tcbawo

34 ms·

421.
by tcbawo 6y ago
Someone I know was a student athlete, near valedictorian in high school and a fairly talented musician. He went off to college on the West coast nearly twenty years ago. He tried some LSD, which may have either activated and/or exace
422.
by tcbawo 6y ago
The concept of community gatekeepers might explain part of the fundamental divide relating to political conversation happening in the US. There are different groups, different codes, different value systems. These groups would never natur
423.
by tcbawo 6y ago
The SEC trusts them to regulate themselves with the understanding that they had better run a tight ship, or the heavy hand of government will come down.
424.
by tcbawo 6y ago
The human genome is complicated. Mitochondrial DNA is distinct from nuclear DNA. For the most part, people only get mitochondrial DNA from their mothers.
425.
by tcbawo 6y ago
I can't speak for Stamets, but I wouldn't disqualify someone as an authority in a field due to lack of degree. For example, Agner Fog is an anthropologist who is also a frequently cited authority on x86 instruction timing and opt
426.
by tcbawo 6y ago
> The income used to accumulate the assets left at death was taxed when it was received; the earnings on the assets were taxed year after year Neither of these are necessarily true. Although, an estate tax is probably a poor place to ca
427.
by tcbawo 6y ago
A couple weeks ago, I was looking for some way to convert a Gmail email filter into an Android clock alarm (not just a custom notification) so I can be woken up if a certain email arrives. I haven't found a solution for this. I had h
428.
by tcbawo 6y ago
Interesting, although that goes the other way, indicating different degrees of implied scaling (rather than none). If you were labeling a header or axis on a chart, or naming a variable you'd probably include the word "decimal&qu
429.
by tcbawo 6y ago
I would love to have a symbol that represents this unit scale as an analogue to '%'. I.e. you could say 33% or 0.33x where where 'x' indicates a normalized decimal from 0.0 to 1.0.
430.
by tcbawo 6y ago
A similar argument has also been made about JavaScript. When it comes to market share I guess most users don't care how elegant the solution is under the hood.
431.
by tcbawo 6y ago
Market participants run the gamut from seasoned rational professionals to knee-jerk reactive amateurs. Professionals are the ones who are willing to take the other side during short term movements for long term profits. This softens the b
432.
by tcbawo 6y ago
I agree, but I'll add that vim is much easier on a project where things are well organized and laid out. Some IDEs make it easier to find classes by name or navigate by click. This can lead to disorganization when many people are invo
433.
by tcbawo 6y ago
Imagine a state actor that develops quantum computing technology, then proceeds to mine and sell massive amounts of cryptocurrencies into the market in order to destabilize and destroy any value.
434.
by tcbawo 6y ago
That magnitude of price increase translates to about ~3.5% annualized increase, which seems indicative of a relatively healthy inflation adjustment. Many parts of the Midwest have been accustomed to stagnant home prices due to decades of e
435.
by tcbawo 6y ago
Why would you pay it off early? Can't you find a better return elsewhere? Even if you think the S&P 500 is currently overvalued, the dividend yield is 1.8%. It makes sense to buy if you plan to stay in an area long term. But, I
436.
by tcbawo 6y ago
Definitely, although my idea is to keep the plot point and characters somewhat fixed, but having geography and in-game item placement be procedurally generated. You could probably inject some additional randomness my having certain plot li
437.
by tcbawo 6y ago
It would be interesting to take a tile-based game with adventure story elements and add a procedurally generated map and locations to recreate the sense of discovering a new world.
438.
by tcbawo 6y ago
The concept of a game as a transformative/developmental journey is as relevant and necessary as ever. If interactive games are the future of education, this approach could make philosophy/religion/ethos accessible to a wider
439.
by tcbawo 6y ago
Who would people believe? The CEO or a disgruntled former employee?
440.
by tcbawo 6y ago
Customer orders are tagged in the market (thus available to all participants) due to laws governing market participant behavior. These orders are essentially static, while all other institutional orders with direct market access are fluid.
441.
by tcbawo 6y ago
Funnily enough, US stocks were trading in fractions until 2001!
442.
by tcbawo 6y ago
A similar phenomenon I have heard about is searching out old music records/albums. I think part of this is about completing some ancient want/need from one's childhood, or matching achievements of one's childhood role m
443.
by tcbawo 6y ago
You could look at it from the perspective of adapt or die. But you can also look at certain industries/companies like an endangered species. Once the last rhino dies, it's gone forever. Not a totally straightforward decision.
444.
by tcbawo 6y ago
I like the mention of an internal tool called "SECRET TOOL". It makes me wonder why the name would be redacted, although I'm amused by the idea of that actually being its name.
445.
by tcbawo 6y ago
Someone I know sent me a link to a 'peer-reviewed' paper 'proving' that hydroxycloroquine cut mortality rate 'in half' from the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. However, a cursory look at the data shows a
446.
by tcbawo 6y ago
This comment is probably tongue in cheek, but I think the slowness of Python 3 uptake was mostly caused by a perceived lack of beneficial features to the large HPC/scientific computing crowd. Breaking syntax changes (outside some very
447.
by tcbawo 6y ago
I think you are describing an interface change, which is not surprising to break existing code. If you added or removed an item, you could also likely be breaking code.
448.
by tcbawo 6y ago
Not only do we attempt to extend life by any means irregardless of quality of life, we are encouraged by high costs of education, real estate, child-rearing to toil away the best/healthiest years of our lives. It's definitely a g
449.
by tcbawo 6y ago
The long term effects of flu are known. The long term effects of Covid-19 on any demographic are unknown. Polio killed less than 2000 people per year prior to the development of the vaccine, but impacted many more.
450.
by tcbawo 6y ago
Housing supply is very low in my suburb within a large metropolitan area. Many people are buying. A neighbor recently went on the market and had multiple offers on the first day. I've heard similar stories from a few friends in the

More ›