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by nscalf 6y ago
This does not belong on hacker news.
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by nscalf 6y ago
To note, it was illegal at the time, which is why it would be in his basement instead of in a lab.
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by nscalf 6y ago
First off, how would Walmart and every single grocery store know my voting record? Beyond that though, a monopolistic collusion to manipulate voting would likely be investigated as anti-trust actions. Finally, as far as I'm concerned,
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by nscalf 6y ago
Why does there have to be an alternative? They can give speeches, send letters and emails, go on television, post to other social media platforms, yell in a park, release an album, etc. You have the right to freedom of speech, not the rig
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by nscalf 6y ago
My understanding was that this is not a law, but a policy. This comment actually had me read up a bit on this, here's an interesting article[1] (I have no idea how credible the source is, but at a glance it seems to be relatively unbi
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by nscalf 6y ago
First publicly known trillionaire* There is a lot of money out there not easily tracked. There are speculations over some shadier character's net worth, probably most notable is Putin.
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by nscalf 6y ago
While I strongly disagree with MMT, supports would argue that the central bank can manipulate the currency to the degree that basically any debt is not a problem.
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by nscalf 6y ago
So the factory is opening back up and he is saying that he will not be paying people who do not show up to work. I understand there is a pandemic but I do not understand why it is on the company to pay people who are not working. The whol
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by nscalf 6y ago
I agree. I made a response below, but I think the definition of consciousness as a counter point to us ever making a conscious machine really doesn't have any legs. Can you think of any definition of consciousness that is reasonably
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by nscalf 6y ago
I don't really understand the definition argument, I cannot imagine a definition of consciousness that feels like it's in good faith and sufficiently difficult to capture intelligence and consciousness. Either you make a definiti
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by nscalf 6y ago
I have yet to hear a good argument against the idea that we can create a conscious artificial intelligence. We know that we are conscious, whatever the definition is we use ourselves as the benchmark. So at the very worst, we can artifici
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by nscalf 6y ago
"How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia" by Mohsin Hamid. The book goes through the second person point of view of a young boy born into a village outside of a major Asian city. Each chapter is a time jump to a different point of
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by nscalf 6y ago
I want to add another option: 4) Have a wide range of items on your resume. I have found that having experience as an engineer in Fortune 500 companies, startups, working at the only dev, level 3 support, building dev ops, joining a big tea
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by nscalf 6y ago
On a higher level than just Stephen Wolfram, I find the practice of immediately dismissing people who are "outsiders" from academia (or from a field) disturbing. In our history, some of the most insightful work and execution has
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Ask HN: How are you networking from home?
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by nscalf 6y ago
Check the reviews to compile a list of things where you can be better. The App Store makes user feedback very simple for the app, but also potential competitors.
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by nscalf 6y ago
I was mostly being sarcastic, but I think it's relevant to direct you to this article (found in top 50 on HN). https://thesoundingline.com/fed-slows-qe-unlimited-to-just-8... . I'm hesitant to say that they're
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by nscalf 6y ago
That's assuming you can time it right. I've been holding puts for ~2 months, and I went from very right to very wrong very quickly. I also fully anticipate to be very right again as soon as the fed stops pumping trillions of dol
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by nscalf 6y ago
I’m so sick of these hatchet jobs on long dead people. If you are not empathetic enough to put yourself in the position of a different society, you’re probably not empathic enough to criticize a persons character. Additionally, I don’t care
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by nscalf 6y ago
Protein from those sources are not as bioavailable, and are therefore not “extremely excellent sources of protein”. Also, forks over knives has been disproven a hundred times over. Not saying everything in that doc is wrong, but it has enou
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by nscalf 7y ago
This is entirely off topic given the question was the exact opposite of this, keep it to the "Who is hiring" thread.
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by nscalf 7y ago
A few items I've been thinking about that come to mind at the moment: * Companies will see the benefit of WFH, and some significant portion of them will make that a long running option (performance pending), some smaller percentage wil
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by nscalf 7y ago
If I recall correctly, the stock act has them regulating themselves.
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by nscalf 7y ago
Just like every treatment protocol, this will have to be tested properly to see: if it is actually effective, what are the risks, who would this work for, etc. I view what we’re doing right now as buying time for treatment protocol testing,
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by nscalf 7y ago
I think people are too quick to discount the importance of failure and feeling bad. If failing has no consequence, there will be far less motivation. However, in my opinion, this is a balance. Failure has to be sufficiently painful, but no
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by nscalf 7y ago
Currently the issue is that the fed has removed the overnight liquidity requirements. This opens up the threat of a bank run. All of this is due to years of aggressively propping up the economy for political means, in reality we should have
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by nscalf 7y ago
I saw a discussion of this on reddit, there was NOT info on if these individuals eventually developed symptoms, so take this with a grain of salt.
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by nscalf 7y ago
Oh, is it 10:45 am on a Monday already? After the first two days, I downloaded another broker and determined to transfer, but it's kind of a pain. Guess I have to actually do it now.
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by nscalf 7y ago
Yeah maybe I should be clear here, I'm not talking about putting granulated sugar in your coffee. I'm talking about the explosion of dumping high fructose corn syrup into everything that occurred during these years. And teaching
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by nscalf 7y ago
Write drunk, edit buzzed, then?

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