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by mizzao 2y ago
The availability of the Internet seems to result in a huge delta of what kids can do these days...
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by mizzao 2y ago
Great story, except I would argue that "VC Master" is generally an oxymoron.
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by mizzao 2y ago
The more complicated laws are written to try and cover more edge conditions, the more loopholes they create.
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by mizzao 2y ago
I don't think it should be thought of as "deaths per mile" but rather "deaths per car passing by" which allows one to compare the relative danger of driving in different locations.
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by mizzao 2y ago
Is it bad that all these patterns seem pretty normal to me? Though I think that last one was pretty ingenious — when they listed the price of the cheapest option as $78.76 but compared it to the markup of the other pricier options as $28.21
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by mizzao 2y ago
If someone were to offer me $436 million to replace some 8 inch floppy disks, I could probably use $435 million of it to build some pretty interesting products that have nothing to do with floppy disks...
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by mizzao 2y ago
The analogy is probably something more like: Salt is necessary to bring out the flavor in pretty much all food. So no one who doesn't use salt has made a good meal. Because salt is much more irreplaceable than allspice in cooking, just
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by mizzao 2y ago
MSR was actually working for themselves (researchers who were career paper-publishers aka professors without teaching responsibilities). Source: worked at MSR
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by mizzao 2y ago
> Candidly, my only qualification to run Atlas at this time was that I was the founder’s son. It seems like an even more important qualification was that the founder's son was also a founder. Otherwise this would have been much less
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The invisible dangers of travelling through time(bbc.com)
7 points by mizzao 2y ago|1 comments
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by mizzao 2y ago
So, basically an extremely accurate dead reckoning system?
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Bank fires employees faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard simulation(tomshardware.com)
2 points by mizzao 2y ago|0 comments
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by mizzao 2y ago
Is this the same idea as "1500 archers on a 28.8" for Age of Empires? https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/1500-archers-on-a-...
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Uncensor any LLM with abliteration(huggingface.co)
586 points by mizzao 2y ago|287 comments
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by mizzao 2y ago
How old is he?
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by mizzao 2y ago
Wow, that's fascinating. I didn't know Kahneman and Tversky were related through Barbara as well.
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It's on the Meter – 43,319 mile taxi ride(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mizzao 2y ago|0 comments
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History and Construction of Wagon Wheels(wagonwheelinformation.com)
2 points by mizzao 2y ago|0 comments
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by mizzao 2y ago
Says "can in principle be totally uninvolved", not "customarily is totally uninvolved. The article seemed to imply that the institution transferring the securities would also be in the best position to vouch for the identity
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by mizzao 2y ago
Weirdly, on [0] it says the following: "We do not provide medallion signature guarantees for assets you're transferring out of a Bank of America or Merrill account (guarantees are typically provided by a third party not involved i
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by mizzao 2y ago
> Why Russia can't win against the West Is this still true in light of the recent Ukraine events? Russia certainly isn't losing if no one's going to stand up to it.
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by mizzao 3y ago
"There's no such thing as bad publicity."
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by mizzao 3y ago
> “We are obligated to follow the laws in the countries where we operate, even when we disagree,” an Apple spokesman said. That sure didn't happen in the EU, did it? Is Apple just more scared of China?
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Apple Ordered to Pull WhatsApp/Threads from China App Store(nytimes.com)
49 points by mizzao 3y ago|24 comments
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by mizzao 3y ago
Wow, this is being added on every post
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by mizzao 3y ago
"We lose $4k per car but we make up for it in volume!"
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by mizzao 3y ago
They should switch it over to this one, because it looks far more awesome than the current one.
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Cancer under age 50 increased 80% from 1990 to 2019(bmjoncology.bmj.com)
268 points by mizzao 3y ago|147 comments
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The Billion-Dollar Unraveling of the 'King' of Silicon Valley(forbes.com)
4 points by mizzao 3y ago|1 comments
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by mizzao 3y ago
And at some point, the effects may well ripple back to the US as well.

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