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by narag 3y ago
After your rating is no longer a provisional raing and the outcome of your first few games are going to cause BIG swings in your rating. The rating algorithm is suppossed to be predictive. It's only natural that the first data points
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by narag 3y ago
This seems like a wild claim. On chess.com I've gone from 500 to ~1050 in a handful of months without any real study, Is rating on chess.com similar to rating in lichess? The article mentions 1%, but you start with 1500 in lichess?
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by narag 3y ago
I found it, it was "dying for democracy..." instead. The meaning? Democracy is a means to an end, not an end in itself. Humans can die for freedom. Democracy doesn't sound as such an epic thing to die for.
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by narag 3y ago
Every ideology appeals to emotions... I can't find the source right now, but someone said that believing in democracy is like believing in the metric system. And there's another (Churchill's?) one saying that it's the
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by narag 3y ago
I love the cover. Nice mix.
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by narag 3y ago
For context, please read the original comment I was replying to. It's a criticism to luxury brands preying on the poorest . If someone is really poor and buys B&O products instead of using the little credit they can access to cove
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by narag 3y ago
If you have credit, you're not really poor. The comment I responded to said poorest that seems even worse.
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by narag 3y ago
Regarding the magnesium: I did not know that. How do you make sure the brand and/or it's magnesium is of good quality? The ultimate quality is impossible for me to judge. I just believe them at face value. The problem is that th
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by narag 3y ago
I live in Spain and bought everything through Amazon.es. I guess the products are also available in the rest of Europe. Most of the links give me 404 now. Still working: https://www.amazon.es/Omega-3-Aceite-Pescado-Salvaje-c
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by narag 3y ago
How can the poorest buy their luxury goods?
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by narag 3y ago
A few years ago, I learned as much as I could about vitamins and how to buy them. Multivitamin pills are the worst bang for the buck. Amounts of actual vitamins are very small. It's better to buy mono-vitamin pills. Many of the vitamin
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by narag 3y ago
I've heard this about Lisp, but I don't really get how this doesn't apply to other languages. My no. 1 suspect is OOP or, more specifically, languages like Java that won't let you write a function. You can bypass that
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by narag 3y ago
Two ideas: 1. It was surprising to me that Hamas believed that filming and publishing their atrocities was a good idea. And more surprising that the response hasn't been a bigger backlash. 2. That makes me think that despite the fact t
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by narag 3y ago
Late to the Shazam show, had not heard of it. Will it work with me playing a melody on the piano or does it need the original record? I have this uplifting jazzy song in my head that was used for the basketball intro in Spain a very long ti
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by narag 3y ago
I've found no English source apart from Wikipedia, but it seems Police has determined that Daniel and his wife were murdered. Daniel was the founder of SoftImage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Langlois
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Daniel Langlois and partner found dead in Dominica(bbc.com)
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by narag 3y ago
To be peak brainfuckery, the GUI must only accept Morse code.
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by narag 3y ago
One phenomenon I've recently clued into is that of the "market-hostile business". Not only old businesses, watch Peter Thiel's "competition is for losers": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fx5
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by narag 3y ago
Our world is unjust and replete with suffering. The question is what are you going to do about it? There's a lot of things you can do to improve your life and the life of people around you. Discussing world problems in an online forum
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by narag 3y ago
Why do you think "American military-industrial complex" exists? and why is it the most powerful military-industrial thingy in the world?
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by narag 3y ago
That's interesting. My personal advice is to look at trends here as evidence of who's the public, but be very skeptical of their usefulness. What's good for faang or for a money-burning-a-series startup will kill you. Boring
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by narag 3y ago
The tone of the comments have evolved over time. When I first found this site, it had a high percentage of entrepreneurs trying to build startups. Refreshing compared to Slashdot that was getting a little more cultish by the day. Later the
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by narag 3y ago
I have always felt that invite-only communities have weird vibes to them. So have I. The most weird thing is nobody ever invites me :) Still find it worth lurking for more esoteric content though. More esoteric content than HN? I find a
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by narag 3y ago
It seems we agree that in the long run, it's unsustainable. My point is more modest: that in the specific topic of this post, using response time against the blockers, Firefox is also vulnerable. The mechanism is actually very simple i
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So more wood: https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/
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You're right. But the anti-blockers code needs to be addressed with more code, not just lists. That's not a hypothetical situation, it's happening right now with YouTube.
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Firefox is not immune. Changes in the extensions must be reviewed so advertisers can break blockers for some days until the blockers are fixed and then some more days until Mozilla reviews the changes. Then they'll have another trick r
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The Serenity OS guy is making one: https://ladybird.dev/
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My uni had two micros halls, one with 5.0, the other with 5.5. What's the difference? I asked. It turns out the 5.5 had some new shit called "Object Oriented Programming"... and a Breakout clone to illustrate the paradigm. At
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Disturbing bits and comedy he always mixed. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is pessimistic, kafkaesque but somehow funny too. A friend that knew I'm a fan, showed me a few paragraphs from one of those stories you mention, without telling

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