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by defen 6y ago
Sounds like a classic case of bikeshedding - the execs in question probably weren't qualified to have opinions on hardware design or software development, so instead they focused on entry-level stuff like the name and the physical appe
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by defen 6y ago
So was there a person who had the job of memorizing hundreds (thousands?) of faces from a book and then watching every person who came to the tables?
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by defen 6y ago
Right, but the reason it went negative is that there was no place to store the oil (demand for storage went through the roof because demand for actual oil plummeted). So that if you held one of these contracts, you had to pay someone to sto
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by defen 6y ago
WTI (West Texas Intermediate, the one that went negative) is already settled at a specific place: Cushing, Oklahoma. Unlike with Brent Crude you can't just drive a tanker up to Cushing Oklahoma. So if you buy a WTI contract you are pro
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by defen 6y ago
So, the kid isn't actually white, which makes me wonder if that changes your perspective on things? https://kutv.com/news/local/5-year-old-recounts-being-stoppe...
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by defen 6y ago
> camera and controls were a mess Unfortunately the HD edition did not include the 3D camera from Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence , which is MASSIVELY better than the original fixed camera in Snake Eater .
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by defen 6y ago
How would this handle external state? I realize in general that's an impossible task, but specifically I'm thinking of something like a database. Is there a way for each "server" to get a private copy of the database? Ot
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by defen 6y ago
"Have you ever had a software update break your computer or an app you used, or have you ever had a website you love disappear from the internet? Imagine if that could never happen again."
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by defen 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22936811
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by defen 7y ago
The "official" 200k estimate ( https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.27.20043752v... ) assumes that China isn't lying about their numbers, that Italy's official numbers are correct (Eve
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by defen 7y ago
I read American Tabloid first and then Libra after learning that Ellroy cited it as a spiritual inspiration. I also enjoyed American Tabloid more. Libra is a character study of Oswald and a piece of post-modern fiction (about as muc
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by defen 7y ago
Check out American Tabloid by James Ellroy if you're a fan of Libra .
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by defen 7y ago
Here's a blog post from February 6 by Greg Cochran, one of the people mentioned. Looks pretty good in retrospect https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/strategy-not-the-f...
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by defen 7y ago
In Bergamo and surrounding areas the death rate is 5-10x higher than it was at this time last year.
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by defen 7y ago
Bruce Aylward's visit to China made it sound like they were testing everyone too. Germany is at 0.42 and South Korea is at 1.24 now that more diagnosed people have had time to die.
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by defen 7y ago
> “If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (about 3.3 millio
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by defen 7y ago
While we're on the topic of weird agricultural laws, from 1949-2015 we had a strategic raisin reserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Raisin_Reserve
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by defen 7y ago
Getting divorced during a recession is the worst. The recession takes half your money, your spouse takes half of what's left, and the lawyers take half of what's left of what's left. So you end up with about 12.5% of what you
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by defen 7y ago
>> Are we about to get Oracled? > I'm not sure what you mean by that verb. The CEO of Google Cloud is the former President of Product Development at Oracle Corporation. Oracle Corporation has a reputation for being incredibly
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by defen 7y ago
> The point being made is that you continually fail to account for data at rest (among other things) in your arguments against encrypted email. Encrypted email with PGP doesn't give you data-at-rest encryption, though. See https:&#
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by defen 7y ago
Speaking as a parent, the idea of having “a couple hours of free time per day for a month” to learn difficult new material is laughable, and it has nothing to do with intellectual ability.
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by defen 7y ago
Ah, apologies, I see what you're saying now :) It's even more confusing because the triple product is actually a signed volume (pseudoscalar). I admit that I also never noticed these problems until learning GA.
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by defen 7y ago
Area is not expressed as a length. In general you can't simplify an expression that is a sum of an area and a length (this is one of the features of geometry that GA handles for you algebraically). e.g. "one meter plus one meter&q
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by defen 7y ago
If you're on a university or corporate network it's possible there is an org-level subscription that gives you "free" access to everything.
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by defen 7y ago
> She paid approximately $330k with almost no money down for a 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo in the center of Hayes Valley. Today, equivalent market rate units in her building sell for $1.5k to $2m. How does that work if/when she wants to
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by defen 7y ago
In addition to the things people have mentioned, melatonin might help you feel more rested. Start with 0.5 mg a half hour before the time you want to go to bed. In general melatonin is very safe and non-addictive, but as always when startin
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by defen 7y ago
I've tried to read it 3 times and have always given up after about 30 pages. Gonna give this a shot tonight, thanks for the advice.
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by defen 7y ago
Is this a brand new essay, or is it one that pg has talked about / published before? Because I am having an extreme case of deja-vu right now. Was this originally published 10-15 years ago?
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by defen 7y ago
An abortion doesn't result in a person so it's not really comparable. My understanding is that the vast majority of surgical or medical abortions occur due to either 1) grave risk to the mother's life 2) serious genetic defec
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by defen 7y ago
> What is "evil" about not wanting to see a child that you presumably didn't want to begin with? The child doesn't get a choice about being brought into the world, so your desire or intent to produce a child is irrele

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