syrrim

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by syrrim 4y ago
You plead guilty precisely because you didn't do anything. The probability distribution for you was: high chance of getting off, low chance of getting a large punishment. The probability distribution for SBF if he pleads not guilty wil
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by syrrim 4y ago
They made that. It's called xmr.
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Apple is leveraging their success in the operating system space to control competition in other markets and to limit options available to consumers. This is classic anti competitive behaviour and has nothing to do with whether the OS is sol
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by syrrim 4y ago
They filed a lawsuit claiming they didn't know about a single stray sheet of paper in one of the photos of the shoot, which looks entirely innocent on first inspection, but happens to be a court document for a famous child pornography
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by syrrim 4y ago
100 lbs in three months is ~1lb/day, thus a deficiency of 3500Cal/day. His maintenance intake would have been 4300Cals/day. That seems insanely high - what was his weight?
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by syrrim 4y ago
Interesting article. I sometimes wonder to what degree we moderns are simply recreating the (failed) systems of old. We are trying to move from twitter to "federated" systems, which are structurally quite similar to usenet. What l
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by syrrim 4y ago
"Property owner has not done enough to soundproof the unit against nearby train noise"
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by syrrim 4y ago
Can't believe this was in the new yorker. It reads like a typical internet shitpost. I swear it was just another copypasta.
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by syrrim 4y ago
> There's many sources arguing you give what you can afford while a utilitarian approach would be to give beyond that if you can save more lives A misunderstanding of utilitarianism. If telling people to give everything makes them g
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by syrrim 4y ago
What am I looking at? It seems like they achieve plausible deniability by recommending you get the file by ripping it from a cartridge you own. Is that not good enough?
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by syrrim 4y ago
The previous president was impeached for taking aid from ukraine lest they investigate invented allegations of corruption. That putin warned of something is meaningless. Are we expected to roll over whenever a foreign country makes a threat
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by syrrim 4y ago
Something like "which would have been won [if the reports are to believd]" perhaps.
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by syrrim 4y ago
Friends don't let friends make important decisions on the basis of internet bullshit.
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by syrrim 4y ago
I think many people would have argued beforehand that twitter in particular was overstaffed, and that you could safely cut large portions of their employees without much loss. In properly run companies, employees are already justified in te
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by syrrim 4y ago
Money is not just dollars. I consider my bank account money, even though I know its backed by some fraction of its value in actual dollars. People take out loans that are backed by stocks, for example. If the stock market went to zero, they
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by syrrim 4y ago
We don't always have detailed evidence, so its useful to be able to make predictions with less evidence. When we have more evidence, we can verify the accuracy of our predictions in order to make better predictions in the future. Admit
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by syrrim 4y ago
There is frequently a system where they sell an international version of the book for significantly lower cost. In order to prevent americans from simply purchasing the international version, it will often have substantial differences. So
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by syrrim 4y ago
There was a commentary somewhere that while someone in france had discovered the cure to smallpox in the form of variolation, the king of france was dying of it. The reason he died was not because no cure existed, but because his doctors we
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by syrrim 4y ago
They lost roughly $8B in customer deposits. The $16B cited in the article is the total amount of money they lost which includes a sizable profit that they were supposed to have made on their legitimate business activities.
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Canada has a parliamentary system with winner-takes-all for each seat. We have three major national parties and a regional party which regularly has a significant minority. The system is not fundamentally different from the one used to sele
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by syrrim 4y ago
A better link might the google doc explaining in detail: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kiW9qmNlJ9oQZM6r5o4_N54s... >A major obstacle in getting financial support is most companies don't have an inter
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by syrrim 4y ago
^D only does that in cooked input mode. In raw mode ^D send ^D, and it's up to the program to interpret that, or not. This is essential in, eg, telnet, since it wants to be able to open a session on a remote host that behaves exactly l
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by syrrim 4y ago
My personal take is that markdown is only good when you can customize it to your needs and situation. There are a million markdown flavours, because everyone who ever implements it decides to add their own extensions to it to suit their sit
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by syrrim 4y ago
Both tweets from nov 3, talking about something going to happen yesterday which... didn't happen. Fair to say at least some of their information was bad.
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by syrrim 4y ago
The vibration of a bell (say) could be modelled by a matrix, with a state vector to represent position, velocity, and acceleration, and the matrix modelling the differential equations describing their evolution over time. The eigenvectors r
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by syrrim 4y ago
That article is strange. I was of the belief that most western "monospace" fonts were in fact "duospaced" under their definition. This distinction isn't apparent for normal writing, but such fonts usually make most
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> You might be thinking, “Okay, but now characters won’t line up neatly.” Thats true, but the upside of this sizing means you still retain the typewriter aesthetic with a bit more legibility. Notice the difference? Does it? It feels like
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At the very least, it maps a lot more closely than does the market value of a single stock.
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Reads as exceedingly reasonable as written. If the network is congested, someone has to pay in a slower connection. It makes sense to place that burden on the heaviest users.
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It's an interesting perspective. There's probably a sense in which overall improving a diversified portfolio maps to improving society or the economy as a whole, rather than harming society to make a dollar. So whereas the lawsuit

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