agarden

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by agarden 9y ago
Have you seen the charts and hyperlinks? I was quite puzzled that they would be left out.
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by agarden 9y ago
Most of the people on that page hadn't read the document.
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by agarden 9y ago
A UUID could let one verify that one's own vote was correctly recorded, but it does nothing to prevent stuffing the ballot box, which seems to be the more normal way of swinging an election.
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by agarden 9y ago
Then I'll go pay someone who voted 'yes' 1/2X for their UUID receipt and everyone is happy.
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by agarden 9y ago
So... Facebook's new mission is to be big brother.
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Elon Musk Begs the Feds: Please End Tesla's Tax Subsidy(seekingalpha.com)
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Graphene Sieve Turns Seawater into Drinking Water(laboratoryequipment.com)
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by agarden 10y ago
Are you referring to this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7900741
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by agarden 10y ago
No, three-fold repetition would happen long before fifty moves transpired. That's the normal conclusion of perpetual check. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_check
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Evolution Runs Faster on Short Timescales(quantamagazine.org)
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Minding matter(aeon.co)
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by agarden 10y ago
> "Should I learn saws or screwdrivers?" The analogy is bad. One cannot use a screwdriver to cut boards. Those two tools serve completely different functions. But most of the things that one can do with C++, one can also do wit
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by agarden 10y ago
True. Also, people tend to take more time when in losing positions, so it is likely that more of the discarded games than the not-discarded games would have been lost.
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by agarden 10y ago
That is suspicious. I play on lichess frequently and have never seen an invalid cert there.
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by agarden 10y ago
I like some of the ideas in this article, but brushing off punishment as ineffective seems short-sighted. For parents with kids who end up at a clinic because of problem behavior, punishment is ineffective. There is a selection bias going o
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An Ex-Cop's Remorse(newyorker.com)
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Burn My Vote(burnmyvote.org)
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Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators(theatlantic.com)
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Practice Doesn't Make Perfect(newyorker.com)
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How Long Until Hackers Start Faking Leaked Documents?(theatlantic.com)
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Microsoft Wants Autistic Coders. Can It Find Them and Keep Them?(fastcompany.com)
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Correcting Metabolic Deficiencies May Improve Depression Symptoms(upmc.com)
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by agarden 10y ago
Oh, wow. That is such an obvious explanation, now that you point it out. Where can I read more?
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Truck driver invents new tires that let you drive sideways(cnbc.com)
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by agarden 10y ago
First of all, let me explain what I mean when I say the word "intelligence". ...I'm talking about increasing your fluid intelligence, or your capacity to learn new information, retain it, then use that new knowledge as a fou
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by agarden 10y ago
You can pay them $49/year. If that doesn't remove the ads, then install an ad blocker that you turn on for just their site. https://membership.theguardian.com/us/supporter?INTCMP=ADBLO...
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by agarden 10y ago
Physical fitness is given a lot of attention by players at the very top of chess. Here is a quote from an article that talks a bit about it. “Anand has been pretty active as well,” says the Bad Sodener Zeitung. “He bought a season ticket fo
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Spawkfish vs. Stockfish(spawk.fish)
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by agarden 10y ago
It is because of critical thought like this that I read the HN comments. Kudos.
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by agarden 11y ago
He seemed to me to be criticizing people who want to make changes to the code without reasoning about the system, assuming that if they mess something up the existing tests will catch it and tell them. I think he is criticizing a real probl

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