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by mrosett 6y ago
This applies to commercial packages, not retail packages and definitely not ballots. So if you’re here for a “steal the election!” you’re in the wrong place.
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by mrosett 6y ago
With all due respect, did you read the announcement? This is only for packages. Ballots are unaffected.
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by mrosett 6y ago
To be clear, Yale absolutely does discriminate against Asian applicants. As far as I can tell, they justify it using the same language about "personality" that they used to justifying discriminating against Jews in the the first
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by mrosett 6y ago
Legally speaking, only people who actually worked on the invention can be on the patent. I believe (not a lawyer) that including extra people can be grounds for invalidating that patent. However, this does still get abused; Elizabeth Holmes
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by mrosett 6y ago
Part of the difference is that Twitter has much lower revenue per user than the other two. If you frame the fine as "$X per user impacted" rather than as "y% of your revenue" then it seems more proportional.
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by mrosett 6y ago
My understanding is that we’ve been net reforesting worldwide for the last few decades.
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by mrosett 6y ago
Neo-malthusian arguments have been recycled by the same group of intellectuals for the last 50 years or so. You'd be hard pressed to point to a single prediction they've made that turned out to be correct. If there's a single
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by mrosett 6y ago
The connection to the St. Petersburg paradox is pretty tenuous. All the paper seems to suggest is that strength of a fiber is proportional to log(length_fiber). But the St. Petersburg paradox doesn't just come from observing that the o
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by mrosett 6y ago
That’s not a question of “progress” - it’s a question of safety.
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by mrosett 6y ago
Taibbi is anything but right wing.
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How to Retrieve 100k Objects with Python: Why We Prefer Threading to Asyncio(medium.com)
2 points by mrosett 6y ago|0 comments
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by mrosett 6y ago
You're absolutely right both about how teams should function and about the reality of how failures happen. But the parent is right that it still sucks to be the persons whose work was the proximate cause of an outage, even if nobody is
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by mrosett 6y ago
This is pretty good, but I had to chuckle when the author threw in a suitably impressive quote from Sagan about the dangers of appeals to authority.
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by mrosett 6y ago
> has passed away at age 65, apparently due to complications from surgery.
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by mrosett 6y ago
The medical profession needs to have a serious discussion about whether or not the Lancet should still be treated as a top journal. In addition to this retraction, 3 of the top 10 most cited retracted papers of all time were published in th
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by mrosett 6y ago
A couple reasons I don't think that's the correct comparison: * There's a huge consumption component to college * Nobody's lending you 150k to invest in the stock market when you're 18. (Not sure we should be lendin
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by mrosett 6y ago
Single decision trees? Or forests?
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by mrosett 6y ago
Well yeah, take a look at how Adam Neumann is spending his billions...
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by mrosett 6y ago
I'd been wondering why runs recorded with NRC don't have GPS data in healthkit. That's really disappointing, since I love the app overall. The guided runs with Coach Bennett in particular are great.
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by mrosett 6y ago
This is a mischaracterization on that bill; the expansion of unemployment insurance was very significant and isn't included in the $1200 figure.
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by mrosett 6y ago
Brutal. Should we just shut down the front page of HN now that it's been so perfectly parodied?
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Peter Thiel’s Palantir Saw Coronavirus Coming. Now It Braces for the Impact(wsj.com)
3 points by mrosett 6y ago|2 comments
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by mrosett 6y ago
Injured skiing? Absolutely, and if you race it's a question of when, not if. But I was responding to a claim about deaths. For the last decade, every ski trip I've done has required either 4+ hours of driving or a cross-country pl
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by mrosett 6y ago
The dominant risk when I ski is traveling to and from the resort. So I suppose your point stands if you only play from home. Even so, it seems a bit irrelevant to the discussion.
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by mrosett 6y ago
In the abstract, I liked the idea of spending it on infrastructure, but over the ensuing decade I’ve become deeply skeptical of the ability of the US government to effectively spend more money. California high speed rail and the NY subway a
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by mrosett 6y ago
He's spot on that equity risk should actually have downside. But the idea that a whole bunch of massive corporations can fail and no jobs would be lost seems like a real stretch to me. In fact, it's strange to think that a company
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by mrosett 6y ago
> But Palihapitiya argued that rather giving workers relatively small $1,200 checks, the U.S. would be better off giving everyone larger payments directly, and skip businesses entirely. > “It would be better for the Fed to have given
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by mrosett 7y ago
One note: Many of the books being listed are quite challenging to read cover to cover. For instance, "Introduction to Algorithms" (which is generally referred to as "CLRS" as an abbreviated form of the last names of the
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by mrosett 7y ago
> There's an obvious limit to individual output, and his existing employees are probably operating close to that, especially since his business was already under stress. I'm as big an advocate as anyone for sustainable work pra
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by mrosett 7y ago
Note that getting hospitals to agree to long term contracts at prices that are higher than they'd normally pay is basically a backdoor form of raising prices. From a financial perspective, there's not a huge difference between a)

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