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Bastiat's Candlestick Makers' Petition(bastiat.org)
3 points by umlaut 23d ago|1 comments
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by umlaut 23d ago
Published in 1845 as an open letter to the French parliament regarding their use of tariffs to "protect" French industry.
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by umlaut 2y ago
One of the authors commented that the source is GPL'd and on GitHub... and here it is! https://github.com/pdfernhout/PlantStudio
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by umlaut 4y ago
It also can automatically rotate authors if you've got people eager for attribution. When I was just starting out pairing, it felt really good to join a project and immediately get commits on a new repo.
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by umlaut 4y ago
Have you checked out https://github.com/git-duet/git-duet/ ? You configure a ~/.git-authors file with people with whom you regularly pair, and use `git duet [author-1] [author-2]` to set primary and secondary
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by umlaut 9y ago
The dam would still allow some water into the Mediterranean, which is why it's "only" a drop of 100m-200m in mean sea level in the Mediterranean.
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by umlaut 9y ago
Part of the idea behind this is that you can run your own randomness beacon in the same manner, and if you and another person want to make a bet like that, you can each use your own beacon and xor the values together to get a new, previousl
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by umlaut 9y ago
That's true in the US, but not in many other places (the UK for example).
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by umlaut 9y ago
The interesting properties of RNNs aren't in readability. RNNs can learn syntactical states, e.g. "this text is in quotes" that enable some really cool analysis tricks. OpenAI published an article about this recently, where t
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by umlaut 9y ago
escalated to the richest person on Earth .
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by umlaut 10y ago
By screwing up, owning it, and fixing it. It's impossible to get real operational knowledge without actually working on it. If you're in school, design competitions are awesome. If you're working in IT already, take responsib
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Ask HN: Learning Hexidecimal Arithmetic
1 points by umlaut 10y ago|1 comments
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by umlaut 10y ago
31, CAD development lead, 3 years experience, A.A.S in Gunsmithing, Centennial, CO, USA. $67k. 20% work from home, 401k match to 4% salary, 15 days vacation, and no one even tracks sick days unless it's 2+/mo.
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by umlaut 10y ago
I just finished the Udacity machine learning nanodegree a bit over a month ago. While it is good (and getting better) at teaching techniques and material, you miss a lot in terms of access to research faculty. There aren't any research
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by umlaut 10y ago
I pay ~7.5% for myself and my spouse. We have four children covered by the state's expanded Medicaid provision. State and federal taxes and budgeting make it impossible to estimate not only how much I am paying for that portion, but ho
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by umlaut 11y ago
I ran their developer version on an old Nexus 7 for a while, and it was more like the latter (Windows analogue). There is still a full terminal experience available even on the phone as I understand it, just a lot more proprietary software.