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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> Yeah, Polymarket is explicitly advertising this no, they are not. you might have been an insider working on the Apple Newton, and being enthusiastic about it you might have broken the rules and traded on your "knowledge"...
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> I think wholesale genocide of an entire population by the Israeli state is worse would be worse, but wasn't contemplated nor attempted so contributes no weight to the balance. "from the river to the sea" on the other ha
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
"Linux" is just the source code to the kernel, pure free speech, and it can't run by itself in order to ask anybody anything. Underage programmers will benefit from the education of reading it.
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> I wonder if there's a shorter history of English somewhere. I don't know what's a good podcast for it, but learning "linguistics/linguistic theory" I think is a more rewarding experience. Then when you li
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
you can do this in C, you just need to let its low level-ness be at the same level as everything else you do, just a setjmp longerjmp
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
a plating company in San Jose dumped a plating bath into the sewer system. This was so toxic that it killed the bacteria that reduce organic sludge at the sewerage plant. This knocked the whole plant offline, releasing untreated sewerage in
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> musicians who play techno with analog instruments just to be clear, Moog synthesizers (and a number of other brands) are electronic yes, but they are analog electronics.
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
so you're saying that gopher was the web. i've heard it said before. if you are scared to discuss a chicken and egg problem, you are exactly who should hear it.
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> Actual "quality of education" mostly comes from a low staff/student ratio and direct access of students to elite researchers: this difference in education mostly takes the form of better research labs to work in, with so
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> The rest of NATO has more soldiers than US. Would US win? what are you even talking about? nowhere is anybody on any side even hinting that the problem with NATO is it stops the EU from having a war with the US. the problem with NATO
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> the Portuguese | Dutch - mastered wind to power their ships. the British mastered coal to power Industrial Revolution the British were world-beating masters of sailing technology before they were masters of anything else, and that ena
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
The DX-7 FM synthesis opened the door to a pretty narrow but interesting range of sounds, bells and brass, which people loved and it was a ripsnorting success for a time, but it didn't displace subtractive analog synths and people aren
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
declaring a website to be "first" introduces a definitional problem. to put it in terms of a simple example, you need several HTML pages before one of them can link to another, but so far that's just hypertext. then you need
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
on HN, the problem is not LLMs, it's everybody talking about LLMs incessantly
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
I don't know what you mean, but I belive we're talking about "wheelchair ramps" at street corners some of the laws mandating that type of thing specify "if/when you renovate something, you need to bring it up t
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
if you have no knowledge of any inside information and you are trying to make a buy/sell investment decision, your decision benefits from the price being as accurate as possible. That is what every individual is "trying to solve&q
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
I'm like you, there is an edit button, so I use it. I have to make a choice and I choose all the people who will arrive in the future over the small number of people who might have read what I've already poorly written, people who
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
the article does not discuss what you are saying, do you have an alternative source that tells this true story?
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
what type of school, private or public or charter or anything else in particular? whether donations are tax deductible is important, as is education philosophy, as are communities served.
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
everything you're pointing out is better explained by "Europe didn't want to spend the money, they'd rather let America spend". This was true right after WWII because Europe needed to dedicate money to rebuild their
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> But when there's a public prediction market, the only benefit is to the insiders. false. all the conclusions economists draw in microeconomic theory about efficient markets are based on pricing that reflects symmetric information
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
what's an email alias? (in the sense that they would know you were using one)
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by fsckboy 7mo ago
> the assumption that 'close enough' is actually 'good enough' for uniqueness i'm pretty sure it's "far enough" that makes it "good enough"
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
you picked the wrong phrase, that's involuntary servitude, not slavery.
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
yes, "get under your skin" can mean that, it can mean "can't stop thinking about" like the way somebody annoys you while it turns out you are falling in love
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> logs don't matter. O(log(n)) and O(1) are effectively the same thing. ever heard of a hashtable? that's because O(c) is better than O(log(N)). if they were the same, you would only have heard of binary search.
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
when you read the parent comment, "Tough guys with Mullets that blasted Metallica said "Mint" (term of approval) every sentence back in 1980's Long Island", you didn't think to write, "Your comment reeks o
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
"To Serve Man" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIufLRpJYnI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zon...
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
I think it's more likely so they don't get sued by somebody they've directly injured (bad medical adivce, autonomous vehicle, food safety...) who says as part of their suit, "you went out of your way to tell me it would
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
large businesses have large cash borrowing needs. if they borrow for free from their customers, it reduces the other borrowing they would need to do, so the rate to use is not what interest rate is available to you, but rather how much inte

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