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by otoburb 6y ago
Lichess[1] is a popular site to play chess online for free. They offer different chess variants to play against other people. Would be great if 5D chess was one of the variants to play online. [1] https://lichess.org/
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Back to roughly where the TRYUSD pair was in August 2018.
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>> Between early March and early May, roughly 110,000 small businesses nationwide shut down, according to researchers at Harvard. I tracked down the paper[1] they referenced and Table 5 was an eye opener. While "only" 110K
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>> [...] although most robberies happen during the day so it's sort of a moot point I wasn't aware of this. I wonder if this means robberies have gone down as a result of more people forced to stay home due to Covid.
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The case studies section[1] highlights some industry players using Julia in precision instances, such as the New York Fed, Pfizer, Astrazenca, Aviva, Lincoln Labs, NASA, Cisco, IBM, etc. [1] https://juliacomputing.com/case-s
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by otoburb 6y ago
Agree with almost all of your points as someone working remotely for 14 years. I would note the following: >> Of course that isn't the case for everybody: people with families and especially little children seem to be struggling
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>> I have a dream that someday the "workplace <-> health insurance" link will be broken in the US. For a few years I thought we might have had a chance, but it seems to have become a back-burner issue again. Does the
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A Miniscript-based scripting language for Bitcoin contracts(min.sc)
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When I comb through financial statements (for fun, but not much profit yet) I always feel like I'm analyzing stack traces. How I wish there was a gdb/rr/Valgrind or similar debug framework for financial accounting statements.
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Why would you need to renounce US citizenship, and why would you pay double income tax? The US has a tax treaty with New Zealand[1] to minimize (but not eliminate) these types of double-taxation issues. [1] https://www.irs.gov&#x
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>> [...] their counterparts in Asia are working normal hours [...] Bingo. Global competition and productivity will likely be the larger factor than our (in)ability to balance work-life. I feel this pressure more so managing a remote
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>> Written simplified Chinese already mostly replaced the traditional Chinese way of writing - mainly Taiwan still keeps traditional Chinese alive. Hong Kong and Macau does too, although it seems a transition is underway to shift to
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by otoburb 6y ago
Please share the meeting platform used so that everybody else can start looking at it and perhaps lobby their schools or school boards. My kids' schools used both Zoom and Google Meets, and schools converged back to Zoom. If there&#x27
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>> They use language that describes cashflow, savings, and debt. Without such language and understanding, founders will have a harder time sustaining their endeavours. Such concepts apply whether you're bootstrapping, taking inv
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Yes. It exacerbates the inequality because most of the top-50 richest PTA schools can afford extras that boost student engagement or provide in-class assistance via teaching assistants thus lowering the student:teacher ratio. When a PTA can
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>> It may sound absurd for folks outside of NY (or Bay Area), but $2M barely gets you a 2/2 in Manhattan these days $2M USD can buy an older stock 3-bed 2-bath or "classic six"[1] co-op apartment in Manhattan.[2] Anyth
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by otoburb 6y ago
I didn't believe you so I looked up estimated suicide rates per 100,000 per country from the WHO[1]. Turns out my intuition was incorrect based solely on estimated suicide data: The US has an estimated suicide rate for kids between 10-
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by otoburb 6y ago
The Center For American Progress released a 2017 study[1] based on fiscal 2013-2014 data. The top 50 richest PTAs are listed in Appendix I. [1] https://cdn.americanprogress.org/content/uploads/2017/04/180
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LA's 405 and 101 interchange is probably one of the worst I've had the misery of experiencing in North America on a repeat basis. Gridlock in LA feels objectively more dangerous than being stuck in, say, NYC city traffic or Toront
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Mark Twain thought along the same lines: "Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have
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by otoburb 6y ago
Survivorship bias notwithstanding, nothing hits home harder than Dr. Reif's personal anecdote: "This country derives many intangible advantages from being a beacon of hope for people around the world; I first came to America in 1
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Looks like gross profit margins decreased in aggregate by almost 4% in both "growth" categories of their Core Revenue (page 79). Doesn't look good for future margin expansion opportunities.
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Notice how Rackspace's 2019 revenue hit a hard ceiling in 2019 (pre-COVID). Also, capital expenditures in 2017, 2018 and 2019 were 9%, 14%, and 9% of yearly revenues, respectively. If they hadn't tamped down on their 2019 "ca
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by otoburb 6y ago
>> This article seems alarmingly misinformed. I hate appeals to authority as much as anybody else on HN, but I'm not sure that we could say Rich Sutton[1] is "misinformed". He's an established expert in the field
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>> But if you're under pressure to build lots of small, partially documented, constantly changing parts every day, you might be better off using more flexible equipment and materials (balsa wood, bailing wire, masking tape, etc.)
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Better late than never? Some level of open retrospective analysis might allow for more carefully crafted policies in the future.
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I think determined individuals could, but it's much harder without ready access to pre-designed course material (e.g. case studies) and a learned facilitator, ideally one who has a mix of hard won industry experience, academic/res
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The UK is not much different -- a majority of senior High Court barristers[1] and UK Supreme Court justices[2] are Oxbridge[3] educated. [1] https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/new-high-court-judges-all-... [2] https:&#
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I hope they and other universities increase vision insurance/benefits. From experience, staying glued to a Zoom screen for over >6hrs a day for an extended period of time places tremendous strain on the eyes.
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>> The alternative as they saw it was to upgrade their expensive Manhattan apartment or condo and to enroll their kid in an expensive private school. Those that might have been thinking of enrolling their children in private schools

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