andylei

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by andylei 11mo ago
your furnace doesn't know what temperature your house is if the furnace isn't connected to a thermostat
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by andylei 1y ago
i'll answer your argument with the initial paragraph you quoted: > A compiler for C/C++/Rust could turn that kind of expression into three operations: load the value of x, multiply it by two, and then store the result. In
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by andylei 1y ago
The previous paragraph is > Another "myth" is that Python is slow because it is interpreted; again, there is some truth to that, but interpretation is only a small part of what makes Python slow. He concedes its slow, he's
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by andylei 2y ago
case would still happen, just without a jury (maybe)
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by andylei 3y ago
No, that's a quote from someone they interviewed who hasn't read the full paper (the full paper is not yet available). They are saying that the details of the study will determine how significant the results are. > So correlati
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by andylei 3y ago
BBBY is not in any major indices
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by andylei 4y ago
but also > Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
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by andylei 5y ago
i mean, then they wouldn't?
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by andylei 5y ago
> nobody in the 20th century imagined that within just two decades we'd be able to sequence the genome of a new pathogen within days, much less hours, or design a new vaccine within two weeks and have it in human clinical trials a m
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by andylei 5y ago
they did charge them: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8013-19
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by andylei 5y ago
but you still can't get unemployment if you voluntarily leave your job
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by andylei 5y ago
the author of the post refutes the carbohydrate hypothesis here: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/11/a-chemical-hunger-p...
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by andylei 5y ago
This is covered in the second part of the article: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/11/a-chemical-hunger-p...
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by andylei 5y ago
> simple and flat taxes what is a flat tax? is it something like: "everyone pays 5%"? if so, how does that solve the problem of misreporting?
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by andylei 5y ago
The incorporation doctrine applies the bill of rights to state governments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...
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by andylei 5y ago
the article is about how it's a bad thing: > There’s just one problem: If it weren’t for Bitcoin, there would almost certainly be no reason to run the power plant in Dresden at all. Without the revenue from mining, Greenidge would h
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by andylei 5y ago
"column" here refers to a type of data. let's say you have a bunch of records of purchases. one column would be price, another column would be quantity. if you're doing a linear algebra like transformation, you want to
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by andylei 6y ago
> Humidity affects the dessication of droplets, which in turn shifts what fraction become airborne (as aerosols) or settle out (as droplets). In the tiny enclosed volume between your face and your mask, that difference doesn't matte
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by andylei 6y ago
> by the Wall Street-funded academic paper citation needed
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by andylei 6y ago
> You can drive the price down simply by inflating the supply short selling does not increase the number of shares. if i borrow a share from you and sell it, you cannot also sell that share . the number of shares is constant regardless
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by andylei 6y ago
> it's absolutely a conspiracy I think a "conspiracy" requires some sort of actual coordination. A bunch of actors doing the same thing for the same underlying reason isn't a conspiracy. Lots of people going to sleep
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by andylei 6y ago
> I'm not a domain expert, but it would seem that whether or not something was sold naked is ultimately determined in the instant that you are obligated to deliver No, this is not true. When you sell short (with some exceptions for
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by andylei 6y ago
> You can get more the 100% without naked shorts, sure, but is that legal?, does SEC allow that? Yes. As someone lending out a share (for someone else to short), you can't know whether the person you bought it from had borrowed it t
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by andylei 6y ago
clearing is totally separate from flow
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by andylei 6y ago
Your STEM example explains very little of this gender gap. The article says: 1. this gender gap begins very early (kindergarden), before the majority of "women in STEM" programs begin 2. are international (i'm fairly certain
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by andylei 6y ago
> Two days later, the employee acknowledged having “intentionally removed the vaccine from refrigeration,” the hospital, Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, Wis., said in a statement late Wednesday. from the article
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by andylei 6y ago
youtube is still free
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by andylei 6y ago
> Rust's trait system is Turing complete has anyone tried implementing rust in rust's trait system
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by andylei 6y ago
https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_t...
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by andylei 6y ago
actually, on average, all strategies will perform the same as the market. another way of saying this is: the average of all trading strategies is the market.

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