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by jbullock35 4y ago
Multiple bookstores in a U.S. town of 2000 people? Is it a college town?
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by jbullock35 4y ago
Does the bill actually apply to any social media platform? The article notes that the bill exempts most platforms and any “social media company that allows a user to generate short video clips of dancing, voice overs, or other acts of ent
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by jbullock35 4y ago
> _2600+_ comments on it, most of them hysterical about SF crime [of course, completely divorced from actual stats, i.e. SF has fewer homicides per capita than almost every other American city, including current faves Austin and Miami] O
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by jbullock35 4y ago
The King Is Alive was not garbage. It was good!
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by jbullock35 4y ago
The article covers so much -- and it doesn't even mention the "Wald estimator," which is part of the foundation of the modern (causal-inference-oriented) view of the method of instrumental variables.
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by jbullock35 4y ago
> Most doctors aren't getting "absurdly rich" in medicine, at least not anymore, and certainly not by tech industry standards. (Source: I am a medspouse.) "Absurdly rich" is too vague to be meaningful. But on ave
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by jbullock35 4y ago
This happened partly because the number of companies making personal computers and basic office software for end users was radically greater than the number that we have today. One PC Magazine cover boasted "PC Labs Tests 55 Word Proce
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by jbullock35 4y ago
> He wishes he could continue working for Mark Zuckerberg, in order to make Mark Zuckerberg richer. He never said that this is why he wants to continue working at Meta. People do have other reasons for wanting to work there.
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by jbullock35 4y ago
> Restrict your search to USB drives that not only "Ship from" Amazon but that are "sold by" Amazon. In doing so, you will be weeding out all of the fraudulent devices that the article describes. > Comingling means
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by jbullock35 4y ago
This comment seems too critical. As a practical matter, Amazon has made it extremely easy to avoid these scams. Restrict your search to USB drives that not only "Ship from" Amazon but that are "sold by" Amazon. In doing
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by jbullock35 4y ago
Amendment: the Esquire and SAI sourcing is poor, but the New Yorker is more credible on this point, partly because it interviewed Zuckerberg. See https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jbullock35#33099479 .
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by jbullock35 4y ago
Gawker didn't get it quite right. Here's what the New Yorker article [1] actually says: > When I asked Zuckerberg about the IMs that have already been published online, and that I have also obtained and confirmed, he said that
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by jbullock35 4y ago
The evidence for that quotation is weak. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32937710#32938981 .
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by jbullock35 4y ago
> The CEO famously called his users "dumb fucks"[1] The sourcing for that claim is extremely poor. The Esquire article links to a Business Insider article from 2010, which in turn cites "anonymous sources" on a 2004 I
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by jbullock35 4y ago
Learning Perl is a classic of the form---the best intro programming book that I've ever seen, at least for smart readers who've done some kind of programming (any kind, with any language) in the past. The contrast to Learning P
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by jbullock35 4y ago
Amazon doesn't come close to occupying "the bottom" so far as shopping experiences are concerned. To see that it's still doing relatively well, just try this: shop for five items on Amazon, and then shop for the same fiv
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by jbullock35 4y ago
If memory serves, he has an interview or a foreword to a book in which he mentions another reason: he didn't want Calvin and Hobbes to continue for years or decades after its natural life. He felt that he had seen this with other strip
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by jbullock35 4y ago
> Kahneman's full quote is just embarrassing Yes. It is. But as another poster has noted, he largely recanted in 2017 [1]. And this is to his credit. Few scholars -- and fewer prominent ones -- have been willing to reverse course in
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by jbullock35 4y ago
Perhaps my comment does exemplify Poe's Law. But I can't see that it's more likely to exemplify Poe's Law than your own comment. You've offered as much evidence for your interpretation as I have for mine: none.
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by jbullock35 4y ago
I am surprised at how most of the comments here are -- I am guessing -- deeply misunderstanding the document. The document is almost unbelievably over-the-top. I think that it must be an intentional parody of marketing-speak. If you think t
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by jbullock35 4y ago
> I’ve spoken to various taxi drivers, including current and former Uber drivers, and none of them liked working for Uber. They merely felt trapped. I live in the U.S. I speak to almost all of my rideshare drivers about how they feel abo
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by jbullock35 4y ago
> some things, like terrorism, loomed much larger then than they do today I'm not sure about that. The article is from 1997, after the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, but before the bombing of the USS Cole (2000) or, especial
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by jbullock35 4y ago
I read this a lot. But I've also read the opposite: that it's hard to find effects demonstrated in smaller mammals that don't also hold in humans. What are examples of findings from mice that haven't held up in human pop
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by jbullock35 4y ago
And what made it more promising than Friendster?
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by jbullock35 4y ago
> People like to scapegoat 4chan when these things happen, presumably because it's at the top of the pipeline for a lot of these people, but in this specific case the shooter barely used image boards From the shooter's diary: &
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by jbullock35 4y ago
Randal Schwartz's Learning Perl (O'Reilly) also deserves mention here. It was fantastic--exactly what an introductory book for a smart audience should be. It had examples; it was informative and very clear; and it was succinct.
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by jbullock35 4y ago
> It's also hard to know what you mean by "rural" since the distinction between suburban and rural is hard in the US. > Maybe you're looking for a place like Saratoga Springs or Ashville, NC or Burlington, VT or Ch
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by jbullock35 5y ago
This looks like a good tool. Do we still have data of historical interest (for example, government records, or records from important companies) that exist only on paper tapes?
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by jbullock35 5y ago
The linked tweet doesn't provide a citation or context for the "helped prevent ~2M deaths" claim. But there is work in this area which suggests that "~2M lives saved" in the last 50 years underestimates the benefits
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by jbullock35 5y ago
No need for a VM. I'm running Windows 10. Setup is easy if you still have a drive that can read CDs: just mount the ISO (for example, with ImgBurn), copy all of the files to your SSD, and run AAMSSTP\APP\BSHELF96.EXE. The registry is n

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