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by coolgeek 5y ago
@irthomasthomas - How did you come across this? His other piece is fascinating. What else am I missing?
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I'm not sure how/why a new event type would need a new index. Is each new event type stored in a separate table?
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OMG. I thought this was a joke/hyperbole. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/10/lorillard-ke...
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Horn & Hardart started doing this in 1902 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_%26_Hardart
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by coolgeek 5y ago
It seems that there are a fair number of sex workers on reddit whose profiles are tagged NSFW. Presumably, they would view the tag as an asset. (I don't have any experience with these accounts myself. But I've stumbled across mo
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by coolgeek 5y ago
Posted 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28597724 Also reviewed in History Today 21 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28430765
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by coolgeek 5y ago
There seems to be a markdown error (and a grammatical error) in: > This is it about axiom schemas and *rules of inference are almost the same thing except they allow us to actually distill the conclusion from the premises.
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I don't know what Norris's height or weight are. But he's 81 years old. You've got a sporting chance.
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Part of the problem is that "poverty line" is a stand-in for "can (or cannot) afford food and shelter". Part of the problem is that there are two different statistics that need to be measured - the percentage of the
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> So you could double cash outlays for those programs and the "poverty rate" wouldn't change. This is absurd. This is like saying that you can no longer consider yourself a gunshot victim if you've been treated and r
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> The presenter mentioned that our self-talk is nearly always critical I don't doubt that this is the case for (at least) some people. But my internal monologue is only occasionally critical (and only occasionally congratulatory). M
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Calling oneself an "agilist", and a "philosopher-hobbyist" is also... a choice.
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I like the demoscene and NFT analogies. I think you're missing the point on the compromise. It's not simply about the price. Look for ethnic restaurants whose primary clientele is their fellow countrymen. (Easy to find in a larg
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The person you are criticizing said "sometimes". Why are you arguing that they said "all"?
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Is this a parody account? Because you've nailed it
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Don't forget that during the 2000 election, Dick Cheney was put in charge of deciding who should be Bush's VP running mate. And he chose Dick Cheney.
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I guess the question I was really asking was is the gradient of a function equivalent to the derivative of the function? But a quick look at the wiki page for gradient suggests that my calc I/II intuition of derivatives is insufficient
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by coolgeek 5y ago
> you can discover that for f(x)=x^2 you will find that when the jiggling (call it j) is small, around a value x, the amount of change is roughly (2x)(j) Are you implying that the change corresponds to the derivative of the function, or
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by coolgeek 5y ago
> I can see him telling her bedtime stories before going to sleep Is that a typo, or an endearing role reversal?
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Some things you might want to look in to: - https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/typical-mind-fallacy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
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> I currently live off of 4% of my net worth per year What percentage of the population do you think can do that? This thread is about WalMart and McDonalds employees. The vast majority of them can't go a month without an income so
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by coolgeek 5y ago
> the US government made corporations adhere to a salary cap to prevent war millionaires It wasn't to prevent "war millionaires". Wage and price controls were imposed to prevent hyperinflation. https://www.peop
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> The platform is designed to falsify the appearance of strong consensus The platform is designed to bring people together to discuss common interests - much like HN, and many other sites. Any false appearance of strong consensus is a co
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by coolgeek 5y ago
Not disagreeing with most of your points, but: > This article says nothing about the total number of employees McD's and Walmart have. It's committing the same error as heat maps that aren't adjusted for population If you
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(That's the point)
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by coolgeek 5y ago
Your recommendation is not "especially helpful for beginners." It's spam promoting a web dev firm
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Expensive. But not impossibly so. I witnessed the duration of this deconstruction, as well as the erection of its replacement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Meridian_Plaza#Deconstruct... Both processes were fascin
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Every single NoSQL vendor pretends that there is no difference between what you can do and what you should do.
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For me, math is the girl that got away. (More accurately, the girl I didn't pay enough attention to when I had the chance)
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> just pointing out that FDA approval means fuck-all That's a real high quality contribution there. It's the kind of thing that's made HN so... different... over the last year (or four)

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