t0mpr1c3

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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
The bus runs so I don't have to
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
I once got a job by sending a cold email. I was overqualified and took a pay cut of more than 50%. It was a stepping stone. I would rather have done it in my 20s than in my 50s, but I had been unemployed for a year. When I had an academic j
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
Weird flex because electronic communications are easier to write, easier to send, and get there faster. In answer to your question, it was probably junk mail from a realtor. And they only hand wrote the address.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
Good advice. Job boards are actually the lowest probability option. The trouble is, they are often still the best option. When you don't have previous experience or contacts in the industry you can wait a long time for an opportunity.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
In a world of automated junk mail and spam, there are good odds that the unread message will be immediately trashed. Most people won't take a call from an unexpected number even if the phone is already in their hand.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
See the Magna Carta at the British library. Pint at said pub. Curry on Drummond Street. Then catch a band at ULU.
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by t0mpr1c3 2mo ago
The FRED house price index has roughly doubled in both states in the last 10 years, which does not speak to wealth destruction. As it happens I have visited places where people actually had socialist governments, and freedom was curtailed
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
> irreversible on human timescales It's almost like we might need that network of oceanic data collection sites. The one recently defunded by the Trump administration. https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/trum
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
I don't think statistics are the issue, or what the exact definition of a communist is. For what it's worth, self-described communists are still in charge in all of the countries I mentioned, with the obvious exception of Soviet R
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Let's consider the economies of Communist nations. I suggest we take into account a bit of regional history. North Korea is a basket case. But after three generations of tyrants it is arguably a monarchy. China is a success story, end
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
The only truly global intervention I can think of whose impact might be discernible over geological timescales is the ban on testing nuclear weapons.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Trump said he holds all the cards but Iran has a strait
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
The amendment process is broken. The constitution has become a fossil law. The problem has become acute now that the SCOTUS majority has arrogated power to itself in shameless and corrupt fashion.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Motorola... which used to be owned by Google (naturally).
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Exercise helps symptoms of depression. Yay! Also, when fat people eat less they lose weight. As with any intervention, the devil is in the details. The author doesn't really provide any. If the fix was easy we wouldn't need doctor
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
You are correct. I cherry-picked the wrong data point! An aggregate index for 2025 ( https://www.idea.int/democracytracker/gsod-indices ) shows: USA 0.70 Brazil 0.74 Perhaps of more relevance here is that Brazil scores m
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Genetic drift is essentially random. Alleles at loci more than a few hundred thousand base pairs away are unaffected. In contrast, an allele under selection pressure drags along large chunks of the chromosome on which it occurs. Statistical
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
It's not an uncharitable reading if Gould stated his claim unequivocably. Your alternative claim is just factually wrong. The population frequency of an allele under selection pressure can change within a few generations. For example t
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Oracle is detested in the Javascript community because having inherited the trademark for Javascript, it did nothing to develop or use the language for decades but continued to aggressively enforce its ownership rights. Oracle has not monet
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
I am told that Oracle's main business activity is suing its own customers. Hopefully they fired 21,000 lawyers.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Is it time to 'Liquidate' op eds in WSJ, which are so decidedly inferior to its news reporting?
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
One of mine was mentioned on HN. The repo went from 0 stars to about 60 in a couple of days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45369768
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
This commentary from the Economist is not to be dismissed lightly. It is to be crushed into the dust as pernicious and obscene propaganda for the wealthy, forever to elicit only condemnation and disgust.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
According to the Economist Democracy Index, Brazil is a more democratic country than the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
It's hard to see how a statistical model can be banned, regardless of its origin. Is there a precedent for that?
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
To those that have, is given. Everywhere and always. The biggest delusion of Americans is that they worked hard for everything they have. It is characteristic of Americans to think poor people are undeserving.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
You are experiencing one of the corollaries of the thesis in the OP. Material loss is experienced as unhappiness, no matter where you started on the distribution of wealth. Another is that there is no satisfaction to be had in status compar
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Indeed. For example, volatility is of interest in financial data, because it relates to the pricing of risk. So are the correlations between asset classes. Interestingly market volatility often goes hand-in-hand with increased correlation b
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
I loved pirate radio in London in the 90s. It was so vital. There was nowhere else that you could hear tracks that new unless you were at a club or the handful of record shops where DJs hung out. You could phone in and they would give you a
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Perhaps your analogy is wrong.

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