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by joaomacp 6y ago
Don't know why you were downvoted on this. I agree - if there's a certain small risk of a blood clot complication, keep giving the vaccine to older people, that have a higher risk of serious COVID complications, and suspend it for
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by joaomacp 6y ago
LinkedIn should work. There's also LandingJobs, a Portuguese hiring website specifically for devs.
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How we almost sold Twitch to Google for $1B [video](youtube.com)
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by joaomacp 6y ago
Relevant: https://www.robrhinehart.com/the-new-york-times/
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by joaomacp 6y ago
To be clear for people that don't know: in October 2019 a Hearthstone (Blizzard game) player protested for Hong Kong while in a tournament stream, by putting on a mask (ironic right?) and shouting "Liberate Hong Kong". Blizza
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by joaomacp 6y ago
It's really amazing. I don't want to be the usual cynic HNer talking stuff down, because this seems really groundbreaking. However, corneal transplants are already a thing, and "Within the United States, the supply of corneas
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by joaomacp 6y ago
It was dishonorable to be caught by the enemy in combat, and considered a shame.
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by joaomacp 6y ago
German people in WW1 and WW2 also thought they were doing the right thing by invading other European countries. I guess they were "misguided", as you say. These people were well-understood by government, who listened to their impe
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by joaomacp 6y ago
15K seem like low numbers. Well, depends on the weapon technologies they bring I guess. Aerial support should be required.
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by joaomacp 6y ago
Reinforcement learning goalkeeper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t-W0U-WC6IikniINjeRjE8Zuskx... The agent hasn't learned anything yet. I just finished setting up the environment, adding the ball and goal.
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by joaomacp 6y ago
If you are looking for a super-hardcore, very tough to beat roguelike, but with great lore and world-building, check out Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (DCSS): https://crawl.develz.org/ You can play online but I play the 'ti
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by joaomacp 6y ago
Many people are asking for the truth to come out, for China to be cooperative on investigations, etc. I would say "be careful what you wish for". Imagine it did come out that it was an accidental lab-leak. Public opinion around th
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by joaomacp 6y ago
From reading the abstract, that study comes to the interesting finding that with a highly effective vaccine, it is better to vaccinate the YOUNG first, to reduce the spread.
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by joaomacp 6y ago
Don't try to convince them forcefully, or else you will strengthen their belief in brainwashing. Explain rationally why YOU believe the vaccine works, and the evidence as to why you are convinced, and accept if they don't change t
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by joaomacp 6y ago
Get a job!
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by joaomacp 6y ago
Another reason to consume less stuff. It's not that often that I buy stuff that really needs to be high quality. But when I do, I make sure to look for honest reviews elsewhere, on multiple websites. Of course Google will try to feed y
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by joaomacp 6y ago
Maybe it's better to look at politicians in a critical, rational way instead of an emotional, love/hate type of way.
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by joaomacp 6y ago
I really don't want to turn this into a flamewar, but ballot collections and changes to election laws are because of COVID. And yes, social and mainstream media has inflamed everything by misrepresenting Trump's side. But let&#x27
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by joaomacp 6y ago
I also tend to agree with Peter Thiel's point on The Portal podcast: a significant number of Americans lie on polls because they're ashamed of voting for Donald Trump. My opinion: I think deep down these people feel they are ratio
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by joaomacp 6y ago
I used pygame for a reinforcement learning course assignment: I built a gridworld simulator where you can input a text file with the origin, goal and obstacles, and watch as an agent learns a policy using Q-learning. It's based on a vi
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by joaomacp 6y ago
> a transformative technology that spurs an ecosystem of technologies, all of which interconnect and benefit from each others innovation. Biotech, especially gene editing, comes to mind as a fast developing field. However, because it&#x2
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by joaomacp 6y ago
Right. It logically follows that random applying would be a good strategy: selecting randomly from top-paying jobs, you would reply to job offers for e.g. software engineer, brain surgeon, architect or hedge fund manager, to increase the
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by joaomacp 6y ago
Isn't PR the product news publishers provide? Edit: previous title was "Google is giving $1B to publishers. For PR, not a product."
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by joaomacp 6y ago
Not even GPT-3 could be this nonsensical.
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by joaomacp 6y ago
Is it really bad for mental well being? I know a lot of people nowadays (including me) have the desire to live separately from parents. But mental health has been going down, with increasing rates of reported loneliness and isolation. Socie
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by joaomacp 6y ago
I can't answer the question, but I find it exciting that we're in this age where we can have these discussions. Maybe in the future programming languages will consolidate, and people will fondly look back at these times of experim
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by joaomacp 6y ago
As a European, every US election season I'm always dumbfounded by how much the "black vote" is discussed. Just recently, when Kamala Harris was announced as VP, all they talk about is how she will contribute to the black vote
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by joaomacp 6y ago
> have men be either gay or straight, but women to be bisexual There is some scientific truth to it: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-34744903
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by joaomacp 6y ago
But if people stop doing those miserable jobs, salaries will have to go up, which in turn will increase the price of goods and services, therefore creating inflation.
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by joaomacp 6y ago
You're not alone! I found your description really relatable. I find that I can only truly understand something when I know all the details, and why things are the way they are. That means in the beginning, when learning something new,

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