iak8god

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by iak8god 8y ago
This usage of "grandma" is sexist as well -- it's much more common than "grandpa".
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by iak8god 8y ago
> Nothing is worse for an airliner than a grounded jet. Those airlines clearly think the probability of this is pretty low or they would have make the call to ground those planes on their own, but a jet that smashes itself into the earth
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by iak8god 8y ago
I don't know enough about the production of nuclear centrifuges to say for sure, but it seems probable that the damage intentionally inflicted by Stuxnet[1] may very well have put some lives at risk. Triton looks more like another step
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by iak8god 8y ago
Cosmicomics is also pretty great.
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> The biggest drop is in the very desirable 12- to 34-year-old group. 12-34 is a very wide range. While I do know a few people toward the high end of that age range who did have FB accounts and deleted them, I wonder how much of the drop
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by iak8god 8y ago
Facebook's business model is 100% incompatible with really preserving user privacy.
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by iak8god 8y ago
> usually featuring separate exterior entrances to each suite Having recently thought a lot about this after being tricked into staying in a place listed on booking.com as an "inn", but which upon arrival was clearly a motel, t
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by iak8god 8y ago
This is still one of the beneficial places in the country for Amazon to have a new HQ, but NY will be just fine without Amazon there. Why should NY have to bribe one of wealthiest organizations in the world with billions of dollars to set u
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by iak8god 8y ago
You may find this short article interesting: https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too/ We Were Pirates, Too Why America was the China of the 19th century.
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by iak8god 8y ago
Your Step 3 is the hard part. For Steps 1 & 2 have you looked into generating markup and using Pandoc to convert to, e.g. Word files? https://pandoc.org/
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by iak8god 8y ago
10% on gains, plus 5% on withdrawals: https://predictit.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5... The volume may be too low to do much arbitrage.
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by iak8god 8y ago
Specifically, https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3352/Will-Donald-Tr... Currently about 73% yes
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by iak8god 8y ago
Pretty much every year on that chart is a low point for cigarette smoking compared the years that preceded it. Note that 2015 is not when teens started vaping. It's when whoever collected this data started paying attention to vaping. I
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by iak8god 8y ago
> vaping/Juul has undone a decade of progress in reducing teen smoking How much of that reduction in smoking is because of teens who would otherwise be smoking but are now vaping instead?
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by iak8god 8y ago
I write my python interactively in a repl, and often end up with deeply nested list comprehensions as a result. I always need to break them up to have any chance of understanding it even a day later.
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by iak8god 8y ago
> [Amazon's] customer service is fantastic in my experience. Try not having Prime. I tried that once, for a short while. The difference in service was striking.
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by iak8god 8y ago
> some people going far beyond just in match flaming to harassing with death and rape threats in direct messages long after the match is over. It sounds like your company needs to fire these toxic individuals ASAP before the company gets
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by iak8god 8y ago
https://disaster.radio is a neat little project that might be helpful for building something like this.
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> I feel like we are repeating similar mistakes we made with the tobacco industry. Pot is so much less addictive and damaging to health than tobacco and alcohol, that it makes perfect sense to have it legal and as readily available as th
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by iak8god 8y ago
"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." https://news.ycombinator.com/news
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by iak8god 8y ago
Education is not about memorizing information. It is about learning how to think. If anything, this is of much more value now that we're drowning in so much information -- and so much misinformation.
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by iak8god 8y ago
Matt Parker's "Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension" is a good one too: https://www.amazon.com/Things-Make-Do-Fourth-Dimension-ebook...
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by iak8god 8y ago
I am reminded of the Choose Your Own Adventure Series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure
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by iak8god 8y ago
It's hard to understand what you're objecting to. 1) This is pop sci, not a "scientific article", and 2) the text you quoted links to another article about the most famous primatologist in the world making exactly that c
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by iak8god 8y ago
The best way to become convinced of Monty Hall may be to grab a buddy and some playing cards, and run a simulation. 30 rounds or so should be convincing.
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by iak8god 8y ago
Thank you for the information. I have no connection to the charity I linked (except I think I may have given them $50 once), and I don't know which charities, if any, are effective at preventing malaria. Maybe they should be giving out
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by iak8god 8y ago
Here's some info pulled right from https://www.againstmalaria.com/ : * Half a million people die each year and 400 million fall ill [with malaria] * 70% of them are children under 5 * #1 killer of pregnant women * Malar
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by iak8god 8y ago
These analogies involving valuable physical items are way off base. If I'm walking along the street and see a diamond ring lying there, I can only assume that it belongs to someone else and they've misplaced it (because it's
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by iak8god 8y ago
> "tricking the HTTP server," I don't think you understand the web. I'm not anthropomorphizing anything. He literally sent a request for each document he wanted to look at and the server sent a response. You keep refe
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by iak8god 8y ago
These analogies are not helping. Here's what actually happened: the accused allegedly sent requests to a web server asking "may I please look at the document with id X?" for various values of X. Each time the web server had t

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