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by hyko 6y ago
It’s not pedantry. There may be some circumstances where strategic use of debt contributes to making you rich, but leverage is not a necessary condition for building wealth. Stating that it is gives people the impression that debt instrumen
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by hyko 6y ago
If your goal is to get rich, you need to be comfortable with levering up That really depends on the economic environment.
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by hyko 6y ago
I think we can probably stop at people in this context :)
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by hyko 6y ago
No. AI is a tool. Companies are trying to make people buy things.
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by hyko 6y ago
What were you expecting? Dennis Nedry mumbling about CPUs through a half-eaten cheeseburger, knee deep in soda cans and empty pizza boxes?
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by hyko 6y ago
Easiest way is to press and hold the Touch Bar on the volume control button and slide your finger left or right–that way you barely need to look at the Touch Bar.
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by hyko 6y ago
It’s a good example of false balance – you either have encryption that works, or not. There is no middle ground.
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by hyko 6y ago
Grade A bullshit. “20% accuracy” means nothing without talking about what the sensitivity and specificity actually are, and the context in which the test is taken, which establishes prior probabilities. The BMJ has an excellent page on this
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by hyko 6y ago
In a world without a level playing field, the solution to poor quality industrial policy is better industrial policy. Foreign subsidies don’t result in a net transfer of wealth if they undercut your otherwise competitive domestic industry,
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by hyko 6y ago
Merit. Productivity would improve, for everyone, if they hired better. Better quality would look like more profit (or better triple bottom line metrics if you’re that way inclined). The job of a management consultancy is to improve an organ
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by hyko 6y ago
Britain leads the world in destroying its own industries in favour of international suppliers. In theory, that will lead to more prosperity in Britain, but in reality the competitors it invites in have usually been massively subsidised by t
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by hyko 6y ago
Prestige = low quality signal. That’s why it’s called prestige and not excellence. In theory, this provides a “moneyball” style opportunity for arbitrage, but in reality you probably won’t be able to profit from it because elitism creates a
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by hyko 6y ago
I think the current understanding of the relationship between aging and cancer is a bit nuanced than this; e.g. immune system distinction is thought to play a major role in failing to eliminate precancerous cells.
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by hyko 6y ago
Yes, there are many known carcinogens, however age is the largest risk factor: almost 90% of cancer patients are over the age of 50, and 50% are over 70! Preventing the core pathology of aging itself would of course not prevent all illnes
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by hyko 6y ago
Your risk of dying from cancer increases with aging, not age. Old people face a greater probability of getting cancer each year because their bodies are being progressively damaged. If you could hold the probability at the level of an 18 ye
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by hyko 6y ago
Wake up: the nostalgia has you. If by “cool” you mean exclusive and expensive, then good news: it’s still the same today! Obviously not for things like low resolution 3D graphics, web browsing, or word processing, but that’s because those t
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by hyko 6y ago
Never really understood this argument, as aging is a risk factor for practically every form of malignancy. Less aging = less malignancy.
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by hyko 6y ago
It's perfectly ethical to write open source code that will crash a passenger jet Really? We’re not talking about bugs here, we’re talking about the deliberate inclusion of dangerous logic traps based on assumptions that could be wron
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by hyko 6y ago
Just stating you don’t have a warranty doesn’t absolve you of all ethical considerations. You can’t just publish something littered with poorly thought out booby traps and then absolve yourself with a license file! If you’re not interested
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by hyko 6y ago
There’s a big difference doing that in a consumer grade device and an open source project you publish for the world to use; i.e. when someone decides to use it in a hypersonic passenger jet
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by hyko 6y ago
That would be outrageously unethical code to write, tantamount to criminal negligence.
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by hyko 6y ago
Maybe change it to The only thing you need to know to successfully lose weight is that you’ll need discipline and commitment then :) There are myriads of factors that prevent people from being able to reach and maintain a “healthy” weight
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by hyko 6y ago
The only thing you need to know to successfully lose weight is that you need to consume less calories than your body requires to maintain its current weight. That's it. I’m afraid this is BS. It’s from the “how to make a million doll
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by hyko 6y ago
It’s a survey–which is cheap to administer, but probably best not to read too much into it.
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by hyko 6y ago
They're certainly missing out on the joy of self satisfaction.
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by hyko 6y ago
Not really, they're a trade association; their core mission is to support the recording industry. Not consuming their output is the opposite of their goal.
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by hyko 6y ago
I guess ultimately the real solution is not to consume what they're producing.
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by hyko 6y ago
I don't think this is a very good example of clean architecture; this is just a refactoring that extracts three methods. There's no dependency inversion used here, which is one of the key tools you would use to create a clean arch
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by hyko 6y ago
It’s probably worth all of us with different views about lockdowns and restrictions bearing in mind that Sweden is not a control group for the rest of the world, and the rest of the world is not a control group for Sweden. The Swedish autho
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by hyko 6y ago
I think this is a duplicate post?

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