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by dmurray 2y ago
This analysis is largely drawn from the book Winning Pawn Structures by Baburin (1998), which the blog author credits. Most chess books do not keep their relevance past 5 years, so it's a great testament to the quality of the book th
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by dmurray 2y ago
No, airlines do not build in a safety factor sufficient to cover an important measurement being off by a factor of 10. They don't ground flights because the pilot might load 2,000 litres of fuel instead of 20,000 litres. They don'
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by dmurray 2y ago
Wait, in my media bubble the American left is the one consumed by rage. The right is stupid or craven or greedy or just evil, but true righteous fury is reserved for those who saw a woman's rights not getting respected one time.
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by dmurray 2y ago
> How is it different from the corporation's employees paying income tax on money received from the corporation The money paid to employees is only taxed once. We (pretty much everywhere) tax companies on their profits , but indivi
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by dmurray 2y ago
This is nonsense because companies can and do replace dividends with share buybacks. While sometimes criticized as "executives juicing the stock price because that's what their incentives are tied to", in fact investors recog
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by dmurray 2y ago
The argument that an iPad runs substantially the same OS and hardware as a MacBook weakens the authors case instead of strengthening it. You can buy from Apple a computer that's locked down (an iPad), or a computer that's not lo
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by dmurray 2y ago
> acknowledging that such DEI program was performative in the first place That seems unnecessarily judgemental about the true effect of the program. Maybe it was really effective and made Meta more productive and also helped many people
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by dmurray 2y ago
You've obviously never worked in consulting.
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by dmurray 2y ago
You could think of it as, it was bumped up to a higher tier because there is evidence that out of all their millions of stock photos, someone chose this one.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Yes, I'm being a bit facetious. I agree with you: there shouldn't be a hard rule of "no obstacles within 300m of the runway, and the Muan airport authorities were negligent in having one". If they'd shortened the &q
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by dmurray 2y ago
Does it matter? Either it's safe to have obstacles within 300m of the end of the runway, and this was a reasonable location for the Korean airport to put their localizer in, or it's not, and the likes of Burbank should shorten the
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by dmurray 2y ago
Often plastic really is the optimum material for an application. There's plenty of plastic on the ISS, where money is no object. If you buy something manufactured with Kevlar or Teflon or Gore-Tex, that will be prominent in the marketi
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by dmurray 2y ago
They wouldn't, but people would create these increasingly tortured analogies out of the same motivations that other creative people would create, say, a raytracer in Brainfuck or a pregnancy test that can run DOOM.
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by dmurray 2y ago
I first read this as you being the recipient of the bone marrow, and thought "that makes sense, for a hardcore ethno-nationalist to save the life of someone with whom he has a high genetic compatibility". Very good of you to do
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by dmurray 2y ago
Ostriches weigh about the same as adult humans. Birds do have a rump (the part of them behind the legs) which perhaps serves a similar function to human buttocks.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Latin writers have been like "let's use Greek" at least since Virgil, so modern writers can be excused for getting their roots mixed up.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Archaeologists already appreciate finding out-of-place items. "This rare find proves that third-millenium New Yorkers traded with the Chinese. It may have been used in a fertility ritual."
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by dmurray 2y ago
> exact same chance of winning each time, so the Kelly criterion isn’t applicable. Actually, the main assumption that leads to the Kelly criterion is that you will have future opportunities to bet with the same edge, not constrained by t
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by dmurray 2y ago
Esperanto.
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by dmurray 2y ago
It's still a good "what if", though. He'd made it through the first 13.9 of 14 games with only one tactical blunder. Even if he was overwhelmingly more likely to blunder than Gukesh in the final position (between time ma
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by dmurray 2y ago
But it can be Rails' fault for choosing to default to a terrible serialisation format.
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by dmurray 2y ago
I was intending to release the information, so releasing it when I'm dead seems fine. So why didn't I immediately publish it all while alive? Perhaps I preferred to control the flow of information, redact certain parts, or extort
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by dmurray 2y ago
You say that, but there are some world-class Scrabble players from Thailand who play Scrabble in English, a language with a completely different alphabet and orthography from their native tongue. They don't necessarily speak English we
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by dmurray 2y ago
> The AI was trained to minimize lawsuit_dollars. That seems wrong. The null AI would have been better at minimizing legal liability. The actual character.ai to some extent prioritized user engagement over a fear of lawsuits. Probably it
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by dmurray 2y ago
This seems like the US catching up with the EU. The normal complaint about the EU's approach to regulation is that it's too vague and companies won't do business there in case they're found in breach of the vague laws. I
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by dmurray 2y ago
I'm not sure that's true. The market-wide spread for SPY is smaller than the implied spread from all the 500+ components. If you request your market maker for individual prices on the components (or 470 of the components plus 30 s
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by dmurray 2y ago
The school gets paid for the number of students it has on its books. It's not difficult to imagine how this can "somehow" work operationally.
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by dmurray 2y ago
I'd also like to know that! I have some ideas, from less shady to more: - Payment for order flow - Interest on sweep accounts - Upsell to more profitable products (first party ads) - Payment for order flow, but structure your orders so
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by dmurray 2y ago
Open source may have eaten the other end of the market. Lichess is good: not as feature rich as Chessbase and a less complete database, last time I checked, but less buggy and faster for some purposes. It's hard to imagine a competitor
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by dmurray 2y ago
Actually, yes. Here's [0] 5000 words by Gwern. I don't know whether I agree with his conclusions, but they're likely to be well researched and objectively thought out. [0] https://gwern.net/nicotine

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