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Blagging your way through D3.js(recurse.henrystanley.com)
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Using spaced repetition to learn new languages(recurse.henrystanley.com)
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by henryaj 8y ago
Yup, should have included that, and I agree that it's essential to read code to become a better programmer. I'm actually thinking of building a tool that would automate this a little - maybe it would find some code from a well-lov
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How to become a dramatically better programmer(recurse.henrystanley.com)
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by henryaj 8y ago
It is cheap - see the huge fall in gas prices since the introduction of fracking. The US has gone from being a net importer of natural gas to an exporter, such is the increase in supply. "Secure" doesn't mean "is never g
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Hey, Cochrane – medical evidence, summarised(recurse.henrystanley.com)
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Becoming a dramatically better programmer(recurse.henrystanley.com)
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by henryaj 8y ago
Former PR shill here: thank you for making this. I left that industry because it was stuck in the 90s: writing crummy emails in Outlook and bcc'ing every journalist whose email address you managed to get hold of. No MailChimp, no analy
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Learning programming with spaced repetition(recurse.henrystanley.com)
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by henryaj 8y ago
> Clubs like those, especially at a public college actually ARE protected by the 1st amendment. In UK universities they have no such protection, and similar clubs have been shut down. My alma mater, University College London, banned the
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by henryaj 8y ago
> he doesn't want to sacrifice individuality and creativity for the sake of maintaining a banal existence that doesn't deviate from the norm out of fear Exactly. Just apply that to the fear of running afoul of draconian speech
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by henryaj 8y ago
> ‘Users must ensure that the content and tone of their email messages cannot be considered offensive.’ This doesn't seem reasonable at all. "Considered offensive" - those are just weasel words. How can I be expected to ha
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Show HN: Jobs and side projects for effective altruists(eawork.club)
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by henryaj 9y ago
The Gare du Nord Eurostar terminal has been revamped in the last few years - it's much better than it used to be.
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by henryaj 9y ago
> A prediction was made that Bitcoin would go well, and it did, but the fact that it went well doesn't mean that the prediction was rationally founded. This just looks like a naked assertion to me.
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by henryaj 9y ago
> How many things were discussed on rationalist websites that people were sure were going to be yuge, petered out, and were forgotten? This is addressed in the article. The potential upside with Bitcoin was enormous, and so many people h
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A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy(lesserwrong.com)
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Launching an album on the blockchain, without a record label(medium.com)
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by henryaj 9y ago
http://archive.is/PQAnU
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Sweden trades academic freedom for a commitment to social justice(quillette.com)
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Avoid runaway signaling in your community(qualiacomputing.com)
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Stephen Paddock - killing for kicks?(city-journal.org)
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by henryaj 9y ago
391,499 Londoners (and counting) beg to differ: https://www.change.org/p/save-your-uber-in-london-saveyourub...
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by henryaj 9y ago
> Failure to properly check medical certifications I can't see why doctors forging documents for people that they later use to become drivers is anything to do with Uber. The article even says those doctors did the same for drivers
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by henryaj 9y ago
> Build dependencies. Ability to trigger project-B build when project-A build succeeds Within a pipeline, you can 'pass' an output of one step as a triggering input to another. Across pipelines, you can use e.g. an S3 resource
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by henryaj 9y ago
> UI is pretty but often breaks. Is unusable when you have a pipeline with dozens of concurrent jobs. Find this hard to believe - we have some pretty spectacular pipelines which render without a hiccup.
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by henryaj 9y ago
From https://80000hours.org/articles/cause-selection/ : > We’ve been ... drawing together research from the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute; the Open Philanthropy Project (a foundation with b
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by henryaj 9y ago
> have the EA people actually done something so far? In terms of stuff done: OpenPhil, an EA org, has given north of $30million to groups researching strong AI and its risks[0]. Some effective altruists also choose to donate to AI rese
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> No mention of poverty, health, education, war. "Developing world health" is number 7 on the list. Also - 80,000 Hours aren't saying those causes should be ignored, but that they're currently not neglected - plenty
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by henryaj 9y ago
One of the principles of effective altruism is finding causes which are important, tractable, and neglected . Climate change is definitely not neglected - you could certainly make the case that we ought to be doing more, but not that it&#x

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