murgindrag

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by murgindrag 5y ago
Author of Open edX left a long time ago due to corruption at edX / MIT. See commit log for who built the platform. See press releases for who got the credit. MIT promised all open courses, all open platform, all open everything. The $8
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by murgindrag 5y ago
In abstract, no. In practice, in this case, yes. This was an odd way of channeling money into private pockets of well-connected people at MIT. Anyone know of a good way to reach a good investigative reporter?
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Your math is wrong: * 0.25% of 100B is 250M, not 10M. * 2.5% of 100B is 2.5B. OP's math, if you believe the assumptions, was right. Of course, the value of money goes down over time, since there's less time to spend it. I would ra
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Having worked at both small and big companies, I can say you can learn a lot of different things at both. Diversity of experience is valuable. Speaking of YC, I'd love to have a Y Combinator for older, more established folks with track
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Population is the big one. 7 billion people today means we have many times more opportunities for viruses to come up, combine, and mutate than we once did. I'm not sure which is the bigger phenomenon.
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by murgindrag 5y ago
It's not impossible either. Cheap brute force hack: Have a chip burn power to heat the chip up to a constant temperature. This was done in one of the early precision band-gap references. More expensive brute force hack: Stick a Peltier
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by murgindrag 5y ago
This is one of the many reasons I'd never use Google in any business setting. I had GSuite / free-edition set up for my family. Now, new members don't have access to basic features like Google Voice without shelling out $6&#x
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I'd like to know the disability rate, which seems much higher than the death rate.
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by murgindrag 5y ago
My general feeling is that we will see a structural adjustment: - We will see a total of about 50-100% inflation. This is not necessarily a bad thing, given the amount of debt in the system. People's mortgage, educational debts, and cr
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by murgindrag 5y ago
There are a ton of scams on Amazon. Fake products. Products which never ship. Sellers who exploit Amazon policy loopholes. Etc. In this case, the scam was convoluted enough that I won't get into it, but no, I didn't pay hundreds o
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by murgindrag 5y ago
As a consumer, I've been !@#$%'ed a few times when I've bought from Amazon and didn't notice it was a 3rd party seller with their own shipping method. One time, I was !@#$% to the tune of a few hundred bucks. Amazon can
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I'd like a tutorial mode, where: 1) Only the commands you need are available. 2) They are explained. I find myself using the commands I know well. This would be a nice tool for learning command I don't know well.
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I'm not sure how you count over a billion people in Africa as 5%. That only works out about right if you're still on the 3/5ths compromise, but accidentally apply it twice.
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by murgindrag 5y ago
It means very little. I can show several charts with the same coefficient, and they'll mean very different things.
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Why? That mindset leads to bullying police departments believing it's okay to randomly shoot people. The whole system is designed as an indirect democracy. I elected people who hire people who work on my behalf.
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I can one-up that. Entire Google Workspace domain. Google sent emails direct to spam, and then wiped the whole thing. All data. All accounts. Everything.
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I can't stand fishbowl jobs. Cubicle farms make me depressed. I don't like being on display when I work. Humans are animals. We stretch. We burp. We fart. We scratch ourselves. We eat. We drink. We dance. We might want to randomly
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by murgindrag 5y ago
My general take is that it's not worth it. Professional traders will beat you to it, and you're looking at maybe a 1% drop. * If it goes up, you lose money. * If it goes down, and you have $100k invested, you make $1k. $1k is 3 ho
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Tex has unprecedented backwards-compatibility. Microsoft does pretty well too. Adobe is a mixed bag. Calling it "almost unprecedented" is simply dishonest. My 30-year-old Photoshop files used PostScript fonts. Even multiple master
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by murgindrag 5y ago
And this seems like yet another good reason to drop Adobe. I want things I author to be archival, not ephemeral. * Dropping Flash? Good idea. Dropping Flash with no compatibility/emulation path? Bad idea. * Switching to license servers
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I foresee the Canon EF-M competing favorably with the Nikon One mount. One major limitation of E-mount is diameter. E-mount is 46.1mm to Canon's 54mm and Nikon's 55mm. I think a lot of the other limitations can be fixed, but that
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Hey, I accept pieces of paper (and now bits in a computer) for my valuable work, and bought a valuable home, car, and computer with those papers and bits. Money works purely on belief. If we all suddenly disbelieved in the dollar, the value
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Kinda. The lunch table is shrinking too. Camera sales peaked in 2010, with 121M units sold. By 2019, they were at 15M units sold, and 2020 was a disastrous year, with COVID19, and it's not clear if there will be a rebound. My camera is
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by murgindrag 6y ago
I had exactly one class in college where cheating was rampant. I don't know why, but most of that class cheated on exams; the prof reused exams, and frats had bibles. I didn't see much cheating in my other classes; it was exceptio
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by murgindrag 6y ago
I like zero bug policies in my code. If it's a browser bug, it's a bug not in my code. My experience is that you pay a premium early on, but it pays dividends down the line. At some point, little bugs interact. A big correlary of
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by murgindrag 6y ago
Yes. It's pretty common for vaccines. One mechanism: If you have a vaccine designed to deliver a spike protein (without a virus) surrounded by a carrier. The body learns to destroy the carrier. On future doses, the body recognizes the
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by murgindrag 6y ago
Path for an eight year old (who started at 5): 1) Hour of Code and Blockly, as well as some Blockly Games, age 5-7 2) Khan Academy JavaScript and processing.js at age 7. He's pretty awesome at JavaScript now. The programming courses on
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by murgindrag 6y ago
It does provide protection, but what we don't know is: 1) For how long 2) How it impacts future vaccination efforts (As well as a slew of other things) If it was just #1, I'd be with you. If we give a big chunk of the population a
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by murgindrag 6y ago
Candidate thinks they're worth $250k. Employer pay bracket is $200k. Options: 1. Bend policy at hiring. $250k. $250k. $250k. $250k. $250k. $250k (no raises) 2. Follow salary brackets. $200k. $210k. $220k. $230k. $240k. $250k (low initi
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by murgindrag 6y ago
I want Youtube to recommend educational videos, a la Extra History and 3B1B. That's most of what I watch on Youtube. Youtube recommends stupid crap based on what other people like. If I watch one stupid video not in incognito, ALL of t

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