bobcostas55

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by bobcostas55 4y ago
>It's a beautifully shot show It so isn't. It's got that ugly flat daytime soap lighting that ruins so many of these streaming shows, I guess because they think they can save money by not paying for a good dp.
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
IKEA says the fornuftig is only for 8-10 square meter rooms. How "real" is that limitation?
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
Doesn't ZFS have a mechanism for periodically checking for and correcting bit rot?
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How to Fit into Startup Culture(arisc.medium.com)
1 points by bobcostas55 4y ago|0 comments
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Imposter (Syndrome) Is Among Us(georgefrancis.substack.com)
2 points by bobcostas55 4y ago|0 comments
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
The days of soldering are far behind us, pretty much everything these days is hot-swappable. It sounds like keychron would be a good fit for you.
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
The price difference is pretty wild, hard to make an investment like that without being able to try it first.
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
Absolutely fascinating stuff, thanks for trying it out! I just wish we had some way of really understanding what's going on under the hood...
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
The de facto reality of how wikipedia operates is that certain people own certain topics, usually with an agenda in mind. If you try to push back they call in their friends and shout you down. The actual merits of the edits are irrelevant.
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
This is complete nonsense, economics is by far the strongest social science field in terms of empirical methodology. Pretty much all the modern causal inference methods were developed in econometrics. Try taking a look at the big econ journ
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
What happens if you ask it to evaluate the function it generated, with some input?
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
The opposition to vacancies in real estate is one of the most absurd memes I've seen recently. Imagine if you went to a supermarket and all the shelves were empty. That's what zero vacancies in the real estate market looks like! T
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
If you've ever got leftover potatoes (or mashed potatoes) I recommend making some potato pancakes AKA potatisplättar. They go absolutely perfectly with lingonberries.
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
Schools in poor areas have higher funding than schools in rich areas, the property tax funding is only one part of where schools get their money from. See this report for example: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs95/web/953
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Insider trading doesn't apply to most "traditional" assets either. Everyone's free to trade in FX and commodities for example.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
What causes that particular starburst pattern in the James Webb telescope image?
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
By revealed preference, those are not human values.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
I suppose it depends on what you think about the motivations of the people who designed this process. Someone sat down and decided that a timed, 120-second scavenger hunt for a dog on the company's website is the best approach to onboa
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
There isn't one, they're just fad diets like all the other ones.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Is there any evidence that dark stores are more disruptive than...normal stores? A regular supermarket gets tons of traffic, trucks unloading goods, etc. What's the difference?
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Not only that. If they had simply sold it by mistake it would be bad, but somewhat understandable as a simple mistake. The worst thing is they refused the return, even though they knew from the RMA sticker that it was broken at the time of
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
>Releasing GMO chestnuts will contaminant the gene pool forever So what?
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The Scientific Virtues: Stupidity, Arrogance, Laziness(slimemoldtimemold.com)
119 points by bobcostas55 5y ago|54 comments
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
If you follow them you will end up with an unreadable spaghetti made out of thousands of two-line functions.
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
The entire idea of "fact checking" on social media is premised on the notion that fact checkers have some kind of superior epistemic merit compared to the checkees. When you're fact checking random people or journalists that
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
I'm vaccinated myself, but why should past illness not be grounds for exception? Natural immunity works about as well as a vaccine, and fades much more slowly over time. Obviously it would be even better if he had both, but he poses no
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On the History of Scurvy Science(slimemoldtimemold.com)
4 points by bobcostas55 5y ago|0 comments
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
Go on...
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Quit Your Job(palladiummag.com)
327 points by bobcostas55 5y ago|397 comments
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by bobcostas55 5y ago
If your organization cares about its carbon footprint it won't use airplanes. If your organization cares about its carbon footprint it won't use cars. Why not take this argument all the way?

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