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This is not quite correct either. 1p is of course generally much stronger than an arbitrary amateur dan (even some (many? most?) 9d amateurs) and you can advance up the pro ranks q…

Very nice. How come you guys didn't enter the UEC Cup? (Edit: rereading this it kind of sounds snarky, not meant that way. Really impressive if you can kick CrazyStone's teeth in..…

Oh man overblown article. Fan Hui is 2p, so very skilled, but the ranking system goes up to 9p. To give a sense of how large a gap that is, there is and has only ever been one West…

The only one who knows if the input is needed anymore is the caller, not all callers will agree, so it's bad form to let the called function decide automatically unless it's very c…

Besides, all the ARIA stuff isn't free. It only benefits screen readers and bots that aren't Google's. The rejection from lack of accessibility is as strange as rejection from lack…

There already are tax and welfare benefits to having children, and indeed it does incentivize having them when you really can't afford them. It doesn't seem sustainable long term, …

What is this total inequality you talk about? It seems like you're picking the inequality of 0 and infinity. But we live in a finite world, this total inequality is impossible. Fur…

The entire thrust of our medical regulatory system, from the Flexner Report to today, is the belief that it's better for 1000 patients to die of neglect, than 1 from quackery. Unti…

They'll probably succeed for the most part, too. Who's going to spend their time playing cat and mouse when they can just unsubscribe and torrent? If you're not seeding, you're bre…

I remember looking at Beeminder, probably around the time that article was written unless you promoted/were promoted on LW before then. How much would you say you've improved the s…

If you include thinking about work, then even work-from-home people could reach the 50+ figure relatively easily since you include weekends and trying to get to sleep. But then you…

Non-judgmental fair third-party oversight who has free action only reversible by themselves over your environment.

Whence the high performance claim? I tried finding some benchmarks, and apparently they used to be on the home page since this was on HN about a year ago, but I didn't find any rec…

Looking at your portfolio -- are you applying for video game jobs or generic Big Co software engineer? Or pretty much anywhere you can find / that reaches out to you? Try for somet…

Unfortunately he picked the wrong unjust laws to break, the wrong targets to go after. The problem with being a true believer... http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/0…

I still sympathize with a subset of the ICs, those that must see so many problems (maybe even futilely trying to fix them) but being crippled from doing much by internal dynamics. …

It's more like x86 beat everything, which is also saying that externally CISC/RISC didn't matter so much. I like the section on RISC here: http://danluu.com/butler-lampson-1999/ Sp…

I wanted to recommend Nim elsewhere in the thread, too. For a lot of serious game devs, a language with a forced GC is often a no-go, for good reasons or bad, so that immediately e…

Odd to see it not mentioned as another benefit, but by targeting C instead of say direct assembly you benefit from the decades of optimization research that has gone into modern C …

Can you name three? In any case, a good economist typically just says what the state of the world is or will be given x, y, z, not what should be. I can think of one economist (Rob…

I was thinking of Musk too. A person with $1bn in the bank is very rich. So is a person with $200m in the bank. But the first person still has a lot more freedom of action. When yo…

We could, maybe, for various degrees of help and with various dangers depending on how much help (look up Oracle AI), and I would easily wager using relevant tools (not just "AI te…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_the_RMS_Ti... You give a director a big budget from their past successes, not necessarily because the underlying thing is somehow …

> thanks to the democratization of resources like powerful hardware (Em mine.) I have a problem, my rig's not very powerful. Where can I vote to get a better rig? Or does my rig do…

You may find the pattern of complaints repeated decade after decade, but as the other commenter mentioned that is just as easily explained if it is in fact getting worse and worse.…