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by pupperino 3y ago
And yet the process to grant bluecheck was to literally check personal id, and grant it to whoever had media presence. For years, you could request verification, send a couple of links citing you, provide a government-issued ID and that was
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by pupperino 3y ago
When having conversations in HN does it bother you that you have no way to know if you're talking to a real human, not hiding behind fake usernames? What do you think underlies this feeling you seem to have? EDIT: what I do think was a
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by pupperino 3y ago
Chronological feed was always a thing, I've used it for years. In fact, one of the first noticeable changes was that this config stopped being persistent. I had to manually switch to chronological for months and still get "For You
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by pupperino 3y ago
It always makes me laugh how, for years, we mocked journalists because of their inflated blue check egos, and now every "free thinker" out there is eager to pay to be just like them. Verification is meaningless for most individual
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I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Forecasting(metaculus.com)
1 points by pupperino 3y ago|0 comments
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Stacked Diffs and Pull Requests (2018)(jg.gg)
1 points by pupperino 3y ago|0 comments
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Soyuz “Globus” Mechanical Navigation Computer(youtube.com)
2 points by pupperino 4y ago|0 comments
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Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth (2004) [pdf](nber.org)
2 points by pupperino 4y ago|0 comments
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by pupperino 4y ago
What really matters is how human institutions and organizations shape each other's incentives and costs [1]. Instead of aiming for abstract, intangible goals like "small" or "big" government, how about developing
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Sheets of Sound(thejazzpianosite.com)
2 points by pupperino 4y ago|0 comments
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by pupperino 4y ago
Nowadays, there's lots of tooling around for nested data, like roomba [1] or the list-column workflow enabled by purrr and dplyr [2]. [1] https://github.com/cstawitz/roomba [2] https://r4ds.had.co.nz&#x
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On Rhythms of the Brain (2022)(qualiacomputing.com)
3 points by pupperino 4y ago|0 comments
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by pupperino 4y ago
People really did love "synergy" in the 90s.
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by pupperino 4y ago
It really can't be said enough how pandas is a mess. It has way too much surface area and no common thread pulling it all together. This gets obvious when you work with better dataframe libs like dplyr [1] or DataFramesMeta [2]. I&#x27
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Vektor EXecution Language(blog.vektor.finance)
2 points by pupperino 4y ago|0 comments
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How do central banks control inflation? A guide for the perplexed [pdf](personal.lse.ac.uk)
2 points by pupperino 4y ago|0 comments
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by pupperino 4y ago
Americans really think their schools don't provide solid education, it's so weird. Look at your PISA scores, they're reasonable. Could be a lot better, sure, but so could almost everything. Especially if you take into account
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by pupperino 4y ago
One thing that stood out for me is how much emphasis you put on having an online presence in a certain community as a driver of your business. I have next to zero information on how you actually spent your time, but it seems much of it wa
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by pupperino 4y ago
Fascinated by the sheer amount of emotional reactions here.
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Critiquing every episode of Ancient Apocalypse [video](youtube.com)
7 points by pupperino 4y ago|0 comments
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by pupperino 4y ago
Did you actually read the article? This sounds like a blanket statement to rationalize your affection for the company.
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How the Science of Consciousness Informs Ethics(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
2 points by pupperino 4y ago|0 comments
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by pupperino 4y ago
Funny thing, every time I'm using an umbrella, it seems to be raining! Neuroscience is plagued by poor philosophy of mind, someday it'll do better I hope.
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by pupperino 4y ago
Most disciplines evolved in the last 40 years (looking at you psychiatry), but economics has changed rather drastically. Methods for testing theory back then were Bad. Like, really bad. Ed Leamer's 1983 paper on this ( http:/&#x2F
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Digital Computers Will Remain Unconscious Until They Recruit Physical Fields(qualiacomputing.com)
1 points by pupperino 4y ago|0 comments
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Job Loss, Unemployment Insurance, and Crime [pdf](econometricsociety.org)
10 points by pupperino 4y ago|1 comments
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by pupperino 5y ago
We wouldn't have gone through the "are neural networks conscious" bit of discourse if more people read this book.