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by psb 11mo ago
> Polish hard-right member of the European Parliament Piotr Müller said the rules are an example of over-regulation gone wild This is almost an endorsement of the rules to me.
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by psb 1y ago
Just sent this to my son, seems legitimately promising
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by psb 1y ago
what are the bonkers parts? (just curious)
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by psb 2y ago
Impressive that this made it to number 1 on hacker news. The politics of the readers here is pretty interesting
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by psb 2y ago
I would pay for an equivalent app that helped my German pronunciation
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by psb 2y ago
r/forth is a subreddit - so https://<reddit url>/r/forth
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by psb 3y ago
Feels like a "lot" of things help rats for whatever reason though
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by psb 3y ago
I'm not sure Peter Thiel believes in anything resembling "egalitarian enlightenment era principles" unfortunately
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by psb 4y ago
haha, worth a try
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by psb 4y ago
Granted, Fermats Last Theorem is a tricky proof so I understand it struggling with it got a laugh out of this line. Sounds almost like a modern day Monty Python skit (John Cleese voice) And then I asked it to give back instructions for
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by psb 4y ago
I think you mean tutelage instead of tuition there (I could be wrong)
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by psb 4y ago
started as a C programmer on DOS servers (believe it or not) The network was a token ring. Used Brief as an editor and we had some key-value database that was always getting corrupted (can't even remember the name) I do remember liking
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by psb 4y ago
remember vaguely reading in some book (Jared Diamond?) that at one time the poor in Ireland lived almost entirely on potatoes and milk - and that they were much healthier in general than the richer elites. Apparently those two items + some
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by psb 4y ago
I was also impressed and surprised by how much time they spent screwing around singing with goofy voices and the like
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by psb 4y ago
When I was little my Dad had an aggressive turkey (well it would let my Dad pet it but no one else) I generally kept our Rottweiler between me and the turkey when I was anywhere near it
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by psb 5y ago
I listened to a talk by David Deutsch and he talks about creating an quantum computer based AI and then asking the AI if there are other worlds - (hope I'm not remembering this wrong)
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by psb 5y ago
I'd be interested in building a listening comprehension tool for foreign language learners. I'm thinking having a slider for vocab (top 1000 words, top 2000 words, etc) and a slider for speed of speech plus an adjustable timer for
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by psb 6y ago
Many of these tournaments won't allow an offered draw before move ... 40 or something like that.
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by psb 6y ago
Advogato is a blast from the past
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by psb 6y ago
I think this was pretty much the topic of one of his books
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by psb 7y ago
One good thing about using dvorak I guess
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by psb 7y ago
My feeling about Stallman is that he is that rare creature, a fundamentalist lefty. Its a pretty lonely island and I'm actually a little surprised he has lasted this long
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by psb 8y ago
My kids think I'm weird for watching chess but it is a perfect background show to have on - baseball is the other sport that works fairly well. There are also some really fantastic commentators (Peter Svidler and Jan Gustaffson are my
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by psb 13y ago
The multiple overlapping hierarchies stuff is new to me and pretty fascinating. You could probably make a case that whatever benefits Alcoholics Anonymous impart come from providing a community to feel useful and valuable for its members.
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by psb 13y ago
Is cycling the most efficient way to extract power from human muscles? I would guess something like deadlift/rowing motion to be better
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by psb 13y ago
I think it would be nice if we could do something like polymath (from Terry Tao) for medicine. Maybe have a combination of medical experts + statisticians + bright people collaborate on a large scale to tackle some of the health problems ou
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by psb 14y ago
Where is eyudkowski when we need him?
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by psb 14y ago
Amen to this and I think the title is a little misleading no? This looks like it is really about testing blood sugar with a regular meter that has a nice connection to upload the data to an iphone. I'm glad there are smart people working on
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by psb 14y ago
Wow, I didn't realize this was something of a white whale. Still sounds like a fun nerd project though so I might spend some time on it
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by psb 14y ago
Hey thanks, looks like an interesting read

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