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by auganov 4y ago
If you invest a lot of effort and expertise on the renovation side you can remove most of the risk. It's like getting into the contracting business but you get to pick your own jobs. IMO it's one of these under-saturated things th
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by auganov 4y ago
So you're building a business. Presumably you have a hypothesis for why it's going to work. Then some people tell you something negative. You give up despite not even being sure what they mean? If these were potential customers or
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by auganov 4y ago
What autonomy are you giving up by "allowing" the government to collect and analyze publicly observable information? What power is the government getting? Sure, this may be used to limit your autonomy. Much like a police office
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by auganov 4y ago
Hard to define = hard to criticize. Many are all too eager to "debunk" active brain training. Which is easy to do (even if ultimately wrong) when you know what it is and can pick a benchmark metric. IMO for most of the things medi
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by auganov 4y ago
You cannot have a real major powerful country if the people can't communicate with each other. You cannot have a people. All of these countries with multiple languages on the list are tiny, monolingual in practice or struggling with se
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by auganov 4y ago
> What makes you think that? I'm pro-EU and ideally I would like to see it turn into a full fledged country. The issue is that the general population doesn't want this (yet). Disbanding the EU is also not popular with the gener
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by auganov 4y ago
It's quite telling even the most pro-EU people are very opposed to creating anything resembling a real country. Opposition to the EU is often branded as nationalistic or insular, yet the EU and its proponents are dedicated to keeping t
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by auganov 4y ago
> It's a bit like asking a carpenter how many years of experience they have with DeWalt cordless nail guns rather than ask about their house framing skills. This kind of logic only works for tech organizations that already have enou
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by auganov 4y ago
Most comments seem to be assuming Europe-style hate speech laws that prosecute victimless crimes. But this looks like stronger criminal libel and harassment laws. Some places may not have criminal libel, but pretty sure everyone prosecutes
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by auganov 4y ago
Found it here: https://twitter.com/maxkreminski/status/1535850992620539904 (the documentcloud link gives me an error, not sure if it works, so linking the tweet) Yeah, not sure if it's dishonest. By a lesser
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by auganov 4y ago
> Wouldn't an engineer who has worked 7 years at Google working on AI be atleast a bit more skeptical of what constitutes sentientence than the average person? And by that same logic, wouldn't them concluding an AI truly is sen
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by auganov 4y ago
Extremely dishonest article. Tries very hard to trick people in believing "Hindu nationalists" didn't like her talk because they're great fans of the caste system. Yet it's common knowledge they're against the
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by auganov 4y ago
Not knowing Japanese and just having seen the translations posted here, I'm inclined to trust the machine ones more. "No fixed address" seems to be more accurate than "nowhere to live". Not sure if the first two sen
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by auganov 4y ago
Healthcare spending is almost as unequal as wealth, with a tiny minority consuming most of the resources [0]. Don't have data for this, but I see no reason not to assume a similar distribution applies to groups like cancer sufferers. T
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by auganov 4y ago
My best advice would be to try an actual transactional email service. A while back I was experimenting with this... Absolutely couldn't get past spam despite all the right settings. Then I tried sendgrid. Worked like a charm without an
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by auganov 5y ago
> what I currently view as pseudoscience Are these claims trying to be scientific in the first place? If not, don't evaluate them as such. Science (as in scientific method) and truth are orthogonal. I'd start with the problem o
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by auganov 5y ago
It's trivial to create a lookalike audience based off your site's traffic, even if there's no pre programmed category. You just put up some content that you know for a fact will attract a given group, promote it to a wide aud
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by auganov 5y ago
I don't know much about the language, but the JVM is absolutely a tremendous platform. Probably the best JIT compiler and GC for server workloads - by far. Great concurrency story (and may become the absolute best when Loom ships). As
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by auganov 5y ago
If Israel constitutes settler colonialism then any immigration or self determination by an eventually successful group must be considered so. Legally settling somewhere and then asserting self determination by necessity seems to be quite di
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by auganov 5y ago
C) lisp is a "10x" language? I can't be similarly productive in a language that doesn't have a simple syntax (easy to write) and doesn't allow you to do meaningful live programming. By the time you've got a maj
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by auganov 5y ago
> Which is why I refuse to travel outside of the Schengen area. Just one data point: A few days ago was pulled over in Germany, I assume, for travelling on foreign plates from a small (Schengen area) country. Initially we thought we must
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by auganov 5y ago
> from obese tendency Which should make you rather skeptical of inferring just how innate IQ really is (assuming it's a valid concept). The heritability correlations for obesity are only slightly weaker than IQ. Yet we know for a fa
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by auganov 5y ago
If you're implying the replication crisis is limited to social sciences, that's too narrow. You'd expect to see these problems in any field that primarily relies on hard to gather data that is far removed from the underlying
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by auganov 5y ago
If top scientists are willing to outright manufacture data, how many would be willing to intentionally follow unsound logic? As in dishonestly claiming some (legitimate) data implies something that it doesn't or intentionally avoiding
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by auganov 6y ago
A lot of modern software has to ship a browser version and this simple fact can be all it takes to inform downstream choices. Let's go with WebSockets as an example. You decide you need them in the browser. This will likely mean some o
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by auganov 6y ago
I'd rather quit the EU, but if status quo is the only alternative then I'd prefer centralizing it. The current setup is pretty much the worst of both worlds. Individual states don't have much sovereignty left but all the usel
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by auganov 6y ago
Everything about English is very different just because of its standing in the world. People aren't even that interested in "mastering" other languages. Not just a native vs non-native thing either [0]. You'll see fewer
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by auganov 6y ago
It's a pretty loaded question, I'm not sure you'd even have wide agreement on what Unix is. Are we talking about kernels? The general design philosophy? The broader ecosystem? For example, the failure of Unix like systems to
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by auganov 6y ago
UV light is a disinfectant and experimental treatments have proposed inserting a UV light into the lungs via mouth, or yes, literally injecting it into veins. Whether that's a good idea is another question.
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by auganov 6y ago
Super and Hyper (Right Alt and Right Pritnscreen for me). I never use any C-c bindings. C-* & M-* already have decent defaults, so all my frequently used stuff is s-* and H-*. Some of the less frequent stuff might be H-s-*, C-s-* or M-s

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