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by norswap 5y ago
Didn't they have an export function that allowed self-hosting something you developped on Observable? (Or is it the development part that you want to self-host for "full experience"?)
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by norswap 5y ago
And so the ACLU gets worse and worse via evaporative cooling of group beliefs. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ...
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by norswap 5y ago
Tracking is fine, the issue is targeting.
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by norswap 5y ago
> An algorithm M is described that solves any well-defined problem p as quickly as the fastest algorithm computing a solution to p, save for a factor of 5 and low-order additive terms. M optimally distributes resources between the execut
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Freaking blockchains: How do they work?(norswap.com)
2 points by norswap 5y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 5y ago
"Gain of function research" is when you stimulate micro-organisms so that they gain new attributes. For viruses these properties could be infectiousness or antibody resistance. One way you can do that is by putting evolutive selec
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by norswap 5y ago
1/3 - If the first ball was blue, the probability to pick the second one is 1/3, while if it was red, the probability to pick a blue ball as second ball is 2/3. The prior probability for each scenario (first blue ball vs firs
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by norswap 5y ago
How the hell do you get away with writing an article like that in 2021 and not make a single mention of "cofounders" or some such in the abstract (or in the news story, for that matter)??
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by norswap 5y ago
The outrage crowd is not the leaving basecampers but all the people spitting acid on the company online. 1) They were heavily incentivized for leaving. If you even considered a carreer move, the 6 month severance is your call to action. 2)
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by norswap 5y ago
The outrage crowd always prefers easy targets over good targets.
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by norswap 5y ago
One might argue they already capture the value in the phone's price. Their hardware might be good, but if they switched to android overnight, iPhone sales would plummet. It's clear many companies think the 30% cut is too high, but
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by norswap 5y ago
Barring original developments, simply replacing the existing financial infrastructure — replacing the middlemen by smart contracts and decentralized organizations. This is less costly to build (in terms of infrastructure and paperwork) and
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by norswap 5y ago
The top 7 on Defi Pulse (1) are currency exchanges ("liquidity pools") and overcollateralized loans, which are mostly used by speculators to get leverage. Useful, I guess. But enormous — only in monetary terms. I believe crypto &a
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by norswap 5y ago
I wish we could appreciate women's talents without feeling forced to prefix the whole thing with a blob about restoring them to their righteous place on the pantheon of whatever.
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by norswap 5y ago
Reminds me of this recent book review on "Georgism", an economic doctrine that states that land ownership is responsible for most of capitalism's evil: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-revi
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GameStop: Anatomy of a Short and Gamma Squeeze(norswap.com)
3 points by norswap 6y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 6y ago
I believe some of those are probably true. That being said, I'm sad to see such a blob of unsubstantiated "facts" at the top of HN. I'm also not sure it has anything to do with the subject at hand.
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by norswap 6y ago
I'm not sure what the intent of this post is. Seemingly, it's to encourage people to start a company, because it's so easy now and you can get rich (look at all these people in the top 100 that got there by starting a company
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by norswap 6y ago
True, and I understand how that can be bothersome for some people. On the other hand, I'd rather have someone that swears like a sailor but is otherwise a decent human being when it comes to the things that really matter (i.e. not impo
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by norswap 6y ago
I don't think this is a good example, because it's easy to read in any case. The readability of the easy parts is not what matters - it's the readability of the hard parts, since that's where you'll spend 95+% of yo
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by norswap 6y ago
Counterpoint: I have a rather good experience with Samsung. I bought flagships devices some time after their releases (I had S2, S4, S8 and now a S10e from work) and they lasted me a long time (S2 and S4 both lasted for four years). The big
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by norswap 6y ago
You could even create a NFT of the exact same picture, probably. But you'd expose yourself to a lawsuit because you don't own the copyright to the original picture, and if you sell for a high enough price, it might actually be wor
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by norswap 6y ago
I'm missing the part where they show the causation and not just the correlation. Not a bad move in any case. Throwing drug users and sex workers in jail doesn't make one shred of sense.
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by norswap 6y ago
The article makes the point that bonds don't even achieve this. At best, they decay in value less fast than cash in an inflation scenario. But because of yield rate fluctuations, they're significantly less liquid than cash (if you
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The Hindley-Milner Type System(youtube.com)
1 points by norswap 6y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 6y ago
Well, the code never guaranteed that people would not merge the PoW chain to the PoS chain :)
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by norswap 6y ago
Is there a story for interop with other languages? I understand the UI probably has to be defined in JS, but what about transparently making request to a local server written in another language (bonus point if it can somehow be made less o
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by norswap 6y ago
To be honest, the abstract says: > and most of the positive associations observed for meat consumption and health risks were substantially attenuated after adjustment for body mass index (BMI) > higher BMI accounted for a substantial
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by norswap 6y ago
The Bel part felt deeply in tune with the rest of Paul's life - it's something he did because it was interesting to him and he wanted to. If anything, Viaweb is the odd thing out, since it was pursued with the explicit intent of m
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by norswap 6y ago
I don't wish it on you, but imagine that the fed stops propping up the financial markets though QE. "Irresponsibly over-leveraged and nearly bankrupted banks and corporations", allowed to crash and burn. If this happens, ever

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