MiroF

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by MiroF 6y ago
> missing features (like unions) when working with other languages. Which languages are missing unions? Off the top of my head, they exist in C/C++ and mypy python.
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by MiroF 6y ago
People without merit getting admitted to top law schools because of legacy/donors happens, but not nearly as much as some people seem to think. Legacy admits are not necessarily without merit. My guess is that most of the low merit adm
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by MiroF 6y ago
> representing all the slicing, column removal, joins, etc. is actually pretty hard without dependent tricks Disagree in the strongest possible terms, tbh. It's the lack of static typing that gets you 3/4 of the way down your e
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by MiroF 6y ago
My interpretation is that it is possible for clerkships to both be relatively meritocratic and also a pissing contest between Harvard and Yale because (shocker) the most talented law students do tend to go to those schools.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> the only branch of government that still has legitimacy Legitimacy w.r.t. what? What is it that the Supreme Court has that congress is lacking?
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by MiroF 6y ago
> The federal judiciary isn't a meritocracy. It's a pissing contest between Harvard and Yale And how do you get in to Harvard or Yale law?
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by MiroF 6y ago
Certainly. This should mean statically typed code is being compiled to BEAM, no?
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by MiroF 6y ago
American products are considered a luxury status symbol in much of China. There are literal "Jeep" stores in Beijing that are just selling Jeep-branded camo apparel at upscale prices.
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by MiroF 6y ago
This is great! Can we replace the original article with this, it's much higher quality than most of the ones listed and fills a gap in Youtube content I'd never been able to find (though I haven't tried recently) - that is: l
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by MiroF 6y ago
> self-imposed austerity measures of billions of people from disparate groups We don't need self-imposed austerity measures. Just end the meat & dairy subsidies.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Here's the thing, "grass fed" beef is still fed grain. You're looking for "grass finished", which is quite rare.
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by MiroF 6y ago
It's a very small amount of seaweed in the feed.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> It matters because convincing people to eat soy in the western world does absolutely nothing for the Amazon forest. It's a false narrative. First, I think the reason to stop eating as much beef is because of the GHG impact of doin
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Yes, but it doesn't export that food to western countries. I don't understand why that matters? Brazil doesn't export to the US because of its FMD problem among its cattle. > CO2 and methane emissions for growing meat
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by MiroF 6y ago
> they've been deforested because people are starving, and they need to put food on the table, and be lifted out of poverty. And countries, such as Brazil, are only now doing what the western countries have been doing all throughout
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by MiroF 6y ago
> cattle is raised on land that is unsuitable for crop production This doesn't really matter - it's about the fact that the cattle are eating crops that could have more efficiently been directly turned into food. Unless you&#x2
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by MiroF 6y ago
> "cachet" (phonetically "cachè") Do you understand? This is the statement that we're saying is incorrect. The english word cachet is not pronounced phonetically "cachè" in english. There is another wor
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by MiroF 6y ago
> I said it was pronounced with an English accent, Cachet is an english word in this context, so how could the English pronunciation be incorrect? > "è" (or "et" in French) is pronounced /ɛ/. Wikipedia wi
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by MiroF 6y ago
There's way too much noise in this measurement for it to be seriously meaningful, unless ownership of tor was itself a crime.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> "e" in "best". But I pronounce chachet nothing like the e in best. It seems much more similar to a french "é" This is how I pronounce it: https://www.google.com/search?q=cachet+pronunciatio
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by MiroF 6y ago
Here's a brief article on the practice https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/4/8/dorm-crew-tweets...
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by MiroF 6y ago
I agree - but I also think that strong typing is the future.
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by MiroF 6y ago
No, I meant the pronunciation!
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Caché, cachet I'll be honest I have no idea what the difference is between these two.
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by MiroF 6y ago
At Harvard at least, there is a "dorm crew", comprised mostly of poorer students meeting their term-time work requirements that come with finaid, that is responsible for cleaning the in-suite bathrooms. I think I recall recently r
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by MiroF 6y ago
> 100% need-based aid to accepted students With the little weird caveat that poor students at top institutions have to work doing things like cleaning the bathrooms of the richer kids as part of their "term-time work expectation&quo
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by MiroF 6y ago
> I got a much higher score than I deserved to on the ACT because you can read the test pretty easily if you put yourself in the shoes of the people making it I don't understand why that is some secretly accessible knowledge that i
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by MiroF 6y ago
I think that is the route among many schools to get donors in.
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by MiroF 6y ago
It's racism against white people to automatically admit everyone to UC (not Cal) who is in the top 9% of their class?
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by MiroF 6y ago
Elite schools don't use them at least partially so they can take the same tests as every other school.

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