nandemo

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by nandemo 7y ago
I don't see anything wrong with it. Honestly it is your post that sounds off to me. You're implying that somehow Human Interest is discriminating against people with Asperger's but there's nothing in their post that says
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by nandemo 7y ago
My favourite abstract algebra textbook is Fraleigh's A First Course in Abstract Algebra . Unlike the article here, which just dumps you a bunch of definitions, the book introduces each structure with proper motivation. It's not
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by nandemo 8y ago
In TFA, "slow morning" doesn't mean waking up late. It means waking up early but taking your time before starting work. If you're a night owl you're probably not doing slow mornings.
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by nandemo 8y ago
Tokyo's public transit system is overrated IMO. Sure, trains and subways cover a lot of ground and are usually on time, but most of the lines are well over 100% crowdedness during rush hour: https://japantoday.com/categ
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by nandemo 8y ago
Forced? That sounds a bit too 1984-ish. I believe in a more Brave New World future, where people will pay good money to get chipped and the only "natties" (unchipped people) will be people who either cannot afford it, or "wac
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by nandemo 8y ago
What do you mean by "actually reflecting the world"? If you mean using objective criteria of some sort, how would that help deciding if the week starts on Sunday or Monday, or what days of the week are to be business days?
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by nandemo 8y ago
No one. That's the joke.
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by nandemo 8y ago
It's clickbaity as hell. If anything, I wish it was more "negative" about India; instead of talking about why people take part in lynchings and why they are so common in the country, the blame goes to WhatsApp, which "ha
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by nandemo 8y ago
In a surprising turn of events, the user showed they did care. > “@okcupid how am I supposed to get my daily dose of crushing rejection and emotional humiliation if your site is down????”
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by nandemo 8y ago
Just by the title I knew it had to be a Matt Levine story.
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by nandemo 8y ago
Banks do lend against receivables.
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by nandemo 8y ago
Japan.
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by nandemo 8y ago
Where I live permanent employees are protected, so the probability of being legally fired for disclosing my salary is 0, and the probability of illegally being fired should be very close to 0. However, the probability of my salary going up
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by nandemo 8y ago
> Posting with a throwaway for obvious reasons. Not obvious to me at all. Weed is already legal in several states in the US; weed use is far from taboo on HN; you have FU money. So why the throwaway? (Of course you have right to your pri
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by nandemo 8y ago
AFAIK such cards make money primarily on breakage, i.e., points that people buy but do not use.
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by nandemo 8y ago
AFAIK the main reason is that Japanese whiskeys started getting awards and demand exploded. Even here in Japan they're expensive, to the extent that scotch has a better bang to the buck ratio.
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by nandemo 8y ago
In Japan too.
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by nandemo 8y ago
Two things that are missing from the article: 1) because of this problem, the government is considering keeping Heisei for a while after the emperor steps down https://minhan.jp/4599 (in Japanese) 2) the Japanese calendar (
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by nandemo 9y ago
Presumably tlb meant what is humanly possible...
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by nandemo 9y ago
Wait, how's the 24h x 5000 TPUs relevant? That is training time, and that training corresponds to years and years of hardcoding evaluations in Stockfish, not to compute time during the match.
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by nandemo 9y ago
I'm pretty sure starting from zero is the point of the Leela-Zero. If they started from Stockfish, it wouldn't be a replication of AlphaZero.
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by nandemo 9y ago
FCM is one game that I prefer to play online. The physical version is a pain to play.
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by nandemo 9y ago
Other games that use simultaneous action: 7 Wonders and one of my top 5 games, Race for the Galaxy.
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by nandemo 9y ago
Thanks for doing this. For those who are looking into taking up boardgames, I highly recommend Codenames.
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by nandemo 9y ago
Besides, there's very little politics in niche subreddits. I'm subscribed to /r/pic (not /r/pics!), /r/flute, /r/stonerrock, /r/chess, /r/boardgames, /foreignmovies
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by nandemo 9y ago
This was a nightmare before tabs were a thing.
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by nandemo 9y ago
Personally, I think an engine written in Haskell would be more interesting. Given how ridiculously strong some engines are when running on commodity hardware, a little performance hit wouldn't be the end of the world.
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by nandemo 9y ago
Point taken.
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by nandemo 9y ago
> I got lost on takao mountain once and was utterly hopeless of ever finding civilization again. Wait, what? Takao mountain is in Tokyo! Yeah, not central Tokyo but still, it's like a 45min train ride from Shinjuku. You make it soun
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by nandemo 9y ago
Money can be exchanged for goods and services. Besides, there are other upsides: you get to work at a company that values developers, you'll have lots of competent colleagues and you'll learn a lot, and you'll work at a produ

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