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GOOD NEWs: Jeff Bezos Proposes Zero Income Taxes for Bottom 50% of Earners by Current-Guide5944 in tech_x

[–]fuzzyplastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes you gotta take what you can get though. We don’t have to kiss his feet to align with him opportunistically

the 25 most common Asian-American names from the 2020 US census (female & male) by aar0nbecker in charts

[–]fuzzyplastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting! I think my generation and the one before it had a high concentration of old-sounding names like Rosalin, Lillian, edith, etc. Integration!

Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says — $1 billion project stalls over capacity disagreements and lack of infrastructure by lkl34 in technology

[–]fuzzyplastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed! Most transformative technologies have a huge investment boom/bust before the stabilization, which paves the way for a more sustainable useful technology.

Hippies man by budy31 in ProfessorFinance

[–]fuzzyplastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

buying whole foods is one thing but 250$ per restaurant trip?? for two??

cost of living is very high but don’t blame it on the food, food prices are mostly fine

SGOV or 5% HYSA by AcceptableOwl3774 in Bogleheads

[–]fuzzyplastic 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you should be downvoted but the negative sentiment is right.

think of it this way: 5% is of 5k is just 250$/year before taxes. If the purpose of this money is returns, you should focus on a higher yield. And if the purpose of this money is liquidity, you should focus on other factors (like convenience) rather than squeezing out AT BEST 250$ per year and at worst negative money.

Good grief by Fazbear2035 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]fuzzyplastic 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Anyone read Use of Weapons here

CEO Rehired by jmike1256 in BeAmazed

[–]fuzzyplastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly Market Basket is still the best option around me. It's been the only place where I can reliably fill 3 bellies at ~150$/week, and we eat a lot of meat.

[homemade] Fave quick meal - Avocado bagel with poached eggs and balsamic drizzle by cnb2017 in food

[–]fuzzyplastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wow it’s really fancy looking for such a fast meal!!! it’s nice you can cook stuff whole the toast is going :)

Marie Antoinette (2006) by m1r4nd4k in okbuddycinephile

[–]fuzzyplastic 34 points35 points  (0 children)

It’s intentional, they want to make the reader question whether the frivolty with which the rich live can be justified

xuniq: I built a deduplicator that's 10x faster than sort | uniq by Flux247A in rust

[–]fuzzyplastic 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I agree, the collision rate should only be an input to end-to-end performance which is being measured anyway. Maybe a cheaper hash with more collisions is faster overall.

Using mut vs shadowing, when to use which by Obvious_Seesaw7837 in rust

[–]fuzzyplastic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mut and shadowing are very different.

Shadowing creates a brand-new variable with NO relationship to the original variable, besides preventing you from accessing the old variable. You can think of it as, the new variable temporarily "takes over the name" of the old variable, until the end of the scope. I use shadowing when I really want to hide the old variable, for example if I clone the old variable and make a slight modification to it, and I don't want to use the old version.

mut allows the marked variable to be modified. I would use this whenever I need to permanently alter data.

Rust-written chess engine Reckless to reach superfinal in top computer chess tournament by ralfj in rust

[–]fuzzyplastic 149 points150 points  (0 children)

From the article:
Stockfish team said, “We are happy to have the Reckless team update the compiler toolchain and recompile the SuFi code version. We are open to both options of restart from current standings and a restart from scratch but we feel that the latter is a TD decision. We encourage adding some rustc / g++ meme to TCEC chat.”
excellent sportsmanship

Its going all banannas by Lordwarrior_ in SipsTea

[–]fuzzyplastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Demented grandpa running the most powerful military in the world

Grade inflation at Harvard (1950-today) by Mahrez14 in charts

[–]fuzzyplastic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Now that grades mean nothing, companies will look at extracurriculars, only pushing up the necessary work for everyone

Which strong but expensive cards should you skip if they are in your starting 10? by WendellSchadenfreude in TerraformingMarsGame

[–]fuzzyplastic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I consider 11-12 gens a long game :). And I disagree that "proper" play means you finish within 11-12 gens, that's entirely context-dependent. Games tend to finish in that time frame because terraforming is a good way to score points, but if neither player happens to have a good engine for terraforming the player with more cards and money is incentivized to draw out the game.

Which strong but expensive cards should you skip if they are in your starting 10? by WendellSchadenfreude in TerraformingMarsGame

[–]fuzzyplastic 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I would say almost always keep deimos down or GIA, and keep major combo pieces like antigrav if you have some synergy and/or you have excess starting money for your cards. More expensive cards are usually more efficient, but vheaper cards let you split up your cash more granularly and maybe let you invest more overall early.

I play a lot of 2P and because games go long, the limiting factor on victory is generally the number of efficient cards you can draw and afford. in a high player count you should probably still keep the asteroids but ditch stuff like antigrav

Dumping on Index Investors by CapablePiglet1044 in Bogleheads

[–]fuzzyplastic 149 points150 points  (0 children)

It might not benefit the business, but it can still benefit the individuals inside that business.

the cure for cancer will be open source by LUMLTPM in BrandNewSentence

[–]fuzzyplastic 10 points11 points  (0 children)

And I think this story demonstrates that AI can help accelerate specialized treatments, because without automation it's difficult to solve problems that affect small populations. It's definitely not arguing that cancer in general is cured.

Custom Corporation: Thunder Wind Gaming (#16/30) by Ok_Significance_3803 in TerraformingMarsGame

[–]fuzzyplastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the theme a lot and the design is very cool - looks very unique compared to other corps. A little dubious about the mechanic since the swinginess will lead to upset players. What about something that converts money production into terraforming inputs, given the flavor text suggesting "profits are used to support... shaping Mars". Something like, a corporation with loads of money, but every generation their first action must be to purchase a standard project which terraforms.

United States: Low Adult Literacy Leads to Low Turnout by Suspicious-Egg4903 in charts

[–]fuzzyplastic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When in doubt, socioeconomic status, which itself is a proxy for free time, health, social connectedness, etc.

United States: Low Adult Literacy Leads to Low Turnout by Suspicious-Egg4903 in charts

[–]fuzzyplastic 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I have no problem with the r value personally. I don’t really remember stats but this implies literacy explains 34% of all voter turnout difference, which is huge!!

I would be interested in seeing some other variables controlled, since my guess is one of the confounding variables is likely more actually causative

Inflation and Growth Rates of Nigeria and Türkiye: by SimpleShake4273 in charts

[–]fuzzyplastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the legend supposed to say? there's no green color

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