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by yojo 4y ago
Same story, bought an RX580 to build a budget gaming box, ended up mining with it to pay for the rig. Electricity in Oregon is pretty cheap, and I optimized well (30Mh/s), but my margins were healthy. I switched to another pool that pa
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by yojo 4y ago
The study addressed part of your hypothesis and found no evidence. There was no “beauty” effect found in courses where grades were quantitative instead of qualitative - where the grader presumably had less liberty to nudge grades up or down
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by yojo 4y ago
It is hard to think of any rational to stop a well-dressed person engaging in no shady behavior and immediately escalate to “lie face-down with your hands over your head.” There are other news reports of similar incidents with black men. If
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by yojo 4y ago
I don’t have any. But I can’t recall ever seeing or hearing of a white businessman in a suit getting ordered to the ground without cause. It is fully possible this was random chance. It’s an anecdote, not statistics. But if you want to look
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by yojo 4y ago
If any of my bosses had been ordered to the ground by the police without cause, they definitely would have told me. It’s a crazy story that sounds almost unbelievable. If you’re white, anyway. Stopped for cause? Yeah, maybe not.
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by yojo 4y ago
People are treated unequally because of their race everyday. My wife’s former boss (CEO of an education non-profit) was a black man. He was walking in downtown Paulo Alto, wearing a suit, on a way to a business meeting. A cop stopped him at
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by yojo 4y ago
Maybe? I generally agree with you, but playing devils advocate: What does the generation raised on Minecraft and Roboblox do when they grow up? They spent their adolescence in virtual worlds. Do they grow out of that? Or does it start to bl
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by yojo 4y ago
People gave Google a ton of crap for buying YouTube for 1.6 billion (~16% of annual revenue at the time). That $10B FB spent is more like 8.5% of their revenue. I’m skeptical of the metaverse, but I was also pretty skeptical of user-generat
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by yojo 4y ago
There are definitely excess deaths reported starting in 2020. Started in March. See the chart at the bottom of this page: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm And here’s the total
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by yojo 4y ago
You’d be amazed at the number of unexpected effects I could find studying just a single mouse! Having a small number data points means that a single outlier can impact your results. And since “no results” typically doesn’t get published, th
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by yojo 4y ago
Excess deaths are widely considered to be “from Covid” right now. It is possible there’s something else going on, but as the parent said, the numbers you should care about when making a vaccine decision are the mortality rate of the vaccina
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by yojo 4y ago
If it’s a 10x force multiplier, then one person could do the work of 10. There are two possible outcomes: 1) the lower rate per piece enabled by higher productivity unlocks a much larger market for commissioned work. No one has to lose thei
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by yojo 4y ago
I have a 5 yo that is very enthusiastic about Legos. It turns out that both directed and free play are good. He gets new kits and starts by following the instructions. He learns techniques along the way. How to interlock to make things that
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by yojo 4y ago
> I'd also add that these things compound over the generations. We are more sensitive than our parents. It checks out for me, every generation has worsening autoimmune symptoms. This may just be a function of increasing pollen ove
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by yojo 4y ago
Possibly the original data is logically compressed. E.g. payer A pays 110% of our standard rates, payer B pays 85% of our standard rates. Those two rows could translate into thousands of CSV lines depending on the number of procedures. Mayb
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by yojo 4y ago
It’s a fair question. There is evidence that working increases your life expectancy, at least among men[1], and under the regime of western societal norms. Working with “ambition” could result in more stresses that counteract this gain. Har
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by yojo 4y ago
Anyone have an idea of how many orders of magnitude advancement we are away from this? Like, it takes a high end GPU a non-trivial amount of time to make one low resolution image. A modern film is at least 30 of those a second, at far highe
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by yojo 4y ago
I notice a surprising number of duplicates. E.g. if I sort by aesthetic, there’s the same 500x500 Tuscan village painting multiple times on the first page of results. Presumably it wouldn’t be so hard to hash the images and filter out repea
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by yojo 4y ago
In theory (and in a well functioning system), ambition in a populace leads to GDP growth as ambitious people seek ways to make more money by doing higher value work. This in turn leads to a higher standard of living, possibly for everyone i
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by yojo 4y ago
Maybe? You do enough of this kind of stuff and you’re going to lose credibility. Possibly your devoted fans let you off the hook for the first offense. But Audible has a pretty scummy reputation in some circles (as evidenced by other commen
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by yojo 4y ago
I believe Doctorow is doing this for the reasons he outlined, but let’s be clear: his brand is all about being anti this kind of shit. Selling out on his principles to make half a million in the audible store might still be a net financial
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by yojo 4y ago
The original Google ads were actually to the side - no way of confusing them with organic listings. Ads above results weren’t rolled out until 2007ish. Internally there was a lot of debate as to whether this might be confusing to users&#x2F
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by yojo 4y ago
On 4: I disagree that more resources cannot help with this problem. Some disruptive children have undiagnosed learning disabilities. Having more money for screening and special education can help get them the support they need. Class sizes
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by yojo 4y ago
I've taken to using a sort of internal version of "disagree and commit" - I have the little mental debate with myself, arrive at an ambiguous juncture, then pick an option (at random if necessary) and go all-in on it. If it t
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by yojo 4y ago
Anecdata, but most of my expensive appliance repairs have been from a board frying. Replacing a standard thermocouple is trivial. Replacing a PCB may not even be possible if the part isn’t being produced. Doesn’t mean you’re wrong, but I’d
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by yojo 4y ago
PCBs, sensors, and switches seem to cover most failure modes of modern appliances. I try to minimize the number of each in every purchase. My favorite recent buy was a Victory range hood with mechanical switches and no PCB. More like this p
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by yojo 4y ago
FWIW I love this Panasonic toaster, which is some substantially different toaster tech: https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-NB-G110P-FlashXpress-Infrar... No thermostatic control, but the defaults are fine for my uses. Current
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by yojo 4y ago
FDIC insurance was added partway through the Great Depression. So yes, people lost money, but that’s because the current system didn’t exist. Also, good luck finding someone who lived during the Great Depression and carried a bank balance a
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by yojo 4y ago
I agree that good games give you things to play with, but this is literally the toggle to slide out a UI element, and only exists because a phone screen was too small for the original design to fit. If it had been a little triangle that you
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by yojo 4y ago
I played through Papers, Please back when it came out on desktop, and at the time I remember wondering: "why is this fun?" I enjoyed it tremendously, but on the surface that didn't make any sense. Who wants to play an immigra

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