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by Breza 5y ago
If you're interested in this topic, I suggest the short book Ghosting The News.
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by Breza 5y ago
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing your experiences. This is exactly what keeps me reading HN.
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by Breza 5y ago
I've heard people say they want to buy because they're tired of "throwing their money away." I think it's easy to underestimate how much money homeowners pay every month and never see again. I love the house I own b
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by Breza 5y ago
I have a similar approach. I'll read a math textbook and a novel. Helps keep me motivated to read more rather than thinking "Ugh, I need to read that textbook now."
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by Breza 5y ago
That's such a good way of describing it!
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by Breza 5y ago
That would be a fun project to create for public domain works. And not especially difficult.
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by Breza 5y ago
I have only dabbled in it yet every project ends up looking stunning. I'm a corporate data scientist and I'm considering using it for more of my research findings and the like.
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by Breza 5y ago
This would make for a fascinating post of its own
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by Breza 5y ago
Not cynical at all, this is exactly how Real Time Bidding (RTB) works.
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by Breza 5y ago
That really depends. If you're the ELCA and trying to get people to call Congress about the latest SNAP bill, you'd love to get your message in front of liberal Christians.
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by Breza 5y ago
Reminds me of the G.K. Chesterton novel where a cop infiltrates a criminal organization only to learn that the entire group is composed of cops who have infiltrated it. I won't name the book to avoid spoilers.
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by Breza 5y ago
I've had the same experience with code. I bang my head against my desk trying to do something, go to bed, and do the thing in the first hour of my day. It's like magic.
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by Breza 5y ago
> To extend, the company would not be sustainable without the ads This is accurate. And Twitter runs a lucrative data sharing business. In Q1 they made $137 million from data licensing. So there are two reasons they've locked down a
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by Breza 5y ago
Agreed! I downloaded the app, saw 10 minutes of teenage girls dancing, and deleted it. My friend talked me into giving it another chance. After a few hours, it was consistently delivering videos that were exactly my taste. I've never h
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by Breza 5y ago
I hadn't even considered the potential power of TabNine in LaTeX! That could be a gamechanger for routine stuff. And I second your endorsement of Overleaf. I had to write a research proposal a few weeks back for work after not touching
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by Breza 5y ago
LyX is a truly underrated piece of software. It was my entry point into LaTeX.
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Bitcoin makes this paper even more relevant: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6221/536
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by Breza 5y ago
This is worth emphasizing. There's a reverse survivor bias at play. No matter what people do, some fraction will be really bad at it. Think about any workplace. In the criminal world, these are the people who get caught the fastest and
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by Breza 5y ago
This speaks to a fundamental truth about cryptocurrency. In order to make it easier to use, these currencies adopt the trappings of fiat currency. When I had Bitcoin a while back, I always used an exchange. Most new users will do the same.
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by Breza 5y ago
Housing is a policy area with a lot of unintended consequences. I honestly don't know how I feel about the Oregon law.
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by Breza 5y ago
Don't worry, the most common bug fixes will become part of the suggested code, so when you start writing patches, Copilot will have great suggestions. And then when you have to fix the new bugs, same deal.
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by Breza 5y ago
Adding to this, I suggest finding projects that will keep your skills up with current trends. There's a famous Reddit post from a guy who slacked at work and let his skills atrophy.
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by Breza 5y ago
I'm the lead data scientist in a corporation and only recently have I realized just how much I don't know. Give me another decade and hopefully I'll have learned most of those things.
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by Breza 5y ago
Wikipedia is taking a different approach to Google et al scraping their data. They're creating a for-profit spinoff to sign licensing deals.
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by Breza 5y ago
"Catholic Lisp"
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by Breza 5y ago
That's an important question. I attend a church that I disagree with on some issues. What I love about it is that it's OK for me to tell our ministers that I disagree and we have a conversation. I mentioned that I didn't know
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by Breza 5y ago
It looks like they've fixed those issues. I just checked on my phone and I haven't given their app any permissions.
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by Breza 5y ago
Currently the only incentive to post a new answer to an old question is you get a special badge. That's neat but limited. I've gone through old R questions and posted answers with a more modern syntax and my answers rarely get muc
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I also think real value comes from learning how to learn about computers.
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by Breza 5y ago
Well said. I don't have any gold in my portfolio but I don't begrudge people who do. The risk of ruin is pretty darn small, so even if you give up money versus an index fund, you're unlikely to lose much value over the long r

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