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by ves 6y ago
as another datapoint, I don’t think those riddles particularly good; their answers seem nonsensical, or in the case of the first two, even to posses qualities entirely opposite those the riddles require. E: referring to the three in your ed
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by ves 6y ago
Heads up, your link is broken since it has an extraneous period at the end.
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by ves 6y ago
Why not be the agent of karma? Someone’s gotta do it, most likely.
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by ves 6y ago
well, you may not have their address, but you have their inbox. “References and supplemental video content available on my website at ...”
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by ves 6y ago
last names encode a lot of information. Skin color / features etc can also be informative.
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by ves 6y ago
Do you know anywhere with truly unrestricted speech? The US has the freest speech that I know of (granted it’s also the only model that I’m so familiar with), and even it has plenty of restrictions: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by ves 6y ago
I think “let it burn” was either meant figuratively or in the sense that the police won’t prevent arson. I don’t think the implication was that police should be putting out fires once started, or that they’re doing that but selectively.
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by ves 6y ago
Founding a business doesn’t necessarily make you rich.
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by ves 6y ago
Not all healthcare requires MRI machines, no? Presumably most (not all, I will agree) of the marginal expense is shouldered by situations which make use of the MRI, versus those that could carry on without it (plus another small concession
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by ves 6y ago
Yeah, I love their switches but blew three of them in two years which is pretty unacceptable. I’ve used cherries far longer and never had that problem.
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by ves 6y ago
The only one handed keyboard I know of is the one made by matias.
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by ves 6y ago
Yeah, I hated the ergodox-ez. The flat nature made for lots of awkward stretches, both in the thumb cluster and the middle columns accessible by the index finger. I switched to a kinesis advantage immediately after and have loved it to deat
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by ves 6y ago
I liked your comment! To substantiate this comment, I’ll say that words describing themselves are known as autonyms. So you marked out an autonomous comment.
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by ves 6y ago
isn’t getting your hands on lots of sims/phone numbers, and thus Signal accounts, pretty trivial, though?
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by ves 6y ago
Yeah, but discovery costs resources, and on the margin a new accelerator is a less cost-effective means of producing productive new discoveries, sounds like.
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by ves 6y ago
My understanding is that tech jobs also pay a lot more (relatively) in the US than most everywhere else in the west.
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by ves 6y ago
The idris book opens with a section on dependently-typed state machines and it’s magnificent.
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by ves 6y ago
That’s an unfair conclusion. Those examples were pretty specific and I, at least, see no reason to generalize (except maybe the insurance one), except perhaps along the lines of “serving exploitative monopolies is bad”
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by ves 7y ago
Natural selection is a consequence of mortality and reproduction, not life in total.
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by ves 7y ago
It’s untrue that natural selection always guides pathogens to be less lethal. This is covered in ch. 64-66 of Quammen’s “Spillover”, which covers a seminal paper by Anderson and May[0] considering the case of myxomatosis. Here’s some salien
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by ves 7y ago
Arcteryx is the way to go, in my experience. The only prana pants I’ve liked are the continuum, which are bulletproof and fantastic even though they’re just cotton canvas. I’ve shredded them against granite and you can barely tell that ther
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by ves 7y ago
Bridges bottleneck many more paths than random streets, though, so while they aren’t special for any particular trip, they are special over all trips.
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by ves 7y ago
You would definitely cover some graph and dynamic programming algorithms in a good introductory algorithms course.
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by ves 7y ago
Please tell me “sentances” was intentional.
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by ves 7y ago
I’ll bet it’s a reference to the Imperial Civil Service Exam[0], which in its later years became notorious in the same ways mentioned in the link. Government officials, who had all passed the exam, were known as Mandarins (at least to the W
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by ves 7y ago
I studied math for a couple years in university and have been a professional python programmer for a while. I’m familiar with the theory behind popular styles like OO and have used them professionally but ultimately I find Haskells incredib
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by ves 7y ago
I’d assume gp was referring to the fact that humans and pigs are genetically very similar and not that gp is out of shape or something.
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by ves 7y ago
You absolutely can, because you have much less capital to deploy and no strings attached. The sorts of opportunities you’re looking for and they’re looking for can be totally disjoint. Some friends and I made a bit of easy money in college
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by ves 7y ago
keep in mind that that last statement is relative to your education, etc. The haskell model is much more intuitive and productive for me than the weird oo-esque models of “usual” languages like python, c++, and java.
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by ves 7y ago
Organic doesn’t mean pesticide free, it just means a different set of pesticides are allowed. ... at least here in the US. Source: https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/01/25/organic-101-allow...

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