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by niyikiza 5y ago
I wouldn't dismiss his work simply based on that. It's not unusual for blog posts to have notes on how the content is related to the author's other works.
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by niyikiza 5y ago
Saying "this marble is red" implicitly communicates that "my opinion is: this marble is red".
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by niyikiza 5y ago
Nobody "is" anything. People do things. He did some good things, worth praising. He's also allegedly done some despicable things that we should condemn.
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by niyikiza 5y ago
Honorable mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNtTylNR7ks
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DarkHorse Podcast: Covid, Ivermectin, and the Crime of the Century(youtube.com)
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“Apple Car” project faces a big rate of attrition(bloomberg.com)
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by niyikiza 5y ago
As long as it's disclosed beforehand, I don't see any problem with that. It's not like Amazon coerced the student into the contract: if they had a better funding opportunity they'd obviously have gone for it. This is the
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by niyikiza 5y ago
I guess it's an instance of legislative #TODO comments.
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What “Thinking: Fast and Slow” Got Wrong(replicationindex.com)
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Whenever someone suggests that something be nationalized, I ask myself "Why not create a public version of it?". If the answer is "it cannot compete with the private ones", maybe that's why running it privately is n
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by niyikiza 5y ago
Is there any evidence that alcohol does it that way? Sincere question.
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Peter Thiel on “The Straussian Moment”(youtube.com)
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Returning the atmosphere to 280 PPM CO₂(charmindustrial.com)
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Housing Hubris(cerebralab.com)
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by niyikiza 6y ago
Perhaps some A/B testing at The Guardian showed that headlines condemning tech giants are more clickable.
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by niyikiza 6y ago
Another factor to consider is that COVID is contagious but blood clots are not. The multiplicative (if not exponential) nature of COVID spread makes this a no brainer that the vaccine should be reinstated (and just monitored). I suspect tha
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by niyikiza 6y ago
It's an essay. He's expressing an opinion, just like anyone can always produce an alternative narrative.
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The biggest advantage is that shovels are not worth zero in the event the whole thing crashes (and in a gold rush there is a big chance of that happening, by definition). The idea is to take advantage of the upside (to some degree) but also
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by niyikiza 6y ago
A universe where he invested in BTC rather than funding Coinbase may not have BTC at 50k. We can't compare outcomes without taking into account the probability distribution at the time of the investment.
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The Algebra of Wealth(profgalloway.com)
1 points by niyikiza 6y ago|0 comments
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NYT on Slate Star Codex(archive.vn)
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by niyikiza 6y ago
"You can buy candies". We don't have candies. How's that a problem? Obviously it's a logistics problem. It seems like the anger being driven to the wrong people.
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by niyikiza 6y ago
Is it really the same person? - Coder/programmer (L1) - Software Engineer (L2) - Entrepreneur [in the software industry] (L3)
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by niyikiza 6y ago
Companies discontinue products all the time due to acquisitions, bankruptcy, restructuring or simply re-orienting investment and I've never seen them held to this standard of having to host it somewhere external. I'm not even real
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by niyikiza 6y ago
I cannot agree more. I think he's brilliant, and I've learned a lot from his ideas. However, I've seen him in multiple interviews putting forth evidence-free ideas aligned with Republican talk points.
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by niyikiza 6y ago
Do you have some sort of paper/article/book explaining the idea in detail? I don't think it would be fair to analyze it based on an HN comment.
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by niyikiza 6y ago
Neat trick. Some websites don't even bother giving you any choice for traditional username/password input though.
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by niyikiza 6y ago
I think the problem can be solved by separating the "phone" experience from the "mobile" experience. Phones are these devices powered by a philosophy (and to an extent, a technology) from 3-4 decades ago and day after da
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by niyikiza 6y ago
I've been a fan of Nassim Taleb for a long time. Say what you want about him as a person or his language on Social Media but the man has come with some real original and profound ways to look at the world. "Fooled by Randomness&q
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by niyikiza 6y ago
How exactly do you know if a business will be willing to pay for a product?

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