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I saw an interesting perspective on the Monty Hall problem from judegomila earlier this month -

https://twitter.com/judegomila/status/1183425802399969282

"Your brain will compute monty hall problem in fast casual causal mode AND/OR compute slow mode formally for the exact answer. Probability predictions that accurately map reduce to efficient intuitive representations in our brain dictate direction in our evolutionary biology."

"[since] we don't solve the monty hall problem effectively with our intuition, an evolving life form would be poor at resource collection from such problem sets without knowledge of axiom representation and formal probability."

Places with legal sex work have higher rates of human trafficking

> Criminalization of prostitution in Sweden resulted in the shrinking of the prostitution market and the decline of human trafficking inflows. Cross-country comparisons of Sweden with Denmark (where prostitution is decriminalized) and Germany (expanded legalization of prostitution) are consistent with the quantitative analysis, showing that trafficking inflows decreased with criminalization and increased with legalization.

https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-...

Before this event, Blizzard was a Reddit darling, whereas Apple was not.

Cunningham's Law at work. Throw a conference saying something isn't possible and someone will attend just to disprove it.

Yes, most of his recent rhetoric is.

Do you keep your contracts from 30 years ago?

Or, ya know, you use XCode and it autocompletes the function signature for you.

Given the amount of time I end up spending sitting at a supercharger, it totally makes sense.

There are a bunch of physicians of different specialties in this community. It’s not uncommon.

Using other people’s capital has better EV and a better worse case outcome than completely self-funding. Not that every company needs to be venture backed.

From the previous discussion, I discovered that the author used Monodraw to create the diagrams. I'm excited to check it out - https://monodraw.helftone.com/

Very few things can survive a 10x increase in costs.

What an awful answer

Let’s take for granted that the Trinity study is wrong, like you claim. What are you advocating for? Spending flexibility? The Golden Butterfly portfolio? Bitcoin?

Between the Trinity study, FIRECalc, and a healthy discussion about bond tents - plenty of folks are taking volatility seriously.

For every blogger trying to “retire” on $300k there’s another person targeting a 3.5% SWR with a well balanced portfolio, quietly waiting out the boring middle. The former gets more press but I suspect the latter will survive the next downturn just fine.

Hospitals that take a majority Medicare patients go out of business. Medicare patients are subsidized by the rest of a hospital’s patient population.

> Who “racially profiles” Chinese people at an airport?

Alaska Airlines employees, apparently.

Brandon Sanderson’s fantasy series The Stormlight Archive features a society where writing is considered a feminine art. Most men do not have the ability to read or write. Sanderson explores the consequences of this in that women are used exclusively for long distance communication and books. The women often write notes in the margins that are meant just for other women to understand the context of the text, but aren’t spoken aloud to men.

I noticed that a CSS fix I gave to pg for Hacker News over 10 years ago is still in place today.

I’m proud to have a single brick in the foundation of a site that has lasted this long.

This has got to be a subsection of Betteridge's law. When the headline reads “___ sells stock” it’s always a predetermined sale.

You can’t select * into json_agg

Being a contributor and having commit permissions are technically different things. Dimitri is listed as a contributor on the appropriate wiki page https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/

Toptal issued a press release affirming that they are suing [redacted]. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/toptal-files-lawsui...

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Don’t mistake “more than what the doctor would make from Medicare” as anything close to what they make normally. Medicare pays pennies on the dollar.

We shouldn't discourage progress just because it doesn't fit exactly into todays model of the world.

The commenter I responded to literally said that the genius intentionally told the customer the wrong thing. They have since edited that part out. So yes, folks right here are claiming intent where there is none.

Nothing in your sources indicate there's intention in Apple driving folks towards these repairs. Geniuses don't work on commission, they have zero incentive to tell people to fix things they dont need to. I think this is a Hanlon's razor situation where you're assuming Apple is malicious when really it's just lack of knowledge on behalf of some Geniuses.

He could have tried. As a shareholder (stupid, I know) I feel betrayed that he wasn’t even trying.