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by t_mann 4y ago
It still pains me to think what a disappointment and missed opportunity Pokemon Go was imho. I don't get it why they ditched the signature Pokemon fighting system for something pretty arbitrary, and so many other strange decisions that
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Biography of a forced intellectual child prodigy(en.wikipedia.org)
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Dihydrogen monoxide is actually a cooling agent for nuclear power plants. It's lethal at high doses, with hundreds of thousands of fatal accidents per year, and yet they put it into our food because it's cheap.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Learnt about the interesting biography of poor James Sidis through this article, who was an involuntary experimental subject of this theory through a 'forced prodigy' upbringing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by t_mann 4y ago
Requirements like the bar exam exist also to protect the insiders who also happen to make the rules. In economics it's called an insider-outsider problem. Not saying we should actually abolish the bar, just hinting at a possible reason
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by t_mann 4y ago
Interesting, do you have a reference? I'd say it affects my theory a lot, haha
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Just wondering - I guess "giving shit" should be sufficiently well defined that we could create a training set for a GPT-3-like pre-trained language model.
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by t_mann 4y ago
I've often wondered along similar lines, and my explanation was always related to what's mentioned in the article as well: the Black Death killed around two thirds of the European population, without rats being identified as the m
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by t_mann 4y ago
If phages are so extremely niche as you suggest, then how come that they seem to be common knowledge among software engineers? And you're making an inconsistent comparison: it's not about being an expert, not even about having rea
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by t_mann 4y ago
That seems naive to assume. We already live in a world where there are multiple rankings, and many of them (even some of the most important ones, like QS or Shanghai) rely only on independently collected or public data. We already have what
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by t_mann 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. Sounds very similar to Goodhart's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by t_mann 4y ago
I think it's easy to underestimate the impact of rankings. Just from your description, it seems that one of the most important overall decision factors for you seems to have been some sort of vague personal sense of how you'd rank
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> Will quantum computing destroy blockchain and classical encryption algorithms as we know? Short answer: the currently popular ones? Yes. All that we know? Probably not. See eg: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/
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That is not a good excuse for not knowing something infectious-disease-related that the average user on a software engineering forum seems to know. It's like MDs talking about a programmer and saying something like 'It's en
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by t_mann 4y ago
Can't help but chuckle at this headline at the top of HN, right when a decade of free money is about to end. Back to fundamentals over growth and engagement?
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by t_mann 4y ago
Not to be trumping anyone's horn here, but resource dependence seems like a very uninformed argument in favour of batteries. Check out where the resources for those come from.
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I have a (sort of on and off) subscription to Scientific American, this might fit your bill.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Since taste is necessarily personal, here's my personal opinion: 100% of the tech logos look (significantly) better in the right column, and maybe ~50% of the fashion ones (though most are close to indifferent there). The only one that
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by t_mann 4y ago
Historically, hedging was the reason when the first such funds launched that allowed them to use a specific regulatory loophole. The name has stuck around much more so than the strategy, though, nowadays there are entire classes of hedge fu
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by t_mann 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. Multiresistant bacteria are high on my list of slow-mo crashes happening before our eyes that no one seems to be talking about (compared to eg climate change, which is also a slow-mo catastrophe, but at least one that pe
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by t_mann 4y ago
Can we also take a moment to appreciate the tongue-in-cheek writing style of this (fairly thorough, by my impression) analysis of rather dry things like SEC filings, merger covenants,...?
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by t_mann 4y ago
I guess, but I'd say Boeing needn't be too big to fail.
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by t_mann 4y ago
You're right, my bad.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Not sure. Twitter board members have a fiduciary duty towards shareholders. If they accept a lot less than they could get by simply enforcing the rules (at a comparatively negligible cost) because they don't want to look mean, I reckon
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by t_mann 4y ago
Sounds like a very unpleasant experience, sorry to hear. But I'm not sure it's a good precedent for this case, for two reasons: a) You were happy to settle, which sounds understandable. But when the stakes are $44bn and most actor
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Edit: I saw some more reports, this does look like disgusting behavior that Tesla are trying to combat here. Just sad that the solution always seems to be more surveillance.
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> There's no "honest engineering" that will solve the problem There very much is: tell the customers that changing aerodynamics means changing the plane. Full stop.
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> The company sank 25+ Billion in A380 development and cant even cover the cost of manufacture so they shut it down Yes, and then they quickly pivoted to building the A320neo, and that one just flies without issues, because apparently th
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Recently, an Airbus A380 just continued to fly for 10h+ with a torn exterior like it was nothing. Boeing have failed to make use of a 2+ years (!) Covid-induced grace period to fix a plane that was apparently designed by accountants and MB
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> If the threat escalates to break-in level, the vehicle sounds an alarm and begins blasting music Thanks. Well, on paper this sounds a lot more reasonable than what the parent described, but what they might be experiencing might simply

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