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by rappatic 2y ago
Sounds like a nightmare. Imagine the electricity costs incurred to the consumer needing to power a crypto miner sixteen hours a day.
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by rappatic 2y ago
In 1994, a medical researcher presented an apparently novel method for approximating the area under a curve by summing the areas of small trapezoids underneath it, clearly never having taken elementary calculus. It wasn’t long before a foll
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Tai's Model for finding the area under a curve (1994) [pdf](math.berkeley.edu)
4 points by rappatic 2y ago|2 comments
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by rappatic 2y ago
Florida's minimum wage is $12/hour. If you work two jobs, say 60 hrs/week, repaying the state for your time in prison would take half of all the money you make. This is unbelievably evil.
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Fabula and Sjužet in "Wandering Rocks"(muziejus.github.io)
1 points by rappatic 2y ago|0 comments
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Moose test(en.wikipedia.org)
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Countersteering(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rappatic 2y ago
If I’m not mistaken, it’s illegal in the US to place advertisements alongside content without distinguishing them. I don’t see a marker in the screenshot; is this simply a problem with the beta?
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by rappatic 2y ago
There's a very interesting chapter in the _Freakonomics_ book about catching cheating teachers. The authors use it as an example of incentives gone wrong: to hit their bonuses for high test scores, teachers have cheated in all manners
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Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National, Home to the Masters (2019)(newyorker.com)
1 points by rappatic 2y ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 2y ago
> "Users rated Asian men and Black women as less attractive than their counterparts..." Attraction isn't a choice or a preference. No one can control who they're attracted to. Dating sites "automating racism&quot
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by rappatic 3y ago
They’ve planned a connection before, but it’s now basically considered dead. The New York Times had a great article on it a few years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/nyregion/staten-island-su... .
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by rappatic 3y ago
The ferry is definitely a lot less convenient when you don't live North Shore or mid-island. That said I don't have any personal experience, I'm only speaking secondhand for Staten Island.
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by rappatic 3y ago
As someone who lives in the NYC metropolitan area, the problem here isn't with the idea of congestion pricing, it's with the public transit system. Public transit options to travel between Midtown and Brooklyn, or Staten Island an
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The Terrifying Allure of Mona Island(nytimes.com)
1 points by rappatic 3y ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 3y ago
Julius Caesar reformed the calendar in part because it had historically been manipulated for political reasons. Roman magistrates were elected for a period of years, and the Pontifex Maximus (chief priest) was in charge of the calendar, so
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by rappatic 3y ago
Perhaps language models are equivocal about these things because of how they've been trained to avoid taking sides, political correctness, etc.
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by rappatic 3y ago
This is Grimes' "On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs" ( https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147905 ).
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Dagen H, the day Sweden switched from left- to right-hand driving(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by rappatic 3y ago|1 comments
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by rappatic 3y ago
This is a really cool idea! That said, after I sent a letter to my future self, it automatically signed me up for several email lists, tried to get me to download the app, and pestered me to become a "member." No site like this ne
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Kishōtenketsu(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by rappatic 3y ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 3y ago
It's so interesting to me that fundamental ways of life like this can go nearly undocumented save passing references. We know a lot more about the annals of Greek history, for example, because that's what was written down. Ekirc
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by rappatic 3y ago
The source of the problem is the near-monopoly most ISPs have and the high barrier to entry for a new ISP wanting to enter the market. It makes it difficult for the market to self-regulate here.
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The curious case of the disappearing Polish Ś (2015)(medium.engineering)
125 points by rappatic 3y ago|44 comments
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by rappatic 3y ago
The opening of James Joyce's masterpiece novel Ulysses [1] is set in a martello tower. They're dotted all around Dublin. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)
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Should a Charge of Plagiarism Ruin Your Life? (2004)(newyorker.com)
2 points by rappatic 3y ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 3y ago
No, their entire model is based on the assumption that users could extract maximum value from the buffet (eating everything) but typically don't (have a normal- to large-sized meal, the supply cost of which is obviously far less th
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by rappatic 3y ago
The article hints at, but doesn't really discuss, the concept of information entropy [1]. Each word in that message has a very high entropy because it conveys a lot of information. I read an XKCD What If article [2] a while back that g
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by rappatic 3y ago
I wish a proper study on this could get some real funding. The cited study is certainly better than nothing but it's based on a volunteer reported survey with significant response bias (eg. maybe the drop in bird sightings near oil a
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by rappatic 3y ago
Ironically, Netflix's recommendation algorithm is now notoriously bad. In my experience, it seems to heavily push whatever "original" they just dumped $100 million into as well as what's most popular on the platform at t

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