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by ipnon 3y ago
Please note this is from 1984. This paper has made the meme rounds. There is a reason why a more recent publication is not cited, the strongest evidence for the implicit hypothesis is 40 years old.
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by ipnon 3y ago
There will be so many villages left to ruin, so many practices lost to memory, it can be quite sad. Japan is again a rapidly changing society.
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by ipnon 3y ago
Life expectancy is an about 84 years, death rate is about twice the birth rate, so population will decrease by 6 million in about 5 years. Population will go from 124M to ~118M by 2028 based on my elementary analysis. https://en.
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by ipnon 3y ago
Just go straight to the source and eat oatmeal. It’s nutritious, delicious (give it some time), and affordable. Cut out the corporate middle men from your consumption of abundant and cheap whole grains!
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by ipnon 3y ago
I agree, and you have to make the PRs you want to see. I don’t think this project of free software has a big (or perhaps any) budget!
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by ipnon 3y ago
“Hell hath no wrath like a national security apparatus threatened,” I think that’s how it goes. Once USG, or Wall Street even, is threatened nothing is really off the table.
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by ipnon 3y ago
I think the thought, like death, is simply so horrible it defies full consideration. This is why climate activists can seem fanatical, because it has a religious quality. Either you believe “it” will happen in our lifetime, very soon, or it
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by ipnon 3y ago
One thing I always assume about quantitative finance research, is that by the time it’s published in a journal some trading desk on Wall Street has already been using some version of the result for years. There is simply too much money to b
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by ipnon 3y ago
This is impossible without working at TikTok, and being intimately aware of their algorithm, neither of which I am. But I would lend credence to this saying because it seems to be so obvious to the users of the platform. They learn quite a
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by ipnon 3y ago
There is a saying in TikTok, “you are responsible for your own timeline.”
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Things are much easier when you only need it to run on a single PDP-11 at Bell Labs.
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Excellent results. As I’m sure you’ll agree there are many stones left to overturn in researching how to play video games without direct human input. I’m looking forward to your next developments.
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In my opinion this is a bad comment because its only purpose is to denigrate the person you’re replying to.
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Interestingly enough, it's a cannabinoid receptor agonist. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ardp.202200493
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Isn’t the joke on HN generally that no product lasts at Google unless it’s search?
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I use Wren to take some personal responsibility, and I am looking for more ways to take action.
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by ipnon 3y ago
Let’s say you run a successful Ponzi scheme. You get ten thousand investors to fall for your fraud, and lead them to believe wholeheartedly that their money is safely invested in your scheme. When it collapses, the financial turmoil is so g
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“Dosis sola facit venenum.”
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How we know languages like proto-Indo-European existed [video](youtube.com)
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The dirty little secret of my F-150 is that although it does not require massive lithium mining and subsequent environmental pollution, it in fact requires the combustion of hydrocarbons thousands of times a second every time I start the en
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by ipnon 3y ago
American math standards have been low compared to those in Europe and East Asia for a long time, about as long as there has been divergence in student performance in the subject. Standards should be high, and many students (perhaps 80%) sho
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by ipnon 3y ago
Very interesting academies these researchers are based at … makes you wonder what kind of new applications this research enables.
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The geography of South Korea seems to help. Typhoons collect into snow on the rocky mountains, that melt throughout the year into clearly defined rivers without much penetration into soil. There is an ecological buffer that some parts of In
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by ipnon 3y ago
The "family computer" of long ago ages seemed to attenuate the kinds of addiction we see today. It also made computing more social since the only resource was shared.
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What is the point of life if we’re just going to work at Big Tech, transform our salaries into anti-aging remedies and airfare, then demand an ever dwindling proportion of young people support us while we expire? How do we reconcile this li
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Goldman Sachs bought UK and US companies using Chinese state funds(ft.com)
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by ipnon 3y ago
Portland is probably the best biking city. It’s not perfect but in many neighborhoods it’s very cumbersome to drive and easy to bike. Drivers are also much less hostile in general.
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Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, on the Story of Marginal Revolution [video](youtube.com)
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WFH is here to stay. If you look at which companies are mandating office returns it’s the large and old incumbents. The young companies and startups are investing in remote and global workforces. In a few decades time these companies will r
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There are many real estate giants and so-called "trust" companies who are incapable of repaying debt right now. Some of these companies have trillions in RMB on their balance sheets. The central bank can bail them out but at the e

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