chrispeel

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by chrispeel 2y ago
A somewhat similar chart for the US is at the link below. It also includes a GIF that shows effective tax rates back to 1862. https://github.com/chrisvwx/taxFoo.jl
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by chrispeel 2y ago
Archive link for original article: https://archive.ph/zIx9b Simons also funded Quanta magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/about/ His Wikipedia page is interesting: https://en.wikipedia
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by chrispeel 2y ago
As a marketing term I like "Limitarianism"
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by chrispeel 2y ago
* The Idea Factory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory ) includes info on Kelly ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion ) as well as Shannon. * A Mind at Play ( https://
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by chrispeel 2y ago
I couldn't finish Sinclair's book on aging [1]; even in a book that he co-authored he comes across as a scammer [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespan:_Why_We_Age_%E2%80%93...
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by chrispeel 2y ago
MKBHD on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1777045761705853295 "Just pointed my phone camera directly at the midday sun for 5 minute straight. It got a little warm, but... no damage. I'm gonna go
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by chrispeel 2y ago
Possibly-related: * 8sleep blog about the study: https://www.eightsleep.com/blog/research-paper-reveals-the-e... * "Sleep and subjective age: protect your sleep if you want to feel young" https://
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by chrispeel 2y ago
I guess "Degen" in this context means [1] a person "engaged in high-risk, high-reward strategies without much regard for potential losses. These individuals were seen as reckless, often gambling with their investments in the
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by chrispeel 2y ago
An opposing view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4nJ07_02NQ I often buy organic food: I can afford it and like the goal of using zero or minimal pesticides and herbicides. For me, it's like Pascal's wager: it ca
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by chrispeel 2y ago
Thanks for responding
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by chrispeel 2y ago
mb needs a 2015 tag?
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by chrispeel 2y ago
Where did you get that number? Vitalik gave goals of 1.33 MB per second in blob space, and a compressed tx size of 25 bytes. This gives around 50,000 transactions per second, which seems like a worthy goal.
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by chrispeel 2y ago
At first I thought the lack of a link was a sort of recursive comment on our online situation (We are always clicking, but never going anywhere). But I guess the real situation is just that someone forgot the actual link, which could be the
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by chrispeel 2y ago
Table 1 in that article doesn't satisfy my internal bullshit detector, and it looks like others have debunked it as well; see the article below for an example. https://www.intmath.com/blog/mathematics/retiring
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by chrispeel 3y ago
Begrudging? From m-w.com the definition of begrudging is "said, done, or given reluctantly" So you want PMs who will only work at Eight sleep reluctantly?
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by chrispeel 3y ago
In what part of the world is it typical to say "45 year engineer"? I'm an engineer in the western US, and would say "an engineer with 45 years of experience". I interact with lotsa international english; this one
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by chrispeel 3y ago
If by "this kind of approach" you mean lattice tools, then I think the answer is yes. See the link below for an example in the Wikipedia page on the LLL. Also the second link may be helpful https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by chrispeel 3y ago
Kolmogorov complexity [1] is a measure of the complexity of an object (say a text), while Cyclomatic complexity is a measure of the complexity of a program. Can we make any statements about the relationship between them? Let's say we
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by chrispeel 3y ago
Everyone can get an app on their phone or computer that supports TOTP, such as Google Authenticator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_one-time_password
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by chrispeel 3y ago
At present the title of the article [1] is "Is American Journalism Headed Toward an ‘Extinction-Level Event’?" To which I would answer "No". That's a click-bait headline complaining about how American newspapers
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by chrispeel 3y ago
I initially read it as "QAnonYoutube.com"
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by chrispeel 3y ago
It's called "the internet". People from around the world can collaborate easily on incredibly projects such as Linux or OpenRISC. Or on closed-source projects as used by FAANG companies.
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by chrispeel 3y ago
If it's a "classic anti-trust issue", can you point to a similar company from the past that was successfully constrained by anti-trust regulation?
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by chrispeel 3y ago
Today on HN: EV Batteries Could Retire to Solar Farms https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38870723
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by chrispeel 3y ago
mb meat intake is positively correlated with having enough calories. I.e. for people who are struggling to get enough to eat, of course they should eat meat. In contrast, I guess most readers of HN get enough calories and there will be n
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by chrispeel 3y ago
It looks to me like adastra22 gave a real-world illustration of the following quote from the article: If the question is: How much money do you need to be happy? The answer is always going to be: More. :-)
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by chrispeel 3y ago
In the desert if you destroy vegetation it may take years to recover. It's not the specific case here that I find a problem, rather the compounding effect of all of us destroying a bit of vegetation until the planet is paved in asphalt
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by chrispeel 3y ago
I'd like to see a RCT that compared two time-restricted eating groups: 7am to 3pm, and noon to 8pm. Which would have the larger benefit over a control group? Also, it would be good to simultaneously (somehow) check if the results depen
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by chrispeel 3y ago
I guess that the people who have honesty, authenticity, and empathy are more likely to do other things than start companies. Say found a non-profit or work as a social worker, or to be a scientist.
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by chrispeel 3y ago
musk could go a long way towards rescuing his reputation if he'd convert Twitter into a public charity, especially if he puts in place a diverse board. So... $0

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