neilparikh

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by neilparikh 1y ago
I think you’re using the typical aesthetic definition of fantasy vs. sci-fi. You’re right that under that one, Tower of Babylon would be considered fantasy. Ted Chiang has an alternate definition though, I prefer that one to be honest. His
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by neilparikh 1y ago
This data structure is called the zipper, and the neat thing is that you can generalize this to more complicated types like trees: https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced...
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by neilparikh 2y ago
I built a similar system for my school’s CS club. I considered using a door sensor, but the eventual solution I settled on was a light sensor, because it’s almost always true for us that the lights are on iff the door is open. This way, we
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by neilparikh 3y ago
> my wife with iphone pops up browser, I pop up mine with firefox and ublock origin. Internet is utterly useless and horrible place on her phone, while completely fine on mine (plus I get youtube ads blocking as a bonus) I recently set u
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by neilparikh 3y ago
Somewhat related game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1533050/Press_Ctrl/
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by neilparikh 3y ago
When I was traveling abroad, I placed an order on Walmart, shipping to my home address, so that it would be there for me when I got back home. Walmart cancelled the order, "due to location restrictions on placing and shipping orders&qu
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by neilparikh 3y ago
Many streets in parts of Asia (Korea and Taiwan for example) are similar. A majority of the "side" roads just don't have sidewalks, and people walk on the road. I was a little nervous the first few times I encountered it (hav
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by neilparikh 3y ago
The point is that this is a societal issue. One person paying doing some charity on their own doesn't solve the societal issue. As analogy: "It sucks that my peers earn less than me because they are part of <X disenfranchised g
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by neilparikh 3y ago
This is a classic coordination problem: you need all the sellers to leave together so that individual merchants don't take a loss. And coordination problems like this are one of the main areas government action can help!
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by neilparikh 3y ago
For Uber and UberEats, turns out you actually can disable marketing notifications, under the communication settings, it's just hidden away.
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by neilparikh 3y ago
The funny thing was that even Apple violated that rule themselves: https://marco.org/2014/12/01/app-store-rule-5-6
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by neilparikh 3y ago
I watched the movie first, but enjoyed the written story more (though I still thought the movie was great!). The big difference for me was the inclusion of the physics in the written story, and how it was connected to the linguistics.
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by neilparikh 3y ago
Capital One credit cards have this feature.
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by neilparikh 3y ago
I don't think it's clear that PFOF is bad for retail investors. Many people argue (see Analysis section of the article you posted, and also Matt Levine's writing about it on Money Stuff) that PFOF is actually a net good for r
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by neilparikh 3y ago
Many of my professors would mention the problem numbers for both the current version, and the previous version, to deal with that specifically.
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by neilparikh 3y ago
> Europe does not have skyscrapers so it is possible. I'll steelman your argument to be "Europe has less skyscrapers than NYC" (which I think is true, IIRC). If you need to get away with less super tall buildings, you need
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by neilparikh 3y ago
It was changed because of a California law IIRC.
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by neilparikh 3y ago
You'll also want `set show-mode-in-prompt on`. Note that this feature is broken when you have a PS1 with a \n in it, in an older version of readline/bash (I am not sure which), so if you're having this problem, just upgrade y
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by neilparikh 3y ago
> not regulating the real-estate industry Are we talking about the same city? SF real estate is super regulated, it’s my go to example of real estate regulations taken to an insane level. This is the city where any citizen can appeal any
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by neilparikh 3y ago
> In my eyes, the only problem I had is that I thought school was a meaningless chore. Should we make children take meth because they don't like the system they're in? This is what the problem was for you. It's quite a lea
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by neilparikh 3y ago
The real answer (IMO) is that ADHD is both under-diagnosed and over-diagnosed. I know many people who would benefit from a ADHD diagnosis, but aren't diagnosed yet, and just kind of struggle through as best as they can. On the flip sid
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by neilparikh 4y ago
> wealth is not zero-sum Land is zero sum. The easy (partial) solution to that is just to build more housing on the same land, except older homeowners spend their time blocking new housing, which has essentially turned housing into a zer
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by neilparikh 4y ago
> provides strictly fewer choices when problem solving. If you view programming as trying to avoid writing the "wrong" program from the state space of all programs, this is a good thing. I guess it's a matter of priorities
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by neilparikh 4y ago
Japan is much more child friendly in terms of that. For example, young children are regularly sent to do errands on their own (see the Old Enough tv show for an exaggerated version of that). So people may believe it to be the case, but I&#x
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by neilparikh 4y ago
I think it's similar to many of the people I interacted with in high school/university. They're not close enough that I saw them much outside of school, and I lost touch with them after graduation, but I still thought the int
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by neilparikh 4y ago
> Dermody Properties LLC, a commercial real estate developer based in Reno, Nevada, is buying the property and will convert it into warehouse space Is more warehouse space really the most efficient/needed use for land in the Bay Are
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by neilparikh 4y ago
I'm guessing their point was that in many other countries (ex. Canada), tap to pay is pretty much universally supported for many years, to the point where I'm surprised when a merchant doesn't have it. The majority of my tran
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by neilparikh 4y ago
You can flip the order of the steps and it works pretty well imo: answer on Slack, and then once the discussion is complete, clean up the messages and put them into the docs. This has the added benefit that you can have some back and forth
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by neilparikh 4y ago
The longtermist EAs do suggest that, but by dollar donated, the more traditional global health stuff is still a large chunk of what EA do. > I read some posts about this movement, and from them it seemed like EAs are more interested in t
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by neilparikh 4y ago
> proper taxation and wealth redistribution All the mainstream political suggestions for taxation/wealth distribution focus on correcting wealth inequalities within a rich nation. Very few (if any) suggest redistributing from wealth

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