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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I bought a pair of 7mm diamonds that are said to be made with chemical vapor deposition. They're very nice and very cheap, at least relative to the mined diamonds. If anything, they're too perfect. The natural ones are imperfect i
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
A number of years ago, I saw a presentation funded by the Deep State and the programmers had called their software "Seldon". It took me a minute to remember the connection. But they were definitely of the type who wanted to predic
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
It's one of the comments in the Reddit post.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Note: finding arbitrary digits of pi doesn't require finding the preceding digits. It's kind of freaky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%9...
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
> Financial controls?! They don't have any. Any Canadian I know who has placed a deposit for a Tesla product and then requested a refund for that deposit has received the deposit back, no questions, for the correct sum.... except in
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Yes, the market will probably end up that way, but the poor still get a choice. They're not stuck with the one-size-fits-all system that the public school system often provides.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I've always been sad that my old Mac software just won't run. It's one thing for Apple to move to new architectures. Maybe that was necessary. But when the emulators break after a few years, well, that's the part that bu
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
What about gravity waves? They're very long and so maybe they could pick up something?
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
On the 100th anniversary of the first flight, the NYT published a great article explaining how narrow the success of the Wright brothers happened to be. There were others who flew first in so many slightly less amazing ways. It's worth
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I know spinning disks are fragile, but I've had more problem with cold storage of SSDs. They just seem to forget information or flip bits when they're not kept powered up. Don't ask me why. Since I need cold storage, I hope t
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
How? Set up your own record label and implement your wish list of better terms. If you're reading hacker news, there's a good chance you can do most of the coding for free/stock/spec. Then you can be like totally cool ab
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
A university setting with university-grade tuition prices isn't the best place to be learning a language. Something like Duolingo is much cheaper and better too. There's no reason to start to learn a language from someone with a
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Okay, maybe there's "consensus" in your mind about "washing your hands', but it's not clear what that means. We need people questioning what is the best way to clean your hands. Maybe soap is good. Maybe soap p
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Again, the number of classrooms leads me to ask, "Where is the tuition going?" It's not a good excuse. The students are paying plenty of tuition. Why shouldn't they get the courses they want?
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Or why not just hire more faculty and start up more sections? The students are paying huge tuition bills. Why can't they get the courses they want? This is why I often tell everyone, not just high school students, to consider other mar
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Well, sure, it's a bummer. But one has to wonder why we glorify a practice of pillaging, raping and destruction. What's next for MIT? A Hitler Certificate? A KGB Certificate? A Slave Whipping Certificate?
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
What if I dictate into my phone and What's App sends it as text? Purely to save bandwidth of course.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
It makes sense to me. If Google was (1) promising that Chrome had an "incognito mode" while (2) simultaneously tracking people using this mode, well, that sounds like lying to the customer.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Some people have found some interesting "features" in the code like the ability to "freeze" accounts and then empty them completely. https://twitter.com/pashovkrum/status/1688591468498239496 Is
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Did the people in the taverns have the ability to test for mica or graphite?
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Maybe his sales aren't so big? He's constantly giving away his books. One theory is that he makes much more from "consulting" and political work around Silicon Valley. So the books are just loss leaders.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Is it possible that the claims of the critic are not opinion but truly false? Why file a law suit that's just going to draw more attention and give oxygen to the critics unless you have at least some chance of winning?
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I hate to be too paranoid or nutty about these things, but I know several dozen men who've died of sudden heart failure in the last two or three years. And only one woman. I used to think that women outlived men on average because men
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
It's hard for me to know much of the particulars here, but this kind of thing is all too common now. There's so much pressure to have eye opening results.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Don't tell me what happens with that bomb I saw in the trailer! No spoilers!
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
It was a big surprise to me. The standard story in all of the papers is that legacy admission is affirmative action for white people. In other words, they let in dolts with low SAT scores merely because they had parents who attended the sch
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
> Then they can get in without legacy admission. Not necessarily. Apparently there are a bunch separate pools: one for the athletes, one for the professors' kids, one for the orchestra etc. If the kid is merely a legacy with good SA
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
A friend at Princeton told me they're having the opposite scandal. Apparently the student newspaper did some data analysis and found that legacy students had both higher SATs and better GPAs. That sort of breaks the narrative. The feel
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
It's kind of sad how the NYT art content is now largely just a bunch of cheerleader puff pieces.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
If we put aside the complexity of WWII, I think it's almost certain a fact that many readers died during the war. Of course pacifism or isolationism didn't work because the Axis powers attacked the US etc etc. But if your focus is

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