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by t_mann 5y ago
tl;dr: two thirds of Canadians report believing in a higher power in some way. If you slice the data in enough ways you'll find a few that will make headlines like this.
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by t_mann 5y ago
What counts as 'reading books'? Textbooks? Self help guides? Tourist guides? Comics? The protocols of the Elders of Zion? It's not all Dostoyevsky and Kant. My hinge: you just divided your friends arbitrarily into 'blue-
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by t_mann 5y ago
Comcast, Disney, AT&T, Sony, Fox, and Paramount Global control 90% of what you watch, read, or listen to Which year was that survey done? 2006?
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by t_mann 5y ago
Kinda funny to see this promoted on a site hosted by Y Combinator.
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by t_mann 5y ago
I liked it (saving and later also investing), I think at one point I even bugged my bank for better rates on my tiny account once I'd figured out how to compute compound interest on my dad's calculator (and realized it was program
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by t_mann 5y ago
Ok, that does sound more relevant. Either my sources gave an inaccurate picture, or that's only for junior roles.
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by t_mann 5y ago
This seems so much more relevant than what FAANG companies are asking apparently (never did an interview with them), ie undergrad algorithms and data structures problems, but in a really tricky way. I wonder why your approach to interview q
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by t_mann 5y ago
Purry.io aims to be a decentralized Twitter, sans new coin and scraping, though.
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by t_mann 5y ago
But why is the scraping so crucial? The history is probably less important to most users than the reach of their posts, so the mirroring on Twitter seems more crucial (Twitter could probably prevent that if they wished, though).
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Interesting idea, but how our by whom would the READ operations be performed, and how would they be committed to the new chain? Also, why does it have to be a subnet, it could just be a new blockchain?
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by t_mann 5y ago
Googling also works for Word, but I practically never need it there. It's just so easy to find solutions to those questions that you barely perceive them as such. I even figured out the shortcuts just by trying something that seemed to
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by t_mann 5y ago
I don't know whether to what version you were referring to, but my guess is that you might still consider indentation and text formatting unintuitive. But it is actually easy to pick up the rules that Word uses, and there are keyboard
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by t_mann 5y ago
This seems to be a post mostly about the economics and legal aspects of token sales and NFTs, and the author makes some strong arguments there. However, since HN is a tech forum, I think this sentence in the introduction should be challenge
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by t_mann 5y ago
Grad School in most STEM fields will look equally gibberish to you, so your question is almost like asking "Why do people do research?". The answer is to learn things that we didn't know before. In most STEM fields it's
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by t_mann 5y ago
Modern tools like Overleaf are great, especially for collaboration. But it's still extremely annoying having to google every little thing like "how can I move this element on the slide a bit to the right?" or even things that
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by t_mann 5y ago
I don't get the point of this. As the article points out, it would be perfectly legal for Shell to sell refined oil products of 100% Russian origin. Why do they go to the length of blending it to 49.99% Russian origin and expect to get
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by t_mann 5y ago
The paper claims to settle the correlation-causality question by using a multilevel random effects model metastudy methodology. That seems reasonable to me. However, it completely fails to address the - imho far more important - endogeneity
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by t_mann 5y ago
But he does call it a new idea, directly followed by three strong words (ultimately, primary, initiator). I'm not saying the only reasonable interpretation of the sentence is that he's overstating his role. But what does make me c
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by t_mann 5y ago
Sure, in principle it's interesting, and I can fathom that statements like these could in principle be provable. This 'graphical' perspective could lead to interesting insights eg in proof theory (I actually wouldn't be
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by t_mann 5y ago
I may have actually given him a bit too much credit initially (I'll admit, I didn't read the full article). Even if I acknowledge that Wolfram probably knows a lot more graduate-level math than me, sentences like these raise some
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by t_mann 5y ago
You are already taking marketing and finance classes and want to work in the marketing or finance department of a Tech firm. You're taking exactly the classes preparing you to do the job that you want to do, so what are you asking abou
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by t_mann 5y ago
There's no denying that Stephen Wolfram is a genius and has probably attained a deeper understanding of nature by age 14 than I will achieve in my lifetime. But still, I can't help but cringe when reading sentences like this: &quo
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French $217m lottery winner donates almost all winnings to tackle climate change(cnn.com)
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by t_mann 5y ago
Yes, you're right, we should be careful with the wording here. I would also blame the system, where Physics PhDs were paid to put enough math in the product presentations to convince traders that the AAA ratings (for products with subs
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by t_mann 5y ago
Interesting view and great data crunching. But I am amazed how one can write a long article purportedly about the causes of the 07/08 crisis without ever mentioning credit quality. By my impression, the prevailing view is that the cris
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by t_mann 5y ago
I'll venture a bet (not sure it's 100% true, but a fun idea to explore): sometime last year there was media hype about FAANG developers quitting their jobs to join crypto/web3 projects. Surely, ballooning crypto valuations pl
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by t_mann 5y ago
Hmm, but seen under this angle, it seems even worse, no? The tool lists about a dozen well-known public data sources that it's compatible to work with, you can't expect to gain any edge from those. Sure, you could learn how to fit
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by t_mann 5y ago
One thing I don't understand: he said he 'bought clinical trials'. What does that mean? Imho, the main thing that prevented this product from being useful was the lack of evidence that using it actually improves treatment out
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I really can't help but wonder - say I want to create a trading strategy that I actually want to use. Is there really any point in learning an open source framework, where I can assume that the most profitable strategies it can produce
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by t_mann 5y ago
Re Penicilin: the 'short term' benefits of not dying from a lung infection are pretty significant though. We might have better drugs today, but it was quite a miracle back then.

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