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by ctchocula 13d ago
Thanks! One follow-up: Any recommended go servers to play on? OGS, Fox, Pandanet?
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by ctchocula 13d ago
Given all the interest in sudden interest in go in this thread, anyone have a sure-fire method to improve at go from double-digit kyu to single-digit kyu and amateur dan level?
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by ctchocula 28d ago
Certitude can be framed a bit more positively. For example, someone on HN said they work out every day, not because they think it will make them super buff, but because they consider it a virtuous thing to do. If they miss a day, they will
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by ctchocula 2mo ago
That article's TL;DR is bad theories "external invasion" and "volcanoes", and sets against it the current historian consensus: "climate" and "internal instability". That sounds a lot like what Wi
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by ctchocula 2mo ago
[1] is a nice intro into what the current scientific consensus in what caused the Bronze Age collapse is, written by historian Bret Devereaux. The view he paints pretty much aligns with what Wilson wrote about there being no such thing as t
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by ctchocula 2mo ago
A fascinating read. Thank you for sharing!
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by ctchocula 4mo ago
> Let's start from the other end. Just a pawn and two kings. It's possible to describe some quite succinct rules for when that's a draw versus a win for the side with the pawn. Agreed? Club players know these by heart. You
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by ctchocula 6mo ago
Tesla IPO'd at 1.7B and is worth 1.4T today. Giving you the benefit of doubt since it would be closer to a 1000x gain rather than the 100x gain that you didn't buy right at IPO, I will point out that there's a world's di
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by ctchocula 8mo ago
That article also has its own rebuttal on statistical grounds. See https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-absolutely-do-know-that-...
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by ctchocula 8mo ago
Direct indexing will soon be able to provide that functionality of giving you S&P 500 stocks minus A, B and C companies you don't want to hold. However, cheap and reliable direct indexing brokerages aren't out there yet. Hopef
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by ctchocula 8mo ago
This reminded me of those booths they have at company holiday parties where they take a photo of you, convert it to a line drawing and have the robot draw it out for you to keep. Very cool hack!
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by ctchocula 8mo ago
I had this same feeling. Same with reading a biography of Kurt Vonnegut. Before reading it, I thought of them in idealistic ways. They had multiple affairs and weren't such great people, even though they both wrote really, really well.
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by ctchocula 9mo ago
https://panamapapers.org/case-study-china
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by ctchocula 9mo ago
Thanks for the info! I don't have a Zhihu account to check myself, but I believe you. I think it would be helpful to dispel any confusion if you added somewhere on the Substack post (e.g. at the bottom) the above message you are the au
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by ctchocula 9mo ago
+1 The long gap between 2016 when the original article was written in Chinese and 2025, the fact that the Substack article does not cite the original Zhihu article (until someone other than OP linked it in this thread), not linking previous
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by ctchocula 10mo ago
You can't finish your comment without sharing some of your favourite recipes =P
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by ctchocula 1y ago
Bogleheads [1] gives better financial advice than HN. Every time I peruse some threads there, I learn something new about personal finance I didn't know about. [1] www.bogleheads.org/forum
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by ctchocula 1y ago
My read of "pre-2016 playbook" was referring to someone using a traditional campaign like Hillary (rather than Trump using his pre-2016 strategy), and that they were saying Trump changed the entire game in 2016 so that shameless s
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by ctchocula 1y ago
>During mitosis and meiosis, microtubules depend on a stable magnetic field to orient the mitotic spindle and ensure accurate chromosome segregation — processes critical for embryonic growth. A spacecraft lacking any magnetic field would
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by ctchocula 1y ago
"It's very hard to perceive counterpoint, and there is a limit to how much we can perceive at once. 2 voices is hard and takes practice, 3 voices is even harder, but you can have these flashes where you hear clearly voices playing
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by ctchocula 1y ago
What you're talking about sounds a lot like the post-scarcity world that Gene Roddenberry envisioned in the Star Trek universe, where everyone has enough to live on, so social status is attained by prestige and doing admirable things (
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by ctchocula 1y ago
Essentially the plot of "Mother Night" by Kurt Vonnegut. An American spy sent to Germany before WW2 who works there as a radio host, but who ends up spreading even more anti-semitic messaging than Nazi members themselves. "We
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by ctchocula 1y ago
This is good info. Thanks for sharing!
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by ctchocula 1y ago
You do need one now if you are not a chinese national. See https://www.tibettourism.com/tibet-travel-permit.html
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by ctchocula 2y ago
As this gets more and more serious, the "Kompromat Hypothesis" starting to look like the only remaining explanation.
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by ctchocula 2y ago
> (1) intentional fouling to get an advantage. It’s the only major sport where fouling can often work to your advantage. nitpick: This happens in soccer as well. Oftentimes it's late in the game and you see the opponent has a count
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by ctchocula 2y ago
There's a pattern of referees giving unreasonable red cards to Arsenal, and those same referees getting lavish trips to the Dubai, which is where the owners of our title race rivals for 2 previous seasons are located. It's a simil
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by ctchocula 2y ago
A new 200A electrical panel costs $5000-6000 to be installed with a permit in SV. If you want to run 50A wire for an L2 charger that might be $1000-2000 more. Getting close to $10000, so I'd say it is fairly expensive.
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by ctchocula 2y ago
It's interesting that the name Linken Sphere comes from the DotA game. It's a piece of equipment that when equipped blocks one harmful spell from hitting your character. The analogy seems fit the anti-tracking as well, by preventi
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by ctchocula 2y ago
"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it."

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