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by mkolodny 6y ago
"You met me at the peak of my career when I seemed to you to be concerned with problems close to the gods." It sounds like Feynman remembered that his student thought highly of the problems he was working on late into his career.
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Unlike asking people to pay for baggage, this law doesn't change how much the customer ends up paying.
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When I take a flight, I don't demand to know how much the airline is paying the pilots and flight attendants. When I buy food from a restaurant, I don't demand to know how much the restaurant is paying the waiters and cashiers. I
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Not a MOOC, but I'd recommend: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/quickstart/
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I'm sad to hear that you feel so anxious :( Exercise helps a ton. So does therapy (cognitive behavior therapy especially). Mindfulness meditation can help a lot, too.
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Great question/point! I had to check - tapping "Account" in the app brings you to the Netflix website.
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by mkolodny 6y ago
I felt a lot more comfortable about the idea of "networking" once I started thinking of it as "making friends with people". When I first tried networking, I thought that I was supposed to help other people, and then ask
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> Regulation without teeth is ineffective. Then create regulation with teeth. Create laws that make it clear what counts as excessive police force. Create a government body whose job is to investigate and prosecute officers charged with
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Reducing the police department's scope may be a good call. I just don't think it will have the effect that people are hoping it will have - stopping police brutality. It's similar to how some people thought going to war with
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If the goal is to prevent police brutality, it seems like it would be more effective to deal with the problem directly - punish police officers who use excessive force. Derek Chauvin, the officer charged for murdering George Floyd, has had
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Reading about Brian May reminded me of Richard Feynman - the Nobel Prize winning physicist who took on challenges in many different fields during his life: Computer Science, Chemistry, Biology, Drumming, Painting, Lock Picking, and Mayan Hi
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by mkolodny 6y ago
People who make a living by renting out a room/floor would need government assistance to survive.
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Both legitimate and excessively violent policing happens right now. And unfortunately, excessively violent policing isn't being punished appropriately. The officer charged with murdering George Floyd has been charged with police brutal
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I agree. The question is, if it's hard to figure out who you can trust, then who can you trust to decide what's fact and what's fiction? I think trusting any one person or organization to decide is dangerous. Everyone has bia
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Lobbying is very different from vote buying. Vote buying is saying to someone, "I'll buy your vote for $X". If votes are anonymous, then there's no way to verify that you actually got what you paid for.
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I think it's helpful to separate out pricing from product when talking about morality in business. What a product should cost depends on how much people are willing to pay for it. Whether a product should be allowed to exist depends on
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Source on your Uber "fact"?
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> 100% of Hacker News is moderated by the same people While they seem to do a great job, I think that's a bad thing. Why should one person's opinion on what's okay to post matter more than the community's opinion? Isn
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by mkolodny 6y ago
From the post: > [With NPM] the mechanism for linking to external libraries is fundamentally centralized through the NPM repository, which is not inline with the ideals of the web.
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I think the main reason services like Uber Eats aren't profitable right now are because of competition. They have to out-market and under-price their competitors. Buying GrubHub may make Uber Eats profitable in places where GrubHub is
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by mkolodny 6y ago
> Perhaps Tesla can reopen safely - if Amazon can run warehouses why shouldn’t they be able to manufacture cars? Who says Amazon can run warehouses safely? "There are COVID-19 cases in at least 129 Amazon fulfillment centers, accord
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Not quite. The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis paper showed that models could shrink to around 10% of their original size without a loss of accuracy [0]. So around a million neurons instead of 10 million. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs
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by mkolodny 6y ago
Here are a few examples of "sweatshop" conditions in the Amazon factory from the article: - No chairs for a 12-hour shift - Time spent going to the bathroom gets removed from your break time - 30-minute lunch includes a 30-minute
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by mkolodny 6y ago
If you haven't seen it, check out Dr. Jim Yong Kim's article in the New Yorker: "It's not too late to go on offense against the Coronavirus" [0]. Dr. Kim led the World Health Organization's fight against AIDS i
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by mkolodny 6y ago
> I read in a research pointed out in an Ars Technica article that contact tracing using technology starts providing more utility when 60% of the population uses it. According to the research Ars Technica referenced, digital contact trac
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Same here. Old people are less likely to get enough sunlight [0]. And old people are more likely to have severe COVID-19 symptoms. Similar story with ibuprofen and COVID-19 [1]. Researchers found a link between the two. But older people are
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It depends on your skin color [0]. For people with light skin, 13 minutes of direct midday sunlight three times a week may be enough. But for people with dark skin, you may need 30 minutes to 3 hours of direct sunlight (the article doesn&#x
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> It's fair to acknowledge the potential risks of contracting COVID-19, and still decide, I'd prefer to work, observing sanitization & social distancing measures, than to have my entire financial life ruined. In the places
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> The long term effect is arguable since we don't know if we can prevent the majority of people from getting infected. That's why the phrase "slow the spread" makes sense. Even if we can't prevent people from get
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How many flights does South Dakota receive? A tiny number compared to NYC or Seattle. Yet, the state hasn't issued stay-at-home orders, and now they have a major outbreak.

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