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by erostrate 5y ago
It's so satisfying when the good guys significantly outskill the bad guys and humiliate them. This made my day.
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by erostrate 5y ago
My bad, he's just so visible that I had incorrectly deduced he was CEO.
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by erostrate 5y ago
My understanding is that chessable was founded by streamer IM John Bartholomew as an educational platform, and like chess24 got acquired by Magnus Carlsen's group. I believe they are trying to create some synergies between chess24 an
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by erostrate 5y ago
Current landscape of chess platform as I understand it: lichess: non-profit, free and open source, community oriented, high quality tech, growing userbase, amazing founder ornicar, much loved by its users and supporters including me. Regu
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by erostrate 6y ago
The WHO initially said there was no evidence supporting the need for masks in the general public. They only changed their stance in early June. In Europe many politicians were making the same claim, which was convenient because they didn&#x
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by erostrate 6y ago
From this (very good) FT article https://www.ft.com/content/171c92ec-0a44-4dc5-acab-81ee2620d... "But the specific engineering of container ships mean that they can’t get longer; they have to get wider. An oil tan
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by erostrate 6y ago
I downvoted you, not because I'm Chinese (I'm not) but because I think your post violates HN's guidelines.
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by erostrate 6y ago
Is there a good analysis somewhere of pragmatism in Chinese culture? It seems that there is a particular brand of ultra-pragmatism and rule-gaming that is overrepresented in China. Researchers are judged on published papers? Publish papers
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by erostrate 6y ago
If you take the opposite line, that Facebook is responsible for checking that the product is sold legally, then the conclusion is that Facebook would have to confirm legal ownership of every product before allowing a sale. This also seems w
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by erostrate 6y ago
Thank you so much! I've been using Vim for 5 years and I always thought :s was one of the major pain points.
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by erostrate 6y ago
> This is simply because companies pay money to individuals who then pay taxes. This is a feature not a bug as taxing companies is less efficient from just having employee pay as a deduction that gets taxed downstream. So if a company ha
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by erostrate 6y ago
Another version of the pdf: https://pdfhost.io/v/im99v6oam_howthingsfloat1991pdf.pdf
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by erostrate 6y ago
You're presenting group selection, natural selection at the level of the group, as an established theory. But that's not the case. From Wikipedia, quoting evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne: "Group selection isn't widely
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by erostrate 6y ago
You don't need to hold and transfer the cash immediately with T+2 settlement because effectively your broker is lending the cash to you for 2 days with the shares as collateral, hence the margin requirements and the RobinHood debacle.
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by erostrate 6y ago
Taboola relies on the open web for its existence, but by littering it with their garbage for a quick buck they are contributing to drive people towards walled gardens. It's a self-destructive company. It reminds me of this fishing tech
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by erostrate 6y ago
I googled some orders of magnitudes. Bank of America total scope 1 and scope 2 emissions (all buildings + travel + other stuff) were about 1 million tons co2 per year [1]. A lower bound on Bitcoin mining emissions was 20 million tons in 201
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by erostrate 6y ago
Thanks for highlighting that, it's important to bear in mind Chesterton's fence. But it's also important to consider whether this particular feature is working as intended. For what it's worth I don't care much abou
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by erostrate 6y ago
I can't tell if this is a joke or not.
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by erostrate 6y ago
As an experienced long distance hiker/runner would you have pushed through the pain as the author did? It seems crazy to me, to push through pain so bad it "makes you chest constrict", likely coming from bone as opposed to so
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by erostrate 6y ago
That's a very interesting idea. However cycling is also hugely popular in protestant countries, eg Netherlands or the UK. And other sports share this fascination with suffering. For example in mountaineering one of the most famous stor
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by erostrate 6y ago
I don't follow? I wasn't implying that this is a good thing, or that it makes tech people special, and certainly not that it makes them superior. Edit: here's an xkcd more relevant to what I meant: https://xkcd.com
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by erostrate 6y ago
And tech people tend to be much more willing to spend time&effort "optimizing" their choices to fit their values than the average population. At least for "small to medium" choices - not sure about raising children.
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by erostrate 6y ago
This article is not great, it reads too much like scaremongering. But the underlying problem of PFOA/PFOS is real. The article fails to mention that most chemical companies have been phasing out these chemicals for several years. There
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by erostrate 6y ago
I disagree, there are world wide debates going on about the cost and benefits of globalization, about the merits and failures of western liberal democracies, about the interaction of capitalism and the environment, about economic inequality
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by erostrate 6y ago
> Articles about this post would have been more appropriately titled “Cellebrite accidentally reveals that their technical abilities are as bankrupt as their function in the world.” was also pretty good.
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by erostrate 6y ago
I find it strange how many prefer to preserve a system where the 400 richest billionaires own more wealth than the poorest 150 million citizens (3200 billions), rather than see 1% of this wealth wasted by government inefficiencies. "So
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by erostrate 6y ago
This brand of cynicism where you claim that everything is expected can also be a way to protect yourself from negative information. If you care about say privacy and you constantly receive news about surveillance, it can be disheartening, s
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by erostrate 6y ago
That's an amazing article, thanks for sharing!
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by erostrate 6y ago
Ironically many people here seem to be jumping to conclusions after reading only his side of the story, something which he (rightly) reproaches to NumFOCUS in the very article. Disclaimer: I watched some of the talk and I do think Jeremy Ho
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by erostrate 6y ago
> a) 80% of the content on publications like TechCrunch [2] is all about Google/Apple/Tesla/Virgin. I challenge, you go there RIGHT NOW. COUNT the % of stories about FAANG companies. For the lazy, I did just that, 19 stori

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