agarden

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by agarden 3y ago
lichess.org
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by agarden 4y ago
If there are three or four good moves of approximately equal strength in a position, then it just isn't a position where someone at grandmaster level needs to cheat or benefits from doing so. They were going to find one of those moves
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by agarden 4y ago
Regan's analysis works, in part, the way you suggest is better. He looks for tricky moves with non-obvious consequences and looks at one's success rate in those. For the Niemann-Carlsen game, he identified two such moves and Niema
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by agarden 4y ago
Regan claims that if you consult the computer just three times during a game, he will catch you after three games. If you consult just once, it gets a lot harder.
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by agarden 4y ago
Regan's analysis is a good deal more detailed than that. He claims that if you check the computer just three times a game, he is going to catch you within three games. Now, if you check just once, it becomes a lot harder. For the game
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by agarden 5y ago
Hikaru was making six figures before he ever took up streaming. He was sponsored by Red Bull back then.
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by agarden 5y ago
A universal theory is not the same thing as universal advice. What would one universally do just because one knows the universal theory? ...Now that you bring it up, the OP is offering a piece of universal advice. The irony seems stronger
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by agarden 5y ago
The overriding concern of the constitution is that the federal government not tromp all over the rights of the States. It would not be reasonable for the constitution to have provisions to secure the right of the federal government to arm i
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by agarden 5y ago
Have you ever watched a press conference after a sports game and the losing coach is convinced that all the calls went against his team? And then the other coach gets up and starts talking about the calls that went against his team? One cou
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by agarden 6y ago
If they are using the money saved on taxes to sell their products cheaper, then it is not themselves (only) that they are enriching thereby, but (also) you and I and everyone else who buys IKEA products. The consumers end up being the ones
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by agarden 6y ago
I think you are getting this wrong. The problem is not all the inexpert persons styling themselves as "independent journalists", the problem is all the inexpert persons who think they understand enough about the world's probl
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by agarden 6y ago
Sperm count. It has been dropping precipitously over the handful of decades. Many men are already infertile and if the sperm count continues to fall at the rate it has been, most will be infertile before this century is done. There is reaso
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by agarden 6y ago
This is an entirely different idea. Banning inheritance makes corporations even more powerful, as they can increase their wealth from one generation to another and families cannot.
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Novid: Covid-19 Pre-exposure notification app(novid.org)
2 points by agarden 6y ago|0 comments
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by agarden 6y ago
It seems to me that the two-party system in the United States is, practically speaking, the same thing. Within each major party there are smaller caucuses, such as the Freedom Caucus, which are more extreme than the party as a whole and exe
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by agarden 6y ago
Do you have a source on your claim that Swedes have changed their behavior?
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by agarden 6y ago
Passing wealth on to one's children is natural. It has been practiced time immemorial. The Jewish faith is predicated on the idea that promises made to Abraham can be fulfilled by giving the thing promised (land) to his descendants m
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by agarden 6y ago
This article gets into that: https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure... Short excerpt: People don’t realize this because several different diseases are lumped together under the term “skin cancer.”
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by agarden 6y ago
I live just a couple miles from town and have no cell phone service at my house. And it isn't even down in a valley. Forget LTE; cell service in general is really spotty in this region.
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by agarden 6y ago
Today, sure, using a van would be much more efficient. But this is probably a way to test and improve the technology, working towards making it more efficient than a van. More importantly, the optics here are not just about you and me and o
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What Trait Affects Income the Most?(economicsfromthetopdown.com)
7 points by agarden 6y ago|1 comments
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by agarden 6y ago
This could just be a coincidence. There are multiple people in the thread claiming they set their password to the same thing and have suffered no consequences.
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by agarden 6y ago
If one wants to figure out how your question could be answered, I think the question to ask oneself is, would someone from the 19th or 18th century think we have more or less regard for human dignity than they did? And if they would think w
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by agarden 6y ago
Offensive to whom? By definition, a conservative has a bias towards keeping things as they have been. As such, we should expect a conservative's sensibilities to be more along the lines of our parent's or grandparent's (or ma
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The Media vs. Flatten the Curve(wsj.com)
2 points by agarden 6y ago|0 comments
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by agarden 6y ago
Your claims lack evidence. The article was all about surveying the available evidence for indications that PTSD was or was not a thing experienced by soldiers in the past at a rate similar to today. What is more, when he decides that the ev
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by agarden 6y ago
If the conductor wants you to make the consonants clear, then there will be spittle. Agreed that the deep breathing is likely just as important.
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by agarden 6y ago
How much money would it take to make testing everyone a realistic possibility? How much money are we losing by just shutting everything down? Which one costs more?
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by agarden 6y ago
That is a reasonable line of thought, but incomplete. How many lives are we risking by tanking the global economy? That seems like it should be a more quantifiable risk. It becomes a trade-off between the amount of lives we can calculate wi
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by agarden 7y ago
No need to wait for a pandemic to donate all superfluous earnings to life-saving causes. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of them.

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