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hgsgm
3y ago
I just tried it. over 50MB in 1minute (6MB/hr). http://dumps.wikimedia.your.org/enwiki/20220820/ They also seed torrents
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hgsgm
3y ago
Do you you think most employees are at brand new startups, or at larger near-liquidity companies?
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hgsgm
3y ago
Options have higher volatility. This is not a mystery and doesn't mean EV is 0.
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hgsgm
3y ago
How are you getting 16 from that map? Did your browser fail to load the data?
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hgsgm
3y ago
That explains all the fuss of recent years. Transgenderism is an affront against data schematization.
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3y ago
There's no reason to assume that government care supply would rise to meet demand. If private pay is allowed, and medical school enrollment is not artificially constrained, supply can rise to meet demand at a low price.
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3y ago
This is how non-prescription supplements work.
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3y ago
That's impressive excus-making for doctor-priority scheduling density. It's not "calm" to be on edge for 15minutes wondering when the provider will appear. Also my office takes my BP as soon as my appointment time starts
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3y ago
And it's disgusting and cruel. No, the ends don't justify the means. And Romero stole the idea from a famous Orson Scott Card book anyway.
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3y ago
In Hollywood this is called "buying your gross". Marketing costs are a major portion of revenue for a blockbuster.
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3y ago
Why?
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3y ago
Let's assume that eradicating covid (if somehow possible) via lockdowns and distancing would cost a 25% quality of life decrease for 2 years. That's equivalent losing 1% of all current human life. Or perhaps we would not eradica
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3y ago
The US major media reported on this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
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3y ago
2004, far less Internet connectivity to sustain awareness and outrage, and less impact. Our lives weren't nearly as completely mediated by online services. "Total Information Awareness" made a splash in the news around 2004 a
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3y ago
That looks like a ribbon cable blocking the fan?
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hgsgm
3y ago
Those are in service of "getting things done" as Spolsky wrote, not navel gazing.
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3y ago
No one getting anything good because one company patented an obvious idea and then AT&T'ed it would be even worse. The solution to monopoly is antitrust law not patent law making more monopolies.
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3y ago
That doesn't really solve the problem of patent trolls taking money from other companies. A covered song is actually a specific lyric, not "a song about love in which the party of the first part expresses admiration for the part i
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3y ago
So? Google figured it out. The parents doesn't explain the tricky way to do it.
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hgsgm
3y ago
It depends on whether you consider the the theory to include the statement "in practice, these assumptions are not valid".
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hgsgm
3y ago
Is there a name for the phenomenon where people who understand a concept don't talk about it because it isn't important or relevant, but people who don't understand think it's a big deal?
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3y ago
It won't play out this way, but what if Musk's cheapness costs DeSantis the election? And tips it to Trump?
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3y ago
Cars don't drive cars; people drive cars.
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3y ago
The original "subscription model" meatspace. Sell a self destructing product there needs chronic ambiguous repairs that cost "how important is it for you to have a car?" .
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3y ago
People are OK with what they know they don't know, as no one knows all the "trivial details", but not OK with what they know being wrong.
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3y ago
You'll need to be more specific, because probability can be described the same way, numerically.
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3y ago
Dedomenon meant given in the Biblical past, and data now. ("Take is as given", in a logical/mathematical sense). For a database integrity scientist, "data destroyer" makes sense.
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3y ago
Similar to faster-than-light travel.
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hgsgm
3y ago
No, Roko's Basilisk is already torturing me in a simulation. Not you?
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3y ago
Is 0 an invalid score?
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