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121.
How much slower is remote work?(lesswrong.com)
3 points by erwald 5y ago|0 comments
122.
Simulations of Diversity Hiring(erichgrunewald.com)
2 points by erwald 5y ago|0 comments
123.
A solution to Newcomb's paradox(fakenous.net)
26 points by erwald 5y ago|34 comments
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by erwald 5y ago
uhm, good point, fixed. that was just a mistake. edit: for the record, I wrote the article and also posted it here. so I figured I could take the liberty of changing the title when sharing here.
125.
by erwald 5y ago
yep, I do mention this approach in a footnote, though it looks kinda awkward to me. maybe just because I’m not used to it. it’s definitely not necessary for reading aloud, where it’s enough to know that there’s a punctuation there. but when
126.
Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American(erichgrunewald.com)
612 points by erwald 5y ago|386 comments
127.
Utilitarianism Expressed in Julia(erichgrunewald.com)
42 points by erwald 5y ago|3 comments
128.
It's a Good Thing I Don't Care What You Think(fakenous.net)
4 points by erwald 5y ago|1 comments
129.
by erwald 5y ago
i think the idea is that the kids did not earn their inheritances.
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It Did Not Take Matt Bruenig and Jon White Two Days to Make a Good CTC Website(erichgrunewald.com)
1 points by erwald 5y ago|0 comments
131.
by erwald 5y ago
there was a discussion about experiments on rats here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27491498 :)
132.
Interview with Lucia Coulter of the Lead Exposure Elimination Project(erichgrunewald.com)
1 points by erwald 5y ago|0 comments
133.
by erwald 5y ago
humans have kept dogs and cats and horses around even though many of them aren’t used for their original purposes anymore, so I’d be surprised if some sentimental folks didn’t keep a few cows or sheep or whatnot around just for fun.
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There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here(fakenous.net)
75 points by erwald 5y ago|100 comments
135.
by erwald 5y ago
it could take other forms though, for instance you could identify people who are already maintaining or creating significant foss projects and pay them while they keep working on them. probably it makes sense to limit this to the most produ
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by erwald 5y ago
there are a number of replacement methods, though i don't know if they cover all the cases. these include using tissue cultures, diseased humans and software modelling. also, when drugs have been deemed sufficiently safe, they can be f
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Animal testing is exploitative and largely ineffective(erichgrunewald.com)
160 points by erwald 5y ago|302 comments
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by erwald 5y ago
the attitude that "people need to be blamed" will never improve reliability in the long run. people come and go; systems and processes endure. blaming people is the best way to avoid making durable improvements to systems and proc
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Infinity(plato.stanford.edu)
7 points by erwald 5y ago|0 comments
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by erwald 5y ago
ah yes, of course, that was a misreading on my part, sorry. the title is somewhat misleading, but if you go have a look at the original problem you see that it provides as inputs random-access arrays, not linked lists. i only changed them t
141.
by erwald 5y ago
traversing them won't get you O(log(m+n)) complexity.
142.
Using Scheme to Find the Median of Two Sorted Integer Lists(erichgrunewald.com)
42 points by erwald 5y ago|29 comments
143.
by erwald 5y ago
though at that point it sounds no different than a hobby, really.
144.
On Bullshit in Modern Art(erichgrunewald.com)
5 points by erwald 5y ago|0 comments
145.
by erwald 5y ago
MuseScore is such a great piece of free software, I assume this will be beneficial for Audacity!
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Political Polarization Is Exaggerated(theness.com)
2 points by erwald 5y ago|0 comments
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Building a Lightweight, Command-Line Newsletter Program(erichgrunewald.com)
4 points by erwald 5y ago|3 comments
148.
Later School Start Times(theness.com)
1 points by erwald 5y ago|0 comments
149.
by erwald 5y ago
That is some impressively fast mitigation for an unexpected problem. 6 minutes to start the incident process, another 6 minutes to identify the issue, and another 25 minutes to start rolling out the solution.
150.
by erwald 5y ago
> Why do workers remain in low-productivity areas when they could experience wage gains elsewhere? While the literature has proposed a few explanations, including the high cost and risky nature of migration, this column uses the case of

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