KerrickStaley

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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
That's not what's happening here though. China has for years put enormous effort into promoting its worldview on the China/Taiwan issue in every way it can, even though that worldview contradicts the facts on the ground. Taiw
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
It's not true that any transcendental number would work. A transcendental number is a number which isn't the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients. This property doesn't imply that it contains all number sequences
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
FWIW I use Schwab for banking and I was able to connect YNAB to Schwab without entering my password. It looks like Schwab supports read-only API access, and Plaid takes advantage of that to avoid needing your credentials. As an added plus,
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To fight climate change, America must get better at electricity transmission(theatlantic.com)
21 points by KerrickStaley 5y ago|7 comments
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
The point of this wording is that "homeless" is not an identity, not a classification that permanently groups people into one category or another. Rather, it's a condition that people can experience, whether chronic or transi
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
Note that until recently, there was little correlation between the progressive/conservative axis and the Democratic/Republican axis. The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to the downfall
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
Getting to Mars won't help us survive as a species. Mars is a barren rock that is less desirable for human inhabitation than even the most remote land regions on Earth (such as the middle of the Sahara desert and the middle of Antarcti
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
Which purchase?
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
> Take a look at the top 10 highest valued YC startups. All their founders came from schools with less than 10% acceptance rates. This is not true. AirBnB is the top valued company that went through YC [1]. AirBnB was founded by Brian Ch
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
This is not correct. The web version of Anki is free to use but is closed-source.
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
Ritalin is not a form of amphetamine. Ritalin's active ingredient is methylphenidate.
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
They are different drugs with different mechanisms of action. One notable difference from my experience is that Ritalin has a stimulant effect, whereas Strattera actually made me tired.
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
From TFA: > rabies remains widespread across the world, killing some 59,000 people annually So no, 25 / year is not globally.
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
The Kelly criterion takes into account the fact that "gaining $25000 is worse than not losing $25000". A game where you have a 50/50 chance of gaining $25k or losing $25k has a negative expectation in the log domain, so per t
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
That must be it. I was doing this on a mobile device where there is no "hover" action.
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by KerrickStaley 5y ago
I think I'm missing something on this question: > Answer very, very carefully. Do you agree to the terms & conditions? I think you want to click "No", but it's telling me that the correct answer is to click "
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by KerrickStaley 6y ago
Another option: work hard now, save up lots of money and invest it in low-cost index funds, then later in life (e.g. when you're 40) you can quit your day job and focus on your passion or simply kick back. This idea is called "FIR
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by KerrickStaley 6y ago
No, a dissent means that one or more of the judges disagreed with the majority ruling.
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by KerrickStaley 6y ago
A small nit about an aside in the article: Is fcitx "the" East Asian IME for Linux? As a speaker of Chinese as a second language, I use IBus (with libpinyin), which is supported out-of-the-box in GNOME and seems to provide a bette
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Dr. Seuss as a policy issue: Oh, the intellectual property rights you'll extend(slowboring.com)
5 points by KerrickStaley 6y ago|0 comments
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by KerrickStaley 6y ago
GitHub search is notoriously poor, though—it can only match whole words (e.g. the query "FooBar" does not match the text "FooBarBaz"), and it doesn't support regexes.
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Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass(nature.com)
1 points by KerrickStaley 6y ago|0 comments
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by KerrickStaley 6y ago
Echoing this: periodically focusing on a distant object seems to help my eyestrain substantially.
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by KerrickStaley 6y ago
For what it's worth, the Taiwanese company Gogoro already has an e-bike on the market that ships to the USA (the Eeyo 1s) that has the same weight, same range, and same motor wattage at the same price point. The design is a little more
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by KerrickStaley 6y ago
From what I understand, this change affects me personally in a negative way; it will prevent me from making Google Voice calls on my phone. I use Google Voice with a US-based number that I registered while I lived in the US. I've since
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by KerrickStaley 6y ago
Here in Taiwan, a company called Gogoro [1] manufactures electric scooters (the type you sit on, similar to a motorcycle). These electric scooters have become fairly popular, with electric scooters capturing 15% of new scooter sales (the ma
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by KerrickStaley 6y ago
One major downside of Touch ID that is niche but affects me personally is that if your fingerprints get damaged (e.g. by rock climbing, which I do regularly) then Touch ID will stop working for ~1 day while your fingers recover. For this re
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by KerrickStaley 6y ago
I would avoid Git submodules; it seems like a fairly poorly designed feature and I'm constantly getting my submodules into a bad state (e.g. when switching branches). The alternative that has worked a lot better for me, in repos that u
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by KerrickStaley 6y ago
Git + Bazel will be fine for scaling up to 100s of engineers from my experience (at Lyft's L5 autonomous division). My other data point is Google, with 10,000s of engineers and a bespoke VCS. I'm not sure how things work in the mi
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by KerrickStaley 6y ago
Having experienced both the monorepo approach (at Google and Lyft's L5 autonomous division) the and manyrepo approach (at Lyft's main rideshare division), my conclusion is that keeping as much code in a single repository as possib

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