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I'm just getting exposed to this line of thinking and find it fascinating. Another resource I found recently was https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/mental-models/ Disclaimer: I'm not sure if it's derivat
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> doesn't make any sense because the if condition is false. Why is it false that Rich Bob can outbid Poor Alice for a glass of water?
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by RickHull 10y ago
I'm reminded of Gerald Gaus' On The Difficult Virtue of Minding One's Own Business [0] 0. http://www.gaus.biz/scrooge.pdf
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If that's a valid characterization of the internal debate, of what concern is that to the EU? So far, I don't see the UK screaming, huffing, or smashing doors with respect to the EU.
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> The UK left screaming, huffing and smashing the door Huh? This is your characterization of a referendum on membership?
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Except Thiel arguably has "connection with the merits of the dispute". He feels that Gawker violated his privacy as well as Hogan's, and he wants Gawker to be punished and/or discouraged from further similar behavior.
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> Extending and extinguishing can and most certainly has taken place, whether a monetary incentive exists or not. Um, sure, but EEE is important because it was a strategy and one that was executed repeatedly by Microsoft. On the other
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> I hope similar attention is paid to men's wardrobe choices next time a [...] article involving a male CEO is posted to HN. You mean like Steve Jobs' wardrobe choices?
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> so that you absolutely could not take them to court. Did he miss an opportunity or an opportunity cost?
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What do you mean by constructive platform ? In the general sense, HN is absolutely meant to be a constructive platform. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> If it turns out that the auto-erase feature is on, and the Effaceable Storage gets erased, they can remove the chip, copy the original information back in, and replace it. If they plan to do this many times, they can attach a “test so
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by RickHull 11y ago
Regarding hustle, I see: > late 17th century (originally in the sense ‘shake, toss’): from Middle Dutch hutselen So I think it splits into the dice and gambling sense, where deception becomes a valuable skill. And also the "hustle
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> I just do not understand people who cheat on games. I think they have a fundamentally different personality type: sportsman vs. gamesman. Sportsmanship values honor and conduct; gamesmanship values winning. It seems that the hig
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Wow. I managed to skip Diff-e-q in my C.S. curriculum, and I always wondered if was the worse for it. Perhaps I was prescient.
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> But, it's not the role of law enforcement to interpret the Constitution You are correct that law enforcement does not provide the authoritative interpretation of the Constitution, but you seem to imply that they should operate u
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Same problem on chromium / linux
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They do talk about this: > When the system was built, one of the missing features from Kafka 0.7 was the ability of the Kafka Broker cluster to behave as a reliable persistent storage. This influenced a major design decision to not keep
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Yep, it's a ridiculous assertion. No one would have ever heard of Uber if they weren't extremely good at helping people get rides in towns. That's what they do.
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We have to close the hetero pay gap.
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Yes, from what I can tell, Bialystok is explicitly violating the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertonian_norms , particularly with "How much would I win by ..." and denial of Skepticism.
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The bitterness seems real: > The debate has clearly become acrimonious. Paap says that he has been ignored; Bialystok feels she is being personally attacked. Perhaps, wrote Eric-Jan Wagenmakers from the University of Amsterdam, the two s
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Note also that this is the root name for 'Jerome' and also the famous native American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus
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aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch and a contemporary of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_Dürer
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> so many state governors doing things like ... enabling the Flint water crisis. Beware of simplistic narratives. It now looks like Flint took on the very tough job of water treatment as a jobs / stimulus program [1] -- something
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> basically trying to combine sockets and pipes to create remote pipes Sockets, or ssh? To get a remote shell, you're going to want ssh.
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Is your Erlang CV online to view?
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It seems like Oracle's reasoning could also be used to gauge how much revenue lithium-ion batteries generate for Google.
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> What happens if ... Make a decision, and then make the most of that decision. Sam is not saying it's bad to do other accelerators. However, for very natural reasons, graduates of other accelerators have more expected of them. L
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> “I don’t care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.” Eddie Rickenbacker, Eastern Airlines. Yep, it's _the_ Eddie Rickenbacker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Rickenbacker
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Poor copying from the source http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/04/parrots-newest-drone-has-wi... I'm guessing: > The Disco also features a pitot tube, which is typically used on planes to measure airspeed

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