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by treebog 4y ago
I’m not deferring to WaPo, but rather two academics at the London School of Economics. Their paper is linked in the WaPo article. I don’t believe either is affiliated with the US government, or even an American citizen, so I don’t see how t
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by treebog 4y ago
I guess her answer stands either way, but the idea that sanctions killed half a million children is Hussein’s phony propaganda, and subsequent research has shown no increase in child mortality during the time of the sanctions. https:&#x2F
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The Short Canon(stepanovpapers.com)
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by treebog 5y ago
One important note for residents of California and New Jersey: if you live in one of these states you must pay state tax on HSA contributions and gains, the same as if it were a regular taxable account. Your HSA is still tax-advantaged at
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by treebog 5y ago
Easy. If you want a real challenge, find me a hetero couple where the woman’s voice is deeper.
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by treebog 5y ago
It is well past time for government to step in and get these dangerous cars off the road.
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by treebog 5y ago
Ah, great. Thank you
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by treebog 5y ago
Question, hopefully not too off topic: if I subscribe, can I get the weekly edition emailed to me like a newsletter? Or at least a notification when it’s posted? I want to subscribe but doubt I’ll actually remember to log in and read it eve
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by treebog 5y ago
I love FreeBSD but to me it doesn’t sound like a great fit for OP. It sounds like OP wants something that will work out of the box, and in my experience FreeBSD on the desktop is harder to setup and usually requires some fussing, especially
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by treebog 5y ago
Agreed. It sounds like OP would like Linux Mint. - Multimedia works out of the box. - No snap. - Since it’s based on Ubuntu, any problems are easily googleable.
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by treebog 5y ago
> I honestly think it is a little stupid not to do any monetization. This may be a popular sentiment on hacker news but thankfully it is an unpopular view among the best programmers. If everyone thought like this, there would be no Linux
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by treebog 5y ago
There are “free for non-commercial use” licenses, but that is inherently a non-free license. If you restrict what someone can do with the software, it’s not free as in speech.
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by treebog 5y ago
The best source I know of for learning to invest is The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing. It doesn’t just tell you what to invest in, it explains the why.
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by treebog 5y ago
Rather than trying to find some get rich quick scheme, I really recommend you find work you enjoy that pays money and prepare to work for another 10-20 years. Invest wisely and avoid risky schemes like cryptocurrency or trading.
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by treebog 5y ago
Lots are recommending CLRS, but IMO it is way too dry and dense for a first course. I taught myself algorithms with the Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena, and I strongly recommend it. The first half is an exposition on algorithms, and it is
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by treebog 5y ago
What does “serve 5TB” refer to? They expect 5TB of network bandwidth over some time period (a month?)? Or their database takes up 5TB on disk?
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by treebog 5y ago
Normally I’d agree, but in this case the meaning of the acronym tells you nothing (it stands for Berkeley Packet Filter. Make sense?) and BPF is easily googleable. Also, it’s safe to assume that regular readers of LWN will know a little abo
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by treebog 5y ago
In engineering school (in the US), we used pounds mass (lbm) as the unit of mass, and pounds force (lbf) as the unit of force.
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by treebog 5y ago
It sounds like you’re trying to determine if your tiredness is an inevitable side effect of a productive day, if unproductive days are just random, or if your variation in productivity can be optimized. I don’t know the answers for you, but
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by treebog 5y ago
https://archive.is/zMvoW
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by treebog 5y ago
It’s on the far bleeding edge as far as languages go, so I doubt any businesses use it. The largest practical ATS program I know of is polyglot: https://github.com/vmchale/polyglot
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by treebog 5y ago
I remember learning about locality sensitive hashing in school a decade ago, but since then I’ve never seen it used in an ML system in industry. Does anyone actually use this technique at scale? If you have, I’d love to hear about your app
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by treebog 5y ago
I haven’t used it myself, but I believe Simple Emacs Spreadsheets lets you write formulas in emacs lisp. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/ses/inde...
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by treebog 5y ago
It could be that the IC is just very bad at estimating schedules, so much so that they don’t realize they are falling behind. If that’s the case, some training on software estimation and how to set good milestones could pay large dividends.
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by treebog 5y ago
It’s there under the name Salbutamol
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by treebog 5y ago
I should have worded this a little differently. I don’t know how accessible it is to someone who is actually blind or uses a screen reader. For all I know it’s great for them. I do know the tiny text and low contrast make it hard to use for
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by treebog 5y ago
I sometimes wonder how HN’s audience is shaped by the site’s deliberate inaccessibility to visually impaired people. I suspect it is one part of the site’s tilt toward the younger crowd
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by treebog 5y ago
Blog post and interesting HN discussion on Bengali/Unicode https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219162 I would summarize the key issues here, but they are complex and I don’t feel qualified to do them justice.
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by treebog 6y ago
Not really. The upward trend started long before Trump became president.
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by treebog 6y ago
I learned a lot about ice cream by watching this expert talk through the pros and cons of different ice creams: https://youtu.be/lma9TNjj_O8 She is the founder of Jeni’s, which is probably the highest-end ice cream I’ve com

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