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by twright 7y ago
> Q: A much steeper income tax has gotten attention — some pitching even 70%. Is that possible? > Oyer: I can’t imagine a 70% tax rate. And I don’t think we’ll see a universal basic income for a long time. These are hugely expensive i
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by twright 7y ago
> Sure, I got lucky [...] The details he lists after seem extraordinarily lucky.
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by twright 7y ago
Whenever I hear 'cluster' I think of scientific computing applications and wondering how these fit in there. The author addresses a nice use case in another post: https://blog.alexellis.io/build-your-own-bare-metal
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by twright 7y ago
Really cool! My controller was plugged in and surprised that it worked with the game, I've never used it in a browser before! Likely a bug in the framework but in Firefox 67 the right audio channel is cutting out sometimes, works fine
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by twright 7y ago
Historically, coal is an industry filled with -to put it lightly- labor disputes due to exploitative conditions [1][2]. Today, the industry in decline by any definition and as companies try to awl out some sort of profit they cut corners wh
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by twright 7y ago
This is really cool, I have a two questions the last one maybe a bit sillier than the first: - I'm not a chemist, maybe you said this implicitly, but roughly at what rate would this capture a kilogram of carbon? - Why did you choose th
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by twright 7y ago
> Don’t they ever think that they’re actually destroying our planet and there’s no other place to live? They might, but monetarily speaking, they can afford it. See: home protection via private firefighters [1], ability to buy citizenshi
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by twright 7y ago
Link to release (no paper or implementation details): https://datagrid.co.jp/all/release/386/ I find GAN gifs like the one in the release oddly mesmerizing. I watched it for a bit looking for funny anatomy (d
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by twright 7y ago
Subtract one and it's a prime number, so you can say there are prime number of unsolved states. This is only true for some cubes of different sizes [1]. [1]: https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/threads/a-collec
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by twright 7y ago
"Turn off the alarms everyone, this part of the building isn't on fire." It takes more than a few data-points to declare a trend reversed, especially one this big. In the paper I believe you're referring to they even c
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by twright 8y ago
Siri isn't very strong, it can answer (very) basic questions and resorts to web searches when it can't answer. I find it occasionally mishearing me or completely parsing my question incorrectly. I recall a particularly bad one: &q
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by twright 8y ago
The husky part sounds straight right out of Gavin Belson in Silicon Valley, "consider the husky...".
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by twright 8y ago
My go to example is if we lose insects which pollinate plants we would have a very very hard time growing certain foods. There is a certain unforeseeable complexity to these things. Just a speculatory example, losing migratory birds could w
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by twright 8y ago
Sorry, can you explain the joke?
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by twright 8y ago
Will hydro be viable if the rainfall gets worse? Lake Mead is about 40% capacity, I can't imagine other dams are doing much better.
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by twright 8y ago
Thanks for this, I was about to comment the same thing! I don't really see the point of setting the locale if it doesn't automatically format the values or output currency's symbol.
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by twright 9y ago
It's written on parchment[1], I've found mentions that the _drafts_ were on hemp paper but not a firm source on how we know this or where these drafts are now. [1] https://www.archives.gov/preservation/formats
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by twright 9y ago
In the expansions of Civ 3 (or 4?) in the late game you can lose tiles to effects of climate change and desertification. Though it was never a huge issue for my cities, a little production lost here, a little food there. I'm wondering
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by twright 9y ago
Huh? Because sample interview questions would be nice to read over if someone was not interviewing for something that is not front end?
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by twright 9y ago
Does anyone know of any equivalent "handbooks" for other domains like back end or machine learning?
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by twright 9y ago
I've seen a lot of fossils-in-China articles this year, quite fantastic articles too. Can anyone answer why there are so many being discovered right now and in such remarkable condition?
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by twright 9y ago
Sounds like a good idea for a credit rating company, it might certainly be more transparent than current ones. Or, Black Mirror series 3 episode 1, it's a fine line.
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by twright 9y ago
somewhere in 2038 AD "I didn't start this clock, so I clearly have nothing to do with it and it won't affect me. It predates us, so why should we fix it?" This attitude would be well and good if everyone's actions
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by twright 9y ago
My go-to bad machine-learning translation is from Swedish "Män som hatar kvinnor" to "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". The correct translation is "Men who hate women" the book's original title. We can ded
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by twright 9y ago
That's an illustration of the first gen Zune, the second gen had the "squarcle."
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by twright 10y ago
> If the demand is so high, how about farming? Or are there restrictions on the kind of animals may be breed in farms? Ethics of keeping large plains grazing mammals aside, farming large mammals like rhinos would be very expensive and co
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by twright 10y ago
What will convince leaders and the American masses of climate change? I'm afraid that they won't accept it until its effects smacks them in the face, twice.
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by twright 10y ago
Here's a Drakes Equation visualizer I made. I know it doesn't address certain factors but it's fun to play with as a thought experiment. Even with some optimistic numbers there's not that much out there. https:/&#x
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by twright 10y ago
Being in one of the darker red states on the map in the article, it's pretty frustrating. It's a well known problem how the state ranks in the nation and the governor cuts education budgets under the pretense of reform? I only see
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by twright 10y ago
1. Take a word that encapsulates the project in some way. 2. Translate it into other languages and find a cooler one. [1] optional: Use wikitionary to verify the translation and possibly change the tense. [1] http://translatr.var

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