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> Edit: For all the cynics and doomsayers here, consider this: Tor has been around for a long time, but there has never been an uptick in arrests that could be correlated to cracking the core anonymity service. If you look closely at the
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It is configurable - with brackets.
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I think the person you are replying to meant that the allies didn't occupy Germany after WWI (and therefore there could be few lessons from Versailles on nation building), your link posts to WWII.
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This kind of mistake is easy to avoid. The problem is that there are a lot of potential mistakes that could be made, this is just one of them.
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My experience is that when crypto was in the news, my non-technical friends, family, and colleagues would ask me what is bitcoin and were generally confused. My experience with the AI boom couldn't be more different - everyone from my
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> if you have enough coconuts you just drink the coconut water until rescued Coconut water has high levels of potassium, and in excess, has been noted in case reports to cause severe hyperkalemia. This link has more information: > A 4
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A family member is a doctor and spends a great deal of time on continuous professional development (mostly reading journals to stay up to date on new approaches and best practices). I assume as he gets closer to retirement the ROI for this
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Conversely, if Buffett made 10% more one year, the impact on his life would be negligible. If someone has $10k, an extra $1k can make a huge difference.
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My experience with GPT-4 is that it's been amazing for python and mediocre at DAX. It frequently hallucinates functions, gives code that can't run, or does not fit the prompt. It is still helpful, but there's a big gap betwee
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A simple fix would be to change it to a multiple of 4 (e.g. 124 years). Then it would fail every 100 years.
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I've been told downsizing can be very random. "We'll keep PersonA because they're in the middle of a project that is running late, and our client won't tolerate a change, but PersonB just finished their project&quot
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Hanlon's razor is "never attribute to malice that which could be attributed to stupidity". However racism itself might be stupidity and not malice - much of everyday racism isn't the malicious KKK kind, it's much mo
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Closer to 0.32% than 8%.
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If I recall correctly, the bet terms were a collection of hedge funds, which changes the odds - was what are the chances that if you pick 5 balls out of a bag containing 92 red balls and 8 blue balls that the majority of your balls will be
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by verbify 3y ago
Thanks for your contribution to this discussion, it's helpful to have actual numbers. There was a mixed metaphor that popped out to me in your comment (and I hope pointing it out doesn't break HN guidelines around tangential annoy
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Agree with the general economics, but this caught my eye: > a gym customer needs quite a bit more space compared to the retail customers in the rest of the high street Where I live, the two gyms nearest to me are not on a high street - t
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> I chose to not use the category of “Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing”, because it would include manufacturers of navigation systems (Garmin, etc.), which aren’t really what would come into my mind when I think of “tech com
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Of course not. I don't know how you got that I 'support genocide' from my post. My point was merely not to romanticise the past.
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> the jews lived peacefully in Palestine for centuries alongside christians and muslims before colonization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1517_Hebron_attacks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li
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A better comparison might be China which has an extensive rail network.
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I'm wondering how I could figure out that I was the victim of this. Perhaps if the booking was cancelled almost immediately after being booked. Wouldn't the workaround for airbnb to be having a member of staff 'approve'
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Is it possible that the walls around Jericho were there to keep out wild animals?
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In the UK an unfair contract term or notice is not binding. It is defined as "contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the parties’ rights and obligations under the contract to the detriment of th
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Do you have a source for that? It's off quoted but I can't find how people arrived at that number. Here's a counterpoint: https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...
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Many developers don't spend time on hacker news or even any of the similar forums. To be stereotypical, HN readers seem more likely to be young, working for FAANG in Silicon Valley, and not a middle aged sharepoint integration develope
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ISLR/ISLP is free, was used in my masters and is excellent (and has an accompanying video series) https://www.statlearning.com/
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How many of these universals are shared with other mammals (especially apes)?
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What about: > Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it Genesis 1:28 In Orthodox Judaism (from the Mishna/Talmud) this takes the status of a commandment to try to have kids.
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> what exactly is the standard Facebook is meant to enforce? Should it ban everyone who is responsible for pointless killing? That includes the US leadership apparatus - should it ban everyone who voted Aye for the Iraq war? Afghanistan?
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One thing that strikes me travelling in America is the homogeneity. I'm from the England and I've been to places in England where I genuinely couldn't understand the accents (I used to find the Geordie accent the hardest unti

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