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by eindiran 6y ago
This response to the article cited from Political Analysis (Deckert et al.) is interesting: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-analysis/a...
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In C, a label requires a statement[0] to come after it. A declaration in C is not a statement (though it is in C++). gcc for example gives the error "error: a label can only be part of a statement and a declaration is not a statement&q
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by eindiran 6y ago
Hard disagree. The world is complex enough that every person in the world relies on the words of "spooky experts telling [them] what to believe". Even outside of that, elections require trust in the process. Already, with a "
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by eindiran 6y ago
Wow, there's a lot here: > Denmark will cull its mink population of up to 17 million after a mutation of the coronavirus found in the animals spread to humans, the prime minister said on Wednesday. > Health authorities found viru
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by eindiran 6y ago
From another angle: the Support Prop 16 people spent 20x their opposition, while the Support Prop 22 people only spent 10x their opposition.
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by eindiran 6y ago
Regarding "wormhole" and "monocle", they form a "slant rhyme" or "half rhyme": https://www.thefreedictionary.com/slant+rhyme
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by eindiran 6y ago
There is a big continuum between better privacy and better convenience. You have to find a balance that works for your needs. Some recommendations, from across this continuum: Use a VPN, from a company that you trust. Firefox - use containe
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by eindiran 6y ago
A major concern that will likely be a part of the threat model of everyone considering using Google VPN is that it will be tied to your Google account. Given the frequency of Google account bans with no recourse, the possibility that your
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I don't think anyone promised that spaced repetition would turn you into The Most Interesting Man in The World™, and if they did you would be rightfully disappointed. But SR is good at getting you to remember things and sometimes that&
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by eindiran 6y ago
Even if that was what the name was intended to be, the vast majority of people pronounce it as SQL - lite. (In fact, this is the first I've heard of someone pronouncing it that way). The documentation seems to suggest that it is in fac
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by eindiran 6y ago
> Two movies on one screen. It reminds me of Shiri's Scissors: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
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Yes, the Inuit quite clearly thrived in the arctic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_cuisine
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Certainly the subarctic was populated well-before 10kya[0], but I was under the impression that the true arctic saw long-term inhabitants before the Paleo-Inuit[1], with the Paleo-Arctic tradition around 10-7kya[2]. But looking now, its not
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> [Y]ou need to accept [that] everyone on Mars [will] live in relative poverty for generations. I think this point is by far the easiest one to address. Historically, there have always been people willing to do dangerous things (ie explo
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by eindiran 6y ago
In addition to Plan9 and the BSDs, which are Unixy and relatively familiar if you're coming from Linux/macOS, you could also checkout Haiku [0], which is quite different and descends from BeOS. If you have an old TI calculator and
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> Let's Plays were already an established format before Twitch's predecessor started. Sure, there are people who are early adopters of anything, including plenty of things that never pan out. My mom certainly hadn't heard
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This is my point exactly: Dropbox isn't a super obvious niche. The top-rated comment from the release on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 > I have a few qualms with this app: > For a Linux user, you
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by eindiran 6y ago
I totally agree: in my view, Quibi's failure was in the cards from the start. Nothing about their model made sense to me personally, and their failure to pivot or iterate seems like a huge business mistake. I'm just making the poi
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It's difficult to say in hindsight, because most "good ideas" seem obvious after the fact. Eg Twitch seems like such an obvious idea now (but I don't think my bad bet meter would have given Twitch a good score in 2008 -
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I think Paul Graham would respond that after having watched the startup world for a few decades, you start to have serious questions with your bad bet meter, as such a huge percentage of groundbreaking ideas seem like such bad bets beforeha
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Instead of drinking the koolaid, you complain that companies are manufacturing koolaid, despite the fact that you are currently using an I.V. drip of the stuff. Turn the dial on your I.V. up to 11, while you lean back and realize that you a
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by eindiran 6y ago
I don't know, commentated matches between eg Stockfish and Alpha Zero can be fascinating. An analysis of SOTA self-driving technologies racing at a post-F1 level sounds pretty interesting.
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Most private high schools are using a roll-your-own-FAFSA version of price discrimination. Additionally, private high schools have quite a different distribution of attendees (by parental income) than colleges do.
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Because of the 1992 Higher Education Amendments to the 1965 Higher Education Act and the 1993 Student Loan Reform Act, colleges have no incentive to compete on price: anyone who can't pay for tuition out-of-pocket can get government mo
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Or the NEON SIMD instruction set for ARM: https://developer.arm.com/architectures/instruction-sets/sim...
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> And before you argue that people can go to their own websites, how is meaningfully different from Chinese citizens who use VPN's. After all they can still access information. If you're going to write out a response centered o
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> extort - (transitive) To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity. This is taking money from an unwilling person by duress, using an undue
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I’ve been using Protonmail for years, with many tens of thousands of emails, and this does not match my experience at all. It is far, far easier for me to find old emails sent to my Protonmail account than to my old Gmail account, which see
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You think The Kingkiller Chronicles will never be finished? I'd be quite disappointed by that.
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Many mainstream linguists have been against the hypothesis since the 1950s, but there are still plenty of linguists who contend that the Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolian families form a family; a smaller number have arguments in support of th

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