: “ we only have a couple of cases so this isn’t statistically significant and there might be no link… but one of the patients had a lot of Twitter followers so we’ll speculate about a link anyway”

It is extremely stupid, and extremely disrespectful to the family. And the fact the author cannot see that says alort about him. It’s like screaming in the middle of a movie theater: “I’m not sure the sprinkler system is working, if there’s a fire and we might all die!!” With the root of your concern being that you say another movie recently where this happened. It doesn’t matter if your concern is genuine, it’s still doesn’t mean it’s ok, because plenty of people will leave the theater based just on a “principle of caution” even though your just a baseless public menace. Though of cause in that case you are just hurting a company and inconveniencing moviegoers, in the actual case you are tormenting a grieving family and causing people avoid lifesaving vaccinations.

> I can assure you the average person is not much dumber than the average American.

If you have two scales and used them to weight the difference in mass of two objects, and one says there is a difference and the other doesn’t, you cannot just conclude that there must not be any difference. Obviously one scale is wrong. So in this case we have to ask which scale is wrong, the collective results of hundreds of well documented scientifically conducted studies or your “gut feeling”.

You don’t even need an industrial PhD. In Denmark at least, a PhD study is a paid position, essentially just a job that runs 3 years and results in handing in a PhD dissertation. It pays less than what you get in the industry, but very decently, so no need to balance multiple jobs, just focus on your research.

The Industrial PhD pays the same here, so that’s mostly a position you would take if you specifically want to collaborate with a company on some research project, not something you do because of income considerations.

Your comment reminds me of a friends recommendation to watch The Arrow. “The first two seasons are really bad, but if you stick through it they become ok”

It’s ok to not want to watch a show that sucks originally. We don’t need to watch it to completion in order to pass judgement on something that just didn’t hit the mark.

If you had afsked me a year ago if “Good Omens” could be adapted to the screen I would have told you it was impossible. Heck if you asked me back in the day of A Song of Fire and Ice could, I would have told you it was impossible, but in reality it’s just the case that it’s only possible if you start from a place of respecting the source material and building everything around that. If you start by defining that it has to be a 8 season high budget series. It has to be a 2.5hour movie and try to shoehorn the material into that, then you get rubbish and it looks impossible.

Metaverse is just a word. And what it will be used to describe is a VR game owned by Facebook. And it will be bullshit.

The internet will include VR/AR elements eventually, but it will not get a new name. It will still just be called The Internet by some and by most of those who are young now they’ll continue to call it what they are calling it now which is Wifi.

Care to elaborate on your comment to those who are not in the know? Did the Aztecs not burn scripture? I don’t know much about Mayan and Aztec history and culture, but I visited Yucatán recently and it sounded from guides like there was a lot of original Mayan culture lost in the mixing of the two. I was also told, but don’t know if it’s true, that the human sacrificing was actually an Aztec practice that got introduced in the mixing and not an original Mayan practice.

Yes, you are correct. The housing prices have been steadily climbing over the years, and that’s not because companies are getting worse and worse at building houses, and it hasn’t been because of rising material costs (the rises that currently are are all much shorter term and due to corona). Essentially every policy or local decision that could help to provide more affordable housing has also been a direct threat to the real estate investments of the politicians who have shut it down. It’s the biggest generational theft ever seen, where the older generation is deliberately denying the entering generations cheap access to zoning in order to inflate housing prices and extort as much money as humanly possible from the youth.

> Munger maintains the small living quarters would coax residents out of their rooms and into larger common areas

Looking at the floor plan, the living quarters are not small, they are microscopic, and the common areas are not large, they are extremely small. If two people are sitting opposite at the table it becomes impossible to move past them. This is the stuff of nightmares. 4500 students packed in windowless closets sharing a room too small to breathe. People are going snap.

> Munger Hall […] is a single block housing 4,500 students with two entrances

This sounds like a novel building up to the most horrible school shooting massacre in history.

That’s mis-understanding the effect. It has nothing to do with “losing big but rarely” you could put 20s instead of 6s and it wouldn’t change a thing. It’s just that when you roll A against B it will win more than half, but B against C will have B winning more than half, and finally C vs A will have C winning more than half.

That’s a typo, it should be (3,5,7) every number should appear only once. My bad.

I felt exactly the same way the first time I read about them, but for boardgame design. But I found that in practice the probability of the effect just isn’t really enough to make it fun, at least in my attempts, and I ended up just using rock>paper>Scissor mechanics instead, because it’s both more noticeable, and has the benefit of being instantly recognized and understood intuitively by players.

There is no nonlinearity or defiance of probabilities. It’s just simply the fact that comparing the face values between the dice outcomes has dice each winning over the next, because that operation is not transitive in general.

The “trick” here is only that people assume that dice A winning over dice B and dice B winning over dice C should mean that dice A should also beat C, which it doesn’t simply because dice outcome comparisons aren’t transitive.

So there’s no tricks or secrets, it’s just peoples intuition being wrong.

I personally prefer the intransitive set of D3s to explain this. Assume you have three dice R,B,G. They all have 1,2,3. But on ties we have tie breaker R>B>G on 1s, B>G>R on 2s and G>R>B on 3s. So it’s easy to see that for each dice there is 1/3 of times when it wins the ties, 1/3 where if losses, and the last 1/3 it either wins or loses based on which dice it’s facing. That might at face value seem like cheating because “I put the non transitive property into the tie breakers” but that’s just to make it easier to grok, you can change the dice to have faces (1,6,8),(2,4,9),(3,5,8) and you get the same without needing to handle ties. And since 1,2,3 are all equivalent in comparison to anything above 3, it’s practically the same as the first scenario.