Akababa

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by Akababa 7y ago
If you're really paranoid, maybe you could remove the wifi card.
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by Akababa 7y ago
How wide is the hose? According to the article, the bubble phenomenon happens in tubes several mm wide. What happens when you remove the dip?
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by Akababa 7y ago
While we're guessing, I'll throw my hat in the ring at 250k. Given that it failed to monetize, I'd be surprised if it's significantly higher. I know of a project that did have decent monetization and was impressive techn
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Student solves a 100-year-old physics enigma(phys.org)
18 points by Akababa 7y ago|3 comments
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by Akababa 7y ago
If you only use decimals in your application, it actually is a fix because you can store the numbers you care about in exact precision. Of course it's not really a fix if you're being pedantic but for a lot of simple UI stuff it
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by Akababa 7y ago
Does numba help? In the article they use it to calculate distance taking into account the curvature of the earth (lol).
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by Akababa 7y ago
My guess is to partially cash out. According to the doc, the two founders each got about 26m cash and 21m equity in Kape, while PIA only had 14m EBITDA per year and 31m debt. So it's certainly a nice cash windfall for the founders.
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by Akababa 7y ago
RobinHood's response: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/e4r0sy/robi...
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by Akababa 7y ago
Do you think your doctor wouldn't have prescribed them if not for aggressive pharma marketing? Was it difficult to obtain a prescription?
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by Akababa 7y ago
This is a pretty hilarious hack. I'm surprised there's no way to do this within Go runtime.
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by Akababa 7y ago
It could be that this is the long-term efficient price after demand from early adopters goes down. Or maybe they underestimated demand altogether and it's too late to raise prices now.
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Unusual Articles(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by Akababa 7y ago|0 comments
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Cosmic Latte(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Akababa 7y ago|1 comments
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by Akababa 7y ago
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21612488 Edit: Sorry, I meant prequel thread as they're related but not the same.
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by Akababa 7y ago
Was Doug Ford the one selling the drugs?
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by Akababa 7y ago
So what's the rationale for them pricing it at a point where it makes sense for people to line up around the block? Is it that the initial volume is low enough that the positive press and goodwill is more valuable than what they would
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by Akababa 7y ago
That's a fair assessment, hence the quotations. My way of looking at it was from the corporations' perspective, who collectively have to spend more money innovating while having their margins squeezed. Thus in the short term, the
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by Akababa 7y ago
Call me pedantic, but the usage of the term "zero-sum" in this article makes no sense. They use it synonymously with "winner-take-all" which is so far from it's original meaning that you have to question whether the
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Financial Crisis FAQ(reddit.com)
2 points by Akababa 7y ago|0 comments
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New Robinhood "Infinite Money Glitch" Tutorial(reddit.com)
6 points by Akababa 7y ago|0 comments
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by Akababa 7y ago
Are there any negative externalities from this? If ad fraud is a self-contained cat-and-mouse game between Google and bots, I'm fine with watching from the sidelines.
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by Akababa 7y ago
I get the same results with a VPN, so regardless of how you slice it they win on relevance.
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Our place in the universe will change dramatically in the next 50 years(phys.org)
2 points by Akababa 7y ago|0 comments
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Underwater Speakers Help Revive Dying Coral Reefs, Study Finds(forbes.com)
2 points by Akababa 7y ago|0 comments
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by Akababa 7y ago
Reminds me more of the cult-like Scientology with their "thetans" and whatnot.
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by Akababa 7y ago
Is it possible that they've detected someone using a proxy and traced them back to the US?
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French lawmakers hope to ban Black Friday citing its environmental impact(cnbc.com)
4 points by Akababa 7y ago|0 comments
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by Akababa 7y ago
That would be an error if you know the repeated evidence has correlation 1. The studies try to make this clear to the participants, but it's plausible that after a week they forgot where they read some of the repeated facts and treat t
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by Akababa 7y ago
Perhaps this can be rationalized from a Bayesian context. Unless your prior is that you're 100% sure of something (which no one is) and you don't completely ignore what other people say, your posterior will eventually shift to the
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by Akababa 7y ago
Assuming it writes log files at a constant rate, the rate of wear is proportional to 1/(1-f), where f is the fraction of storage taken up by firmware. Interestingly, this isn't exponential either - it's infinite at f=1!

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