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SAT II Chinese listening test has 800 at 61%ile: https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/sat/pdf/sat-subject-te...
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Via Wikipedia: "The Moon has an exceptionally low albedo, giving it a reflectance that is slightly brighter than that of worn asphalt." Yet, the sun is /so bright/ that even at 380,000km we see moon-shadows at night on e
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For serious astronomy this isn't viable, and for amateurs this really puts a dent in the magic and sanctity the night sky as we've known it throughout the entire history of our species. If only we could add "the night sky&quo
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You can't vote out a corporation.
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How do the balances get incorrect with 2^53 cents of precisely-roundable range?
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Isn't the proposal in the article is "round after every operation"? Since rounding to nearest cent values corrects each subtotal's error to zero, this should work up to 2^53 cents. ($90T)
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I think while English is really tough to speak perfectly, it's pretty easy to muddle through. "It suhrengz is" that you can drop all inflections, butcher pronunciations, and ignore the chaotic spelling, and still be able to c
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Don't forget systemic pressure to make "more baddies"!
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Building equity has opportunity cost. There's little financial incentive to pay off a mortgage unless the ROI elsewhere is less than the mortgage rate.
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Margin calls are the primary difference. (InteractiveBrokers and Robinhood have pretty good margin rates: <=3.05% and ~5% respectively) Being forced to sell at during a temporary low is the major threat, whereas most people who kept thei
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B is solved by a legal market and framework that we already have for tobacco. The problem is treating vaping as worse than cigs, which have an absolutely stunning amount of evidence against them, in particular with tar and a laundry list of
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They do alright with alcohol and tobacco, and even general goods! Black and grey markets make it very hard to get trustworthy information. Imagine if any product in a grocery store could poison you! The threat of recourse through the legal
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Somewhere between immediately@5k and never@150k is room for maybe@40k. Is it worth $330/mo for ten years? Depends on the career, but quite likely!
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Allegedly security. Apple only trusts Apple.
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It started in the 14th century. Wikipedia has a good article on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
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On macOS WebGL in all browsers goes through OpenGL, same as on Linux and Android. On Windows, WebGL generally calls into ANGLE-on-D3D, though both Firefox and Chrome support using "native GL" experimentally as well.
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C (or something very like it) is effectively the core of my mental VM. It's an extremely useful mental abstraction even though all I write is C++, JS, Python, and GLSL. Being able to estimate "what does this code compile into&quot
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This is not fundamentally different than the previous generation of JS miners. The root cause is "people who's websites serve miners", not WASM per se.
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Mac makes most apps "just work", but it has issues: Any scaling besides the default makes it impossible to do 1:1 device pixel rendering from within an app. Windows has the complete solution for non-integer pixel ratios. For insta
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This approach has failed.
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Dry-Comparisons: A C++ Library to Shorten Redundant If Statements(fluentcpp.com)
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Either the system we have today works because we put enough money into it, and therefore would continue to work if we nationalized; or our system has unjust failures that we should seek to rectify. We already pay for our healthcare in the U
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It's wild that this continual destruction of evidence is not only tolerated but SOP. It's just so convenient! Imagine if commit messages disappeared after 6mo!
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It's more efficient for them to donate to 100% things they want, instead of volunteered taxes which go into the big bucket. But, if everyone volunteered more taxes, the donations are now more efficient, because they represent compromis
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I think it's systemic, not really linguistic. Complexities are fractal, and there's fundamentally no way to succinctly express them in a title or summary.
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No, better filing with the same tax system is empirically a better position. Holding auto-filling hostage to push contentious unrelated systemic changes is dirty, and why we have such gridlock. "I'm willing to allow a wide-consens
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"I'm not blaming business leaders per se, as they are at the mercy of large historical and economic forces that limit what can influence them and the options open to them to choose" I'm frustrated by the continued confla
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Unsurprising that China would want people to use something so easily trackable!
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Pocket very carefully avoids leaking information. It's cleverly done.
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The trolley problem is so overblown. Just brake. Just braking is a simple and really effective solution to the vast, vast majority of problems. Instead of trying to program complex and fraught harm minimization systems, focus on braking dis

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