BobbyJo

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by BobbyJo 7y ago
I think most people would rather take the risk than commit to 12-16 more months for a 'possible' way out, one we have no means of quantifying yet.
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
Productivity in the US is considerably higher than most, if not all of those countries, when you account for productivity per hour and hours worked: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/v/s/ww
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
They've drastically changed the number of infected for now, during a continuing lockdown. Once planes start flying again, and people start travelling again, infections will continue. I agree we want to change outcomes, and flattening t
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
Citation? I find it funny that no matter how many times history, and even contemporary events, have taught us otherwise, people still believe "People don't need strong incentives to work!"
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
Yes, but the goal of social distancing and everything has not been to drastically change the number of people that are ultimately infected, just to slow down the rate of spread. The disease is out there now. If you haven't gotten it al
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
If that's the case, I've got a Facebook feed full of people they missed.
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
I don't trust the privacy of any of those services, but there is a huge difference between "the government can subpoena information, or do targeted sniffing if you dont encrypt anything" and "we have a cron job set up th
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
All good questions.
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
The most interesting piece of the link isn't the sail application, it's the theoretical implication. More thrust was experienced than expected from photon pressure alone. A lot more.
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
Didn't they have a poor outcome? I feel like the only reason VCs got involved eventually was FOMO, not a solid thesis.
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
Well, camera phones, even really good ones, suck for filming anything more than 50+ yards away. Try to film a Jet with it that is clearly visible to your eye. Secondly, meteors aren't rare. Go anywhere with a clear sky and you can see
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
AI is closer to a tool, like a spreadsheet or a search engine, than an organization like a corporation. Semantic arguments that liken AI to humans are insanely premature.
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
If it's a bad bet for the bank, that just means it is a bad bet on average and right now . The thing is, a student can know a lot more about themselves than the bank can. A student can make a bet with an extremely high expected retu
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
Florida has tons of hospital capacity.
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by BobbyJo 7y ago
Hey HN, I'm someone who has spent most of his career in big companies, working with pretty silo'd tech. However, for the past year and half, I've been lucky to be at an awesome startup that has allowed me to learn a lot about
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Taking a container to production, part 2(containerjournal.com)
1 points by BobbyJo 7y ago|1 comments