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by curuinor 5y ago
the most important thing about startups is that they're much less uniform. there's no over-overlord megalomaniac at the head to make sure anyone does anything. Half seems to be about a good ratio, but I also bet the best remote fo
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by curuinor 5y ago
the academic environmentalists have been advocating for the controlled burns for half a century now - the folks you wanna be pissed off at are the homeowners
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by curuinor 5y ago
... and it's also worth noting that in the introduction of this book O. Donath, the author posts a typical example of one of the interesting death threats, wishes for her death, etc etc that she got from news reports of her original 20
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by curuinor 5y ago
If you want "yes" answers there's a narrative book-length study an Israeli feminist did on the question, with interviews of some mothers who regretted it. I've not found anything on fathers. https://www.amazon
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by curuinor 5y ago
solar + batteries is $40/mwh?
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by curuinor 5y ago
the _numbers_ say nuclear energy costs about $150/MWh and utility-scale solar costs $24/MWh. Moreover, nuclear costs are going up even in places where they can and will ignore planning commission things like the PRC and solar cost
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by curuinor 5y ago
there are people on this cursed earth who roll with windows 2000 on prod, you know?
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Regulating Social Media Addictiveness(howonlee.github.io)
1 points by curuinor 5y ago|0 comments
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by curuinor 5y ago
metafilter and something awful are great communities, in part because they're effectively immune to spam. far, far to the left of the majority of facebook, tho.
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by curuinor 5y ago
There's seldom such a thing as a nation-state that didn't start from organized crime. America started off as a smuggler gang called the Sons of Liberty, for example. That's why they have to be paranoid about gangs: they'
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by curuinor 6y ago
it's all fat tails, they're all fat tails, assume correlational structure and whack peeps in the head if they say anything about bell curves when you play the game of code you play a demonic St. Petersburg martingale. you start wi
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by curuinor 6y ago
there's also exponential stuff going the wrong way, too. all of cryptoland, for example. this stuff just works in logspace or logexpsum space
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by curuinor 6y ago
BTC is as old as android, and as likely to change basically and fundamentally as android.
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by curuinor 6y ago
8.4% of the American prison population is comparable to the total prison population for a european country. finnish are 53 folks per 100k, americans are 655 per 100k...
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by curuinor 6y ago
I always assumed the unpresentable ones never showed up in person to things and therefore didn't present themselves to me
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by curuinor 6y ago
Isn't vue from a hong konger? Seems not too great if the goal is PRC dominance
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by curuinor 6y ago
this was the argument that Socrates, according to Plato, said that the egyptian god Thoth made against doing writing!
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by curuinor 6y ago
the crisis doesn't exist for most lumps of land, but it exists for most _people_ because the places where the housing crisis is, is where the people are. NYC has more people in it than a third of the landmass of the US
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by curuinor 6y ago
If you state that philosophers mostly have a consensus on anything, you'd be brutally wrong. That's not how philosophy is, or can be. Consensuses is not what they do.
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by curuinor 6y ago
My impression after a quick once-over is that there's an order of magnitude too little linear algebra in this. Can't have 3D video games without it, can't do large parts of machine learning and statistics without it, etc etc.
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by curuinor 6y ago
Quantum adiabatic means no proved exponential speedup. I mean, we've factored stuff with 143 _digits_ with general number field sieve, the only interest is in the exponential speedup
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by curuinor 6y ago
... You could just move to California, too
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by curuinor 6y ago
you have to put in your national ID number to register an account for a MMORPG in Korea. does it help toxicity? surprisingly marginally.
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by curuinor 6y ago
Every East Asian polity with 50-story soulless concrete apartment buildings is in the middle of successfully beating it back, so really American cities are _not dense enough_
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by curuinor 6y ago
Parent commenter's never been to the skid row of Vancouver. Land prices is the fucked thing, and they're plenty fucked in Canada, too.
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by curuinor 6y ago
The Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese responses were undergirded by large functional government bureaucracies, trust me. It wasn't town hall democracies and local small-scale stuff like that, that arranged mass functional responses to the cri
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Show HN: Idiot Comedy Steps Towards Classical Shor's(github.com)
3 points by curuinor 6y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Entanglement and quantum integral transforms on the deterministic qubit(github.com)
4 points by curuinor 6y ago|1 comments
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by curuinor 6y ago
I mean, if you pulled it out on a discussion not about swear words or something like that in civilized society, civility would go out the window (because you would've tossed it out the window), so it seems _more_ of a swear word to me
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by curuinor 6y ago
It doesn't seem to censor the n-word. I would think it's pretty important to censor the n-word checked, failed to censor: n-word every word in this comic (nsfw for offensive words) https://pbfcomics.com/comics&#x2F

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