Barjak

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by Barjak 7y ago
>If politicians get to call the shots in any way, it's going to run way over budget. Pretty much every single time. I'm reminded of that $2M bathroom at a public park in NYC. This is the video. There's some libertarian edi
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by Barjak 8y ago
Due to an autoinflammatory condition, I've taken ~1800mg daily for periods of 6 months several times. I don't like the idea of going on opioids for longer that a couple weeks, but maybe I need to switch.
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by Barjak 8y ago
This the Ad Coelum Doctrine in legalese. I don't think it makes sense either.
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by Barjak 8y ago
Sounds like you're interested in computational aeroacouatics.
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by Barjak 8y ago
>People don’t like being told they can’t drive wherever they want, but Lores says that while people claim it as a right, in fact what they want are privileges. This strikes me as the fundamental issue.
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by Barjak 8y ago
I think it's arXiv:1804.06355 "An Exponential Speedup in Parallel Running Time for Submodular Maximization without Loss in Approximation"
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by Barjak 8y ago
There are no lenses which are transparent at 13.5. This means you have to use mirrors instead, and even that's a challenge. 13.5nm was selected because it can be reflected by special Molybdenum/Silicon mirrors, but even these mirr
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by Barjak 8y ago
>However, markets are socially constructed because they depend on property rights that are socially constructed, and there are many different ways that markets and property rights can be constructed, some of which are unexplored and pote
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by Barjak 8y ago
What percentage of the 100 applications include a personalized cover letter these days? >It's a number's game. You must send a fuckload of resumes ... So you recommend not bothering with personalized cover letters? At this poin
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by Barjak 8y ago
I've been afraid of this for years. I guarantee you that there exist (or will exist) highly profitable consultancies which specialize in faking evidence. Just think about how easy it would be to launder a million here, a million there,
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by Barjak 8y ago
I saw it yesterday too. I'm interested in attention models, but I'm not a skilled enough practitioner to say anything meaningful about them yet. Someone linked me the author's more recent article [1] yesterday which claims hi
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by Barjak 8y ago
I use DuckDuckGo because of infinite scrolling and the ability to navigate your search results with the up/down arrows. It's not privacy, but usability. It's insane that these features aren't built into every search engi
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by Barjak 8y ago
Of course the omnipresent Gwern makes an appearance in the comments.
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by Barjak 8y ago
If I were better credentialed, I would definitely be looking to get into semiconductors right now. It's an exciting time in terms of manufacturing processes, and I think some of the most interesting and meaningful optimization problems
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by Barjak 8y ago
Am I alone in thinking this isn't heresy? A country or federal state is just a company with a monopoly over law in a certain geographical region. Facebook's "monopoly" is at least subject to the whim of the market, as th
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by Barjak 9y ago
I don't have many data points on Seattle, but I'm reminded of this article from a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12459698 Seattle was also one of those cities hostile to jitneys. http:&#x2
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by Barjak 9y ago
I just published a repository that de-obfuscates the archive from OED's Windows CD-ROM version. I don't know anything about the markup language it uses and I don't know anything about JSON either, but I attempt to parse it an