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by troupe 1y ago
Is Fastmail in any way similar to what is being described here? Fastmail looks like a replacement for Gmail or maybe Gsuite.
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by troupe 2y ago
There is a certain amount of overhead in servicing an account whether it has $5 in it or $500,000 in it. A $5 account doesn't give the bank much to loan while a $500,000 gives the bank lots of money to loan out. So the bank would rathe
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by troupe 2y ago
For example, Amex Platinum comes with $400 Dell credit each year, and several other similar perks.
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by troupe 2y ago
When it comes to banks, there is also a tier where fees are waived for high value customers. For example, checking, atm, wires, are free if you have $50k or more in your checking account.
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by troupe 2y ago
There is a very big difference between a bilingual school and a school where half the kids don't understand the language that math is being taught in.
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by troupe 2y ago
ADHD and autism are diagnosed based on behaviors. This might work for cases at the more extreme end of the spectrum, but when it comes to trying to identify more mild cases, you are going to start seeing a lot of overlap in behaviors of the
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by troupe 2y ago
That may be less true than it was 20 years ago. Even free resources like Khan Academy can go a long ways in helping parents educate their kids beyond what they know themselves. And for parents willing to spend even a fraction of what the pu
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by troupe 2y ago
I think the idea is that it is a numbers game. If you have a way to inexpensively generate a much higher click-through rate than doing it manually, your success rate will go up with a lower investment.
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by troupe 2y ago
> people are choosing the least-worst option in terms of employer Doesn't that mean people are choosing the best employer that wants their skill set?
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by troupe 2y ago
Well, they were giving them jobs where they could earn money as well as providing for most all the things that a homeless person is going to need. But the return on investment from people just giving handouts is hard to compete with.
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by troupe 2y ago
> When people aren't using the services there's always a reason. That is what I was saying. There is the perceived return on investment of using the services designed to help get one out of homelessness, and it is being weighed
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by troupe 2y ago
> until we can figure out a way to convince other americans that everyone deserves a home I helped get a homeless person into a place that provided him with an apartment, food, and work that he could do, with a path to helping him become
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by troupe 2y ago
I've tried to help some homeless people get into a place where they are provided with housing, jobs, etc. to try to get them back on their feet. They often didn't last very long because they knew that on the street, people would g
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by troupe 2y ago
I initially thought it was saying we should not expect to have the results of the election sorted out until the 8th.
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by troupe 2y ago
> when you need to generate a massive amount of randomized data. Even faster than Clojure: Open VIM for a VS Code user and ask them to exit.
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by troupe 2y ago
Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation might be useful for the context you are describing. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/
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by troupe 2y ago
I would argue that a shared corpus that everyone has read is a key foundation to a society with rich and nuanced social intercourse. That doesn't mean everyone has read the same books, but there would be significant benefits in kids co
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by troupe 2y ago
The Do Nothing Scripting [1] is an approach that I feel recognizes the difficulty of automation by starting out with a script that just tells you what to do like a checklist. Once you've used it to fully document all the exceptions, et
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by troupe 2y ago
Can you give any examples of someone whose idea formation was not improved went they undertook the task of writing their thoughts down?
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by troupe 2y ago
I agree with the overall idea of the article, but it is important to recognize that our modern assumptions make us think there is a particular version of a fairy tale that is the "correct" or "original" version. Stories
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by troupe 2y ago
The relevant sentence from the link: I would very much like to reach the point where we are able to provide access to some digital surrogate of the game while keeping the original disc in storage in the same way that we provide access to di
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by troupe 2y ago
> (e.g. like the US library of congress) Does the LoC do something like this?
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by troupe 2y ago
I think this is a lot less clear than just a yes or no. Imagine you have a library where you can't touch the books so you have to look at them through glass and turn the pages with some type of robotic arm. That probably wouldn't
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by troupe 2y ago
> I agree strongly with the bit about not including memes and jokes It probably matters if it is related to the talk or not. A slightly related joke or funny picture at the beginning that introduces where you are going and then comes bac
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by troupe 3y ago
Dijkstra's blog posts were handwritten with a fountain pen and distributed by being photocopied. :)
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by troupe 3y ago
> I'm not sure it is the win you're suggesting. I had brief stints with CVS and TBH it really sucked. What had you used that was better? CVS seemed like quite a step forward compared to RCS and the other available options.
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by troupe 3y ago
Going to the IRS and saying, "This is how we plan to benefit humanity and because of that, we shouldn't have to pay income tax." and then coming back later and saying, "We decided to do the opposite of what we said.&quot
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by troupe 3y ago
Getting paid $500k, while it is a lot of money, is not at all the same as someone benefiting from the profit of a company and making 100s of millions of dollars. $500k doesn't at all seem like an unreasonable salary for someone who is
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by troupe 3y ago
If OpenAI became a non-profit with this in its charter: “resulting technology will benefit the public and the corporation will seek to open source technology for the public benefit when applicable. The corporation is not organized for the p
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by troupe 3y ago
So you live in a region that has significantly less snowfall than what can be expected based on the normal variation that occurred 25, 50, or 100 years ago?

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