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by madballster 5y ago
They are not asking him for a refund, they are informing him of a chargeback. That's a fundamental difference.
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by madballster 5y ago
I wish these type of articles referenced a benchmark or baseline, such as "Corona virus damages XX percent more/less braun cells than recent strains of influenza virus".
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by madballster 5y ago
Every taxpayer in Berlin is basically subsidizing these state owned apartments which are rented out at below market rates.
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by madballster 5y ago
Can't wait to use this. This should allegedly be widely available in 21H1 which should not be too far away.
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by madballster 6y ago
"which connected China’s best teachers "... I wonder why they choose the best teachers for this type study? Wouldn't a randomized, average sample produce more objective results?
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by madballster 6y ago
It's great to see there were new Emacs users and developers coming on board, judging by the age of some of the presenters. Emacs has been proclaimed dead many times, I think it has long future ahead of itself. Yes its aged, and dated.
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by madballster 6y ago
Anyone remember BMX Simulator. I think that was my first game on my C64.
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by madballster 6y ago
The stock is undervalued by 50% IMO. What the Samwers are doing is fleecing the public. I have sold my shares right after the announcement, not going to become a holdout. Surely it will take years until they will put a decent offer on the t
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by madballster 6y ago
So why are "mental models" the best way to make intelligent decisions? What other ways to make intelligent decisions exist? The blog post failed to explain that, it largely appears to be marketing material.
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by madballster 6y ago
First thing is to ask this teenager why do they want to become a computer engineer? What do they think computers engineers do and why do they think they will enjoy doing that for a living?
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by madballster 6y ago
This looks like straight out of Aliens, loading bay scene. Fantastic.
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by madballster 6y ago
Single, old men are charged more in swinger clubs. Maybe that's where Tinder got the idea.
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by madballster 6y ago
That's one of the reasons why the US makes it only to spot #25 on the democracy index and earned the "flawed democracy" label.
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by madballster 6y ago
Not sure if we should extrapolate from one White House administration as to what the US believes.
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by madballster 6y ago
I don't see an edge here. It could very well be that the stock sells off when the announcement comes because it has been well anticipated. This is not a risk-free trade as some make it out to be. Proceed with caution.
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by madballster 6y ago
I feel reminded of "gym science" when it comes to a lot of parental development strategies for children. Everyone does it so there must be something to it. If controlled studies can't replicate any effects it does not appear
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by madballster 6y ago
An intelligent human knows when they see a mask. An algorithm does not know what a mask is.
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by madballster 6y ago
And this is exactly why no facial recognition algorithm should be called "intelligent".
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by madballster 6y ago
I know this is off-beat, but I found Warren Buffett's annual letters invaluable as a resource to learn about corporate finance. They don't substitute a good textbook, but they give a great insight into real world application. They
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by madballster 6y ago
If there is VC racism, doesn't that also mean there is a market opportunity for VC money to focus exclusively on African American tech startups. Even if there aren't many, there appears to be zero competition selecting investments
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by madballster 6y ago
This is what happens is democratic societies with a demographic pyramid that's upside down: lots of old and relatively few young. Politicians want to get re-elected and cater to the largest, most influential voter group (old people) an
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by madballster 6y ago
Hegel (b. 1770) is purported to have used a version of Zettelkasten, as described by Hegel's sister: "He approached his reading as follows: Everything that seemed remarkable to him he wrote on a separate sheet of paper, which he i
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by madballster 6y ago
A year or two ago, Canadian conservative professor and YT superstar Jordan Peterson announced he was going to free conservative and "alternative content producers" from the yoke of Valley owned online media companies by creating h
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by madballster 6y ago
You can't be a free market capitalist and then deny a free capitalist business their own terms and conditions as to whom they choose to do business with.
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by madballster 6y ago
>you quickly end up with a single folder with thousands of files, which makes it hard to manage, share, etc. That's not a bug, but a feature of Zettelkasten.
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by madballster 6y ago
"data-mining skills" -- I cringed at this phrase used by the journalist. Data mining is not a worthwhile skill, in fact its more of an insult. It's a curse any scientist worth his salt tries to avoid.
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by madballster 6y ago
Chess has been declared dead so many times to online chess it seems to stage a big upturn with the younger crowd. I am happy to see it.
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by madballster 6y ago
Remember: Luhmann's original Zettelkasten is pen and paper, see image link https://m.westfalen-blatt.de/var/storage/images/wb/startseit... It's only the latest hype around digital Zettelkastens
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by madballster 6y ago
IIRC, the initial Munich Linux Project ("Limux") from 2004 I think was somewhat of a failure. They spent millions migrating dozens of different Windows applications, but found that certain offices (e.g. the land registry) kept usi
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by madballster 6y ago
I don't think one should suggest Zettelkasten to anyone who is looking for a simple to-do list or note taking implementation. Regular notes are perfectly fine if one wants to take regular notes. Luhman's zettels weren't rando

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