kcanini

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by kcanini 4y ago
Is this comment also available in short story format?
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by kcanini 4y ago
I wonder whether the threat of attack from North Korea is felt in daily life in Seoul.
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by kcanini 5y ago
https://qntm.org/abolish
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by kcanini 5y ago
What are your favorite vehicles?
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by kcanini 6y ago
That is the whole point of DST, although many people seem not to realize it. It allows us to wake up around sunrise all year long, which is our bodies' natural tendency. Another thing nobody seems to realize is that we've already
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by kcanini 7y ago
Pricewatch still exists!
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by kcanini 7y ago
I worked for Bill for about a year at GV. He was one of the friendliest managers I've ever met at Google. I randomly met Dave Drummond once at a coffee shop in Sausalito (I didn't know who he was at the time... he just commented o
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by kcanini 7y ago
I live in Los Angeles, and I can schedule as many free bulky item pickups as I want, at any time.
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by kcanini 7y ago
Even in that case, it may make sense to diversify. The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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by kcanini 7y ago
"An update on Larry and Sergey"
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Upside Down Apple Logo (2012)(blog.joemoreno.com)
3 points by kcanini 7y ago|0 comments
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by kcanini 7y ago
What sort of infrastructure is China building in Xinjiang?
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by kcanini 7y ago
This comment nicely explains the concept of the "veil of money": viewing economic activity in terms of real products and services instead of money can clarify what's actually happening in the economy.
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by kcanini 7y ago
Compare that to a rail system that's actually useful: 472 stations, 36 lines, 850 miles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway
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by kcanini 7y ago
Counterpoint: I think most people would gladly pay a bit more to not have to deal with the annoyance of only being able to use strangers' cars, of variable cleanliness, only after waiting several minutes for them to show up, and not be
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by kcanini 8y ago
It's not just cyclists: https://youtu.be/BpRfUh1Dzlw
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by kcanini 8y ago
> AFAWKT "As far as we KAN tell"?
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by kcanini 8y ago
When you have to generate your own kinetic energy, that's not due to a lack of patience as much as trying to minimize the amount of exertion you must do.
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by kcanini 8y ago
That's how I've set mine up, but even that mode is significantly worse than having physical keys, due to the lack of tactile feedback. I still accidentally touch the software keys without intending to several times per day, and I
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by kcanini 8y ago
Posted dozens of times already: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
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by kcanini 8y ago
To nitpick your nitpick, the word "extraordinarily" here is not an adjective modifying "activity"; is an adverb that stresses that debugging is uncommonly "first-class, up-front, and frequent" in Common Lisp
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by kcanini 8y ago
Which law is violated if you enter the intersection when the light is green and exit it when the light is red?
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by kcanini 8y ago
Colloquially, "random" does imply a uniform distribution.
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by kcanini 8y ago
Leverage only matters if your home appreciates (or depreciates!) in value relative to inflation. There is a very large section of the article devoted to explaining that on average, this does not happen.
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by kcanini 8y ago
> Who is being harmed by a rent-controllee sub-leasing? Literally no one. The owner is harmed, because otherwise they could have gotten a new tenant and raised the rent back up to market rate.
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by kcanini 8y ago
Oh, like in Twenty20 cricket?
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by kcanini 8y ago
It's actually 16 billion.
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by kcanini 8y ago
Have you considered that it might be intentional?
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by kcanini 8y ago
It is different, because they are testing untested algorithms that have unknown risks and failure modes.
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by kcanini 8y ago
Do you think the actual intent is closer the stated intent, or to the actual results? We're talking about seasoned politicians, not naive dreamers.

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