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by trobertson 7y ago
Are we really still using Forbes as evidence? Forbes is blogspam. I need a much more credible source before handing over my email to this site.
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by trobertson 7y ago
Microsoft is doing basically this, except with Typescript instead of C#: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/scripts/overview...
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by trobertson 7y ago
The base notation is from formal logic. A (dense) overview of first-order logic can be found on this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-order_logic It's much nicer to get slowly walked through it
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by trobertson 7y ago
And here is the Github of their models: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-tla
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by trobertson 7y ago
It's a response to the use of "he" as the default pronoun. "he" is gendered and basically everywhere, which means that many people consider its use sexist. Their response is to use "she" in an effort to sw
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by trobertson 7y ago
Directly discussed here: http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/...
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by trobertson 7y ago
> That all sounds nice, but what is suspicious that we have not seen a working implementation yet. You mean to say that Western and Central Europe don't exist? They have single-payer healthcare and it works way better than American
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by trobertson 7y ago
His company is China's inroad to the Western games distribution industry. China is totally cool with Epic allowing anti-China statements as long as it brings the users into China arms.
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by trobertson 7y ago
> A 2018 Gallup poll found that only 25% of Americans thought there was too little government regulation. Another 33% thought we had the right amount, and 39% thought there was too much. The question of "Is there enough regulation&q
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by trobertson 7y ago
And you can redirect any website (say, a news site to an archive.org copy) with the Redirector addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/
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by trobertson 7y ago
Firefox as well: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter...
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by trobertson 7y ago
On the subject of painting restoration, there is a channel on Youtube called Baumgartner Restoration that makes documentary-style videos about restoring old paitings. Here is one of the more recent videos, where the restorer describes what
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by trobertson 8y ago
And on https://news.ycombinator.com/active
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by trobertson 8y ago
Google products and services tend to provide immediate and obvious value. Unlike the "connections" businesses where "value" is poorly defined and prone to change.
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by trobertson 8y ago
A redditor in the /r/technology thread on this recalled that Facebook has performed emotion manipulation experiments in the past. It may be that Facebook was using those capabilities to make kids and teens more vulnerable to ads.
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by trobertson 8y ago
Instacrap?
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by trobertson 8y ago
If you don't like the automatic cast, you can always manually cast inline by doing (3 :: Int). I've used this a number of times when doing numeric stuff in Haskell.
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by trobertson 8y ago
You could get a bunch of plants. They probably won't solve the problem outright, but they are a good first step.
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by trobertson 8y ago
Make that part of the YC process. Mock renting of space, filling it, etc. Have reviews of how they did, things they considered, etc.
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by trobertson 8y ago
I imagine most people aren't going to read that whole comment, but I did. Thanks for the write up, and for showing that my knee-jerk interpretation was incorrect.
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by trobertson 8y ago
You might consider other metrics, like the school grade level that most journalistic entities write for. In the USA, it used to be that most journalists wrote towards a 5th grade reading ability. Assuming that the article is correct, then m
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by trobertson 8y ago
> (In reality, most people will get out more than they put in.) Up until it runs out, at which point nobody gets anything. And for whichever generation gets shafted (guess), they will be looking at a big negative when they see they get n
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by trobertson 8y ago
OP did not assert that “the wage gap is caused by women”. OP said that _IF_ the wage gap was caused by the informed decisions of women, then OP is fine with it. And that is a reasonable view.
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by trobertson 8y ago
> The second law of institutions is that every process must require more people to execute than can conspire without being detected[1] > [1] No, I just made that up. You didn't, actually. This is the Byzantine Generals problems a
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by trobertson 8y ago
No, it is literally operations people who are around to prevent that from happening. (facetious:) C-levels are around to look pretty and offer pleasant platitudes during board meetings.
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by trobertson 8y ago
The article is about countryside homelessness, not big-city homelessness. The problem with that average is that it overestimates the cost of countryside living, which means that people who are homeless in the countryside are seriously scr
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by trobertson 8y ago
Harvard Business School and its wannabes.
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by trobertson 9y ago
> marketing fundamentally exists outside morality. > It's not a moral indictment, it's just a bald statement of fact Marketing exists to sell stuff. Facts are only relevant to marketing in-so-far as the facts sells the produ
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by trobertson 9y ago
At this point, I'm almost certain that there's vote manipulation going on. I hope dang et al. can take a look into it.
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by trobertson 9y ago
For anyone else curious, versor is on github: https://github.com/wolftype/versor

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