ProblemFactory

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by ProblemFactory 5y ago
> PG argues that the crazy idea should be taken seriously predicated on the person having deep domain expertise Depending on what you mean by "seriously". It's not that a crazy idea by a domain expert is certainly the futu
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by ProblemFactory 5y ago
Putting the version in a header looks "elegant" at first, as it keeps one URL for one resource. But in reality it adds accidental annoyance with no benefits over having the version somewhere in the URL. * Have to set up response h
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by ProblemFactory 5y ago
There doesn't have to be a way. Kernel maintainers are volunteering their time and effort to make Linux better, not to be entertaining test subjects for the researchers. Even if there is no ethical violation, they are justified to be a
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by ProblemFactory 5y ago
I wish I had a dogecoin for every HN comment where a study is rejected because of a possible confounding variable that the researchers did control for and reported. From the news article: > The disorders were significantly more common
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by ProblemFactory 6y ago
There is no need to limit personal freedoms - anyone should be free to get the training if they wish to. But they don't have to remain employed as police afterwards.
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by ProblemFactory 6y ago
A radio play is also tens of thousands of listeners. Compared to that, Spotify pays many orders of magnitude more than radio.
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by ProblemFactory 6y ago
The classical news terminology is to use the name of the capital city to refer to the government of a country. Washington donated fidget spinners, Damascus invited experts from Moscow to inspect the latest advances in ball bearing technolog
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by ProblemFactory 6y ago
> businesses like AWS that exploit FOSS to repackage it for profit Exploit is questionable. A true open-source project like PostgreSQL only benefits from Amazon and Google offering it as a paid, hosted solution. It makes it easier to ado
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by ProblemFactory 6y ago
If the developer can get permission to build 3-5 story apartments on the lot, then their land suddenly becomes way more valuable than the single home ever was. Most retirees will gladly sell and live in luxury elsewhere. If a few don't
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by ProblemFactory 6y ago
I'd expect Estonia to be very surprised and alarmed if it was on their side, given that there are no nuclear power stations or weapons in Estonia.
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by ProblemFactory 6y ago
> old Chernobyl-like pressure water reactors in Tallin or St Petersburg You must be confusing Tallinn with some other city - Estonia does not and has not had any nuclear power plants. The map covers Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and R
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by ProblemFactory 6y ago
> Nobody cares about the halting problem from a specific standpoint. If it's algebraically guaranteed to halt, it halts. When it halts is entirely meaningless for purposes of the halting problem. Halting problem from a specific stan
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by ProblemFactory 6y ago
Two methods that have helped me: * Have an ideas journal. Write new ideas down there, and don't start with any of them in less than two weeks. This lets you get over the initial enthusiasm - and perhaps new better ideas will push less
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by ProblemFactory 6y ago
The GDPR applies to personal data of all EU citizens and permanent residents. Even a tourist in the US who browses a website which is only available in the US. But if the company has no offices, bank accounts or other business presence in t
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by ProblemFactory 6y ago
Adding to that, force majeure is for unforeseeable events. This global pandemic might qualify for contracts signed before January - but not those signed in the future.
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by ProblemFactory 6y ago
> I am not sure how to go about backing out of the one that I accepted already. Almost the same way as you said in this post. Don't mention the panic, do mention that the other offer is personally very interesting to you. Do this af
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by ProblemFactory 6y ago
Launching GMail on April 1st was funny. Nobody believed that 1GB of free email storage was real, back then ~10MB was the norm.
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
> Part-time hourly work in another industry. This is fairly easy through temp agencies. This sounds like a more brilliant idea than #2 in a list in a long thread. Temp agencies are where businesses turn to when they have a reasonably sim
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
> Or am I just a lemur trying to figure out how an airplane works? Unfortunately yes, all of us are. This is not a problem with physics or abstractions. It's a problem with our intuition. Our intuition is based on evolution and life
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
Very few customers care about pedestrian safety, and pedestrians can only control what sort of cars other people buy with regulations.
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
Effect size and comparison to other causes matters, because every study will be used as evidence for some political argument. This study ("Marathons kill people!") will be used to argue for banning marathons in cities by people wh
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
> the guys with hundreds of employees who paid us hundreds of thousands of dollars in support rarely called us (or if they did, they had actually competent IT staff we could work with) These are all related. Customers who are successful
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
> If zoning restrictions were relaxed, could house prices collapse? I don't see how that could be the case. The property value of a plot of land on which a 50, or even 5 story building can be built is much higher than the property v
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
The USB-C ecosystem is quite a mess. Most cables are either limited functionality, or not up to spec that they advertise. Frying your devices with nonstandard chargers or cables is easily possible. You can't tell them apart visually, a
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
I believe the original plan was the opposite - one port and one cable type that can do everything - 100W of power, 5K video, USB devices, analog audio, Ethernet and more. But it was naive to think that manufacturers will ship a $30 cable
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
Backed by a government means that it's backed by the ability of a government to tax work and production happening in the country. Every year the US government collects about 25% of all economic activity as taxes payable only in USD. Ev
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
There are a few more open specification Geohash algorithms out there as well. What's silly about W3W is that their entire "proprietary algorithm" is going to be the same as all of these, except with /usr/share/
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
> There are separate plural/singular forms of words. Or that there are just two plural/singular forms (1 and many) for translating strings, or that which form to pick is clear. While English has one form for 1, and one form for
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
It stands for Specific Impulse, which is a measure of fuel economy for rocket engines.
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by ProblemFactory 7y ago
> One of the things the article names is the challenges caused by snow, ice, etc. I realize I'm in the minority, but I actually think there's lots of conditions that we shouldn't be driving in -- conditions where the obscu

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