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by finnh 6y ago
I dunno, my twenties were pretty fun. Yes I worked, but fortunately I didn't "toil". What's the proposal here? That we retire for ages 25-50, and then (re)enter the workforce to pay society back?
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by finnh 6y ago
This John McPhee article about lacrosse is wonderful, for anyone who's interested: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/23/spin-right-and...
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by finnh 6y ago
Sounds like David Boies looking to extort people with Epstein sex tapes. Over to you, Money Stuff: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-02/the-bl...
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by finnh 6y ago
Members of the LDS church
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by finnh 6y ago
And of course double the compute for half the time = same cost (more or less). I would imagine the NSA has sunk enough into hardware to do this fairly cheaply per-pass, and very quickly (hours not weeks).
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by finnh 6y ago
(thanks - once I typed my comment I thought "hmm I bet I can just _find_ that form" and lo! it was findable). Considering whether to also send a paper letter, as those still seem to be "more official" and the state ESD I
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by finnh 6y ago
Me too, I just got one (although it wasn't saying I applied, it was just referring to my "claim #" and telling me about a retraining opportunity). Where did you file your fraud report? I've been meaning to but haven&#x
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by finnh 6y ago
To be clear, that's affirmative action for people in the lowest castes (not everyone knows what SC etc mean offhand).
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by finnh 6y ago
Good for you, Tim! I've interacted with him once or twice via his blog and always found him to be a super nice, thoughtful guy.
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by finnh 6y ago
I often end up valigning text in vim and then pasting it as a code block to Notion :(
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by finnh 6y ago
I think getting to enriched uranium is the hard bit.
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by finnh 7y ago
Society-wide, though, the Great Depression led to the New Deal, which radically reduced inequality, created our first social safety net, and set the stage for decades of public policy whose net effect was to reduce inequality. Hopefully we
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by finnh 7y ago
Why is it ungrammatical then? (serious question, i take that as a sign that it is not a real OS dialogue)
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by finnh 7y ago
"One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia. That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They t
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by finnh 7y ago
unattractive people are not a protected class
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by finnh 7y ago
Is it just me or are those results clearly based on using her name (from the ID she provided as part of her CCPA request)? To have zero false positives, and multiple different hair colors, etc ... strains credulity that is all based on fac
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by finnh 7y ago
... only if you're willing to cool something else ;)
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by finnh 7y ago
The nut is on a threaded rod, and in the locked state is jammed up against the plate, so it shouldn't work its way anywhere absent rotational force. (i missed that the rod was threaded in my first read-through, too)
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by finnh 7y ago
But we perceive it as yellow ... it's only white if you are outside the atmosphere, a condition to which we are not evolutionarily adapted.
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by finnh 7y ago
It's good for meeting compliance requirements.
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by finnh 7y ago
well sure.. but if one average an arbitrarily chosen vantage point (ours) sees only one of these so well, then we can infer that many other arbitrary vantage points see none. and that would be sad. (i know the article mentions others, so th
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by finnh 7y ago
Great Planet Money episode about the RVU: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/02/458222801/epis...
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by finnh 7y ago
I suppose she meant deaf people? Not too surprising - a loud thunderclap rattles windows, and seems likely to have low enough tones to be sensed internally. I remember reading about deaf sports teams using low-frequency gongs in place of w
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by finnh 7y ago
Well, if you're only claiming median skill I don't think that applies.
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by finnh 7y ago
I don't understand the downvotes; I thought the exact same thing.
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by finnh 7y ago
"It takes two seconds to decide upon which special-function key to press. Deciding among abstract symbols is a high-level cognitive function. Not only is this decision not boring, the user actually experiences amnesia! Real amnesia! Th
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by finnh 7y ago
"basically every company drops from their IPO" is not at all true, hence the downvotes.
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by finnh 7y ago
Even without a priori semantic goals, I think you can also transform/rotate your dimensions to maximize their interpretability. Simplified example: if your two-dimensional system gives you two points: -0.5, 0.5 0.5, 0.5 Th
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by finnh 7y ago
Or really good automation.
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by finnh 7y ago
But people are wild about it. Low birth rates in wealthy countries are arrived at by choice. As a US citizen with two kids, I actively chose not to have more. This is my preference (and, in aggregate, the preference of the rest of the US as

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