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by coolgeek 6y ago
> Nobody wants to go through the old COBOL code to figure out exactly what the code does, they take a greenfield approach with a description of what the UI is and an incomplete spec of the operations that need to happen. The only way to
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This is pretty amazing from an analytical/engineering standpoint. OTOH, it serves to justify my natural inclination to limit where and how often I participate on sites and/or particular media (e.g. chat apps). It's not just a
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That's not in any way an accurate description of "today's climate". It's cherry picking quotes from a very small - but very vocal - minority of only one side of the overall political spectrum that is "today&
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> a massive redistribution of wealth from this age bracket into older demographics I'm not defending the current system/situation, but this seems to mischaracterize the article it links to. Wealth wasn't redistributed, bec
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Or maybe they could simply not promote any political content at all. Or even de-emphasize/throttle political content - as long as its applied evenly, across the board. What they're doing now is over-promoting "conservative&q
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I don't really have time to engage on this right now. But SRS isn't magic. It's a performance optimization on flashcards. If you set aside the particular subjects that I'm targeting right now (programming), what I&#x27
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A third thing you should keep in mind in your future efforts to understand cause and effect is that the multiple causes behind two (or more) distinct events might only partially overlap. In some cases, they might not overlap at all!
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One of these days I'm going to have some time to really dig in to this whole tree notation idea
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> I thought it was traced to a freak statewide ice storm Just off the top of my head, two things you should keep in mind in your future efforts to understand cause and effect: - any event/effect can have multiple causes - caus
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Depending on how you define student, everybody who ever took a linguistics class is a student of Chomsky. But you raise a good point about objectivity. So who/where are the disinterested supporters of Everett's work? What do the
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It's not a satirical conspiracy theory. It's a clothing company built around a joke that they wish to make viral
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Yikes. The URL is now (10 days later) showing a domain expired page
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s/rooter/rooted Obsessing over the past or the future is indeed dysfunctional - it does impact your ability to focus, and reason (in the present). But I don't believe that most people do this. Living "in the present&quo
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This was a well-written, informative article. But the trend of fetishizing the “bootcamp fairytale” you're seeing is the bootcamps marketing themselves submarine style. (I am not accusing this author/article of submarine marketing
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> PHP and HTML (though I don't think I ever saw a time where those were treated as two things rather than one weird mash of the two in a single file) There's (still) plenty of that out there. But this was literally the reason
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(Because I had to google "nasa meatball logo") https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/symbo...
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I'm surprised that this revelation comes as a surprise to you. The core problem is that anybody can call themself a Christian. Anybody can say that they're following Christ's teaching, living a Christian life, etc - regardle
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You might enjoy this http://www.zenosfrudakis.com/freedom-sculpture
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From the intro: "Recently, while re-reading through the Typeclassopedia I thought it would be a good exercise to map the structure of software design-patterns to the concepts found in the Haskell type class library and in functional pr
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Lambda the Ultimate Pattern Factory (2018)(thma.github.io)
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Looking forward to digging in to some of this
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Martha Minow signed the letter calling Trump's First Amendment (wrt insurrection liability) defense frivolous. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/us/trump-defense-first-am... As such, I'd expec
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There seems to be a bit of confusion here. I surmise that what was "lost forever" was only a copy of the documents. I base that on common sense, as well as this from the linked article (about the Pentagon Papers): > So Mr. She
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> When the Director of the CDC asserts an opinion, she has to optimize for two things - being right, and keeping power Perhaps there is some context that you have elided, but as it stands, this is terribly cynical and almost certainly no
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"Eat shit and NOT die!" seems like a winning campaign to me
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This may (or may not) be interesting. But it's got nothing to do with computational finance. Did you comment in the wrong thread? (It's not about general finance, either. It's about a very narrow thing - an event - with a
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> when you beat Wall Street at their own game, they will change the rules on you so they win anyway It's not just Wall Street. This explains the Republican demands for even more onerous voting restrictions. Even though those same R
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Manually aggregating the onslaught of related links. Very useful You didn't think that you'd be able to avoid this in the future, now did you? You've established a precedent (at least for huge, fast moving (disruptive) even
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dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25918577
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I don't think it's a big deal. But bunker list would avoid this particular misinterpretation btw, I like the idea. Or I think I do, because I'm not signing up before I get a chance to test it. This is a very common - and v

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