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by koliber 7y ago
MUDs, in my teens.
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by koliber 7y ago
There is believable evidence that the Spanish flu originated in the US. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-1... https://www.livescience.com/spanish-flu.html Was the name racist?
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by koliber 7y ago
You can still put the most recent data on the right, and zoom in to show the rightmost data points. This is an established practice in stock charts and works well.
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by koliber 7y ago
The German ratio of infections to deaths is very low compared to other countries. It may be too early to judge, but given how it's unfolding, this speaks positively about how Germany is responding to the epidemic.
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by koliber 7y ago
Think in terms of risk and ease of changing your mind / product. Decisions which carry little risk and are easy to undo or pivot in the future, make them quickly and confidently. Decisions which carry non-negligible risk but are easy t
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by koliber 7y ago
I grew to expect that it will always be there. I will follow your lead though going forward.
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by koliber 7y ago
So were portions of Google Slides. I could not open some slide decks, while others were unaffected. This made me sweat as I was 15 minutes away from a very important presentation.
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by koliber 7y ago
Assuming you can code an agent representing the actor or component of what you are simulating, it sounds like “what” gets defined by you, the user.
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by koliber 7y ago
Understanding compound interest thoroughly. Compound interest is probably the most powerful "force" governing out lives. It is crucial when borrowing money, especially for longer terms. It is crucial when saving and investing. It
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by koliber 7y ago
I imagine you do some of these things, some of the time. Do you write some tests, sometimes before coding something?
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by koliber 7y ago
I do sometimes. It depends. I want to do more of it. Here are cases where I've genuinely found it valuable and enjoyable to write tests ahead of time: Some things are difficult to test. I've had things that involve a ton of setup,
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by koliber 7y ago
This looks like a novel and not immediately intuitive way of trapping air in a narrow space between two plates of metal. Neat. There are other ways of trapping air between two pieces of metal. I wonder how this compares against a sandwich o
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by koliber 7y ago
I place it right above Mr. Lech. They were a victim. But they also had a minor amount of [well justified) agency in taking the first steps to create this situation--calling police for minor theft. I am not saying they are wrong in doing so.
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by koliber 7y ago
If we were to distribute the costs across different parties, how could we do it, and who could be included in this distribution? - The suspect - Mr Lech (owner of damaged property) - Mr Lech's insurance - The police departmen
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by koliber 7y ago
From the sound of it, such small companies would not even know if the law was being applied or not. If the government needs the information, it will take it. It will not be necessary to ask permission, or even inform the affected company th
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by koliber 7y ago
Is this <blink 2.0>?
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by koliber 7y ago
I'm a fan of SONOS's logo: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Px2Steg_XRM/AAAAAAAAAAI/A...
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by koliber 7y ago
The depth and amount of tenuous word association is amazing. I went in expecting another dad joke list. I came out with something like a thematic/"sounds like" thesaurus. I feel so much potential here for brainstorming ideas
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by koliber 7y ago
You need to recognize, that just like some people find wine, sports, their kids, or gardening to be an interesting topic of conversation, you find introspection, philosophy, history, and/or literature to be the things that interest you
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by koliber 7y ago
That's like $3 dollars per affected adult!
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by koliber 7y ago
There is a difference between ownership and control. The ownership would not transfer in such a case, as it can not due to law. However, control would.
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by koliber 7y ago
I wonder if there is an opportunity for derivative financial instruments based on valuable things that can not be transferred. Think company stock in a private company. It may not be possible to sell it due to bylaws or legal limitations, b
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by koliber 7y ago
Can someone clarify something? A person owns things. When they die, the legal person ceases to exist. The things they owned are now owned by a new legal entity called "the estate." Inheriting something is the formal act of transfe
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by koliber 7y ago
It's an interesting concept that flips many things on its head. We're getting some real hard-to-achieve benefits out of the box, while sacrificing a lot of things we used to take for granted. One thing that I notice is that Dark r
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by koliber 7y ago
I was making the point that banking innovation can come from surprising places, like dumb phones, or social networks.
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by koliber 7y ago
I loved the post! I would rephrase the catchphrase: Life is fractal, but metrics are square
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by koliber 7y ago
This was a fantastically straightforward explanation of something that is very elusive to explain. It reminds me of Christopher Alexander's "The Timeless Way of Building", but 500 pages shorter and less meandering.
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by koliber 7y ago
This is eye opening. Banking in many African economies came from an unexpected place: basic non-smart cell phones and the ability to transfer relatively small amounts of money quickly, reliably, and without a bank account. I can see Faceboo
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by koliber 7y ago
I don't understand one thing. How were they able to generate a new certificate with the same subject, a different expiration date, and the same signature. I assume I missed something in reading this.
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by koliber 7y ago
At what time would a new day start for you?

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