mxcrossr

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by mxcrossr 5y ago
I have this suspicion that we can’t see the forest through the trees on the US inflation discussion. Does anyone know any good articles which investigate this issue across countries? It seems like a lot of the things that are “blamed” shoul
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
> Initially, Packard thought he was inside a great white shark, but he couldn’t feel any teeth and he hadn’t suffered any obvious wounds. Is a great white shark actually big enough that you could end up inside it’s mouth whole?
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
This is more reflective of the media bubble you are living in; it’s not nearly as bad as you think. Especially if you’re into tech (say you read hacker news) any problem that exists in California (where a lot of tech people live) is a hot d
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
I’m kind of surprised HN could take them down
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
Imagine if thirty years ago we declared the yellow pages a public utility.
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
I wonder if this is more a subtle criticism of psychology research. Perhaps a walk in the park should be more of a baseline
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
I think the author just has a complaint about the scientific process (and believe me, all scientists do…) and is trying to fit this topic to that complaint. I doubt that it’s helpful. If we think there aren’t enough safeguards about this ki
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
> "We don't know exactly why or how it works, we just know that it does work," says Michael Kinch, an associate vice chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis who has written a book on vaccination. Kinch and others
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
At least this is what I told the students when I was a TA for a class teaching prolog!
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
My pessimistic fear is that when countries can no longer compete in tax rates, they’ll compete on subsidies. You can go much lower than zero!
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
There is always some selection bias in this regard when reading the hacker news comments. If you spend time talking to people online, you’re probably a lot less interested in the social aspect of work.
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
I’m not super picky myself, but coffee is an incredibly fun hobby. There is a ton of equipment to try and endless varieties of beans. A lot of it is easy entry too, you can even roast your own beans with fairly simple equipment.
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
I’m Scott Aaronson’s book he calls it Computing with the Anthropic Principle. It’s a fun exercise, though obviously quite dangerous. I believe he also mentions that following this reasoning would lead us to expect that the end of the world
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
This seems like good news for a country like Bahrain. It’s unfortunate that the Chinese vaccine isn’t as effective as the competition (such that the current ~50% deployment isn’t enough), but getting to 75% is a realistic goal still.
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
Indeed, that’s why we need to build decentralized services. Like Usenet /s
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
Captain the best
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
The credit card company is the one that holds the power I guess. I wonder if someday visa will start threatening merchants who retaliate via bans as an extra card feature.
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
I’ve started making Caesar dressing from scratch when I want it, and the anchovies can really shine when you do it yourself.
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
I can’t read the comments without an account, but it seems that from the main post: 1. This company will fail 2. YC invested a lot of money in it (a room full of employees) 3. The author admits that his company lied about their sales to get
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
I did the same five years ago (different locations). The one thing I miss was the blankets I had before moving, I just have never found great replacements. Is there anything you realized was harder to replace than you thought?
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
No definitely a big, but I expect that they will announce the swarm of nanobots they plan to release to fix all the affected chips.
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
Also I wish they could nuke from orbit all the tutorials and stack exchange answers that are completely wrong about how to use it!
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
> Another pattern is listing the range as 40-250k so the disclosure is effectively nothing. This feels like a losing strategy as other employers will be posting tighter ranges which will get more applications. Especially if the lower bou
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
I guess the problem with the overdose theory he mentioned is it would be quite odd that all of the excess suicides would manifest in one way. But maybe if you break down suicides by method you could see something. Regardless, I think it’s i
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
Sublime can be downloaded for free though. It just bugs you every few days asking if you would mind paying. That’s my situation now. I’d love to through some cash their way since it’s a great product, but it’s just a bit too steep.
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
I just wish it was a little cheaper. Every time I think about buying a license I realize it’s like 30-40 USD more than I expect and I chicken out
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
> Search quality at Google has been decaying over the past decade. Is there any empirical evidence to back this up? If we’re talking anecdote, I swear as soon as google started labeling ads more clearly people complained more about ads.
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
Ok but… why? Does anyone have enough knowledge to speculate why that bit would prevent you from reading the code?
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
Facebook seems to really have become the whipping boy, despite their falling relevance. Imagine what these depression studies would look like if you did Reddit or 4chan. They get it no matter what they do too. Fail to stop the spread of mis
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by mxcrossr 5y ago
> However, you can't expect another machine to have fish. I can, because whenever I get access to a new machine I download and compile it!

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