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by pixelperfect 4y ago
I find there's a sweet spot for Anki when the daily review of already-existing cards takes 20 minutes. If the daily review takes more than 25 minutes, I try not to add any cards that day.
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by pixelperfect 5y ago
see also endmyopia.org I haven't looked into this deeply because I don't have severe myopia, but seems plausible to me that this really works for a lot of people.
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by pixelperfect 5y ago
The legislation that made Bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador does not legislate the use of Strike. Businesses can use whatever system they want, as long as they can accept payment in Bitcoin. Strike is providing a service that allows any b
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by pixelperfect 6y ago
not sha256
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by pixelperfect 6y ago
He claimed that they would "show where he lived," not necessarily publish his address. I don't believe the Times would publish his address, but I do believe they might put enough information in the article to make it easy to
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by pixelperfect 6y ago
The world reserve currency can collapse without all of society collapsing to the extent you are suggesting.
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by pixelperfect 6y ago
If you wallet is using the BIP39 standard you just memorize the 12-word phrase. The words come from the key, not vice versa. Also, you can get by with just memorizing one phrase, because unlimited addresses are tied sequentially to a single
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by pixelperfect 6y ago
"freedom" and "democracy" are two of the twelve "core socialist values" that are plastered almost anywhere you look in China.
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by pixelperfect 6y ago
I learned Chinese characters using this method and found it very helpful. It's not very popular among Chinese learners or teachers because it's unintuitive. In many cases the keywords of the characters you are learning are impreci
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by pixelperfect 6y ago
Yes, but this is considered by many to be scandalous and I doubt it will continue to be so high-priced long-term.
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by pixelperfect 6y ago
I meant the GameFAQs message boards
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by pixelperfect 6y ago
- old GameFAQs (before the GameSpot merger) - Homestar Runner - YTMND - Newgrounds - ieatcrayons.com (a webcomic that 11-year-old me found very amusing) finally, not a website, but Ragnarok Online was the first MMO I played and the one I ha
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by pixelperfect 6y ago
He has a presentation from 6-7 years ago called "Clojure Is New C" I never watched it because the title annoyed me too much
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
Sierra adventure games were my favorite single-player games from my childhood. I understand why a lot of people don't like them, e.g. many of the puzzles have nonsensical solutions, it's possible to get stuck because you didn&#x27
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
That isn't a contradiction - the advantages of a REPL are greater for Clojure than for Lisp.
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
They're both good. Sean Carroll is 'better' according to a few metrics I can think of, but for some reason I like Lex Fridman's podcast more.
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
It's not that difficult to get to the 95th percentile in Overwatch or Bridge because no one at the 95th percentile receives much compensation, monetary or otherwise. When significant compensation is awarded to the 95th percentile of so
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
It depends. Spaced repetition can be used to mindlessly memorize formulas, which I agree is not useful. Or it can be used in the way described in this article ( http://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics ), which can lead to
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
Do you think people should stop working on LN? I think it's a good way to scale right now, regardless of whether or not it can theoretically handle the transactions of hundreds of millions of people. There are probably going to be some
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
Lightning Network is primarily off-chain transactions, but parties don't have to trust each other. If you open a payment channel with a malicious party, there's no way for them to benefit, and the worst they can do is make you wai
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
Bitcoin is continuing to scale, but it's doing so with the Lightning Network instead of by increasing block size. I'm not super familiar with Bitcoin's tech, but that seems sensible to me. The blockchain is already 250 GB at
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
Is there a big disconnect between buy and rent prices? My brother was living in a nice area for a few hundred dollars per month just a few years ago.
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
I can tell you from experience that an average doctor in a backwater county of Arkansas is better than an average doctor in the capital city of Laos.
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
Looks like you get charged if you go over the transfer allowance. Is there a way to automatically shut everything down to prevent that from happening? I like to go months without thinking about my server, knowing there's no way for a b
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies (would recommend)
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
The author of this article seems to anticipate that the growth China has experienced during the past few decades will continue for the foreseeable future. I am doubtful. International corporations continue moving manufacturing to other coun
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
That said, .15 + (.85 * .15) = 0.2775, the proportion of the student body who either didn't graduate or didn't find a job within 180 days of graduating. So there is a significant fraction who might regret attending the program. Bu
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
Graduation rate would be a good figure to publish on their site. I searched for it out of curiosity, and according to the CEO they have ~85% graduation rate. https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1140636581679624192
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
> According to the Council on Integrity in Results Reporting, 60.9% of Lambda School students were employed 90 days after graduation, going up to 85.9% within 180 days. Graduates earn a median annual base salary of $60,000, according to
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by pixelperfect 7y ago
https://twitter.com/porkostomus/status/1151595347157737472 I agree, if this person was acting entirely rationally they probably would have switched to learning JS and found a job by now. My only point is that ther

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