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Yes, that’s true. But let’s say I trust my VPN provider and do not trust my cell service provider. Does PGPP add value for me in that case?

So without this, your internet activity on a mobile phone can be linked to you even with a VPN?

Active voice is usually more clear, tight, and pleasant to read.

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 in…

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…

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 relati…

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, …

> 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 thir…

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 …

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…

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?cbd…

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 indust…

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!