Barraketh

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by Barraketh 8y ago
I really love this! The pictures are beautiful, the facts are interesting - it's genuinely pleasurable to see. And if it reminds people to be a little less consumeristic, so much the better!
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by Barraketh 8y ago
Some people that are complaining about C++ templates (and suggesting generics from other languages as alternatives) are missing the code generation aspect of templates. Generics operate entirely at the Type level. For instance (using jav
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by Barraketh 8y ago
Yup, but we're all running these apps on laptops, which have a fixed amount of RAM that is sometimes impossible to increase (looking at you, Apple)
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by Barraketh 9y ago
Actually I think that you're just looking at the situation from a different angle than many of us. The reason I have some distrust of unions is that they sometimes seem to promote inefficiency as a policy. The distribution of money pro
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by Barraketh 9y ago
That's not quite accurate. Willingness to Pay indicates the true preferences of people who have money . If you try to take it as a metric of the preferences of society you will get the preferences of individuals weighted by their ne
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by Barraketh 9y ago
I have at various times wanted to start a non-profit that would provide benefits similar to veteran benefits (paid college tuition, paid health insurance, etc) to people who donate kidneys to strangers at the top of the transplant list. The
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by Barraketh 10y ago
I wonder why there are no private non-profit prisons. There are many states that allow private prisons. There have been multiple articles about how awful these prisons are. Why not try to open a non-profit prison where gov't funds are
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by Barraketh 10y ago
Element Analytics | San Francisco, CA, US -- Who we are -- We're a small startup (<20 people) focused on making heavy industry safer, cleaner and more efficient. To that end we're applying machine learning techniques to sensor
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by Barraketh 11y ago
There's a bit more safety than that. When you enter the country on an H1b, you get an I94 that is valid until your visa expires. If you then lose your visa (because you've left the company or got fired), you can still legally st
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by Barraketh 11y ago
As someone currently working on fighting advertising fraud, the article premise is wrong. Specifically, there is a significant amount of wasted money that currently goes to fraudsters (usually through RTB exchanges). If we are able to eli
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by Barraketh 11y ago
These are all incredibly lucky w.r.t the world at large. However, amongst HN readers and the tech community, there are millions of people who are U.S / Canadian citizens, with educated parents, and who know how to program. What were
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by Barraketh 12y ago
I don't disagree (at least w.r.t electric cars), but to play devil's advocate: a factor of 50-100 is A LOT. We're talking about two orders of magnitude here, which would require a fundamental breakthrough in battery technolo
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by Barraketh 12y ago
Sure, the motor is more efficient, but energy density of gasoline is around 50-100 times that of lithium-ion battery packs[1]. Sure, you can get around that in electric cars because of the more efficient motor and simplified car design. Y
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by Barraketh 12y ago
So then why doesn't New Jersey do this? It is smaller than SK and has comparable population density: 1288 vs 1171 per sq mi. Or how about NYC? Or LA? People keep bringing up USA size or density statistics when talking about governmen
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by Barraketh 12y ago
I've had mild IBS-D for as long as I can remember, and I've just had a very good experience with a 7 day water fast. It's been 2 weeks since I've finished my water fast, and I've had 0 incidents. Obviously this is
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by Barraketh 13y ago
This, if you would like to do it yourself. However, the display advertising space is not currently as turnkey as search advertising, so in most cases you're better off handing off the trafficking of the campaign to an ad network. Quant
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by Barraketh 13y ago
You are unhappy with the results because you're optimizing towards clicks. You should always optimize towards whatever is important to you. So if you would like people to click through to a specific page, define that to be a conversi
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by Barraketh 13y ago
I could not agree with this more. If there was one law I would pass it would be this - any fines / fees / property seizures get passed on to the state, and ideally distributed evenly amongst the people of the state. The police s
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by Barraketh 13y ago
Really liking Loyal3. The ability to buy into an IPO at the same price as institutional investors is actually pretty cool. As a data point, IPOs priced in the last couple months closed their first day of trading 34% higher[1] than underwr
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by Barraketh 13y ago
Standard Silicon Valley business model - get as many people on the platform as possible, and then monetize later (probably as a marketing channel, but they also have some other monetization strategies in the works). They batch their transa
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by Barraketh 13y ago
Also slightly OT, but Loyal3 ( http://www.loyal3.com ) provides fee-free stock trading - both entry and exit. Unfortunately they don't carry TSLA on their platform yet.
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by Barraketh 14y ago
A large problem with software patents is that feature definition and implementation have been rolled into one. Patents were designed to protect implementation - that is, you can't patent having an engine in the car, but you can patent a sp