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by Forlien 1y ago
You might be interested in https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/giving-people-money-helped-... which talks about the studies showing low effects for just giving money to Americans. It seems like just giving people money is
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by Forlien 3y ago
> what's the point to change the platform Money. From https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/i10p4m/surv... , Substack gave him a "very very generous offer in terms of how the monet
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by Forlien 4y ago
Not the OP, but when an investor acquires more than 5% of a stock, they have a limited time to disclose it. Elon disclosed his Twitter stock acquisition too late (20 days after instead of 10) and using the wrong form (Schedule 13G instead o
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by Forlien 5y ago
Even if it became illegal, qualified immunity would protect the offical who made the threats, so officials will likely never be personally impacted by breaking the law and so it'll keep being broken.
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by Forlien 5y ago
Western society says that some decisions are only able to be made by people who are old enough. If you think about other decisions like gambling at a casino, joining the army or purchasing alcohol, then it might help you understand where th
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by Forlien 5y ago
Per https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/long-covid-much-more-t... , it sounds like long term physical and mental impacts can stay with people who get hospitalized by the flu. Why are you more worried about long COVID
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by Forlien 5y ago
The best I can find is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(poker_bot) , but it sounds like it was limited to a few demonstrations.
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by Forlien 5y ago
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, since I'm not that well educated about this. Why can't they sue the police department or some similar body instead of the individuals? My understanding is that QI protects the individuals, bu
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by Forlien 6y ago
According to posters on the subreddit for the blog, he emailed people who had been to in-person meetups for the blog. https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/hbk52q/psa_...
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by Forlien 9y ago
From their page when you click apply: > NB! Please be aware that e-Residency does not confer citizenship, tax residency, residence or right of entry to Estonia or to the European Union. It is not a visa or residence permit. Too bad. It l
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by Forlien 9y ago
I've heard that some minor internet celebrities will call their police department when moving to a new area to warn about potential swatting calls. You could try to do the same, but it's probably hit-or-miss.
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by Forlien 9y ago
IQ might be a better predictor, but the linked paper says it's not a far better one: "The results demonstrate that intelligence is a powerful predictor of success but, on the whole, not an overwhelmingly better predictor than pare
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by Forlien 9y ago
Hmm, do you think there are some things you can say that would classify as an action you could be arrested for rather than an idea? For example, yelling "Fire!" in a crowded building, offering a bribe, and threatening someone all
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by Forlien 9y ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/americans-are-drinking-less-s... says 41 gallons per capita in 2014. Converted, it's 0.4252 liters per day, so a liter per day is more than double the average.
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by Forlien 9y ago
I feel a bit dumb asking this, but your explanation doesn't make it clear to me why you can't think of a bind on Maybe as a flatMap on a List with 0 (Nothing) or 1 (Just) elements. Could you elaborate further on how thinking of a
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by Forlien 9y ago
Is this a case of a more specialized tool (with fewer but more focused features)? For example, you can view email in vim, and I'm sure you'd get better performance than Gmail for large emails but very few developers I know use vim
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by Forlien 10y ago
This seems strange. If you view page source on this comments page while logged in to Hacker News, does the source show you as not logged in? When I do that, my source contains the link to my profile (user?id=Forlien) at the top so I know it
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by Forlien 10y ago
Where do you draw the line for how much you can cut costs and sacrifice a little bit of productivity or retraining? For example, I often see programmers talk about having proper tools to do their job, whether that be high quality keyboards,
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by Forlien 10y ago
For what it's worth, I have a counter anecdote. I go to a university where for some computer science courses, your labs are on computers with a Linux desktop environment. Other students seem to do fine in these labs. Even so, when I lo
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by Forlien 10y ago
You can add these shortcuts into your browser. On firefox, you can right click on a search box and specify some character(s). I'm sure there's a similar process on chrome too.
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by Forlien 10y ago
At this point, I've set up search keywords in firefox to do this. Now, for example, I type "gi rabbit" for pictures of rabbits. It's nice because they also can be used as shortened parts of links. Eg. "@ john"
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by Forlien 10y ago
Pascal's Wager ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager ) is also about a small but likely downside with a potentially large but unlikely upside. Do you think it's analogous to your 2nd case? If not,
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by Forlien 10y ago
I thought Klathmon was pointing out say that they an attacker could say that they just mashed on the keyboard and that would be good enough for the fallible human on the other end of the phone. Anecdotally, I had a time where I couldn'
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by Forlien 10y ago
Interestingly, I took this quote to mean both that reported news is biased, but the decision of what events to report upon is biased too. Being a skeptic solves the first issue. For the second, filtering what you read doesn't help if y
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by Forlien 10y ago
But in this example Japanese Americans weren't his buddies, they were innocent people taken from their homes without trial. Going back to your example, let's ignore the issue of a lack of trial with vigilante justice. If instead y
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by Forlien 10y ago
I'd argue that 3DS piracy would have continued even if Nintendo opened up for homebrew. There's money to be made off of it - if there weren't, the initial exploit with a special cartridge wouldn't have been developed. On
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by Forlien 10y ago
You make some interesting points about non-objective discussions on HN. I think your reasoning could justify banning other topics too, so I'm wondering how you would decide that discussions aren't objective enough. For example, yo
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by Forlien 10y ago
That's a lot of $1 purchases. Where are you buying that you make 240k purchases in a reasonable amount of time?
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by Forlien 10y ago
Doesn't it depend where Mylan's profit comes from? I don't know the numbers, but ideally the fine would more than cover the amount they made from EpiPens. In your example, if you legally earned $900MM and then robbed a bank f
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by Forlien 10y ago
Did you link the wrong page? It looks like they are advocating switch statements.

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