ericsoderstrom

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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
> 16G ought to be enough for anyone
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
Was the "avoid nominalization" section intended to be tongue-in-cheek? "Nominalization" is itself a nominalization. If the section followed its own advice it would read "don't nominalize [verbs]"
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
Not sure what you mean. Are you saying later round investors in Uber are funding profits for early round investors? I could see some tech investment structures as possibly resembling MLM due to winner-take-all effects and outsized profits g
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
I think MLM is different. A small number of people might make a lot of money, funded by the losses of most of the rest. In that respect its more like gambling, and people can be more easily fooled to think that they'll be one of the lu
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
Yeah but drivers currently are free to choose their hours however they like. Surely allowing them to continue to do the thing they already do and the platform is designed to allow them to do isn't going to cause the same problems as
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
In his intro he says he was surprised that he couldn't find any existing ways to do this. Lichess definitely allows you to share positions via url. E.g. https://lichess.org/editor/rnbqkbnr/1p1p1ppp/p3p3&#
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
> Name anything that happened 5 years ago. If it’s significant, I remember it. If it isn’t, I never heard about it at all, and nobody else remembers it either. OP has heard of COVID. It would be impossible not to. I follow a similar app
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
I think you misunderstood OP's comment The definition of federal: "Of or constituting a form of government in which power is distributed between a central authority and a number of constituent territorial units" OP is sugge
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
His point is that the founders and underlying ideas for startups and quantitative trading companies need to be unconventional in order to succeed. Otherwise the returns will already have been captured by the market (in the case of trading)
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
That's often the case with HN posts. I think people find an article valuable they simply upvote, but if people don't find an article valuable they leave a comment explaining why.
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
Isn't that... more or less exactly what happened? Many companies are / have already replaced those terms
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
""Anime was a mistake" --Hayao Miyazaki" --4chan
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
Surprised this article didn't even mention roborosewater https://twitter.com/roborosewater?lang=en
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
Maybe I'm out of the loop. Why is Ive a "hack"?
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
You can use an ad blocker to filter out html elements that contain keywords or hashtags that are often used in the types of posts you don't want to see. Not a perfect solution, but an ok solution.
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
Were the misattributed authors aware that they were being given credit for puzzles they didn't write? I'm assuming they must have been.
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
Sorry... what? Why would you say the originality of the crossword has no value? And what on earth does that have to do with resisting arrest?
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
What do you recommend?
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
As a vim user, I've wanted to learn org mode for years. I kept thinking I had to start by learning vanilla emacs and then progress to org mode. Recently I've tried starting with doom emacs which emulates the vim keybinds and fou
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The Tutorial Trap(medium.com)
1 points by ericsoderstrom 6y ago|0 comments
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by ericsoderstrom 6y ago
I think OP's comment was more highlighting how dumb the article title is.
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by ericsoderstrom 7y ago
Nope
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by ericsoderstrom 7y ago
Seems like manufactured outrage. The screenshot and messaging look pretty clear to me: "Covid19 has made it tough for local businesses and their employees. Share your support by donating..." No doubt yelp has done some shitty thin
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by ericsoderstrom 7y ago
Sure. But if there was a need for the goods and services those companies provided before, then there will be a need for those goods and services again. I don't think enduring financial collapse logically follows from even an extended q
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by ericsoderstrom 7y ago
> the effects of the global domino triggered by conoravirus will echo for many years to come. Why? As far as I know there's no underlying systemic financial reason for a depression or recession. The virus sucks. Some companies will
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by ericsoderstrom 7y ago
> Most big tech companies don't care about how good you have been at delivering some value through creating software: they want to see you deliver a very specific type of performance at a whiteboard PG specifically points out that s
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by ericsoderstrom 7y ago
> The Usona Phase 2 trial plans to enrol 80 subjects, randomized to receive either a single active dose of psilocybin or an active placebo containing niacin. Blind testing in this case seems silly. It’ll be obvious to both patient and do
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by ericsoderstrom 7y ago
If you link your account with Goodreads, you can get stats that way
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Morra Gambling for Fun and Profit(medium.com)
1 points by ericsoderstrom 7y ago|0 comments
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by ericsoderstrom 7y ago
These problems aren't unique to tags, they're already present in subreddits names. For the most part it doesn't seem to be a big deal. As long as you can see the number of subscribers to a certain tag when creating your post,

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