MaxfordAndSons

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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
The big twist is that we end up nuking ourselves to get rid of the giant sky spiders.
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
You really need both a knife and a spoon for complete toenail maintenance
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
In NY I could easily get matches/dates... in SF it was much more difficult. And when I did get dates in SF, 2nd dates were much less likely, I got ghosted more often, etc. In terms of the silly reductive attractiveness scale, I went fr
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
Every source I can find in a cursory search only shows the overall ratio, not age group segmented - whats your source? And regardless, even if it was somewhere between slightly favorable and slightly unfavorable in NYC, it is strongly unfav
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
Killing strangers for minor violations of your property rights... killing multiple strangers in a rage of entitlement... calling police to kill or punish strangers who are having mental health crises for minor violations of public behavior
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
Practically speaking, you're going feel the gender ratio of your geographical region/metropolitan area. Sure, men will be at a ratio disadvantage more often than not in the US, but there are definitely zones where the ratio is inv
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
You can find the idea of the individual being subsumed to the kin group to be disconcerting or strange (I do), without categorizing it as a "fundamentally evil" way of thinking. Honor killings are an extreme end of the spectrum of
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
"If you're good at something, never do it for cheap"
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
> People said I was playing wrong but I intuitively felt like this would give a lot higher payoffs than just straight play with no bluffs. No winning players nowadays would advocate for a strategy that doesn't involve bluffing. Not
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
I mean, it may not have been publicly solved, but there are definitely bots out there in the wild that are beating human fields on online poker sites. But also I think Pokersnowie is a bot made with more traditional ML methods (i.e. trainin
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
Modern Poker Theory by Michael Acevedo is considered a contemporary gold standard.
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
I've been thinking about a similar project. Do you intend to have it be only bots? I think it would be interesting to also allow human players to play against the bots (perhaps incentivized by getting preferential rakeback deals compar
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
Indeed, but it should be made clear that these kinds of reads aren't necessarily (or likely) coming from physical appearances alone - there's all sorts of metadata to consider. For example, in the Dwan hand, the timing of Eastgate
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
I don't think this is the case anymore. Unless you classify foolish speculation as crime.
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
> blockchains that handle incentivized file storage, alternate name lookup systems It would be a shame if IPFS and Filecoin end up in the dustbin of history if the web3 music stops. They're the only reasonable non-financial applicat
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
Well, at the least the US could refrain from supplying further funding to the WIV, and any other virology labs.
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
To those that agree with the author: it's quite disheartening to beginners (often learning JS as a first language) to hear these things. It's just purposeless gatekeeping that borders on anonymous hazing. Who in good conscience ca
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
Not trying to wade into theological debates, but I feel compelled to defend Nietzsche from this common misrepresentation of his work: he did not, in fact, think that the "death of god" was a bad thing because it actually removed a
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
I think the best is "This is what happens when you _find_ a stranger in the _alps_" from The Big Lebowski.
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
> I don't want to be a part of your death cult. GP said nothing about how or when they wish everyone to die. It's as banal a statement as "I wish the earth will keep spinning". If GP is in a death cult, so are the ove
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
It also cites Science, The Taiwan Times, and Forbes (shrug). But more importantly, it's well reasoned. It's not "wild speculation". It's learned speculation based on history, opinions of experts, and independent sou
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
This and the generally uncharitable readings is a rather depressing reminder that HN is not at all immune to information warfare.
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
There's nothing hysterical about the article. Nor do they encourage the reader to conclude they should "be mad at a scientist/science in general". In fact they explicitly encourage the reader to believe and engage with s
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
Not that many, probably 1, or maybe 3 to be conservative. Of course there are the institutional and governmental parties as well, but still not that many (1 lab director, maybe 1 executive above them, plus a handful of regulators with detai
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
A cover up isn't very hard to execute if the involved parties all have aligned incentives - in this case, not ruining their careers, possibly destroying their entire professional field, and publicly accepting culpability for millions o
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
Indeed, I made the mistake of working too hard early on in my tenure at my last job, and was quickly rewarded with more responsibility than I could handle, leading to burnout. This time around I'm trying to be more tactical in my rate
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
"The law" in gp's quote is not referring to codified (abstract) laws, but rather their application in reality. To wit: we refer to police officers as "the law" because they represent, and wield, the law, and in the
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
Point taken, but jeez, Hackathons are supposed to be participatory/inclusive events. Feels a bit harsh and counter-productive to just tell back end devs to kick rocks. Full disclosure I am running a hackathon at my company this very we
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
Yes this is well documented and I think Google publicly admits it themselves - they optimize to reduce false positives.
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by MaxfordAndSons 5y ago
Sort of orthogonal, but a perhaps culturally telling anecdote: a few months ago I was actively looking for a new job, and got a cold email from a technical recruiter from Roblox (via linkedin). I was curious, so set up a time to call, he as

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