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by defen 9y ago
Here is the reddit AMA where he talks about it a bit: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/5y9y4o/i_am_jordan_...
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by defen 9y ago
> a proper Metal Gear film They're working on that (Jordan Vogt-Roberts, guy who did Kong: Skull Island ). I have no idea how you could possibly turn Metal Gear into a movie that is appealing to people who haven't played the g
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by defen 9y ago
If you click on the "raw" view it will render properly in the browser. You might also need to force your browser to display with "Western" text encoding (that's what it's called in Firefox, not sure about other
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by defen 9y ago
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/20... Asian enrollment percentage at Caltech (strictly meritocratic admissions) doubled with a doubling in the absolute size of the college-age Asian popul
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by defen 9y ago
ss -atpn | column -t Or pipe into `cat`
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by defen 9y ago
http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ has a a slightly more primitive version in their recipes. Example: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/58/Peanut-Butter-C... (scroll down to just before t
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by defen 9y ago
On the topic of newcomers to proof-based math - "How to Prove It" is a great resource: https://www.amazon.com/How-Prove-Structured-Approach-2nd/dp/...
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by defen 9y ago
Probably around 0.06 * 10,000,000,000 Assuming no subsequent investments, dilution, selling of shares, etc.
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by defen 9y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crofton_formula Also see page 41 of Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces by Manfredo Do Carmo
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by defen 9y ago
You don't know what school your kid is going to end up in, because of the lottery system. You might have your kindergartner going to school across the city.
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by defen 9y ago
> someone jumped into my lane and slammed their breaks on for who knows why Insurance fraud, possibly. Depending on jurisdiction if you rear-end someone you could automatically be 100% at fault (assuming the fraud is not discovered/
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by defen 9y ago
She could have kept digging and probably ended up with a Pulitzer; instead John Carreyrou is going to get another one.
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by defen 9y ago
Those ads read like parodies of a Russian attempting to write English. Nearly every one has a grammatical error or a factual inaccuracy that is obvious after 2 seconds of thought. I particularly like "dynastic succession of the Clinton
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by defen 9y ago
> My several years old laptop does this with the most straight forward C# implementation in 170 ms. Sure, but writing a custom C# program for each query on data that has been pre-formatted in the most optimal manner for that program is n
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by defen 9y ago
It's in the chapter "How to Justify a Private Library". I found it excerpted here: https://books.google.com/books?id=xzjkYlfHXL4C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...
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by defen 9y ago
He famously hadn't, as discussed in "How to Travel with a Salmon"
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by defen 9y ago
Completely different set of mutations. So whatever advantage is conferred by SLC24A5 mutation is probably matched by something else in East Asians (possibly EDAR)
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by defen 9y ago
I'm not saying vitamin D isn't involved; I'm just wondering whether it's the whole story. Is this single nucleotide change in SLC24A5 really the only way to decrease melanin production without having other harmful side e
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by defen 9y ago
Milk does not naturally contain very much vitamin D, so that's a silly reason to expect lactase persistence to have evolved. A much simpler explanation is that it massively increases the calories available to pastoralist populations. S
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by defen 9y ago
> in git, for example, why can’t i switch branches with uncommitted changes? it makes no sense why i can’t do that, but yet, there it is. You can, if the changes don't conflict with the branch you're changing to.
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by defen 9y ago
He was fired in 2012 https://www.cultofmac.com/203032/apple-svp-eddy-cue-fires-ri...
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by defen 9y ago
The argument was "engineers/scientists find fraternities repulsive". Arguing that a top scientist was a jerk/misogynist/racist/sexist/whatever doesn't refute that.
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by defen 9y ago
> Because of this, people engaged in strictly meritocratic work (science and engineering) find that whole world repulsive. Richard Feynman, John Bardeen, Linus Pauling, and Kary Mullis were all in frats. That's just from 5 minutes o
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by defen 9y ago
I'm not sure he called them out by name. If you read `Against VAR` [1] from 1997 (LTCM blew up in 1998) you see basically all the ideas of The Black Swan / Fooled By Randomness. LTCM was doing all the things that he says are risky
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by defen 9y ago
Tone: deliberately somewhat inflammatory, in the hopes of sparking a discussion; this is in addition to all the "standard" reasons people give. Because most traits, including IQ and conscientiousness, are strongly heritable, and t
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by defen 9y ago
Why do you say Utah? Near as I can tell Herbalife came out of California.
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by defen 9y ago
Blog post has been up for an hour and that's still not fixed...how is that even possible.
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by defen 9y ago
Hey look, another "I need a promotion" chat product from Google. Incredible impact.
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by defen 9y ago
It seems like instead you need to manually replace all redacted text with a fixed-width placeholder like `[REDACTED]`
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by defen 9y ago
Do you have a 5-second summary of what you mean by "Growth specifics and positioning of algorithms in the StitchFix S-1"? Just the fact that they use algorithms to tailor individual boxes, or do you mean something more specific?

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