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by nohuck13 4y ago
> GDP isn't income at all, they're completely different metrics. Please explain where income comes from if not from the sum of goods and services produced?
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A Public School in Florida Built America’s Greatest Math Team(wsj.com)
1 points by nohuck13 4y ago|0 comments
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by nohuck13 4y ago
This is a California state law.
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by nohuck13 4y ago
As I understand it, rescue breathing is indicated.
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by nohuck13 4y ago
The fact that a few people without deep pockets need SSO doesn't invalidate the whole enterprise. If we accept that service providers are going to price discriminate, then we accept that they are going to price discriminate on _some_ i
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by nohuck13 4y ago
Wrong as in unethical or wrong as in untrue?
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by nohuck13 5y ago
You'd expect touch-gesture zoom to still work under pixel scaling though. You'd expect to just see a downsampled image up close, plus normal-looking text up close, right? Here even the text doesn't zoom.
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by nohuck13 5y ago
Can a frontend developer explain to me about the disabled two-finger zoom on this page? Is my mental model that zoom is between me and my mobile browser, not something that should be disable able, just hopelessly naive these days? Or is th
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by nohuck13 5y ago
> "This post glows" That didn't used to be a "g" there, would be my guess.
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by nohuck13 5y ago
The poster was arguing that, when a university/corporate partnership invents something, the law should ensure the university doesn't get screwed. The responder was pointing out, in this case , the law could be infinitely strong i
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by nohuck13 5y ago
"If it had lower cost, then it would be priced lower." The cost of production is a floor on the price, not a ceiling.
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The Spine Collector(vulture.com)
1 points by nohuck13 5y ago|0 comments
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by nohuck13 5y ago
No, assuming [-6,13] is a 95% confidence interval on a normal distribution with mean of 3.5 (substitute your own reasonable assumptions about distribution and sample size), it's plausibly something like 3x more likely that the effect i
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by nohuck13 5y ago
I wonder if the NYT editorial staff receives zillions of these pitches from their reporters purporting to reveal nefarious phenomena, and most of them turn out benign. It's fun to imagine that the NYT editorship is actually exceedingl
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by nohuck13 5y ago
"the incentives for any individual reporter are just too great - having the government make a major policy change based on your article is basically the brass ring for an investigative reporter" Yep, this is the framing I came her
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by nohuck13 5y ago
Thanks. Picture for anybody else curious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus_(lunar_crater)#/m...
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by nohuck13 5y ago
https://youtu.be/pq9LcwC7CoY
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by nohuck13 5y ago
"It is very hard for 100 000 individual small time landlords to collectively raise rent in normal conditions (i.e., with no housing shortage). Many will lower rent to get their properties rented faster. But if you have a dozen or so la
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by nohuck13 5y ago
"Liberal" here is just the adjective form of liberty. A "liberal" democracy is a democracy is one that enshrines the classic individual freedoms (speech, assembly, religion...) e.g. the United States. A "illiberal&q
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by nohuck13 5y ago
"Examinations may last up to 72 hours after a person is deemed medically stable" "There are many possible outcomes following examination of the patient. These include (1) the release of the individual to the community (or oth
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by nohuck13 5y ago
Are there any states where people can be involuntarily committed indefinitely without judicial involvement? [edit responding to your edit] you were responding to the tone of my original comment, which I softened while you were responding, s
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by nohuck13 5y ago
"detained...for a night" "freedoms can be taken away so dubiously even when not charged of a crime nor arrested in a system that exists outside the criminal system" I'm sorry this happened to you. Not defending it,
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by nohuck13 5y ago
> updated date as 1597083627107 August 10, 2020
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How Should I Think About School and Childcare Now?(emilyoster.substack.com)
3 points by nohuck13 5y ago|0 comments
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by nohuck13 5y ago
"We would “sticker bomb” a vinyl decal of a two-headed Rottweiler on lampposts, power boxes, bar bathrooms, and park benches" Stickers are the worst. They can't be painted over like spray paint. They get brittle as they age.
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by nohuck13 5y ago
Full domain name (since my phone and HN seem to elide it in places): a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j.k.l.m.n.oo.pp.qqq.rrrr.ssssss.tttttttt.uuuuuuuuuuu.vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv.wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Getting over Gold: Athletes and Mental Health(davidepstein.com)
93 points by nohuck13 5y ago|45 comments
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by nohuck13 5y ago
Huh. You're absolutely right. Learned something today :)
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by nohuck13 5y ago
It's not a given that HN always orders comments by (upvotes - downvotes).
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by nohuck13 5y ago
You're taking it for granted that a market-based system isn't going to work. Why? Utah farmers get their water almost for free, while city residents pay closer to its marginal delivery cost. This isn't wise public policy cho

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