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hackrnusron MIT 24-Hour Challenge

I believe their policy statement on admissions as much as I believe former MIT president Susan Hockfield's reason for stepping down from her position in 2012.

Also, don't forget that Susan Hockfield never referred her dean of admissions at MIT to the attorney general's office to face prosecution on wire fraud charges after it was discovered that she had fabricated a medical degree from a medical school that she had never attended on her resume.

hackrnusron Cox–Zucker Machine

Was this posted in response to Lior Pachter's comments re. the Sabatini case on mTOR Leaks?

hackrnusron Kopia – incremental backups, encryption, compression, data deduplication

Seriously, why the down vote?

This project appears to match Duplicacy feature for feature.

I'm just asking a question, not trying to make a criticism.

hackrnusron MIT 24-Hour Challenge

If we raised income taxes to 90% for the highest "earners," then the government could more equitably distribute these funds to a wider range of equally deserving universities.

Neither Harvard nor MIT represent "the very crust of talent" either.

DEI initiatives and legacy applicants make up a significant fraction of their admissions.

hackrnusron Future ships could be powered by wind to fight climate change

Not really.

hackrnusron SVB Took the Wrong Risks

And America does a lot of things that Russia and China don't do apparently:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2023/03/11/silicon-v...

hackrnusron Stability is expensive. SVB preferred taxpayers pay for it

I'd rather the stability come from prison sentences instead.

hackrnusron How did Americans come to trust markets more than government?

Some of them worked in government.

hackrnusron Stability is expensive. SVB preferred taxpayers pay for it

Oh yes they did ... the fees that banks collect from depositors are used to fund the FDIC insurance fund.

Since everyone needs a bank account in this country, taxpayers are taking the hit on this one pure and simple.

hackrnusron SVB Took the Wrong Risks

Fees that banks collect from depositors fund the FDIC ... so like I said, taxpayers are going to take the hit on this one.

Countries like Russia and China would execute the leadership at SVB that allowed this disaster to happen.

In this country, they'll all get another cushy job from their friends in the industry where they can take even more risks with taxpayer money ... hopefully with a much better outcome next time!

hackrnusron MIT 24-Hour Challenge

Donate your money to a more worthy cause ... MIT's endowment is already at $25 billion.

hackrnusron SVB Took the Wrong Risks

So let's make taxpayers pay for it!

hackrnusron China’s Censors Are Afraid of What Chatbots Might Say

... says a chatbot.

hackrnusron How do you contribute to climate change? We made a tool to estimate your impact

Don't waste your time.

The huge uncertainty around all climate change predictions makes them not worth spending much time thinking about.

hackrnusron Kopia – incremental backups, encryption, compression, data deduplication

Is this a rip-off of Duplicacy?

Feature sets are almost identical to each other.

hackrnusron Ask HN: Would you say $100k is the new threshold of middle class in 2023?

Have no idea ... I'm more interested in my health than money.

hackrnusron How do you take efficient notes?

... but looks aesthetically unpleasant.

hackrnusron Too Connected to Fail

Silicon Valley Bank?

hackrnusron Urgent: Sign the petition now

Recently cancelled cartoonist Scott Adams once compared women asking for equal pay to children asking for candy.

I think comparing the depositors in Silicon Valley Bank to these children would have made a better analogy.

hackrnusron He3: Free, Modern, Productive Developer Toolbox

Are you running it then in a security sandbox?

hackrnusron “Hell Is Coming”: How Ackman Predicted the Covid Market Crash–and Made a Fortune

Nice puff piece for Bill Ackman by Vanity Fair.

Wonder how much he paid for it?

Article conveniently forgot to mention that his wife once accepted $100,000 from Jeffrey Epstein on behalf of the Media Lab at MIT as a form of reputation laundering for the convicted pedophile in the months leading up to his second arrest on federal racketeering charges in 2019.

Wonder how much Bill paid for that innocent little omission?

hackrnusron There’s a Good Chance You’ll Regret Quitting Your Job

When you read an article like that, you realize that 'battered women's syndrome' is a real phenomenon.

hackrnusron Ask HN: What email client do you use, and do you love it?

How well does your setup work with HTML mail?

I sometimes need to respond to an HTML mail by editing its contents. The Gmail web interface allows me to do that easily.

Until I can figure out how to do edit an HTML message in emacs, I'm stuck using the browser as my email client.

hackrnusron Ask HN: Best path to Emacs for lifelong vi guy?

https://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/emacs/

Mickey Peterson's Mastering Emacs is also quite good.

hackrnusron There is no IQ threshold effect, also not for income

The paper makes a good argument for introducing universal basic income and more aggressively implementing DEI measures.

Assuming you believe any of it :)

hackrnusron The Free and Simple Clipboard Sync Chrome Extension for All Your Devices

Is it open source?

Otherwise I would have trouble trusting it with the type of information that I often transfer on my clipboard.

hackrnusron Ask HN: Why is Mathematica more popular than Maple?

If you have to ask, you've never used mathematica or maple.

hackrnusron Nyxt: The Hacker's Power-Browser

What are the key features of nyxt that I can't obtain through installing a browser extension like surfingkeys?

hackrnusron Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls

+1 Surfingkeys

hackrnusron Hate Your Job

Better yet, get yourself what David Graeber calls a "bullshit job" instead.