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by savanaly 10y ago
If anyone's curious about the actual math Grothendieck was doing but is (like me) a layman when it comes to mathematics, there's a useful summary of one of his major areas of work in parts II and III of this blog post [0]. The ess
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by savanaly 10y ago
Probably too many cases where they deliver a bunch of content while it's paused and then the content never gets played. More than half the people who pause it probably end up closing the tab without finishing the video, so one can save
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It's a case of moral hazard. If we bail out those who built in areas which they knew at the time might eventually be submerged, it has the negative effect of leading to inefficiently high amounts of threatened homes being constructed i
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by savanaly 10y ago
This was a good article, but I think it was good because of the portrait it paints of the man he met. I'm not calling all the claims about having learned something "about Japan" unwarranted, but let me offer by way of counter
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by savanaly 10y ago
Yeah...I think we have to use some context clues in interpreting this particular piece of advice. Clearly, he's not suggesting you verify all assumptions as it would take millenia to verify literally all the assumptions that one make
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I agree. I wouldn't quite call it koan-level but the breezy style is definitely attractive to me.
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I dunno, I don't think that would really happen. I'm always trying to type the same word (I don't say "pish" in my head, after all, I think "push"), so it doesn't seem to be a random walk away from co
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by savanaly 10y ago
It is-- what is the perceived downside?
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I don't see how this follows. I thought up a simple mental model of how it could be implemented and I don't see why companies would flock to the insurance companies with no differentiation between hours worked. Let's simplify
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For those who don't know, you can make git pish have the same effect as git push by creating an alias between pish and push. Useful to do for any misspellings you make more than once. $ git config --global alias.pish push
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by savanaly 10y ago
I have never considered moving though, because although the other editors may emulate vim itself pretty closely, I highly doubt that the vim econsystem of plugins which I'm used to (my particular flavoring of keyboard-only window manag
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by savanaly 10y ago
I originally thought React Native was for all platforms, then I read their website and docs which made me realize it was only for mobile. That all went down a few weeks ago. Now, today, I find out I had it right the first time. How big a sh
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by savanaly 10y ago
This is a lot of words to say a very simple thing: if you measure a stock picker's performance on a binary scale (did they outperform the market, yes or no?) then you'll get different results from if you measured them on a scale t
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by savanaly 10y ago
Do you think that a) it's possible, hypothetically, for an organization to exist that holds itself to a consistently higher standard of truthful reporting, both in basic facts in in how they report it b) if yes to a), it's practic
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by savanaly 10y ago
When you want to debunk a shyster claiming he has supernatural abilities (pyschics, etc), who is the first person you should turn to? A magician. By that same logic, perhaps former spin doctors make the best fact checkers.
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by savanaly 10y ago
Are we worried that shady behavior that hurts consumers and riders might become the new equilibrium? I don't see how it could be. Whatever the machinations of Uber to artificially alter prices, no matter how sneaky, at the end of the d
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by savanaly 10y ago
>The best way to capture traffic from Reddit or Hackernews is to catch the eye of a star poster on these sites and have them post the link. Otherwise nobody will care. (Any star posters here? Feel free to post my stuff) Eh? I have been r
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by savanaly 10y ago
I don't interpret "fair warning" as meaning "this person is a wrongthinker, stay away!" I interpret it as "you may find this article interesting, but be aware that its source is outside the mainstream and maybe
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Tyler Cowen knows about rent seeking and Ricardo. He's not writing an encyclopedia article on the topic of rising housing costs though, he's writing a short piece for a broad audience about the demand side factors that might stabi
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by savanaly 10y ago
A charitable interpretation of the "all but certainly" line is that they meant to imply given that you are reading this on a mobile device, that device is all but certainly powered by the device invented by Goodenough . In fact,
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by savanaly 10y ago
It's incredible he was able to accomplish an eighty minute movie himeslf. The art in the trailer for Nova Seed (not necessarily the fight scene embedded in the OP article) reminds me of Sally Cruikshank animated shorts. [1] [1] e.g. h
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I believe accent issues are just as much a problem if not more in the communities around the world that use sign language. After all, signed languages can be as different from each other as spoken languages are from each other. I know you h
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The problem isn't that there doesn't exist a sentence that maps onto only the meaning that Ayn Rand is your mother, it's that there exists a sentence which one could reasonably arrive at that maps on to both the meaning where
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I think the key difference being that with the hypothetical cooperative they can't compel your membership just based on where you live. If that statement stopped holding true (as it sometimes does in the real world, with block associat
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>not correlated. Eh? So if I told you I had two products A and B and I showed them to potential customers who on average said they would pay $100 for A and $10,000 for B, you wouldn't be willing to bet that when I actually take them
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>On all measurable indicators — technical skills, professional soft skills, and psychometric profiles of what correlates with happy clients — our female developers compete, and many cases out-compete, with their male colleagues. This see
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Given that this article only touches on the supply of these drugs, is there a tacit assumption that the demand for opioids is driven by unemployment? If so, what can be done about the demand for these drugs in the long term? "Bringing
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A Ponzi scheme involves early investors being paid with the money of later investors. Unless you sell your shares, you're not getting money out of Uber right now. Instead, Uber appears to be as Yglesias famously said of Amazon: "a
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If you're interested in the topic of making students divulge what their confidence in their answer is, you might also like this classic post by Terence Tao. [0] It explores how you might handle and grade a true/false test where fo
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By safeguard I meant (and I think Amazon means too) an extra step that is required by the user before they can do the action so they don't do it by accident. Not something that prevents it entirely. Like how an MMO requires you before

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