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by rmatt2000 4y ago
This is why I grit my teeth whenever I hear a politician say something like "the science is settled". Anyone who understands the scientific method knows to say "the science is settled, except if <some specific thing> h
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
> It can in principle print itself out of any problem. Except inflation, as we are learning.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
The sparrows in my yard have been exploiting and oppressing the wrens for years.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
> #1 leading cause of bankruptcies in the US This isn't true. A certain well-known politician made this claim, but it turns out she counted everyone who had medical debt when they declared personal bankruptcy as a "bankruptcy
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
"Behind every great fortune is a great crime." - Balzac. Was there ever an industry that this quote described more accurately than tech?
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Perhaps I'm jaded, but I'm always a bit skeptical when Alphabet touts privacy as a feature of one of their products.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Some people are philosophically opposed to turning private companies into arms of federal law enforcement agencies. That doesn't mean they are in favor of fraud.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Or the known knowns which I just ignored.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
There are known unknowns, but worse are the unknown unknowns.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Remember that HR works to promote the best interests of the company, which may not be the same as your best interests.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Is this unique to Tesla, or does basically every other large corporation with a media relations department do this too?
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Every mutual fund prospectus I read tells me that past performance is no guarantee of future performance.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
The three sets Wikipedia admins, HOA board members, and Karens have an intersection with a large cardinality.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
According to the Toronto Sun, they are also banning ZTE. https://torontosun.com/news/national/canada-to-announce-ban-...
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
My favorite scene is the one where the Cray supercomputer inexplicably had the Windows 3.1 GUI.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Threads like this are why I come to HN.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Is anyone else's OCD triggered by the x-axis on that chart?
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
I think the "woke" people watch TV too. The problem is that there are not nearly as many of them as social media makes it appear that there are.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
You get a low-battery notice when there are only a few hours of charge left. For me, there's always been enough time to finish up my work and let it charge overnight.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
In the original MIPS-32 instruction set, some fields in the instruction are unused in certain instructions. (The shift field in R-format instructions is an example.) I had a student who did a project to take real MIPS machine language progr
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
This sounds more luxurious than my last flight from ORD to RDU.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
This is extraordinarily brave, given what usually happens to people who possess illegal content in NK. I think I'll stick to criticizing politically unpopular people on Twitter.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Mao and Stalin might disagree.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
The entire board ex-Jack owns a little more than 1% of Twitter. It sure sounds like their interests are not well-aligned with those of the company owners.
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Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn up pressure on board(forbes.com)
239 points by rmatt2000 4y ago|398 comments
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Not to mention the stunning number of people with college degrees who don't think loans should be paid back.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
It's always the algorithm with you, isn't it Alan Turing?
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
The bias of the Wapo seems pretty obvious to a lot of people.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
Musk might feel that the monocular political views of the SV C-suite class is bad for his adopted country.
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by rmatt2000 4y ago
What kind of car do you drive?

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