graedus

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by graedus 8y ago
Ha, not as hard as I expected but still like 4-5 steps with a bunch of dark patterns (highlighting the buttons that don't downgrade, etc). The screen that's like "OK, you want to downgrade, but tell us why " gave me fl
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by graedus 8y ago
> One of the largest problems towards this is the 40 year smear campaign that neoliberals have been on against unions. Somehow they got the working class to believe that each special individual is better on his own when bargaining agains
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by graedus 8y ago
> we have more millionaires and billionaires in political positions than ever I was curious about the numbers on this in terms of congress members. It doesn't appear that anyone in congress specifically is actually a billionaire as
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by graedus 8y ago
> AI wins on the strength of better decision-making and novel strategies in Chess and Go, though. I have no doubt we'll see this in RTSes in the near future as well. Yes, likely! I wasn't doubting it's possible or even lik
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by graedus 8y ago
It is certainly a real advantage, but I think the argument is that it's not as interesting as an AI that could win on the strength of better decision-making, or the innovation of novel strategies, etc.
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by graedus 8y ago
> Every dollar-denominated investment incurs inflation risk, including any sort of cash account like a dollar saving/checking account. You're right, inflation risk isn't particularly relevant when comparing treasuries vs c
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by graedus 8y ago
> Sure, but you can buy US treasury bills, and then your risk is "lose some money if the US government defaults", which is very low. There are all kinds of other risks associated with buying US treasury bills besides the US gov
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by graedus 8y ago
> When the return is higher, the risk must have gone up too, somehow. I want to emphasize this point. You are never* getting returns for free, you are getting paid to take on some risk. If someone is trying to sell you "risk-free&qu
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by graedus 8y ago
Doesn't it follow that if you're able to evade the plain meaning of the law, then the law as written (or its enforcement) is ineffective, or "bad"?
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by graedus 8y ago
I was about to remark that it reminded me of the 2016 indie game Inside. According to Wikipedia, "[Inside] is the spiritual successor to Playdead's 2010 game Limbo."
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by graedus 8y ago
Interesting - would you mind talking a bit about why you chose Algo for professional use and Streisand for personal use? I've been meaning to research them both more closely, but just getting by on manually configured SSH tunneling for
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by graedus 8y ago
In case it wasn't clear, user 21 was responding to user garblegarble with alternatives to the Intel NUC8i7BEH (~$484 in the US), not the Mac Mini. But yes, the decked-out i7 Mac Mini is really expensive! As noted elsewhere in the comm
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by graedus 8y ago
Yeah, and that's one of the best consumer models available! I believe the WD Black 1TB is in the same league for performance and price as well.
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by graedus 8y ago
Yeah, the model you linked has a i3-5005U - a very large step down from a i7-8559U. Still, could be sufficient depending on what you need it for.
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by graedus 8y ago
Depends on which model. I got one earlier this year with a 7th gen core i5 processor: NUC7i5BNH with a i5-7260U, 2 cores, 4 threads, 15W TDP. Now you can get them with 8th gen core processors like these (among others): i5-8259U, 4 cor
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by graedus 8y ago
To be a little more descriptive, it's a dashcam video from a vehicle driving near Bagram Airfield, and you see the plane crash in a way that makes it clear that the entire crew are killed. Some more detail from the Wikipedia entry[0]:
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by graedus 8y ago
These are cool. FYI some of the images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio. The final example in particular is pretty squished, I recommend opening the image in its own tab.
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by graedus 8y ago
An alternate view I've seen is to look at the last 30(+) years as a giant bull market in bonds that is slowly, finally, coming to a close[0][1] [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/is-th
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by graedus 8y ago
Yeah, I really like that one, it can produce nice dense graphs that display a lot of history at once. It even shows stats about the CPU cores as well.
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by graedus 8y ago
Agreed, nice site. On Windows 10, the sliders do not work in Firefox 62.0.3, and they do work in Chrome 69.
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by graedus 8y ago
> Don't write clever code, write readable code. Good one. Clever code is really tempting. It feels cool to do something in one line instead of six and call it a day. In many cases, the mature thing to do is to know how to do the c
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by graedus 8y ago
> An example, the collision of the Milky Way with Andromeda is likely to produce no collisions of solar systems. I was curious about this, so I found this source[0] via wikipedia: "Although the galaxies will plow into each other, st
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by graedus 8y ago
The latter. Certainly, Sanders isn't powerless, he's the most popular politician in the US. However, he's only one of one hundred senators, almost all of whom are beholden to or influenced by—to varying degrees and on varying
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by graedus 8y ago
I'm absolutely astonished at this definition of "punching down"!
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by graedus 8y ago
Here's a 15 hour old HN thread asking this exact question and getting over 500 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054574
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by graedus 8y ago
I'd be interested in reading Mozilla's blog post series you referenced. Is this an example? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16169236
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by graedus 8y ago
Same with Chrome and Firefox in Win10. Even Chrome's device/touch emulation doesn't work. It does work on iOS Safari. Can't say I've seen such weird event handling in a while.
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by graedus 8y ago
> I don't get however why you don't consider the current model compact. Are you referring to this? > This is not a portable device. The way I read it, drewg123 wasn't saying that this particular keyboard is not compact
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by graedus 8y ago
Thanks, that's an interesting bit of history, I hadn't noticed that before. Off-topic but ultimately related, here's another "fun" Hank Paulson moment as he talks about inequality with Robert Rubin and Sheryl Sandbe
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by graedus 8y ago
Other way round - he's Goldman alum

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