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by ploomans 3y ago
And now https://isdown.app/integrations/heroku?c=1685469931 is also down because they use Heroku and they did a deploy without realising they would go offline as a result :-)
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by ploomans 3y ago
I deployed updates to two apps in the last hour and they are now offline.. apps that didn't receive a deploy are working correctly. Console also works fine for all apps
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My Fully Optimized Life Allows Me Ample Time to Optimize Yours(mcsweeneys.net)
1 points by ploomans 9y ago|0 comments
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by ploomans 10y ago
But the chances for a Trump win were still above 20% if I remember me well. So it's not really a big surprise that Trump won. These are the kind of the odds in russian roulette. Nobody would be surprised if someone got killed playing i
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by ploomans 10y ago
I don't think "less hard on your digestive system" is an advantage but rather a disadvantage. Just like "less hard on you bones" is not really an advantage for astronauts that spend a couple of weeks/months in
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by ploomans 10y ago
I agree that Brazil has in general high taxes (especially for what you get in return from the government) but don't just assume this is true in every situation. I'm a gringo "permanently" living in Brazil and from a tax
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Demis Hassabis: Towards General Artificial Intelligence(youtube.com)
2 points by ploomans 10y ago|0 comments
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by ploomans 10y ago
The chance to be involved in an armed robbery are small in every big city in the world. Based on anecdotes people will always over or under exaggerate the chances. Just to give a counter example: I lived in Brussels, Philadelphia, Oslo, Sao
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by ploomans 11y ago
I recently read the latest book of the same author on the same theme "The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life". I highly recommend it if you don't mind the higher degree of technical content th
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by ploomans 11y ago
BTW, you should watch his lecture series on the biology of behaviour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL45A5E21EC... For me one of the best teachers you will find online
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Peter Thiel Q&A at Wharton(youtube.com)
2 points by ploomans 12y ago|0 comments
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by ploomans 13y ago
Warren Buffett once wrote an article about the points you are making: http://www.tilsonfunds.com/superinvestors.pdf . Interesting read
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by ploomans 13y ago
Plus if you have a million researches in your area of research a 1 per million chance your results are wrong is still no assurance. Should statistically happen to one of the researchers in your area. Very good article by Warren Buffet that
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by ploomans 13y ago
I think the underlying cause is similar to the publication bias they mention in the article. For almost all A/B tests, A is actually not much different from B. But due to small sample sizes you will see after the first week, at random,