bmmayer1

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by bmmayer1 13y ago
He (or she?) has had a couple essays rise to the top of HN. In my memory, one this week about predicting Google product shutdowns, and one a while back about determining whether a leaked film script was legitimate.
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by bmmayer1 13y ago
gwern answers here: https://pastee.org/bebat
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The FBI records all telephone calls? "We certainly have ways..."(transcripts.cnn.com)
3 points by bmmayer1 13y ago|1 comments
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by bmmayer1 13y ago
Do you know him personally?
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Ask gwern: Who are you?
103 points by bmmayer1 13y ago|44 comments
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This Is What The Next Generation Of Programmers Looks Like(readwrite.com)
2 points by bmmayer1 14y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
If you set out to create an explosion. If this is a complete accident how is this an expulsion-worthy offense?
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
Human rights are objectively better in the US than in China. Not perfect here either by any means, but the indicators are clearly, objectively better. Which is what every major human development index says worldwide, not just those peddled
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
True story: One of the entrepreneurs from Startup.com was my summer camp counselor.
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How Boston exposes America’s dark post-9/11 bargain(salon.com)
1 points by bmmayer1 14y ago|0 comments
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What I'd like to see this Earth Day: More Fracking(theglobeandmail.com)
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The teen who auctioned 10% of her income for a startup investment may not exist(venturebeat.com)
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
No one screengrabbed the stylesheet or sprite before Twitter took it down?
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
IN GOD'S NAME WHY
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
What's next? How easy would it be for French officials to decide that something that's critical of the president or the ruling party may be a threat to state security and censor the internet accordingly?
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
I'd personally like to do a Paul Krugman generator. But I don't have the CPU power to crank out that level of bullshit.
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
Hey all--Brian here, I built this little ditty. To answer some questions: Yes, it is a template engine, and there are only two templates. The foreign policy one was written by Michael Ward with some modifications, and the domestic policy
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
By the way, we have been using EasyPost for a month or two and they really are awesome. The API is super easy to use, their rates are totally reasonable, and it beats having to use the USPS website. Not a shill, just a satisfied customer.
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
Hear hear
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
It explicitly mentions just compensation . A sub-market price isn't just.
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Twitter sued £32m for refusing to reveal anti-semites(wired.co.uk)
3 points by bmmayer1 14y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
Revoking Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize would be a public good.
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
No one owes those bloggers traffic. Certainly Paul Krugman is completely out of left field to suggest that the traffic is a public service.
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
I had a Sidecar driver this afternoon who told me he was suspended by Uber after he had the bad luck to get Travis Kalanick as a passenger, and failed to pick him up on the right side of the street (according to him).
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
Interesting how Ben Franklin's solution was a prohibitive tax on window shades and post-sunset transit, a quota on candles, and a citywide alarm clock. After all those regulations that would be near impossible to enforce, maybe simply chan
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
You're forgetting about the 385,000% income tax.
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
This nonprofit exists already: http://www.transparency-usa.org/
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
I lived in South Africa and I wrote my thesis specifically on post-apartheid race politics. There is an added problem here, which is the extent of corruption in so-called Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) programs. The contractor here is a
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by bmmayer1 14y ago
Welcome to California.
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US Internet providers start spy program to stop file-sharing(rt.com)
1 points by bmmayer1 14y ago|0 comments

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