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About math-ias

my businessy identity on HackerNews.

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    Comment #45937674

    They are referring to how there’s a belief in some parts of Massachusetts that the police are trying to frame Karen Reid for the death of John O Keefe (0). At its climax it was all…

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    Comment #44247902

    It measures PutObject[0] performance across different object sizes (1, 8, 100MiB)[1]. Seems to be an odd screenshot of text in the terminal. [0] https://github.com/good-lly/s3mini/…

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    Comment #43013763

    I use YouTube in 3 contexts, mobile, laptop and TV. Since the remote slows down my inputs the most I watch longer content (e.g 20 minute or longer videos) on TV. I do notice that Y…

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    Comment #42656757

    I believe knowing a proof exists will bring us closer to elegant human proofs. I wanted to justify this with the “Roger Bannister Effect”. The thought is that we’re held back psych…

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    Comment #36704220

    The Minecraft comparison is really good. Roblox is for kids. That audience of children attracts seedy actors who want to make money. I’d like to draw an analogy from redstone (Mine…

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    Comment #36097858

    I would guess that this drives a non-negligible number of people to playing the game for the first time. My personal anecdote is tab completing `apt-get install` by mistake and fig…

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    Comment #33014715

    Minecraft sells their own hosted servers called realms that bill monthly [0]. The key difference here might be that it was rolled out well after the game’s release around the 1.5 u…

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    Comment #33003339

    Emulators don’t always challenge developer profit. Minecraft is incredibly successful because users can play on alternative server implementations (e.g hypixel).

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    Comment #32536536

    I was surprised that the story of Gauss's schoolboy arithmetic tricks was the guy himself. Per Sartorius, Gauss "often related [the incident] in old age with amusement and relish".…