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by jetrink 8y ago
> ensure the survival of farmers, maintain a stable food supply, and keeping prices low for consumers Also, farmers are a powerful special interest group. I know a dairy farmer who was invited to meet with a state governor one on one. Th
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by jetrink 8y ago
He's referring to the collective work of everyone who created a portfolio during the feature's 12-year existence.
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by jetrink 8y ago
DO requests that you don't use swap as it degrades their SSDs. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-...
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by jetrink 8y ago
A few months ago, I realized how important reminders had become to me. Knowing that Inbox might disappear someday, I switched to Todoist and began adding all new reminders (tasks) there. Apart from the lack of integration with Inbox (which
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by jetrink 8y ago
"How would you like to live in Looking-glass House, Kitty? I wonder if they'd give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn't good to drink." Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
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From the article: "According to a police report on the death, on the evening of Aug. 11, Davis was walking along the railroad tracks, with his back to an oncoming train, when he turned and faced the train before it hit him. The train e
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by jetrink 8y ago
From trying to hold remote meetings in Skype, I've learned that the number of versions of Skype that a colleague has installed is inversely proportional to the their technical ability. Usually it's easier to get someone to install
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by jetrink 8y ago
This would be an amazing feature! Good luck in your efforts.
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by jetrink 8y ago
Interestingly though, they have very little content that is 40+ years old. In the United States, there are currently just 10 films available from the 1960s. Five of those are Bollywood films and three concern Barbara Streisand. There are o
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by jetrink 8y ago
To be clear, the above examples are used when the function is designed to accept any such argument and only relevant info is the type.
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by jetrink 8y ago
The Clojure world has a set single-letter naming conventions that, since they are widely accepted, greatly improve readability. If you see an argument named `f`, you can be sure it is a function. `m` is a map, while `k` and `v` are used for
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by jetrink 8y ago
> heavens forbid an end user or journalist tries to learn something about Facebook And more specifically, the tool is for learning what Facebook knows (or thinks it knows) about you.
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by jetrink 8y ago
Maybe it was painted by Bob Ross?
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by jetrink 8y ago
> It's the findings of a statistical analysis of the life and habits of millionaires. I have not read The Millionaire Next Door, but that seems fraught. Does it avoid survivorship bias? E.g. Playing the lottery is a 'habit&#x27
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A former Theranos employee's account of life inside the company(reddit.com)
77 points by jetrink 8y ago|19 comments
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by jetrink 8y ago
The implication behind Goodhart's Law is that people are good at gaming performance measures. You can game profit measures too[1], but it's difficult and there are strong incentives not to. Another counter-example that doesn'
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by jetrink 8y ago
Here is the text of the tweets for convenience: So about that "Lazy FPU" vulnerability (CVE-2018-3665)... this probably ought to be a blog post, but the embargo just ended and I think it's important to get some details out qu
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by jetrink 8y ago
That would imply 15-20% of teenagers aged 15-17 having abortions annually. I find that hard to believe.
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by jetrink 8y ago
> I'd suggest that the later was the more common. I doubt that was the case. According to the CDC[1], less than 15% of teenage births were to unmarried teenagers in the 1950s. In 1960, the birth rate for teenagers aged 15-17 was a q
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by jetrink 8y ago
MONIAC [1] was an analog computer designed in 1949 that used water to model the national economy of the United Kingdom. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
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Sundial cannon(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jetrink 8y ago
This is a very old problem and not limited to spacecraft. If you sail around the world eastward, each of your days is slightly shorter than the days of your countrymen and by the time you get home, you will have experienced a full additiona
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by jetrink 8y ago
Every place that I use my key gives you a set of one-time-use recovery codes. To log into your account, you can use either the key or a code. (You still need your password.) Codes can be regenerated at any time. To revoke a key, you simply
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by jetrink 9y ago
This is something that I have experienced. I'm white and I worked summers doing construction-related work. I was often questioned by police if they saw me sitting in my personal vehicle before work started in a black neighborhood.
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by jetrink 9y ago
Via OCR: "Let us imagine for a moment that people have attained happiness — a state of complete human freedom of will in the widest sense: at that very instant personality is destroyed. Man becomes as solitary as Beelzebub. The connect
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by jetrink 9y ago
At least in Clojure, (defn my-function [] ...) is syntactic sugar for (def my-function (fn [] ...)), removing one level of nesting.
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by jetrink 9y ago
Another option is an XKCD-inspired[1] 'correct horse battery staple' passphrase. I understand that using such passphrases in other contexts like encryption is controversial due to their relatively low entropy, but I think customer
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by jetrink 9y ago
And you feel that it is morally defensible to maintain this type of one-sided relationship?
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by jetrink 9y ago
7-8 seconds seems extremely long. Human beings performing the raft consensus algorithm using paper and pencil over Skype wouldn't be much slower than that. Are you sure everything was working correctly?
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by jetrink 9y ago
If both buckets are filled, one of the existing occupants is evicted and reinserted at its alternate location. If there is an item already at that location, it is likewise evicted and reinserted. This process continues until an open space i

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