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by pen2l 6y ago
Is a ponzi scheme that lasts forever... a ponzi scheme? Because if it lasts forever, there's no loser!
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by pen2l 6y ago
It's not contributing much to the discussion to just say " This. " but man I really just want to say, indeed as someone who isn't originally from an American culture but now resides in America: the observation you make i
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by pen2l 6y ago
> It was super significant in that it was evidence that Reddit employees have the ability to edit messages with no audit trail and no governance. Yeah this is an issue, but let’s be real here, this matters to you me and a few other peopl
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by pen2l 6y ago
This gets brought up a lot. And it's a bit of a doozy to make sense of. First, consider the context: the CEO (spez) was an easy punching bag on the_donald subreddit, in fact it was a bit of a meme there to attack reddit's admins (
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by pen2l 6y ago
You might be right, I'm not sure. At least in Otto's patent filing (which is found in English here: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/1f/3f/4c/821c6da... ) I don't see such an express
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by pen2l 6y ago
This text dated 1981 mentions it (page viii): https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-1-349-06976-... edit: and googling some more, there are instances of in being used it 1950s. And the likely first autho
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by pen2l 6y ago
I'm not decided on the topic being talked about, but just want to say that my parents in Milwaukee renting out a condominium have gotten burned from a string of 4 tenants. Flat out didn't make payments, didn't respect the rul
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by pen2l 6y ago
There's a running joke on the wsb subreddit about this, about the return that Elon saw in getting his hair fixed (I can't find the specific phrasing and construct of the joke at the moment), but anyway his transformation is fairly
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by pen2l 6y ago
> The issue is actually pretty uncertain, and government bodies are making categorical statements for political reasons I think it's more complicated than just politics, as I was saying elsewhere ( https://news.ycombinator
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by pen2l 6y ago
This preprint seems to indicate Pfizer vaccine is effective against the SA strain: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.07.425740v1
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by pen2l 6y ago
> reduce them to consumers instead of participants in creating culture But you miss the fact that the new generation making movies and documentaries with these iPhones is creating culture! Leaving aside the distinction of computer&#x2F
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by pen2l 6y ago
Regarding Danish study, here's what I found: the authors concluded that “the 95% confidence intervals are compatible with a possible 46% reduction to 23% increase in infections among mask wearers. These findings do offer evidence about
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by pen2l 6y ago
In saying "that's the point, it could lead to a shortage of masks for people who really need it" he's giving away his awareness of the need for masks, and the reason for why he at all suggested to avoid masks in the firs
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by pen2l 6y ago
> Fauci did not argue against civilian masking solely based on shortages. No, he did. You linked the same clip I linked, except minus the 20 seconds where he reveals his reasoning. Please refer to slightly longer version: https:/&#
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by pen2l 6y ago
> I think Fauci fell a beat behind the narrative marching band in March when he said no to masks for the general population, and so had to make up a dumb story in June about how he nobly lied to save PPE for frontline workers in March. C
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by pen2l 6y ago
You are a star and a titan, and I hold incredible respect for what you've given to the world. Understand however that you casting aspersions upon a man leading the fight against this pandemic isn't a constructive thing to do. Back
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by pen2l 6y ago
No he challenges his guests, he's just not an ass when he does. E.g. see his Jim Keller interview, when he disagrees with Keller when Keller talks about machine learning. And after a couple minutes of back and forth Friedman just lets
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by pen2l 6y ago
It’s almost definitely cost! Zemax is what, a 5-digit price for the full pack? Prohibitively expensive for anyone but those deep inside the industry who really get their bang for the buck.
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by pen2l 6y ago
I think we do a lot of things in our society for their symbolic value to formalize moral values and to demonstrate that we recognize past wrongs. In that regard I don't see anything wrong with this undertaking.
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by pen2l 6y ago
Sorry for ignorant question here not acquainted to stock market mechanisms, but: why the time imposition of tomorrow? Who dictates that storters have to return shares and when? Frankly I thought with puts you state time limits, and with sho
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by pen2l 6y ago
That seems beside the point though. Nation-states could well coopt/dupe unwitting agents to do their deeds for them. Not necessarily saying that's what happened here, just making a point.
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by pen2l 6y ago
To each his own, but I’ll add that my experiences are much like grandparent post’s. I “read” it in high school (I.e. usually just read cliffnotes on the internet) and it was just another boring book. I read it again in my mid 20s and it hit
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by pen2l 6y ago
Punjabi folk is quite beautiful. Sufi music is great, and the lyrically it's profoundly beautiful. For someone who's new to it I think Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is good gateway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0gND07e
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by pen2l 6y ago
You just have to wonder why this is. And I have a theory. My theory is they did the risk benefit analysis of all this and decided this was the best way to go. I think the the hole that opens up when you are open to appeals and special cases
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by pen2l 6y ago
Before reading the article I would have argued the opposite. Once life is as pervasive and varied as it was and is on earth - existing as large organisms and single celled organisms and everything in between, having rather expansive toleran
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by pen2l 6y ago
Just want to say that I was caught off-guard by the quality of the article, the text, the media, all of it. Bravo to the author.
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by pen2l 6y ago
> price discovery which helps with optimal capital allocation I've never seen this thought put in this way, I'm glad you said it, thank you.
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by pen2l 6y ago
Ouch, this website needs some padding adjustments.
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by pen2l 6y ago
Tangentially-related: So we were looking at smartwatches available, and we were deciding between the Apple Watch and fitbits. I was surprised to learn the fitbits give you incredibly detailed data on the quality of your sleep but Apple watc
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by pen2l 6y ago
Don't entirely agree with what some of what you've said but upvoting you nevertheless as clearly you argue in good faith (and to get you out of negative score), that aside -- you say: > It’s a term originating in academia that

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