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by erehweb 2y ago
In this particular case, "Interpol argues that the term [...] [deters] people from coming forward to seek help and provide information to the authorities." We can argue about whether or not that's true, but it seems to be at
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Civil war buffs drill for the 'hardest test in history'(wsj.com)
29 points by erehweb 2y ago|13 comments
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by erehweb 2y ago
Do we know if this difference is present at birth, or something that shows up as a result of doing more reading, like how the brains of London taxi drivers changed when they studied for the taxi-driving exam, which meant they had to memoriz
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The AI Researchers Pushing Computers to Launch Nightmare Scenarios(wsj.com)
10 points by erehweb 2y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 2y ago
Perhaps similarly to how ransom notes would be written with letters from newspapers.
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by erehweb 2y ago
Completely free works sometimes (e.g. Facebook), but not always - the free plan might cannibalize lots of people who would otherwise pay significant amounts of money.
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Amazon sued over slower deliveries to low-income neighborhoods(cbsnews.com)
13 points by erehweb 2y ago|1 comments
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by erehweb 2y ago
Lot of sympathy for this view, too. Risk is long, drawn-out and often awful on board, but can be very pleasant on computer. OTOH, creating a computer game is not a trivial task, and I don't see a good way to do it for 6 people Face-to-
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by erehweb 2y ago
I sympathize with this view, but I think it glosses over some of the point of boardgames - simulation of a world. Chess has been around for hundreds of years with great depth, but it is not a good simulation of a war or a battle. If you wan
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by erehweb 2y ago
Also worth considering - Fluxx https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/258/fluxx where the rules are created during play as you go along. I really enjoyed the first experience of playing this and not knowing anything
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Performance Improvement Plans are hated, and more popular than ever(wsj.com)
1 points by erehweb 2y ago|0 comments
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Musk Unleashes Online Army on Federal Workers(wsj.com)
4 points by erehweb 2y ago|0 comments
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The struggle to help homeless people who don't want help(wsj.com)
2 points by erehweb 2y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 2y ago
The "what have the Romans done for us" sketch is partly about Rome, but largely a disguised defense of the British Empire.
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by erehweb 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand the geography point - maps and indexes have been around for hundreds of years - what did the app add to make it not worthwhile learning geography?
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by erehweb 2y ago
At a seminar, the economist Binmore noted this as a problem - every psychological study from Milgram on has been a trick, and so subjects (undergraduates) are alert to this. He just wanted to study how markets / prices could form, if m
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by erehweb 2y ago
Interesting that the RAF and USAF both had gremlins. Did the Luftwaffe?
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by erehweb 2y ago
Tastes differ. Myself, I think it's fascinating that we can use the convergence of infinite geometric series to prove Pythagorean theorem. And particularly inspiring / interesting that two High School students did this.
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by erehweb 2y ago
From a comment on the article: "There's a page at Regia Anglorum that tries to give some examples. The "d" indicates a silver penny. It [a silver penny] might buy 15 chickens, but it also might only buy half a knife (be
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by erehweb 2y ago
But once you've got it out of the country, where then? Would French cheese buyers take it? Or do you have to go to Russia?
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Toilet queues disproportionately impact women(abc.net.au)
1 points by erehweb 2y ago|1 comments
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San Francisco Learned to Love Self-Driving Cars(wsj.com)
3 points by erehweb 2y ago|1 comments
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Costco Members Are Buying Platinum. Should You?(wsj.com)
1 points by erehweb 2y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 2y ago
You can also use nonstandard analysis to derive Black-Scholes, replacing stochastic calculus by a random walk with infinitesimal steps. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/261595 (don't see an ungated version)
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by erehweb 2y ago
Some debate, but it seems that ! was used for factorial to replace another symbol that was less easy to print https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/802141/history-of-n... .
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by erehweb 2y ago
See also the Charlie Javice case, where she allegedly defrauded JP Morgan into buying her student financial aid company using mock data https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/startup-founder-charlie...
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by erehweb 2y ago
This one, I think - a brilliant essay. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-boris-johnson-story/
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Boris Johnson: we considered 'aquatic raid' on Holland to seize Covid vaccine(theguardian.com)
6 points by erehweb 2y ago|5 comments
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by erehweb 2y ago
Referenced in https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4965616 - "When a Crystal Ball Isn't Enough to Make You Rich"
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Crystal Ball Trading Game(elmwealth.com)
1 points by erehweb 2y ago|1 comments

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