dmarchand90

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by dmarchand90 6y ago
Disclaimer: mostly vim guy. I agree that Emacs is super powerful for power users, don't agree that it's intuitive or easy for new users. Also I found spacemacs to be pretty brittle when I last tried it a year ago.
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History of Aluminum(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by dmarchand90 6y ago|1 comments
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I'm pretty sure then, as now, the readership of SA was not reflective of the population as a whole! I'm pretty sure you could find all kinds of bizarre conspiracies from this era as well. (e.g. all Catholics are trying to take ove
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by dmarchand90 6y ago
He also wrote that he was quite happy with the ethics (at least w.r.t. labor management) in his own division in AWS. It seems he had basically no influence on warehouse labor policies otherwise yes he might have stayed
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by dmarchand90 6y ago
For speaking and listening watch and re-watch seasons 3-10 of the Simpsons, very wonderful, dense humor. Try to make sure you get all the little off-hand comments and subtle jokes
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by dmarchand90 6y ago
Also quit coffee to switch exclusively to green tea. I was just getting too much anxiety. I definitely feel much calmer without coffee. In general for I think I was a great move, I work a little less, but when I work it tends to be on more
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by dmarchand90 6y ago
In Canada everyone out of work gets a $2000 check almost right away and basically no questions asked. And we're definitely less wealthy than the US (even per capita). So very unclear to me why the US can't do the same
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The Ethics of Manipulation(plato.stanford.edu)
4 points by dmarchand90 6y ago|0 comments
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
Great thanks for the references!
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
I didn't know that "killed by bandits" was a standard in medieval trade logs! Is there a book or article you could happen to recommend to learn more about that?
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
I was just reading the autobiography of William T Sherman during the civil war he was constantly complaining about the press. The New York Times ran an unsubstantiated smear article on him. The confederate newspapers said they were winning
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
I would imagine it would be possible to only declare one infection per phone/device? If that's possible that should be a sufficient barrier to all but the most dedicated trolls?
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
I'm not sure where you get the source the covid19 is no deadlier than the flu as that seems to be thoroughly debunked at this point
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
I guess I'm not clear to that extent the NSA hacks people phones. I would imagine for most users they would have good access to our GPS data, e.g. via Google Maps? Edit: I'm assuming that GPS level precision is sufficient to start
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
I feel like Facebook is basically already doing this?
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
I was under the impression that the NSA already was tracking most people anyway?
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
An important constrain they mention is that they are intentionally avoiding current parts to not block supply chains of existing ventilator builders
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
The intelligent investor is a classic of value-investing, much lauded by Warren Buffett
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
In New York the governor has said they are testing more per capita than anywhere in the world.
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
Not an expert. It's not guaranteed but it seems like covid19 has a lowish mutation rate, similar or perhaps lower than the flu. So it would seem reasonable that this a vaccine-amenable virus. But there are no guarantees.
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
I agree there's a good point to this. At the same time I dislike and disbelieve the capitalist narrative that the deepest motivation is the profit one.
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
Yes correct certainly not more deaths than other medical causes. As in the article I meant major wars or terrorist events. Also if you check Italy, whose stats the US is currently following, death number ~infected number (t = -10days). So I
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
Yes sorry, I was copying the terminology from the article poorly. It's going to be higher than historical events, but not other medical causes. E.g. 4x deaths of the civil war.
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
No. In the US alone more people may die from covid19 than from any other single event ever. Global deaths may exceed world war 2. For young healthy people, yes, things will be fine, but we are looking at millions dying well before their tim
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
A key notion is that the maximum capacity of the health care system is limited. Yes everyone will get sick, but we want to keep the total sick at any one time within healthcare limits. https://www.old.reddit.com/r/coolg
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
It's very nice when your dependencies have a thorough history. I updated one of my dependencies and found one of my tests started failing. Very nice to pinpoint the exact modifications that caused the break, and I got a much speedier p
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by dmarchand90 7y ago
Basically what jofer said... I work in a field of condensed matter simulation, and the claim seems bizarre, empty, meaningless. Basically it's not that original, or difficult, to train a linearly-scaling with system size machine learni