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by gbacon 8y ago
Revolting cheers at Scalia’s death were similar. Any hint at possibly gaining control of The Precious brings out the very worst in people. Hivemind N.B.: I had strong disagreements with both Scalia and McCain. Don’t taze me, bro!
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by gbacon 8y ago
Because admitting political sympathies other than progressive around here draws harsh responses from the HN hivemind.
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by gbacon 8y ago
McCain might have beaten Hillary, but when Obama locked up the drawn out Democratic nomination, the race was over for the reasons you described.
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Senator John McCain dies at 81(nypost.com)
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A software archaeology screwup(blog.plover.com)
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What causes traffic jams(blog.plover.com)
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Overview of Cook-Levin proof that SAT is NP-complete [47m YouTube](youtube.com)
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by gbacon 8y ago
UPDATE: My IFR deck is available on AnkiWeb: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2105122272
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by gbacon 8y ago
I wonder if the person who posted deleted that reddit account.
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by gbacon 8y ago
I will upload them to AnkiWeb.
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by gbacon 8y ago
I built an Anki deck to study for the FAA instrument written test and the oral exam portion of the instrument practical test. Tips and best practices: * Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge[0] * A list of Anki tips and
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by gbacon 8y ago
My favorite aliases (plus color to enhance presentation) thanks to Scott Chacon and Conrad Parker: [alias] lol = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit lola = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --
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by gbacon 8y ago
The five-hour rule was coined by Michael Simmons, founder of Empact. The concept is wonderfully simple: No matter how busy successful people are, they always “set aside at least an hour a day (or five hours a week) over their entire career
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by gbacon 8y ago
According to the Nall Report[0] for 2014 from the Airplane Owners and Pilots Association’s Air Safety Institute, “Pilot-related causes consistently account for about 75% of non-commercial fixed-wing [general-aviation] accidents.” Those caus
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by gbacon 8y ago
It’s ambiguous: gave as in reserved a company asset for his use or gifted it to him personally?
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by gbacon 8y ago
For instance, a four-year public college in 1977 cost $8,000 vs. $20,000 today, while median incomes have stayed flat at $34,000 over the same time period. Median debt has risen from $10,000 to $33,000, while the percent of those 30-year-o
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by gbacon 8y ago
In contrast, see a proposal[0] by Austrian economist Bob Murphy for reforming a different entitlement program in such a way that would reduce costs for the same service. Summary excerpt: The Social Security program is in the hole by $11 tr
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by gbacon 8y ago
Counterpoint[0] from a libertarian perspective, excerpt below. As Matt Bruenig at Jacobin explains, if you compare the projected price tag of Medicare for All against projected total healthcare spending in the United States, you see a net
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Kant: How Is a Synthetic a Priori Judgment Possible?(medium.com)
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How to explain infinity to kids(blog.plover.com)
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by gbacon 8y ago
It is not a typo but a jab at wannabe elitists who are sneering at Ewin’s work because of its ready applicability to Amazon and Netflix recommendations — as though the discovery would be more worthwhile if it had no economically valuable us
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by gbacon 8y ago
At the bottom of JavaUnitTestChallengeSolved[0], William Underwood posted the test below and claims that it always catches the `notify()` problem. He did not mention using TLA+. public static void testConcurrency() throws InterruptedE
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by gbacon 8y ago
I’m also supporting a customer who is using a stratified approach to verification and validation on mission-critical code stratified into layers of static analysis, unit tests, property-based tests, and formal methods.
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by gbacon 8y ago
I’m an American private pilot unconnected to Flytenow other than being an interested observer in the broad space. U.S. Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) — or Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) — Part [91] covers personal fli
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by gbacon 8y ago
Will your project deal with Part 135 flights only or also Part 91? If the latter, how will you avoid Flytenow’s demise[0]? [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=flytenow.com
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by gbacon 8y ago
What else given by parents ought to be neutralized or otherwise taken away? Work ethic? Polite manners? Good looks? Family connections? Education? Computer skills? Cooking skills? Healthy lifestyle? Dominant presence, at least for sons? Soc
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by gbacon 8y ago
Indeed, and those considerations are built into prices, which factor into each exchange. Homes in good school districts sell for more, and jobs with good or exceptional benefits may have lower takehome — as is the case with civil service jo
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by gbacon 8y ago
Yes, self-reported results will have biases. We might also note selection bias if all the surveys went to neighborhoods in the same city or even the same state, for example. Americans have (or at least had) cultural mores against discussi
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by gbacon 8y ago
Yes, the labor theory of value is garbage economics, but I’m not sure how it fits into this particular discussion. Basic money management is not at all complicated. By the time someone completes fourth grade in a typical U.S. elementary sch
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by gbacon 8y ago
Perhaps Trump’s kids don’t work, but the existence of some idle wealthy people does not mean all or even most wealthy people are idle — any more than some Asians being good at math means all or most are good at math.

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