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by cgag 9y ago
The economics of most private torrent sites is fucked beyond belief if you haven't participated. I've only seen one paper on it from Microsoft research. Maybe more has been written on it that I haven't seen.
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by cgag 9y ago
That post was both technically interesting and hilarious, thanks
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by cgag 9y ago
my kingdom for anything better than 16:9 in a thinkpad though it looks like other manufacturers besides lenovo and apple are starting to make good laptops now, so maybe i'll finally be able to ditch them in a few years
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by cgag 9y ago
They've got 1000+ employees (in 2015 at least). I don't imagine them having more money really helping anything. edit: in response to fabrice's comment about other orgs, checkout http://www.givewell.org/
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by cgag 9y ago
The Starbucks logo is a mermaid? I'd know it if I saw it but I can't recall it at all other than green and I think humanoid.
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by cgag 9y ago
I mistakenly got a 1400 dollar bill . I just called and said it was a mistake and I don't want to pay it and they said ok. Probably too late for you but maybe helpful for someone in the future.
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by cgag 9y ago
The version I heard was "I would gladly give up my life for two brothers or eight cousins.". I much prefer it.
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by cgag 9y ago
My experience is short people mostly get ignored in an otherwise tall group.
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by cgag 9y ago
Of a guy writing wiki articles? Nothing. It's a pretty valid question in general though as people do receive grant money for language preservation projects I'm pretty sure.
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by cgag 9y ago
My prediction is they will continue the decline that's been going on for a long time. I'm not convinced they were wrong about chess either.
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by cgag 9y ago
I think the effort to reward ratio is much lower if you're a native English speaker and especially an American.
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by cgag 9y ago
R/anarchism absolutely hates anarchocapitalists
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by cgag 9y ago
because we have to do this every time: Either the principle is important and you support it or you don't. If you actually believe in freedom of speech you don't get to celebrate censorship by corporate entities because the consti
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by cgag 9y ago
I find it pretty readable.
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by cgag 9y ago
I don't think that's under dispute.
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by cgag 9y ago
Spreading the price around more people isn't the only way for price to go down. If there were less supply side regulation of doctors than there would be more of them, and their time would be less expensive.
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by cgag 9y ago
There are so supermarkets on my way home.
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by cgag 9y ago
If you listen to him talk about his farther he sounds like he was very intelligent.
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by cgag 9y ago
Don't buy so much food.
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by cgag 9y ago
Multiple books, rotating between them relatively quickly (interleaving), usually 20 minutes. Make anki cards for key points. If I'm actually dedicating time to studying that's how I do it, haven't had that session in a while
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by cgag 9y ago
They're stupid because they're inconvenient to almost everyone.
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by cgag 9y ago
Im not convinced there isn't a universal tendency for communities to get worse over time.
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by cgag 9y ago
I don't know where you hang out but it seems like a recently development to me. It sounds like you either hung out in a very different corner of the internet than I did or haven't seen the worst of Twitter.
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by cgag 9y ago
Weird how it makes you perform better on mental tasks though
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by cgag 9y ago
No but optimizing my queue is satisfying and much faster than actually reading.
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by cgag 9y ago
Sort of a nitpick but its mixed with vegetable glycerin or propylene glycol (or a mix of thw two), and not much if any water.
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by cgag 9y ago
I haven't heard much to support nicotine being significantly worse than caffeine.
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by cgag 9y ago
I hate them because they suck not because open internet.
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by cgag 9y ago
The idea of someone telling me I chose the wrong language for the job in a hobby project makes me want to delete all my oss code.
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by cgag 9y ago
I find the little bit I read helpful because it helps you be more deliberate about these things. Though I stopped because I had a strong "yeah i get it" feeling after a few chapters.

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