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by qntty 10y ago
I would certainly agree that they are aware of the benefits of going to a good school. I just think you are seriously underestimating the importance that mimicking other people plays in learning to do something you've never done before
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by qntty 10y ago
I would agree that it's accessible, but this doesn't make it any less alien. Most people I knew in high school (at a non-elite school) were barely even conscious of the fact that they would be taking the SATs 9 months before they
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by qntty 10y ago
Studying with that kind of intensity certainly is. For most kids "studying for the SAT" means doing 1 or 2 practice tests on a lazy Saturday.
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by qntty 10y ago
I think the more reasonable claim is that it's highly unlikely that you will beat an index fund over a (say) 40 year period, so for the average investor who is investing for retirement, it makes no sense.
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by qntty 10y ago
Big if true
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by qntty 10y ago
What's the advantage of getting an AT&T unlimited plan at $90/mo when you can use an MVNO like cricket that uses AT&T's towers and pay $60/mo? Are people just locked into existing contracts?
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by qntty 10y ago
see also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeYmrIRxLS8
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by qntty 10y ago
In the secretary problem, we assume that your ability to distinguish a good secretary from a bad one is fully developed from the beginning. In the examples given, you spent a significant amount of time (maybe even your whole life) figuring
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by qntty 10y ago
I don't think that people having this conversation fail to make the distinction that you're making. They talk like that because language is metaphorical. In fact, if you pay attention, you'll notice that you do the same sort
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by qntty 10y ago
Thanks, this was my confusion.
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by qntty 10y ago
See also: http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2007/04/value-of-harvard...
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by qntty 10y ago
4k is 4096p, I would expect 8k to be 8192p, but it's only 7680p.
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by qntty 10y ago
Not too long ago people had children because they needed people to help work the farm.
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by qntty 10y ago
Yes (for more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency )
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by qntty 10y ago
Too sentimental
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by qntty 10y ago
Hmm okay you changed my mind, so I guess there's no such thing as physically impossible then. Either way, maybe we should probably leave off the qualifier, since there's only one kind of "impossible" in this context.
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by qntty 10y ago
There's no such thing as "mathematically impossible" in the physical world. If it's impossibility is evident in a mathematical model, that's still physical impossibility.
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by qntty 10y ago
If you want to learn abstract algebra for the first time and you're anything like me, don't just read a book about it. It'll start to sound like a bunch of abstract nonsense. Eventually you'll have the skills needed to
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by qntty 10y ago
>I wouldn't want to annotate or highlight a paper book - that feels like damaging it. Don't do it with library books obviously, but if you own the book, try it. It vastly improved my reading experience when I started annotating
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by qntty 10y ago
Probably IP law
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by qntty 10y ago
>There's an old saying out there that history is merely a set of cycles. I suppose we'll see if that is true in the upcoming years. "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as i
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by qntty 10y ago
No event period has a single cause. In order to hit a pool ball with another pool ball, you need to create the universe first. It sounds pedantic, but you can't always find more than one reasonable cause for any event. Aristotle na
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by qntty 10y ago
The state is able to make funding contingent. The state doesn't want to own up to the fact that UC is so underfunded that its struggling to fulfill its purpose of educating Californians. To get more money, UC turns to admitting more st
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Ask HN: Why is it so hard to make a contact whitelist on a smartphone?
7 points by qntty 10y ago|1 comments
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by qntty 10y ago
I've been looking for a reason to read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, I think I'll check it out.
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by qntty 10y ago
The God Delusion made me an arrogant atheist Manufacturing Consent made me anti-authoritarian Feeling Good by David Burns made me less pessimistic
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by qntty 10y ago
Yeah absolutely. Having a broad background in math can help in surprising places but there's much more math that has applications to CS than can fit in one class.
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by qntty 10y ago
Read the TOC again, there's plenty of graph theory. Calculus isn't important for CS.
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by qntty 10y ago
Work to seize the means of production
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by qntty 10y ago
If it's true that so many people depend on the 40 hour workweek being the norm, then no amount of added flexibility will fully kill it.

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