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Chapter 2, Section 7: “SVG: A Scene Description Language,” looks interesting.
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I’d say he could also wait until after. Last time, the vacancy motivated Republican more than Democratic turnout — and if Republicans don’t win the Senate again, there’s still time after the election to do the appointment.
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There seems to be a lot of strange comments here. As if to create a cacophony quickly and limit the chance of quality discussions forming.
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“usually it turns out that their undergraduate curriculum has not recovered from the transition from Pascal to something like C++ or Java.” Also: “what has become our past, forever remains so” — Dijkstra, on trendy 90s/millennium OOP i
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Why do I feel stressed out visiting this link on desktop? Perhaps someone who's good at UX could share a few thoughts?
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How interesting. Gold has been seen as a miraculous material for ages because it never tarnishes and is scarce enough to retain some allure. But a wealth tax could cause gold to begin to "tarnish" like anything else.
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We should think about the amount of equity a founder gives to investors to get their company started. UBI changes the dynamic a fair amount. Twenty-somethings with dreams often have one thing between themselves and bringing their products t
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There's a disconnected in "Suppose you start a successful startup in your twenties, and then live for another 60 years." Framed as a striking-it-rich event that happens over a 10-ish-year period. to "Even a .5% wealth ta
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Perhaps this will keep us on our toes. I tend to find something more believable if it's presented in nice prose (the AI's forte) -- which is really not how I should be evaluating information.
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A scenario where a family or workplace or other organization has everyone fill in their ballot in front of each other and then drop it off in the mail together. “For convenience,” “to make sure everyone gets their vote in.” The difference i
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Back-of-the-envelope. In 2014, Google had around 28,500 software developers. [1] In 2016, it was estimated that the US had around 3.87 million professional software developers. [2] So around that time, about 0.75% of all software developers
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Has the culture of secrecy benefited them at all since the launch of the iPhone?
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I don’t know from personal experience, but my impression is that it’s hard to know which startups are going to be high-profile before they’ve found exponential growth —- and once the bootstrapped company has that, the would-be copycat would
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A blog post about existing information about plasma exchange in humans: https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2020/06/29/human-tria...
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> I tend to write code in short (2-4h) but very intense bursts with plenty of rest in between At any level it’s a great idea to ruminate and plan what you’re going to do. Alas, current management trends are about keeping developers busy
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> Maybe it will be like Facebook Speaking about Facebook the website (separate from Instagram and WhatsApp), I'd give it 50/50 odds that a major decline in market position will start by 2030. If it doesn't happen, it will
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An implicit premise here might be that music is good if people think it’s good. If a genre is taken up through “natural selection,” that means a lot of people like it, and it is therefore good music to those people - regardless of what some
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Coca-Cola is widely admired for its marketing prowess. If they make a marketing decision, like pulling ads from Facebook, that’s something that a lot of other marketers will be noticing.
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Eventually physicists are going to end up trying to explain signs of intelligent life as new Physics and calibrate their models according to it. "Greetings from ___." "Oh, hello... uhh, so those signals were your house and no
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The criticisms read as good starting points for subsequent research.
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Correct me if I'm wrong on this. I'm under the impression that if I pay WeWork to be able to work at their tables and drink their coffee, that's tax-deductible and a business expense. But if I buy drinks at a coffee shop to w
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> medical consensus I think I can understand where these sentiments come from. People are dissatisfied with medical consensus because medicine doesn’t really speak with a unified voice. A doctor in one hospital might treat a condition di
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What is the line of reasoning that favors a Friday for layoffs?
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Something that concerns me for conscious particles is that some of them could be suffering endlessly somewhere in the universe, but I think this is probably rare. The ability to hold a conscious particle in its seat while keeping it uncomfo
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I’d guess that one out of fifty times the person would not die prematurely, have the means and foresight, and then go on to do this; and that one out of two times their community, which they don’t part ways with, catches on and names them a
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The practice of stirring up controversy to get attention, especially in online venues, and viewing it as a positive rather than a negative, is something I learned a lot about from "Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipu
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Not just any tax, but a wealth tax affecting anybody who has US dollars, regardless of their citizenship or location.
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> the dimensions of the problem were such that a quick heuristic did perfectly fine. This is also a theoretical model that they teach in CS programs.
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Erlang purge?
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> a life well spent When I read this, my first thought was about how Knuth hasn't used email since 1990. "I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since abou

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