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byroot.github.io 1y ago

The Pitchfork Story

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www.improbable.com 4y ago

YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording

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www.reddit.com 5y ago

Slate Star Codex update: NYT still at it, reopening on hold

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github.com 6y ago

Show HN: Duro – scheduled materialized views for Amazon Redshift

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chappellellison.com 8y ago

Giving and Taking Criticism (2018)

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www.viva64.com 8y ago

The Last Line Effect

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www.fastcompany.com 10y ago

On the Dark Web, Medical Records Are a Hot Commodity

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes

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www.slate.com 10y ago

That Brilliant New Strategy for Conquering Scrabble? It’s Not New or Brilliant

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terrytao.wordpress.com 10y ago

Visualising random variables

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edge.org 10y ago

What do you consider the most interesting scientific news?

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medium.com 10y ago

The Best Books I Read in 2015

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priceonomics.com 10y ago

Creating the World's Greatest Anagram

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popehat.com 10y ago

Arthur Chu Would Like to Make Lawyers Richer and You Quieter and Poorer

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blog.taucharts.com 10y ago

How to reveal aggregations with Taucharts

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nautil.us 11y ago

Why We Keep Playing the Lottery

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acko.net 11y ago

The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics

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translate.google.com 12y ago

Russian government's RFT to investigate obtaining information about TOR users

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www.businessweek.com 12y ago

Putin says Yandex was largely influenced by foreigners, shares fall by 5%

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en.wikipedia.org 12y ago

Moravec's paradox

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www.smbc-comics.com 12y ago

The Top 6 Reasons This Infographic Is Just Wrong Enough To Sound Convincing

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sciencevsmagic.net 13y ago

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Geometry

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www.freakonomics.com 13y ago

Why do rental car companies give you two sets of keys?

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Too many people are missing the point of actions like this. You want to make lives of everyone in Russia more unpleasant to send the signal that a war can’t be an easy PR win. If you start a war, it should suck for your citizens, even if they are watching the news from a safe distance. If your leader starts a war, your life will become worse and you will be poorer personally. Sure, this is less effective for authoritarian countries, but is still useful.

Of course most Github users from Russia aren’t guilty, and many of them are already against the war. Good for them! But that’s not the point.

Spotify on Mac.

It’s Chromium-based, so, of course, it’s slow. Specifically, search is excruciatingly slow, removing an album from your library redraws the whole page, and—most frustratingly— as soon as you lose internet connection, your perfectly nice and readable page get replaced with “Artist pages are not available offline”. It’s a list of tracks and albums which is updated (at most, on average) several times a year, why require connection to continue showing it?

Not Mac-specific, but extremely weird: sometimes Release Radar playlist has tracks by wrong artists with the same name. I don’t think a recommendation model would use names instead of IDs, so it probably means that track was first ascribed to a wrong artist, and that’s... even worse?

There’s a good reason why doctors have difficulties with rare diseases—which is, of course, the rarity itself.

In medical school, aspiring doctors spend a few minutes at most on these relatively unusual conditions.

It would be unethical to spend a lot of time studying these conditions while many more people suffer from the more frequent ones.

Sooner than later, we’ll be able to solve, say, depression reliably via pills or vaccines or whatever, and then more rare diseases will be studied much better (likewise, there was little point in spending much time on depression when smallpox was around).

You don’t need perfect measurements to make decisions.

Comparing times between browser-defined events in the same browser opening the same site on the same day is about the most apples-to-apples as you can get.

It’s two days if you live in the US. I don’t, so the CD will have to travel for weeks to finally get stuck at the customs in the airport—and CDs are much more fragile than MP3s or FLACs. Moreover, I don‘t have a single device to put this CD into.

What's really sad: most of the comments here either say “Teachers don't need to be good, that's OK, we should never change it or complain about it or even worry about it” or “We need more vivid descriptions of bullying until we can agree there's some problem”.