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by nateberkopec 6y ago
Section 97.113(a)(4) of the Amateur Service rules prohibits the transmission of “effectively encrypted or encoded messages, including messages that cannot be readily decoded over-the-air for true meaning.” What _exactly_ that means is, of c
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
People have said this for years, and yet there still isn't a viable competitor to Cloudflare. They still have the best performing and most feature-ful CDN available. The competition is not even that close. Fastly is the only other CDN
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
It's not spelled out very well on the Giving What We Can website, but generally, effective altruism focuses on increasing disability-adjusted life-years for human beings. There is some traction in the effective altruism movement though
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
Drive-by commenters reacting to the title of this post with their personal opinions on charity would do well to learn more about the effective altruism movement's focus on evidence-based giving. The word "effective" in the ti
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
8chan, you mean. Jim Watkins.
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
Margaret Hamilton, of Apollo fame, designed and still advocates something called the Universal Systems Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Systems_Language
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
Community lending in Africa (and the African diaspora) has a lot of history: https://thegrio.com/2011/05/20/sou-sou-black-immigrants-brin... Given how susu circles work, the article seems to just be describin
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
NPR and PBS both receive the majority of their funding from private sources, so I don't think its a valid comparison.
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
Why was this submitted? The newest WhatsApp CVE is more than 6 months old.
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
> Frontend should never need 5 seconds I just pulled these numbers off of CNN.com using webpagestest.org, which is showing about a 500ms TTFB and a 5 second time to first contentful paint. I'm a web perf consultant and a 10:1 relati
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
To me, the only point on this list that hasn't improved much is "Ruby on Rails needs to more or less work in ANY environment". Ruby's install/user story for Windows is still Not Great, and Ruby version wrangling on
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
It's been really interesting to watch this pandemic from Japan, where I've been for the last ~3 months. I am an American citizen. Walking around Tokyo this week I'm still seeing mask rates of >95%. Lockdown ended about 2 w
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
> The keyboardist for Casiopea also composed all of the station jingles for the subway in Japan This is amazing! I had no idea this was the same person. I love Casiopea.
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
IME, Japanese elders are polite to a fault, so while I get pretty intimidated going to a new cafe (kissaten), I'm always treated very well. I once wandered into a yakitori joint and an english-speaking patron made my whole order for me
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
I don't understand the claims re: font loading. > Vercel's impossibly fast CDN delivers new.css and the font Inter using xz/fonts, so there's virtually no bloat added to your pages. It's 300kb of font downloads,
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
It's mirroring small amounts of production traffic at Shopify.
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
Does I/O release the GIL in Python?
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
That's not what the efficient markets theory is. It means that the current price reflects all currently available public information, not that the price magically predicts the future and it can never change. Random events like what you
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
Yeah I just picked a number out of thin air. I suppose it depends on your discount rate + some arbitrary threshold of when you want to say the asset has returned most of it's useful cash flow. For example, a cash flow with a 10% discou
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
To believe this is true, you must also believe that efficient markets do not really exist. Imagine if a publicly traded company announced that in 1 years time, they would buy back half of their outstanding shares (not a great analogy but it
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
What passes for "technical analysis" is rather insane, and isn't limited to the crypto community. It seems to grow around assets that are easily purchasable by the lay public, have lots of random price noise, and unclear fund
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
Oh nice. Ghost Fleet looks like the 2015 version of Red Storm Rising.
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
AirBnb was doing about $4 billion in revenue per year before the crash with 7,500 employees. That's about $500k revenue per employee, which is on the high end of tech industry standards. How is that bloated?
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
Neat! Watching the games, it looks like the effectiveness of dribbling is unrealistically high. Most scoring plays consist of dribbling around 1 player, then dribbling straight at that back line and hoping to win the take-on.
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
It's more or less epidemiologically impossible that you will see an attack rate of 100% (as you just assumed). Once attack rate reaches >40~60%, the reproduction number drops below 1 because there just aren't enough uninfected
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by nateberkopec 6y ago
The first sentence is also the thesis of Adam Curtis' documentary The Century of the Self.
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by nateberkopec 7y ago
OODA was developed for fluid environments, where strategy and tactics must constantly adapt to an uncertain world whose understanding is constantly being updated. Video games don't work well with this model because in most video games
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by nateberkopec 7y ago
"The American Hospital Association said the webinar reflects the views of the experts who spoke on it, not its own." You're quoting the opinion of one person: Dr James Lawler, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical
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by nateberkopec 7y ago
I find this "baroque capitalist" style is even more present in certain cultures outside the West, particularly those that are just becoming "rich" in this generation. Walking around the Dubai airport terminal, for exampl
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