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by yathern 9y ago
> But I think you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater You're right, I was intentionally being dichotomous. > a "meritocracy" where merit is primarily earned by being born into a wealthy family is just smugg
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If merit is independent of your upbringing - the only thing that remains is your genetics. If you are suggesting some are predisposed at birth to be better than others, which is obviously out of their control, then is a meritocracy even a g
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by yathern 9y ago
> I think there's a bit of armchairing going on here, in that people are definitely trying the obvious already. As one of these suggesters - I think it's the problem lies in that the article doesn't mention this obvious fi
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by yathern 9y ago
Has there been an attempt to trilaterate/triangulate the sound? Should be fairly simple to rig up several recording devices in sync around, and use timing/loudness to get an idea of origin, despite the large wavelength.
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by yathern 9y ago
FYI your construct.net link is missing an 's' :)
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by yathern 9y ago
Interesting study - I think it's a great idea! Though I disagree with the statement 'we do not actually learn much'. Most learning is very hard to condense into a short note. For example, "Booleans have a toString method
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by yathern 9y ago
It says later in the article that solving for those sorts of details is out of scope for the project - and is a different problem altogether (matting).
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> Paying off debt early at that point in one's career is more profitable than investing, even. Not necessarily true. My student loans had an interest rate of around 4%. The market is about double that. This means that if I invest ev
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by yathern 9y ago
"Waymo is getting .34% of Uber's equity in the settlement, which at a $72 billion valuation, is valued at about $245 million." https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/961993637348327424
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Just because there is an inherent level of risk involved in an activity doesn't imply you shouldn't mitigate some risk if you can. Driving is inherently risky - but I still wear a seatbelt.
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by yathern 9y ago
One fear would be that someone could craft a malicious .docx file that can do any number of things - install keyloggers or adware or ransomware.
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I wish there were a control group - it could very well be that reading an e-book about depression can cause a regression in depressive symptoms.
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Absolutely - many of which can be, and often are, overvalued.
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Wow! I thought I was the only one who did this. Never to accomplish lucid dreaming - but I noticed in classes in highschool (why was I closing my eyes in class?). When closing my eyes for a little bit, I'll see patches of glowing, slow
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by yathern 9y ago
While I agree with you that "cloud-private" is a new baseline that may not be a great thing - that's a strange point to make, given the text explicitly calls out that it's not doing anything on the cloud. It's all o
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by yathern 9y ago
There's no reason that inheriting wealth means you must also inherit crimes. Just because they are related concepts doesn't make them have to both be reasonable or unreasonable together. Inheriting wealth is reasonable because giv
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by yathern 9y ago
Yes, there is Tether - which is pegged to USD - and somewhat controversial for reasons I don't fully understand.
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Because then every site would need to include a CSS + HTML rendering library to be executed in this VM - it would be like every site needing to include their JS framework of choice except much heavier.
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by yathern 9y ago
> Mention “millennial” to anyone over 40 and the word “entitlement” will come back at you within seconds And then a paragraph later... > Generalizations... fall apart under scrutiny. As a 24 year old millennial - this article painted
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I don't think you can compare your minifier to the Closure Compiler. For one, it doesn't type check or transpile. But I definitely commend the DIY attitude!
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Agreed - but that's only a small portion in the beginning. The bulk of it is fine.
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Destruction of value is not destruction of money. If I were to buy some extremely expensive memorabilia (a pristine copy of Abbey Road, signed by all of the Beatles) and burn it in my back yard, that wouldn't be destruction of money. W
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by yathern 9y ago
> No one would have a sausage burger and suggest they're equivalent > I'd disagree on every point. Sausage burgers are very, very good, and a superior product to a regular one in every way. Alright, but that's my point.
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by yathern 9y ago
Because a meat substitute is supposed to be like meat. And if it's not, sure, it can still be good - but that's irrelevant when crafting a meat substitute. Your point about sausage is actually proof of this. Sausage is good and ta
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I'm glad the author is making a conscious health and ethical decision that they think will improve their life, and I would never want to belittle that choice. It's up to all of us to individually make choices that are in line with
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EDIT: Sorry I came off very grumpy, I apologize. I'll rephrase. I think nuance isn't so much the issue here as much as it is mistaking the map for the territory. A flat earth model has it's uses. Primarily for human-scale tra
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by yathern 9y ago
You don't have to give them your email. You can just click 'no', and read the rest. But I agree with your sentiment of not liking that style.
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You get upset at the use of metaphors? I thought it was fairly apt: > That’s why her talk is about Legos. The emotions you feel when new people are coming in and taking over pieces of your job — it’s not that different from how a kid fee
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That, and the quality is low enough that you can sort of accidentally the differences between 'generic white woman' and 'actual white woman'
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If there was someone I knew who I could ask a question, with a 97% chance they were correct, I'd consider them to be a phenomenon, and an extremely valuable resource. For some definition of correct, I'd be happy to be 60% accurate

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