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The Pitchfork Story(byroot.github.io)
7 points by baoyu 2y ago|0 comments
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by baoyu 5y ago
Here’s a quadratic voting demo that looks nice and provides more intuition: https://www.economist.com/interactive/2021/12/18/quadratic-v...
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by baoyu 5y ago
Too many people are missing the point of actions like this. You want to make lives of everyone in Russia more unpleasant to send the signal that a war can’t be an easy PR win. If you start a war, it should suck for your citizens, even if th
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by baoyu 5y ago
> Most financial institutions are implementing their own clouds https://www.nasdaq.com/Nasdaq-AWS-cloud-announcement
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YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording(improbable.com)
561 points by baoyu 5y ago|248 comments
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Slate Star Codex update: NYT still at it, reopening on hold(reddit.com)
65 points by baoyu 6y ago|8 comments
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by baoyu 6y ago
Spotify on Mac. It’s Chromium-based, so, of course, it’s slow. Specifically, search is excruciatingly slow, removing an album from your library redraws the whole page, and—most frustratingly— as soon as you lose internet connection, your pe
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Show HN: Duro – scheduled materialized views for Amazon Redshift(github.com)
2 points by baoyu 7y ago|0 comments
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Giving and Taking Criticism (2018)(chappellellison.com)
2 points by baoyu 8y ago|0 comments
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The Last Line Effect(viva64.com)
69 points by baoyu 9y ago|8 comments
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by baoyu 9y ago
Same in Belarus (but both iPad and PS4 Twitch apps handle 720p just fine on the same network).
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On the Dark Web, Medical Records Are a Hot Commodity(fastcompany.com)
2 points by baoyu 10y ago|0 comments
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The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes(youtube.com)
3 points by baoyu 10y ago|0 comments
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That Brilliant New Strategy for Conquering Scrabble? It’s Not New or Brilliant(slate.com)
1 points by baoyu 10y ago|0 comments
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Visualising random variables(terrytao.wordpress.com)
40 points by baoyu 10y ago|12 comments
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What do you consider the most interesting scientific news?(edge.org)
16 points by baoyu 11y ago|6 comments
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The Best Books I Read in 2015(medium.com)
10 points by baoyu 11y ago|0 comments
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Creating the World's Greatest Anagram(priceonomics.com)
2 points by baoyu 11y ago|0 comments
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Arthur Chu Would Like to Make Lawyers Richer and You Quieter and Poorer(popehat.com)
11 points by baoyu 11y ago|0 comments
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How to reveal aggregations with Taucharts(blog.taucharts.com)
2 points by baoyu 11y ago|0 comments
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by baoyu 11y ago
There’s a good reason why doctors have difficulties with rare diseases—which is, of course, the rarity itself. > In medical school, aspiring doctors spend a few minutes at most on these relatively unusual conditions. It would be unethica
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by baoyu 11y ago
You don’t need perfect measurements to make decisions. Comparing times between browser-defined events in the same browser opening the same site on the same day is about the most apples-to-apples as you can get.
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by baoyu 11y ago
It’s two days if you live in the US. I don’t, so the CD will have to travel for weeks to finally get stuck at the customs in the airport—and CDs are much more fragile than MP3s or FLACs. Moreover, I don‘t have a single device to put this CD
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Why We Keep Playing the Lottery(nautil.us)
49 points by baoyu 12y ago|81 comments
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The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics(acko.net)
202 points by baoyu 12y ago|205 comments
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Russian government's RFT to investigate obtaining information about TOR users(translate.google.com)
1 points by baoyu 12y ago|0 comments
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by baoyu 12y ago
A possible issue with the experiment—the Hawthorne effect [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
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Putin says Yandex was largely influenced by foreigners, shares fall by 5%(businessweek.com)
1 points by baoyu 12y ago|0 comments
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by baoyu 12y ago
The point about “text is too big” is really, really strange—using 12pt in print is okay, but you should never use it for a screen—everyone's reading from the screen from a much bigger distance, and resolutions are getting higher and hi
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by baoyu 13y ago
Vladimir Voevodsky received Fields medal in 2002, so please note that it's not usual amateurish try to create new mathematics while knowing nothing about the old one.

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