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by waqf 4y ago
It's worse than that. You need the median time for the whole project, which you can't get just from summing the medians of the individual tasks.
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by waqf 4y ago
Transposing is effortless on most modern keyboard instruments: you press the transpose button. Now you have a choice of what key it sounds in and a choice of what fingering you find convenient. Isn't that better than your suggestio
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by waqf 4y ago
That was my first reaction too, but on reflection I think the cases are distinguishable. I do say the words "I agree with <Bob>" in meetings, but only when I am acknowledging (and thereby unintentionally endorsing) that ther
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by waqf 4y ago
As a piano player, let's figure out the best way to arrange the keys on the keyboard first, and figure out the names afterwards.
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by waqf 4y ago
And yet (depending on how it is used) "oversight" often refers to an instance of overlooking, rather than of overseeing. It seems remiss of Grammarist to write an entire page without mentioning that.
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by waqf 4y ago
> 'the second draft is where you make it look like you knew what you were doing the whole time' That's why I qualified with "even during the later stages". It seemed to me that OP implied that the book would be c
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by waqf 4y ago
> Writing the one pager forces the author to condense the book. Discussing it honed his thoughts. I find this observation shocking, because it forces me to confront the idea that the author didn't already have a concise explanation
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by waqf 4y ago
Serious question, what should I consider before moving to Serbia and buying an apartment for $40k?
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by waqf 4y ago
Specifically, only on "independent local" news sites. I have to wonder if they, or the entity who operates the website on their behalf, all belong to the same multinational. Like the "independent local" TV stations that
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by waqf 5y ago
The thing is, a lot of this stuff happened in Europe too, at least qualitatively. Train operators were already unprofitable after WWI and were nationalized, and after WWII, funding and infrastructure were lacking and cars were seen as flexi
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by waqf 5y ago
But in actual intellectual discourse, if someone presents a point of view which is founded on a discredited idea, then we just ignore them. We do not show up at their talks and try to prevent them from communicating with others. Firstly bec
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by waqf 5y ago
Conditional subsidies ("we'll give you money if you don't build that nasty coal plant") do capture an externality, so I'm not sure what point you're making.
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by waqf 5y ago
That seems like obviously the wrong question, since it has at least the potential to rule out viable solutions a priori. For example, what would be wrong with preventing developing nations from cheaply industrialising, while also subsidisin
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by waqf 5y ago
You have 500 people and you spend 20k/month to employ each of them.
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by waqf 5y ago
That's why many public lotteries use a live (televised) draw from a mechanical lottery machine. Still not completely physically impossible to rig, of course, but much more transparent than a software RNG.
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by waqf 5y ago
I don't think anyone's yet written an RFC for IP over viral DNA … you can be the first!
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by waqf 5y ago
Also "Web" by John Wyndham.
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by waqf 5y ago
If this law will solve your problems then I … guess your code doesn't have to work outside the US?
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by waqf 5y ago
He's talking about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson–Seymour_theorem .
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by waqf 5y ago
We can do better than "at least sounds reasonable". Wiktionary is a detailed source for etymology (albeit not itself sourced): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/let#Etymology_2
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by waqf 7y ago
Excellent justification for a business model right here: "And students are already accustomed to [being screwed over]."
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by waqf 7y ago
Aren't small-claims courts precisely an attempt to optimize for a low-overhead justice system in the small? Doubtless you feel they don't succeed or don't go far enough, but it seems odd to claim that nobody's tried.
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by waqf 7y ago
I don't just want to see the top 5 countries, I want to see every country for which you have data. Why are they greyed out?
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by waqf 7y ago
I thought someone would say that :), that's a combinatorial optimization that happens to work in the exact scenario I described, and assuming no further constraints. But you lose out if you instead want to do 2 years on 2 years off, or
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by waqf 7y ago
What the tax system doesn't respect is that my life might be better and more productive if I spent a year earning 200,000 and then took a year off, then if I worked a 100,000/year job the entire time.
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by waqf 7y ago
> never felt as little intellectual freedom What are the other things you have done, in which you have felt more intellectual freedom? > stochastic kabuki I love this description of academic politics, thank you.
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by waqf 7y ago
GP didn't say that a bubble is expecting the price of something to rise, they said that a bubble is expecting the price of something with negative fundamental returns to rise.
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by waqf 7y ago
And yet if you announced to a general audience of programmers that you had a marvellous new programming language that guarantees performance but doesn't guarantee correctness, you'd be laughed out of the room.
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by waqf 7y ago
Also it impacts cursor editing (for example using vi) more than just typing text, for the same reason.
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by waqf 7y ago
Gorgons have snakes growing from their hair and presumably that's what's being referred to (though I agree that the author of the quote is probably confused). But "the medusa" is also an error at another level, because o

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