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by gen220 4y ago
This is such a clever idea! The next step would be to have "Bot Fight Mode" trick bots into doing something that's both computationally expensive and positive for society, like folding proteins [0] or finding prime numbers [1
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by gen220 4y ago
I'm definitely not suggesting her crime was average, rather I was curious to understand how her sentence fits into the statistical distribution of sexual abuse sentences. Because I had no idea whether 20 is crazy high, bang average, cr
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by gen220 4y ago
I don't really have an opinion but was curious. Official stats from 2018 [1] tell me the average sentencing for sexual abuse was 191 months (15 years, 11 months). Her sentencing is 25.6% longer than the U.S. mean for sexual abuse in 20
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by gen220 4y ago
For what it’s worth, a very close friend of mine got his Physics PhD at CERN in the late 80s (high energy particle physics) where he witnessed the birth of HTTP. This experience, coupled with the US government’s decision to not build an equ
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by gen220 4y ago
There’s at least one company I knows of whose long term target is human life extension, and they’re bootstrapping with pets [1]. Personally I’m bearish on the whole notion of life extension writ large so I don’t know much about them, but it
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by gen220 4y ago
There are definitely companies and investors thinking/working in this space. They think if you can demonstrate an ability solve X in “staging” it has a chance to transfer to “prod”. It works better for some things (generally, simpler&#
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by gen220 4y ago
Right, but the median Boomer is not invested even indirectly in risky asset classes that influence early stage company funding, which is why the predicate (median retirees diversifying into more conservative investments) does not imply the
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by gen220 4y ago
One of my close friends got a merit scholarship that covered 50% of her tuition at a top-2 school for her undergrad concentration. Another got 50% merit, 50% student loans, and qualified for a Pell grant. But this was almost 10 years ago, n
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by gen220 4y ago
The implication that retirement implies less risky investment isn’t true for the truly rich, who control most of the wealth in truly risky asset classes (VC, etc). For example, consider a 60 year old retiree with a 529 plan. Their daughter
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by gen220 4y ago
That's a fair criticism. I'd very lightly push back that sifting through some random links might very well be worth your time if you spend a large amount of time in an RSS reader. I also think it's table stakes for a good fee
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by gen220 4y ago
Google and github are your friends! "awesome rss feeds site:github.com" But you can start with any publications you already subscribe to (newspapers, magazines, etc). See if any people you respect write blogs, follow those links a
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by gen220 4y ago
I think an ongoing, robust RSS ecosystem is a major thorn in the side of any substack-like business model. Their target consumer (affluent/intellectual enough to pay for access to ideas) has access to a far wider variety of arguably be
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by gen220 4y ago
Consider using an RSS reader and bookmarking that! It’s nice to be able to grow your list of things to “default browse” to, over time.
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by gen220 4y ago
Gotcha, that's disappointing. I think my friends were riding along the Charles River, for what it's worth. They're more occasional bike commuters (once or twice per week) than a real serious bunch, and I don't know their
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by gen220 4y ago
Not a Boston resident, but have some friends up there who say that there are great bike paths for urban ingress/egress, but not particularly good for intra-urban travel. Does that match your experience?
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by gen220 4y ago
Twitter's social graph is fairly exposed. You can start with a few trusted "role models" (i.e. you'd want to follow anyone they're following) and build a pretty sizable graph from there, with minimal pruning necessa
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by gen220 4y ago
From another corner of the "search" universe, I get most of my daily information doses through the lens of a collection of RSS feeds I've built up over the years. My feed collection is intolerant to toxic content, although I
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by gen220 4y ago
I think your decisions were reasonable, as is the opinion of the person you're responding to. To be fair, even in its current form, it should be possible to operate this system with sqlite (i.e. no db server) and in-process celery work
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by gen220 4y ago
FWIW, 17th Century Europe didn't have access to the technology and knowledge that we have today, that do not require any fancy devices or technology to improve our efficiency of resource usage in the hypothetical scenario discussed in
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by gen220 4y ago
From what I recall, Warren Buffet thinks about things in the same way, which is one reason he’s famously stingy. It’s a blessing and a curse, because it leads to wealth but can end up in some weird end states. Like having an uncomfortable l
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by gen220 4y ago
If you’re technical enough to self host and concerned about privacy, you might want to try using GNU Ledger and hand-rolling importers. I was in your position about 3 years ago, and have no regrets going down this path. Downloading all of t
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by gen220 4y ago
https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new&capacity=14-...
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by gen220 4y ago
Have you looked into fly.io? They have a very generous free tier for hobby level projects. https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/
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by gen220 4y ago
`lynx` is the benchmark. `lynx -vikeys` if you're a vim user for a slightly better learning slope. Which websites work well? A decreasing number, unfortunately. However, most RSS readers give a decent enough text interface, so you can
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by gen220 4y ago
Ooh you're totally right, thank you for pointing it out! I think my brain was subconsciously seeking a miles-per-gallon result in a "reasonable" order of magnitude. Edited original comment.
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by gen220 4y ago
For those who are curious, 1 rod is 0.003125 miles. Thus, 40 rods is 0.125 miles. 1 hogshead is 1/63 of a US gallon. Thus, 40 rods to the hog's head is 7.875 miles per gallon, 29.87 L/100km, or 3.348 km/L. EDIT: sorry, 1
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by gen220 4y ago
I think the reason you’re getting so much vitriol is that you’re framing this issue without any room for nuance. It’s accepted that a disagreement over the future economic regime of the Union was core to the American Civil War. Part of that
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by gen220 4y ago
Not doubting to be clear, but do you have recommended sources on the desire for the American abolition of slavery being a principal motivation for Britain's non-involvement in the American Civil War? Would be curious to read it. I&#x27
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by gen220 4y ago
It should be understood that the british empire was at the peak of economic dependence on the raw material coming from the "new world" at the onset of the civil war; in particular, cotton exports for consumption by british textile
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by gen220 4y ago
FWIW I know a handful of people of all ranges of success in the tech startup world, managing tens to hundreds or thousands. Some of them are very driven by the stress of management, and seek it out. Their mentality is that a work situation

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