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by rquantz 12y ago
This is on Less Wrong, a website devoted to rationality. You'll notice several times in the article he is clearly addressing a rationality-focused audience. For instance: Without a magical deity to give you purpose, though, you'l
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How Journalists Decided What Neil Armstrong Said(slate.com)
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I'm pretty happy with the steady low heat I can get with a good conventional pan. But claims that this is the pan of the future will only hold up if it not only heats up very efficiently at high temperatures, but also doesn't heat
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The article doesn't mention how the saucepan performs at low heat, which is a pretty important part of cooking. Especially if you don't have a great stove, the low end of the heat range will often be too hot, and so you rely on ha
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Interesting. Is there a reason beyond the obvious (that it shouldn't matter what you wear, at least above a certain threshold)? Good new for me. I love wearing a suit.
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Yeah, it seems like a suit would make you stick out like a sore thumb at most startups (ie, not a "culture fit"). Unless it's a fashion startup, in which case go for the suit, as long as it's well tailored. And maybe als
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You've disrupted the world. Now it's time to disrupt your outfit(shirterate.com)
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Dreams of rescuing a retired NASA probe come to an end(theverge.com)
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Software Testing of Machine Learning Applications [pdf](psl.cs.columbia.edu)
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I don't think this is the fault of music notation. Prior to widespread availabity of recorded music, playing music from sheet music was a common activity in the West. If anything, I would say the death of lifelong musical performance i
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It's probably implemented in COBOL.
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So he learned something in mid-career to change everything, and an optical device is a likely aid. Do you have evidence to suggest a mechanical aid rather than just improvement in skills? Artists often change the way they produce art midw
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The way Vermeer painted this wall is consistent with a photograph. It is not consistent with human vision. If you were standing in the room that Vermeer painted, you would see that wall as a pretty even shade of off-white. For an untraine
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D-day landings scenes in 1944 and now(theguardian.com)
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Presumably any such fix would have to start with specifying both a referer and a referrer header, so that legacy clients wouldn't freak out. That said, it's humbling to think that because someone made a mistake in, what, 1991? We
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Additionally, there are many alternatives to freelancer. Before you go build another one, go try out the ones that are out there and see if any of them cover these pain points.
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Not so swift(slate.com)
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I'm upvoting this because of the extent to which it illustrates my point. Or, conversely, the extent to which it plays along with my point. My head hurts.
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And lest we forget, reliably identifying sarcasm on the internet is pretty hard even for humans who have all the requisite cultural knowledge. Unless the secret service can turn on the twitterer's webcam and observe their facial expres
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The Bolshevik coup in 1917 pretty much ended democratic socialism in Russia. Prior to that, workers were forming self-organized soviets (essentially a union government) that, at least from my vantage point, looked pretty much exactly like w
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Sorry, I realized you were trying to be circumspect, I just was instantly visited with a vision of a guy trudging around a track with a car on his back.
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How much energy does a human use when he carries a car for a mile?
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It's not visually misleading at all. The point is that the wealthy have taken a vastly disproportionate share of income growth. The vast majority of the income growth in the top quintile is in the top 5%. The majority of growth in the
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by rquantz 12y ago
That is factually inaccurate. You didn't really mean that, did you? US real income by quintile since 1967[1]. Income in real dollars has been stagnant for everyone but the wealthy. I can't find household debt by quintile but if
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Yes, the wealthy, too, want us to focus on inequality among the 99% instead of shining our light on the 1% or the 0.1%. They always want to talk about education and skills gaps instead of talking about how they've shaped laws and insti
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Ok, so it's possible to have a great experience at any huge tech company. That doesn't mean there aren't some with a better chance than others (it also doesn't mean that there are). Also, while everyone experiences thing
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I'd love a list of big corporations that are actually great to work for. It seems like Google is in this camp (I know, not for everyone, but it seems like most people have positive experiences there), maybe Facebook. I hear mixed thing
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You don't think the supposed difference in values is the result of ignorance of how the internet works? Or what a security researcher does? Or that security researchers exist as a hobby and profession? Or that the security of the inter
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To your typical juror off the street, "hacking" into a computer for ostensibly "white hat" reasons is no different than breaking into a store to "test the alarm system." That sounds a lot like ignorance.
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That sounds cool, although most cities already have something similar in the form of buses, which are cheaper and more efficient than what you're talking about. In any case, they will probably not start by having a huge fleet, but by s

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