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by auganov 6y ago
Not sure about Texas[0], but LA is definitely way less humid than South Florida. Don't know too many people who actively like humidity at high temps. Some may not mind it. But those who hate it, like myself, just can't stand it. I
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Over 9 years. Yes, the first few years, I have absolutely learned a lot. Got exposed to many new programming and startup concepts I probably wouldn't have otherwise. Would often find new ideas here and spend a lot of time digging deepe
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by auganov 6y ago
Keep in mind the org stuff makes that config file look much bigger than it really is. Though, 186 does sound surprisingly low if this is truly just 186 lines applied to vanilla Emacs. My bindings file is a little over 200 (one binding per l
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by auganov 6y ago
If abstractness and departure from orality is the ultimate goal, you'd want highly technical writing, mathematical notation and so forth. The type of reading the author encourages - long-form societal discourse, is still relatively ora
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by auganov 6y ago
On a purely technical note, something being "fully decentralized" would usually imply low reach. To amplify voices a platform has to be conceptually centralized enough to allow for a common experience. Which comes with the ability
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by auganov 6y ago
Watch any EU parliament video and count how many people speak English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io8aRZUFCxE Even the speaker of the house doesn't. President of the EU commission starts off in her language, brie
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> and on the other have no idea about the EU parliamentary process. It is what you make it. Yes. But the problem is people have a very hard time doing that. You cannot engage with EU level politics the same way you can in a real country.
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> So if I understand correctly, you're worried that every little piece of freedom lost, is lost forever. I can understand the sentiment, and I even agree to that. Potentially. I do expect that most restrictions will be rolled back e
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by auganov 6y ago
I do generally dislike strangers trying to be humorous. Both online and offline. Extremely hard to do intentional humor without hostility, ridicule, some in-group context or plain silliness. Unsolicited humor is also hard to respond to. You
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by auganov 6y ago
Skepticism is the lesser part of the point. I believe 100% that there are excess deaths, in some places non-trivial. I'm more skeptical about policy interventions, but I'm also willing to believe they are more likely to help than
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by auganov 6y ago
If you're lucky, perhaps you can roll the dice 10 times. With a 10% chance 10 failures wouldn't be too significant. Given a binomial distribution that's still p~=0.35.
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In a clinical setting when you know what you're looking for, blood tests are great. Randomly running panels on yourself, you'll have a hard time distinguishing signal from noise. Or even worse interference. Say, taking high doses
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I don't ever plan on getting it. Not remotely concerned about risks of the vaccine. Or the coronavirus. I have a very negative view of most heavy handed corona policies around the world and see them as a much bigger risk to my well bei
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by auganov 6y ago
Not sure what's the point of attacking self-esteem as a general concept. Perhaps there's some valid criticism of policies aimed at boosting it. But the article is trying to convince us we shouldn't want to feel good about our
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by auganov 6y ago
> Bryan Caplan in his book The Case Against Education suggests that employers value college degrees partly as a signal of conformism, and that that's the reason college is so hard to replace. Perhaps, but in high-skill fields most q
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> The Shakespeares, Twains, and Austens of the future won't emerge from the book publishing industry. They’ll come from YouTube, podcasts, and blogs. The author pushes for a cold technical writing style. Then he brings up a bunch of
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by auganov 6y ago
China is claiming 4,634 coronavirus deaths total in a population of 1.4 billion. Multiples of that are hardly a lot of people in such a vast country. Like with most healthcare systems anywhere in the world and especially in a $10k per capit
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by auganov 6y ago
You could flip it around and ask - given that phone chips are approaching desktop level performance, how native do you need to go? We're already seeing native apps become less "native". Using high level frameworks that provid
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In general I agree, it's pretty unlikely that China is anywhere in the top 10 per capita, but there's still a lot of room for a cover up. It could very well be that China chose to sweep it under the rug and has many more people dy
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by auganov 6y ago
Never owned an Apple product and generally don't have too great of an opinion of this ecosystem. But the M1 MacBook Air is perhaps the first Apple product that really caught my attention. A fan-less (without overheating issues) ultrabo
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by auganov 6y ago
The author correctly notes that Japan had wide adoption of the mobile web way before the rest of the world but doesn't explore why. And therein lies the answer. SE Asian countries have a pattern of widely adopting technologies before o
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by auganov 6y ago
How would you handle spam with predominantly E2EE emails? WhatsApp et al. have complete control over clients giving them a few more cues to go by. I would imagine it would get even harder to send anything from your own server. Though one co
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by auganov 6y ago
Optimizing execution and designing for horizontal scalability are both cases of premature optimization. Scaling vertically via hardware as much as possible is IMO the most developer-time saving way. Once that's exhausted you'll ha
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As bad as election polls are, at least you get to find out the truth eventually. A lot of polling has to do with domains where there's no easy way of establishing ground truth. But ironically it would appear to me people tend to trust
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And I'm sure the government doesn't expect a perfect ban. By going after platforms you'll take the ability to engage in secure E2EE messaging away from a large part of the population. E2EE messaging that required coordination
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It wouldn't be an encryption ban, but a ban on operating a platform that enables E2EE messaging. Similarly in most places you already cannot be an ISP or VPN provider without following some reporting requirements. And there's no s
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Although there are possible scenarios where enough ballots would be disqualified, there are scenarios beyond that. Legislatures don't necessarily have to certify the result. Electoral Count Act and Bush v. Gore seem to suggest that sta
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FTX [0] has President Trump's chances at remaining President in February 2021 at a little over 10%. Numerous legal pathways remain for President Trump to win. https://ftx.com/trade/TRUMPFEB
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The biggest problem with voting systems (online or otherwise) is absolute secrecy. If you give up on this requirement, which I believe is antiquated [0], you can easily come up with a system where most fraud could be fixed and punished. You
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> But the unfortunate side is that it's seeping into the overall culture and previously-benign and relatively apolitical institutions It's very hard to be apolitical. Almost all behavior can be interpreted politically. What has

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