buzzy_hacker

You disagree and commit when you need to choose one option from multiple. In this case, Marc could just choose to not sign the letter.

I'm saying among people I knew, if you got into #4 and #10, for example, you didn't pick #4 because it was higher rated. At that point the difference came down to other things.

If you got into #4 and #40, then yes, you were going with #4.

I didn't say that they don't. I'm saying among people I knew, if you got into #4 and #10, for example, you didn't pick #4 because it was higher ranked. At that point the difference came down to other things.

I’ll chime in with contrary anecdotal experience having gone to a high school with lots of selective college placements. I didn’t know anyone who chose between two elite schools based on their relative US News ranking.

Do you mean offsets (which don’t really do anything)? Because carbon capture is more expensive than that.

Sorry to ruin your excellent joke. Context for the down voters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Something different entirely, but look at https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures

I don’t understand the “but you’d not talk about them” part.

> A few years ago, I found out I'd been tying my shoes wrong for my entire life. I thought laces came undone easily and didn't usually look very good. At least that's how mine were, and I never paid much attention to anyone else's. It took a couple of weeks to re-train my hands but now I have bows in my laces that look good and rarely come undone.

I’m equally interested in this as the HTML. Any clue what the author is referring to?

> I fear that 3 day weekends every week (since we shouldn’t leave day care workers and teachers out of this) would be the end of me.

We could have different groups of people take off different third days. My preference would be to have Wednesdays off.

Not saying Michael Sandel owns the idea, I first heard it in his book Tyranny of Merit.

I completely agree with you. I think it would be best to expand class sizes in addition to this lottery.

Tangential to the suggestion of taxing endowments, I like Michael Sandel's idea of turning admissions into a lottery once a threshold is met. E.g. anyone with a GPA above x and a SAT score above y with a personal essay judged to meet quality level z (simplifying for illustration) is told that they have passed the acceptance threshold and are entered into the random lottery. The threshold should be set so that students who are prepared enough to succeed in the school are entered into the lottery and those who are not sufficiently prepared are not entered.

Then the freshman class is simply selected by choosing the number of available spots by random from those who have passed the threshold and entered the lottery.

It seems this would take a lot of pressure off high school students since meeting this threshold would be a well-defined goal. Once they've met it, they can start investing their time, energy, and resources into other pursuits like passion projects or time with friends, which would be a boon to mental health.

And the admissions process is essentially random anyway for the elite colleges, assuming you have sufficiently high scores. Making it explicitly random would take some (perhaps undeserved) prestige, status, and exclusivity away from the degrees from these schools -- not that the schools aren't good, or that it isn't hard to get in, but that there are many more who are just as well qualified that do not as there are who do; a fact that would be more well-recognized in society if the lottery approach were adopted. Of course, the elite schools don't want their status (and therefore degree value) tarnished so we're unlikely to see this happen of their own accord.

For those new to Strong Towns, I feel this article is most representative of what they’re about: https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

I can recommend this book on Netherlands and racism: https://www.dukeupress.edu/white-innocence

I’ll give the full quote:

> The Ethereum address Medjedovic used for the attack included the number “1488”—shorthand for a neo-Nazi slogan—and he’d written the N-word into the code itself, 16 times. A Twitter user called him the “Dylan [sic] Roof of Balancer Pools,” a reference to the mass shooter who killed nine Black people at a church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015. Medjedovic liked the tweet.

Here’s another:

> Medjedovic apparently flirted with extremist ideas: The classmate says he heard him speak favorably about White supremacy and eugenics.

He is clearly a white supremacist, how is this “searching randomness for patterns they want to find”? This is speculation, but it wouldn’t surprise me if this guy generated lots of addresses until he got one that did have 1488 in it.

You can move your king into check, so white’s move of king takes queen is legal. But, it still is losing because black then plays knight takes king.

Their butterscotch lollipops are so good.

DCA only speaks to the cadence of investment and is often contrasted to (and underperforms) lump sum. The strategy as a whole could be summed up as investing in low cost diversified index funds.

In fact, here is an interview of Hikaru from Doug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npyFtH2odaM

Short-term TIPS. The shorter duration means more responsive to inflation and less sensitive to interest rate risk.

https://institutional.vanguard.com/iam/pdf/ISGCTIPS.pdf?cbdF...

Congratulations on the launch, I genuinely think this ranks among the most positive high-impact work one could be doing right now. The scale of animal cruelty is tremendous. Disrupting the meat industry is so important. Do let us know if you need any software engineers!

World Chess Championship 1972 was widely viewed as a proxy for the Cold War

That’s correct, but Stockfish uses neutral nets differently than AlphaZero.

2. d4 is the Morra gambit

Knock knock.

Who's there?

To.

To who?

To whom!

Though that’s the state policy, not the city. Shame though.

I use Arq and backup to B2. I use it instead of backblaze directly for the encryption.

The details are in the link?

Contains following information: launcher identifier user identitifer (XUID) client session id (changes on restart) world session id (changes per world load, to be reused for later events) game version operating system name and version Java runtime version if client or server is modded (same information as on crash logs) server type (single player, Realms or other) game mode

This is just speculation on your part? Is that all they were collecting before? And they are not collecting that now. They are collecting:

launcher identifier user identitifer (XUID) client session id (changes on restart) world session id (changes per world load, to be reused for later events) game version operating system name and version Java runtime version if client or server is modded (same information as on crash logs) server type (single player, Realms or other) game mode