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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
So without this, your internet activity on a mobile phone can be linked to you even with a VPN?
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
Active voice is usually more clear, tight, and pleasant to read.
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
You disagree and commit when you need to choose one option from multiple. In this case, Marc could just choose to not sign the letter.
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
I'm saying among people I knew, if you got into #4 and #10, for example, you didn't pick #4 because it was higher rated. At that point the difference came down to other things. If you got into #4 and #40, then yes, you were going
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
I didn't say that they don't. I'm saying among people I knew, if you got into #4 and #10, for example, you didn't pick #4 because it was higher ranked. At that point the difference came down to other things.
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
I’ll chime in with contrary anecdotal experience having gone to a high school with lots of selective college placements. I didn’t know anyone who chose between two elite schools based on their relative US News ranking.
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
Do you mean offsets (which don’t really do anything)? Because carbon capture is more expensive than that.
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
Sorry to ruin your excellent joke. Context for the down voters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
Something different entirely, but look at https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
I don’t understand the “but you’d not talk about them” part.
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
> A few years ago, I found out I'd been tying my shoes wrong for my entire life. I thought laces came undone easily and didn't usually look very good. At least that's how mine were, and I never paid much attention to anyon
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
> I fear that 3 day weekends every week (since we shouldn’t leave day care workers and teachers out of this) would be the end of me. We could have different groups of people take off different third days. My preference would be to have W
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
Not saying Michael Sandel owns the idea, I first heard it in his book Tyranny of Merit.
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
I completely agree with you. I think it would be best to expand class sizes in addition to this lottery.
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
Tangential to the suggestion of taxing endowments, I like Michael Sandel's idea of turning admissions into a lottery once a threshold is met. E.g. anyone with a GPA above x and a SAT score above y with a personal essay judged to meet q
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
For those new to Strong Towns, I feel this article is most representative of what they’re about: https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
I can recommend this book on Netherlands and racism: https://www.dukeupress.edu/white-innocence
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
I’ll give the full quote: > The Ethereum address Medjedovic used for the attack included the number “1488”—shorthand for a neo-Nazi slogan—and he’d written the N-word into the code itself, 16 times. A Twitter user called him the “Dylan [
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
You can move your king into check, so white’s move of king takes queen is legal. But, it still is losing because black then plays knight takes king.
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
Their butterscotch lollipops are so good.
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
DCA only speaks to the cadence of investment and is often contrasted to (and underperforms) lump sum. The strategy as a whole could be summed up as investing in low cost diversified index funds.
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DARPA Network Challenge (2009)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
In fact, here is an interview of Hikaru from Doug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npyFtH2odaM
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by buzzy_hacker 4y ago
Short-term TIPS. The shorter duration means more responsive to inflation and less sensitive to interest rate risk. https://institutional.vanguard.com/iam/pdf/ISGCTIPS.pdf?cbdF...
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by buzzy_hacker 5y ago
Congratulations on the launch, I genuinely think this ranks among the most positive high-impact work one could be doing right now. The scale of animal cruelty is tremendous. Disrupting the meat industry is so important. Do let us know if yo
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by buzzy_hacker 5y ago
World Chess Championship 1972 was widely viewed as a proxy for the Cold War
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by buzzy_hacker 5y ago
That’s correct, but Stockfish uses neutral nets differently than AlphaZero.
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by buzzy_hacker 5y ago
2. d4 is the Morra gambit
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by buzzy_hacker 5y ago
Knock knock. Who's there? To. To who? To whom!
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by buzzy_hacker 5y ago
Though that’s the state policy, not the city. Shame though.

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