whymauri

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by whymauri 7y ago
No, it's not reasonable. >The emote spam in question was not "minor", the accounts affected averaged well over 100 messages each, within a short timeframe. This is a crazy bad take. 100 messages in a few minutes is totally
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by whymauri 7y ago
Thank you for being a reasonable person. I thought I was taking crazy pills when I saw that on top, dominating the discussion.
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by whymauri 7y ago
There is a difference between "getting woke" for a razor and a literal climate crisis.
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by whymauri 7y ago
Tony Jack makes this pretty clear. Schools are patting themselves on the back for increasing low income and minority enrollment without considering the fact that a large portion of these students is the "privileged poor". As a res
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by whymauri 7y ago
They are a small group in the overall population but not at elite schools.
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by whymauri 7y ago
I kinda wish this comment focused more on bad science rather than bad pay. If bad pay implied bad science then most of science is bad! I suppose I'd be much more interested in learning about the latter half of your comment (specific sc
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by whymauri 7y ago
It's very expensive to rage hack, mostly due to account age and phone number requirements. Sure, you can buy an account or play for 20 hours to get in good standings, in matchmaking - but VAC will evaporate you in a single match.
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by whymauri 7y ago
Nah, more like "grow mangoes in your Boston home in January instead of paying the seasonal upcharge" type thing. I feel like the original intention was to make a cool gadget (the original name was Personal Food Computer), not solv
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by whymauri 7y ago
I was around when they built the first one (I was taking an IAP class on bio-entrepeneurship) and the big idea was that the computer would (1) make the food more nutritious (2) "democratize" agrifood commodities regardless of geog
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by whymauri 7y ago
Not even the first time the Media Lab does this. See: One Laptop Per Child.
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by whymauri 7y ago
Publix is a god send. Some of their bread actually rivals non-American bread.
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by whymauri 7y ago
Where is this analysis?
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by whymauri 7y ago
It's a magazine for donors.
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by whymauri 7y ago
Oooh, nevermind then. An attendee had told me some inaccurate information a few years ago, then. Thanks for the clarification. Glad to hear there probably(?) won't be any complication in future years.
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by whymauri 7y ago
There's some less direct symbiotic benefits too, like the LibrePlanet has been at the MIT Stata Center for a couple years (at least). These sorts of things are facilitated by his role, for sure. I hope well-meaning conferences like tha
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by whymauri 7y ago
When our crypto prof told us we're not sure if one way functions exist, everyone's jaw dropped.
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by whymauri 7y ago
Not only that, but Anduril literally means "Flame of the West" and Palantir means "far-seeing" or seeing-stone.
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by whymauri 7y ago
Only on HackerNews can a somber discussion about family and lifelong priorities turn into dunking on javascript. Not a jab by any means, just amusing.
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by whymauri 7y ago
The Director of a huge research institution lying to their parent university (and to the lab they direct) about their direct involvement with a child sexual predator is not a non-story.
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by whymauri 7y ago
But neuroplasticity is actually a thing.
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by whymauri 7y ago
And? If you want your company to avoid becoming a headline, you need the best security you can afford.
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by whymauri 7y ago
Paper: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/93231/ I've been waiting for this paper to be published for over two years. It's a fascinating collection of work.
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Memories Form and Fade(caltech.edu)
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by whymauri 7y ago
Epstein was literally convicted. You cannot be serious.
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by whymauri 7y ago
Haha, a deep dive? It was probably the first Google result!
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by whymauri 7y ago
What? These are perfectly valid questions to be asking and do not inherently stop you from researching what you're working on. I know some scientists that define their research direction by asking these questions first before pursuing
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by whymauri 7y ago
Does not make her treatment right. You must understand that the fundamental bioethical implications concerning consent in a medical setting are incredibly important. This conversation will only continue to become more relevant as biotechnol
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by whymauri 7y ago
The company being accused of being 'hipster' and hiring 'below market rate' is in SF.
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by whymauri 7y ago
Almost all the bootcamp grads I've met in the industry, in SF, make market rate.
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by whymauri 7y ago
I'm genuinely confused here... some audio equipment does actually sound better than other audio equipment. Are you referring to snake oil audio cable salesmen?

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