ilyaeck

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by ilyaeck 5y ago
Individuals have rights that come from God? Is that a grant written somewhere? The notion of rights is completely abstract, a relatively recent concept in our particular society. It doesn't exist in nature. Individual humans and other
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by ilyaeck 5y ago
Is Belarus the first thing they worry about, though?
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by ilyaeck 5y ago
P-lease! the case is crystal clear: the MIG was used to threaten the plane into landing!
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FNet: Attention may be all you WANT but we you need is good token mixing(arxiv.org)
1 points by ilyaeck 5y ago|2 comments
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by ilyaeck 5y ago
What difference does it make? Shares trading openly on the market is as explicit a valuation process as it gets.
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by ilyaeck 5y ago
Nice rewrite, now I no longer need to bother reading the original!
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by ilyaeck 5y ago
I think this entire moralistic debate is misguided. Granted, if RMS was indeed autistic, all the more reason to "judge" him more charitably. But even if he wasn't, its doesn't mean that his cancellation - based on things
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
Disparaging an entire nation as "illegal and amoral" qualifies for being vlagged in this forum, I believe. Not to mention the fact that this is a digression from the topic of the thread into vitriolic politics.
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Milton Friedman advocated for universal basic income(youtube.com)
3 points by ilyaeck 6y ago|0 comments
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
Who says what does or does not stand on its own? I am not seeing any negative stereotyping there, just colorful characters. You might argue that I ought to be Chinese to have a say about it. And that'd be fair - let's ask Chinese
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
"No one arrests you for possessing a copy"... YET
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
Curious: why was this post flagged?
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
What's so wrong with a biscuit?
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
No. Most of that land will then be sold to the highest bidder.
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
The letter is from academics to an academic organization (ACM), so yes: its scope is the rules of engagement in academic institutions. The issues you are bringing up are out of scope.
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
Unless the rental market in SF bounces back soon, one would expect a sizable portion of landlords to opt for cashing out. Which, in theory, should increase the real estate supply and drive property prices down (AKA rents are a leading indic
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
Looks like you cannot actually try it out right away, you have to get on the waitlist...
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Show HN: Anytype – an offline-first private alternative to Notion(youtube.com)
20 points by ilyaeck 6y ago|12 comments
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
Hardly a credible source of objective information, given that The Social Dilemma is itself a piece of media designed to trigger people into consuming and spreading it.
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
I used to read the NYT every day. Not anymore, now they are on my "disgraced media" list.
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Creating Game AI in Stadia Using Mostly English(stadia.dev)
3 points by ilyaeck 6y ago|1 comments
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
#abolish_ice
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
More people should see this!
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
Doesn't an increase in $0 deposits and many weeks of free rent constitute a drop in effective prices?
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by ilyaeck 6y ago
Big decisions impacting many livelihoods were made based on this model's projections. Its scope is way beyond academic.
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Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing Initiative(pepp-pt.org)
1 points by ilyaeck 6y ago|0 comments
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by ilyaeck 7y ago
They lost me at the first sentence: "If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection." Without being tested, how can you possibly know if you are healthy?.. W
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Coronavirus: 3D printers save hospital with valves(bbc.com)
1 points by ilyaeck 7y ago|0 comments
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by ilyaeck 7y ago
Amen!
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by ilyaeck 7y ago
YC is still a VC, meaning that its modus operandi is to make relatively safe bets that are expected to materialize with ~10 years. They never promised to make humanity's really hard and important problems their main focus. At best, th

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