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by stblack 6y ago
This .PDF is incomplete. My edition, an earlier one, has 96-pages. A google search on "site:cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/store" returns a folder full of Economist Guides, truncated at 15-25 pag
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by stblack 6y ago
Google Earth. In many ways this was the killer app for first version iPads. It's still top-echelon, and a delight to use (mostly).
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by stblack 6y ago
Bitcoin is often referred-to as pristine collateral. It's highly liquid, and its presence can be verified easily on the public blockchain without resorting to experts, such as auditors. I don't think "depositing into a smart
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by stblack 6y ago
Not mentioned, not cited in the paper. That's shocking. Edit: the word "tail" appears nowhere in the paper, in any context. I'm beyond shocked now.
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by stblack 6y ago
Is there no date on this paper? It seems to be from 2016, or thereabouts.
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by stblack 6y ago
This is so ignorant. Please raise your game. Bitcoin transaction fees are set by the sender. At least, that's true if you aren't a nOOb and you control your own wallet. Transaction fees vary, at this very moment, between 1 satos
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by stblack 6y ago
Our stale bot doesn't lock issues, merely marks them as closed after a configurable notification time, and a configurable no-activity time. Which stale bot is the author referring to? This stale bot (THE stale bot?) https:/&#x2F
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by stblack 6y ago
The problem with the Touch Bar is, merely grazing it ever so slightly with a fingertip causes countless freaky side effects. I've reverted to a straight, function-key-icons-only Touch Bar and it's still a problem for me. I estimat
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by stblack 6y ago
I did not like the funnel at this link, so I did not donate. You want me to yield personal information like my email address BEFORE disclosing what the payment options are? No thank you. I don't care who you are, be up-front about wha
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by stblack 6y ago
This is a fantastic thing. In the America of our imaginations, this modest low-tech thing would be done by 2025. But the article states, it should be done by 2040. Which is a staggering underachievement. There seems to be no will to actuall
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by stblack 6y ago
What I love most about Bootstrap is its extensibility, and especially its decomposability. It's not widely appreciated that you can take subsets of Bootstrap, individual components for example, or its typography system, to use in non-B
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by stblack 6y ago
The moon's diameter is about 0.5°, same for the sun, give or take — think total or annular eclipses, they are very close in angular diameter, if not equal for all practical purposes. At this moment, December 5, 2020 at 4:20 PM Eastern,
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by stblack 6y ago
Conceivably the Connections series could have had a much longer run. I'm sorry it didn't.
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by stblack 6y ago
My fondest wish is a high-end MBP 16" with no touch bar. The touch bar's sole role is to generate errors and missteps resulting from merely grazing over it. Even setting the touch bar to vanilla F-keys, grazing triggers F-key act
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by stblack 6y ago
Marak sponsors me on Github. When I was thanking him I also asked, what’s your name? His reply: “I am marak.” Not a word more. Marak is a giver.
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by stblack 6y ago
Gresham's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law In many countries, you can exchange US$ for local currency, but not the other way around. That's by government decree. Yet the dollar is prized e
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by stblack 6y ago
Of course this is true of the US dollar. The US Dollar loses value over time. In this respect, it's no different than countries with awful inflation, just the inflation rate is lower. That's the very definition of bad money in Gr
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by stblack 6y ago
This is Gresham's law, in reverse. Gresham's law: "bad money drives out good". Meaning when two forms of commodity money are in circulation, the more valuable commodity will gradually disappear from circulation. This app
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by stblack 6y ago
Disagree. Code is leverage, and leveraging valuable property is a great passtime, and smart for people in tech. If one percent of SONOS owners use the code, and a fraction of one percent contribute to code, the sky is the limit for all pre
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by stblack 6y ago
I'm thrilled to see all the mentions of SONOS networking in the article. These devices form their own mesh network, right? Also SONOS devices phone home, a lot. I'd love to see all that mapped and, ultimately, open code committ
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by stblack 6y ago
I'm skeptical of the source numbers here. The early dates on the X-axis were over 7-months ago. Full factor mortality adjusted tallies from early months don't seem to be included? I can find no mention of full-factor mortality ad
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by stblack 6y ago
The latest on this is “Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications” by Nassim Taleb. I liked this PDF so much I bought the book. https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10488
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by stblack 6y ago
It takes over 800 words, and several mentions of the CRDT acronym, before the acronym is expanded for the reader. Don't write like this. Respect your readers and help them comprehend. Expand acronyms as early as you can, ideally at t
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by stblack 6y ago
Of the projects listed, the Pi-Hole "ad blocker" — it's actually a DNS proxy that blocks much more than ads, is very good. Rarely mentioned: if you install the Raspbian OS, you get a full copy of Wolfram Mathematica, installe
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by stblack 6y ago
It's interesting to compare this table of contents with the TOC by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup which was updated in January 2020. "A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography" https://toc.cryptobook.us/ Like thi
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by stblack 6y ago
I think the slides for "Error Handling Isn't All About Errors", by Jane Lusby ( https://yaah.dev/rustconf ), are substantive and on-point. A case of the exception proving the rule, here? That said, conference s
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by stblack 6y ago
Those are all valid points. As another commenter says, the freezer isn't the only device that could be powered in an outage. Also, in Canada, when you run a generator in a power outage, after awhile you have neighbours who appear with
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by stblack 6y ago
The idea is more, if the freezer contains between CAD 1,000 and CAD 2,700 worth of food, how to keep it viable and not lose everything in a 1.75+ standard deviation power outage. The generator is insurance, not a lifeboat.
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by stblack 6y ago
The scenario we are planning is power down for several days. Not the collapse of civilization.
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by stblack 6y ago
I bought and filled a chest freezer in pandemic preparations. Cost of the chest freezer: CAD 1,000 Cost to completely fill the freezer with good food: CAD 2,700 Given that, during a pandemic or a winter storm in Canada, a power failure can

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