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Unchecking all these boxes is a thankless task.

You can't just add up future value and current value of things. The future value is in future dollars, they are different from current dollars. You owe depositors their current dol…

I can imagine some unintended consequences from this. If I'm a hard-going reviewer, people might choose to avoid me, and I'll be compensated less. Conversely, if I'm easy-going, pe…

I am curious. If it's not too personal - you seem to be someone who reads a lot and synthesises it together into interesting output. You appear to have some control and resistance …

Surely it's sufficient that someone else forgot the $100 in the book.

How do you like Umberto Eco's attempt to characterize ur-fascism?

Thank you, I enjoyed your illuminating comments, and for the search phrase "semantic shift". I should have been more cognizant of metaphorical extension, having recently read [0] w…

Curious that you have a negative view of that. When I come across a word I don't know I am usually too lazy to look it up, and so I infer its meaning. But I don't know if I infer i…

Ironically (perhaps deliberately?) your quote may be misattributed: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/

And please consider auctioning a few without buy-it-now - there's a lot of goodwill here on HN for your project and the charitable cause.

Though it looks like these puzzles are far from randomly generated - they're quite artfully put together.

Since some people are complaining about the difficulty curve, you could randomly generate puzzles and rate them, and players, with Bayeselo (or similar; like chesstempo does). Then…

According to [1] you can have float-adjusted or market-cap weighted indices. > An example of a company in which float-adjustment comes into play is Amazon (AMZN). The online retail…

Better yet, they can just publish something encrypted with every compromised public key. Only people with the corresponding private keys can ascertain if they're compromised.

Couldn't the service allow you to check your private keys, rather than check a public key, without transmitting the actual key. You know (pub,priv). They know either (pub,priv) or …

How awful, I just saw [ja27 17 hours ago]. I've even managed to describe it in almost exactly the same way..

Another ingenious approach is taken by chesstempo.com, a chess training site. Just as in chess itself the ratings of players are determined by pairwise comparisons (games between p…

What I like about this is that by writing it the wrong way round you have collected plenty of evidence that your intended meaning is indeed well known!