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by pge 7y ago
But is that a US gallon (3.79L) or an Imperial Gallon (4.55L)?
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by pge 7y ago
Also, there are almost no implications to real-world applications from this proof because the result has been assumed to be true for a long time. I don't mean to diminish the value of the proof, which is an impressive bit of work; it&#
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by pge 7y ago
The other issue is that even if you had an office application with feature parity to Powerpoint, Powerpoint is still the one that everyone else is using. As a result, perfect file compatibility is more important than features. I haven'
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by pge 7y ago
The other technique not mentioned here is for buffets to just stop refilling the higher cost items on the buffet if a group of big eaters comes in. then let them sit empty while the diners fill up on potatoes or what not, before finally ref
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by pge 7y ago
you can save one command by using sort -u which eliminates dupes in the sort, removing the need for uniq
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by pge 7y ago
and that luck plays a much bigger role in success than most people think (we prefer to think our success is the result of effort and skill)
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by pge 7y ago
The bank doesn’t store your money, it turns around and lends it to someone else, hoping that the interest it receives on that debt (eg. a mortgage) is greater than the interest it pays you. While I don’t agree with the overall ‘money is de
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by pge 7y ago
talk to potential customers. Don’t ask them if they like the product idea. Try to understand if the problem it solves is a burning problem.
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by pge 7y ago
This is an overstatement. For most VCs, if failure rates within your portfolio exceed 50%, it gets hard to generate top quartile returns (unless you stumble on the rare unicorn). A more typical distribution for an early stage institutional
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by pge 7y ago
Do you have any data to support this? I ask, not to challenge the idea, but because I share the same suspicion - that the supply of investment dollars that go into the market independent of its underlying fundamentals continues to keep pric
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by pge 7y ago
Another data point - Ctrl was also in the same place (where caps lock is today) on the Apple ][ keyboards. There was no Caps Lock key at all.
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by pge 7y ago
FWIW, the economics of .org are easy to look up in the PIR 990, as of 2017. The 990 shows ~90m in revenue with ~75m in profit - which was split 40m to ISOC and 35m to ISOC foundation (a subsidiary of ISOC).
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by pge 7y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1782/
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by pge 7y ago
you raise an interesting point that caused me to look deeper into the 990s filed by ISOC and PIR. So, I share this in case you are curious (or getting sucked down this rathole like I am:)). In 2017, ISOC created the Internet Society Foundat
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by pge 7y ago
Unrelated business income does not cause a loss of 501(c)3 status, it's just that the unrelated income is not tax exempt (i.e. the org which otherwise does not pay taxes on income has to pay income tax on the unrelated income). Also, i
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by pge 7y ago
While I don't agree with the sale of the .org to a for-profit entity, I believe the premise of this objection is not tenable. From what I can glean, while PIR is a non-profit, it was not a non-stock company (non-profits are often, but
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by pge 7y ago
How credible are each of these stories? Curious if they are well substantiated by the historical record or legends told about forebears (or enemies).
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by pge 7y ago
The plot is showing that there is a negative selection bias in the reporting of stories about minimum wage. That is, that stories suggesting that increasing minimum wage has negative effects (increases unemployment, etc) are overreported re
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by pge 7y ago
In the case of PDFs, though, it is almost trivial to edit. Uncompress the PDF, and then search in a text editor for the sentence you want to change and edit it. Uncompressing takes one command, and after that it is almost as easy as editing
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by pge 7y ago
While this is mostly true, it should not be relied on. If the PDF is produced from a text document or report generator, then the text as well as the charts are easy to edit with any text editor (only requires decompressing the PDF first). O
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by pge 7y ago
I might start even simpler than that - learning how to understand the three basic financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow) and how they interrelate. This is super helpful in any job and in managing personal finance
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by pge 7y ago
very much agree - I would suggest as a starting point learning a couple basic knot families and then the more important of how to apply them. Keeping it simple - learn a clove hitch, a figure 8, and a bowline (maybe also a sheet bend). Tho
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by pge 7y ago
A couple additions I would suggest (keeping with the theme of non-fiction interesting to the general reader, not industry-specific works): * Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling - Ross King * The Invention of Air - Steven Johnson * The
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by pge 7y ago
It is women’s soccer that is second only to mens football for concussion rate - see this article: https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/15/health/concussion-high-scho... Having played men’s lacrosse and coached
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by pge 7y ago
Good point - if you watch carrier launches, the planes actually fall a little as they go off the end of runway because they aren’t lifting yet. But presumably with a longer runway like you have at an airport, you could get to higher speed a
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by pge 7y ago
I can confirm that hair stands up on end when conditions are ripe for a strike. I have had it happen. Particularly for those with thin, wispy air, it was really sticking up. We got out of there fast. So I would say the folk wisdom is not ut
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by pge 7y ago
One major factor that needs to be considered when looking at these data is that the electoral districts (the unit of measure here) were redrawn with significant changes after the 2010 census (taking control of state legislatures in order to
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by pge 7y ago
Part of the beauty of the movie is that at the end the mother appears to have been aware of, and amused by, the ruse all along. One wonders if the same is true of the OP's real-life story.
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by pge 7y ago
For a detailed and insightful treatment of the evolution of antitrust law in the US, I recommend “Cornered” by Barry Lynn. The key point is that the interpretation of the law changed in the 80s to a very narrow test of monopoly - whether a
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by pge 7y ago
On a related note, Knuth has a cool algorithm to solve exact coverage problems like sudoku (similar logic as Norvig's DFS but implemented very differently). It's more work to code it than Norvig's but worth it for the educati

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