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by fchu 6y ago
Reminds me of a prank that some co-workers pulled off: they bought some gadgets that would make a cricket sound but at random, irregular intervals, and hid it in a person's office. It drove that person insane as they slowly and methodi
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by fchu 6y ago
This unfortunately isn't surprising anymore: 1. State and local governments wanted order above all 2. They created laws and regulations that gave too much leeway to police with little oversight 3. Cops think they can act with impunity
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by fchu 6y ago
Mmm citation needed here.
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by fchu 6y ago
Without getting into what's right or fair, the reality is that it supply & demand that defines price setting behavior (in this instance, the company is optimizing for its consumer surplus) Maybe another way to think about it is whe
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by fchu 6y ago
Maybe there is a way to publicly shame them, even if only a low fraction of users forwards bad actors to a collaborative list
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by fchu 6y ago
This is precisely what Mortimer Adler suggests in his book "How to Read a Book", to read above your current levels this is only how you grow your mind. Strong advice but I feel it's much harder nowadays to go down that route
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by fchu 6y ago
> Then Z>Y>X, so Z+Y>2X. Any household that makes more than twice a "fair wage" is not lower middle class (many lower middle class people don't even make 1x a fair wage). That's terrible math that proves noth
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by fchu 6y ago
How did you come up with that probability? Seems gratuitous
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by fchu 6y ago
This is very cool. If you can mass produce such boards (plastic molds maybe?), It could be a fun novelty gadget/gift
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by fchu 7y ago
As a side note: O(k n log(n)) and O (n log (n)) have exactly the same meaning for k non-null constant by the definition of big O notation. The more you know!
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by fchu 7y ago
Mindsight by Dan Siegel is one I would recommend too
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by fchu 7y ago
An interesting exercise is to have a sample of readers summarizing a self-help book in 4 pages or less, and see how these pearls of wisdom overlap. My hypothesis is that people would highlight different things, based on their own present le
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by fchu 7y ago
Depending on your email volumes, mailgun could be a viable alternative
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by fchu 7y ago
Currency here isn't money though, but reputation (for the researcher and their institutions) and advance of science. One can imagine a world where high-quality reviewing entities exist and attract top researchers without being profit-d
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by fchu 7y ago
> The real power-up isn't keeping it all, it's being able to change and grow, with just enough focus on the past to make good choices. Love how you framed it!