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by sigstoat 4y ago
i'd like to move some place even more rural, such that i have similar problems. i was imagining installing something like one of the blue usps mailboxes at the end of the driveway. is it not a big enough problem to bother with somethin
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by sigstoat 4y ago
immutable variables isn’t ever a problem. compilers frequently translate programs into SSA form, and they manage to work for all platforms without memory bloat or anything.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> It probably reflects the inherent risk-aversion that comes with a gov lawyer job. there are long term benefits to encouraging conspirators to defect early and often, even if you don't strictly require them in a given case.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
sure. i'm not attempting to describe the metric, just asserting that they all use basically the same metric, and have the same goal. there'd be less of a "problem" if a decent fraction of schools used different metrics,
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by sigstoat 4y ago
every department produces more PhDs than it has openings every year. they'll all hire the best they can. most universities don't produce the best.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> I'm surprised that SBF hasn't played a card like "while I didn't know it at the time, I have now investigated and concluded that..." unless that's true, it's another way for the prosecution to hang hi
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> If I have a button that when pressed, will cause all cruelty in animals to be gone, I would be wrong not to press it. how would carnivores and parasites eat? is there not some possibility there might be some small question of whether o
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by sigstoat 4y ago
legitimate financial products have offered that rate and higher in the last 40 years. look up historical CD rates.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> The very fact that SBF/caroline haven't been arrested leads me to think that the legal authorities see facts which we cannot see. > I don't want vigilante mobs condemning people to jail... you're making the mista
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Because the shares aren't in your name, broker-dealers can lend them out to hedge funds shorting the company you're investing in. This is part of how they absorb the fees inherent in trading. Or you can use a brokerage which
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by sigstoat 4y ago
do any voice assistants "make money" on their own? i thought they were a combination of 1) a loss leader to keep you in the ecosystem and 2) "well we figured out how to do it, so we did"
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> that's the explicit assumption for that thread. and i'm fine with that. i don't believe it exists, especially for a business/fund like his, where even making that claim is its own sort of hilarity, but i'm fine
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> he’s arguing 10x Kelly makes sense because when you win such a crazy long shot bet you’ll have enough money to change the world and money doesn’t actually have a diminishing utility ever. right he also had a thing in there where i thin
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by sigstoat 4y ago
he had some twitter thread two years ago where he was talking about betting five times [what the gambler’s formulation of the kelly criterion would suggest], which is bug fuck insane and would’ve had me shorting him immediately if i’d been
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by sigstoat 4y ago
the "she'll never be convicted" crowd has moved on to "she'll never serve much of the sentence", despite a dozen folks here explaining how the federal system works. i look forward to returning to HN in septembe
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Let's quickly drop the idea that this is the fault of nosey neighbors, helicopter parents, soccer moms, or "Karens". This is 100% a justice department problem and anyone from the police to the district attorney could hav
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by sigstoat 4y ago
my family owns a large solar farm. you're the one being absurd here. paying for all of the work to build a plywood solar farm, and then _never_ _getting_ _anything_ _back_ would've been profoundly negative. you're thinking ab
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by sigstoat 4y ago
last i fenced they also had manufacture dates printed prominently and were considered expired after a few years. they’re wear items; it is their job to take the damage so you don’t.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> I've managed to snap a sabre blade on a parry. It just cut in two and fell to the ground, was impressed. best time to have it break, most folks will notice the balance change immediately. i had someone snap their blade off on my c
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Fediverse is literally built of, by, and for people who hate this kind of corporate bullshit. sure, but it's being loaded up with piles of users who were perfectly happy with corporate bullshit two weeks ago. you're not going
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by sigstoat 4y ago
heavier than a solar panel, increasing all labor and mounting costs, while producing ~zero return. also not as weather proof as a solar panel, so you'll be up replacing them sooner.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
you can probably come up with a spreadsheet analyzing the costs and returns to figure out exactly where the most profitable point is, taking into account all the other fixed costs you’ll have in the build. i doubt the cheapest or the most e
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by sigstoat 4y ago
they got grief for exactly the same line zuckerberg is getting grief for in this thread.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Yes it should be semester 1 in every single CS and SE course. to, what, make sure it is forgotten by the time you graduate? is there even any evidence that making somebody take a class on ethics will make them more ethical? most colleg
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by sigstoat 4y ago
looked to me like the take away was that the rule was 50 years old. would you have been happier if the context didn't mention nixon, but noted that it was because of a law that had been in effect for 50 years?
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by sigstoat 4y ago
at that point most things are compressed decision trees.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> jobs can’t do the same thing is there a legal restriction? i'd pay $5 to a company when applying to an actually interesting position if they promised i'd get a non-form letter from a human back about my application, good or b
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Unless Taleo blocks you centrally and now you cant apply to half the companies in the world. is anyone ever hired through dumping a resume into those big systems? doesn't seem like a loss.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Garbage is burned as fuel too in less developed countries. Stopping dumping of garbage in 2nd and 3rd world countries by developed/first world countries is going to benefit the environment in more ways than just reducing ocean pla
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by sigstoat 4y ago
torrents have checksums on the blocks, which your client already checks, because the internet doesn't guarantee packets arrive without corruption. it doesn't matter where the corruption comes from.

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