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by princeb 9y ago
you can say this, but if you look at the most popular mods on skyrim they tend to make the game look more photorealistic, not less. the general trend for video game consumers is towards realism.
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by princeb 9y ago
> 1) It helps to build a sort of mental "muscle memory", and 2) it helps with developing intuition, since your mind eventually gets bored with the mechanics and starts to notice patterns. muscle memory is super important in ma
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by princeb 9y ago
not only do the poor make affected decisions we also know that the poor (1) have a restricted set of feasible solutions (2) face higher uncertainty in outcomes due to the impaired ability to execute solutions (3) have limited ability to mit
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by princeb 9y ago
> Any time you ride that thing past someones home without any context I could imagine you were talking about a Lamborghini.
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by princeb 9y ago
> the author doesn't make clear he makes the point across several points (4, 6, and 7 and maybe 1) which is that using a power law gets tail estimates very badly wrong (or they fit the tail and then get the distribution of the rest
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by princeb 9y ago
> This is one of those things that sounds trivial but has tons of hidden gotcha's. to support your point, from 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16184255
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by princeb 9y ago
yes this particular prediction of the future doesn't make too much sense to me. if a car were to drive as if every thing in its vicinity has the potential to move rapidly in front of the car, and hence it takes precautions for all pote
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by princeb 9y ago
>People hate layovers, they want more direct flights. still waiting for direct sin-jfk or syd-lhr. none exist. SIN-EWR used to exist, but it was too costly to run. edit: the new a350-900 ULR delivering this year is capable of flying long
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by princeb 9y ago
it is to remove the danger from society.
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by princeb 9y ago
BMW in particular i'm looking at quite closely. Unlike MB and Audi, BMW are invested in electric tech and have already been for a while with the i3 (both full and hybrid trims) and also the X series hybrid SUVs. So for them battery tec
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by princeb 9y ago
> Production is coming along better than anyone realistic could have ever expected i think he might have knowledge of tesla's "private expectation" i.e. what tesla is seeing internally, vs "public expectation"
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by princeb 9y ago
interesting post. having never played minecraft before i don't know much about its multiplayer - i've always assumed it is a single player (or has a single player component) where resources are essentially infinite. this appears t
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by princeb 9y ago
> curated communication system yes. curated is the keyword. fb used to be a legitimate communication system - you could write on walls, you could poke, you could do a lot of stuff with fb apps that solicits an immediate response. fb toda
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by princeb 9y ago
honestly don't know how they are going to integrate python for me to think about how it could affect my workflow. it could be entirely possible that you could create both VB modules and Python modules in alt-f11 and functions and subs
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by princeb 9y ago
ground meat needs to fight back. I don't think "meat" is at the level that can replicate ribs, roasts, bone-in steaks, barbecue brisket and burnt ends yet. when they do, then real meat better start fighting hard.
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by princeb 9y ago
interesting, the two years before the big one in 2007-2008 had tiny quadrilaterals.
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by princeb 9y ago
I see Tesla as a conduit for the wealthy to keep subsidising the technology for the middle class. In the same way that Uber is a way for the wealthy to pay for the commute of the middle class (cos let’s face it the poor aren’t taking cabs o
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by princeb 9y ago
futures can be also physically settled. the difference between futures and forwards is the pricing - futures price off the risk neutral measure because your margin is marked every day, forwards price off the forward measure because there is
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by princeb 9y ago
>If you catch 1% of those people, https://successfulsoftware.net/2013/03/11/the-1-percent-fall...
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by princeb 9y ago
the way i tell great developers from good developers is from how willing they are to dive into someone else's turd and make changes to it.
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by princeb 9y ago
> folks who have never had to deal with the heavy handed tactics of a government that unabashedly tries to ... the Swiss banking act that guaranteed secrecy to customers of Swiss banks were intended to protect information about the Jewis
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by princeb 9y ago
parent post seems quite vague. i think he means to use these imprisoned drug users as free labour to make money for the state. i believe some private prisons already do that.
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by princeb 9y ago
> it takes a week of planning, a full day or two of cooking not to mention the cleaning up is a good 3-4h after (or the next morning) respect for those who can fit it in their schedule. i know i have no excuse because the author of the a
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by princeb 9y ago
slack... discord... ? what next, microsoftskypianity?
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by princeb 9y ago
there are people who can't learn from small painful lessons, but it appears this guy won't learn from big painful ones either.
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by princeb 9y ago
does anyone remember web rings? i remember web rings. i remember a full circle of sites providing 99% of the same content because it was easier to keep a website updated reusing the same popular content. and since the webring is the #1 sour
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by princeb 9y ago
> the only way to build is up, which is expensive, requires a lot of capital, and is risky by itself inherently more risky than building up in any other city, like NY or HK?
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by princeb 9y ago
> I don't get how you can cram hundreds of millions of under-classed people into what are essentially poverty ghettos without a total outright revolution a number of these universes seem inspired by a real life city... Hong Kong.
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by princeb 9y ago
the current generation being hired into wall street (people around my age) have some kind of engineering, mathematics, physics, CS background in huge amounts. finance hires people like these by the boatload into all kinds of positions: risk
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by princeb 9y ago
> indexers think they should own 10% of your company i like to believe indexers are not that easily fooled. broad market indexers (think 2-5k stocks like the russell) normally use an approximation portfolio that holds significantly fewer

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