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by GuiA 8y ago
"My footage is represented online by two major stock-footage companies. And I license it for all sorts of projects and uses, from commercials to broadcast to corporate films," said Mr Bloom. "A fair amount of my footage has
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by GuiA 8y ago
People are always comparing ISP offerings in Europe/Japan to the US and saying it doesn’t make sense, but the scale of deploying service are just not the same. US: 9.8 million km^2, 33 ppl/square km Germany: 350 000 km^2, 231 ppl&
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Solving a Rubik’s pocket cube with a graph database(medium.com)
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It’s been interesting to see the phrasing of those emails. I feel like there’s been 2 main categories: 1) GDPR is coming, we used it as an opportunity to rethink what data we collect and what we do with it, and re evaluate our practices 2)
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by GuiA 8y ago
Swallow your pride, always be questioning what you are doing and how you can do better, and never give up. It can be discouraging to read sites like HN where everyone and their dog seems to have 18 different offers from Google/Facebook
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by GuiA 8y ago
Can someone explain the grammar behind the title? It feels wrong, but the fact that it presumably passed NYT's copyediting leads me to believe it is correct. What's the "it" referring to in the title? The body? But the b
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by GuiA 8y ago
It is true that many people do not readily apologize or admit to their mistakes, but California tech culture has managed to flip this around on its head by publishing deep, heartfelt apologies on corporate blogs for everything and anything,
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Indeed. Reminds me of Japan's Emperor's broadcast announcing the surrender of Japan, and the confusion/internal opposition that surrounded it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Voice_Broadcast https:&
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by GuiA 8y ago
I would be curious to hear what geographic regions your parents hail from, if you don't mind sharing. Thanks!
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One point that is not raised or discussed, which I think is important, is that these learning platforms are not “the real thing”. They’re just artificial environments with building blocks designed for making toy projects, but no engineer wo
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The Gell-Mann amnesia effect defines the idea that "I believe everything the media tells me except for anything for which I have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong." https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by GuiA 8y ago
Shoes was started by why_, who also wrote A Poignant Guide to Ruby. Highly recommended.
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> I am in the favor of the death penalty in certain cases > the death of even one innocent should stop us from using it In the real world, "0% false positives" isn't really feasible.
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For a while, when he was at Atari, Steve walked barefoot and didn't shower, thinking his fruit only diet would lead to no body odor. That would roughly coincide with the time period of this anecdote.
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Elon Musk promises he'll deliver self driving electric cars and reusable spacecraft. It's hard to find things that would get tech enthusiasts more excited. If he were reinventing the shipping or fertilizer industry while burning a
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by GuiA 8y ago
It’s an emerging sub field of design that calls itself “speculative design”. Can’t speak for Google, but it is gaining traction. See for instance https://www.primerconference.com/2017/
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by GuiA 8y ago
> That's not to say this fetishization of Lamarkian genetics doesn't make sense inside Google. The median salary for the people there is $200,000 and the system will probably cough up Hondas if not BMW's. This is a probl
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by GuiA 8y ago
Here are the concrete ideas presented in 6 mins of narrated video: - a system could highlight choices aligned with the user’s values (examples: recommend taking Uber pool instead of Uber X in the Uber app, suggest locally grown bananas in a
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by GuiA 8y ago
> I once took LSD (mixed with other things aswell...) You should disclose all the substances you took for your comment to have any validity as anecdata. Your story is very different whether the “other substances” were “marijuana and th
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by GuiA 8y ago
I think a lot of people in the industry got that word in their vocabulary from its usage in “Amazon EC2” (Elastic Cloud Compute). It’s certainly been used before, but that was one of the first times I remember hearing it in that context.
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by GuiA 8y ago
Please read the article entirely before rushing to comment... ”Bang, a pathologist, was interested in the creature’s primitive immune system. He settled on a protocol of injecting bacteria from seawater directly into horseshoe crabs, which
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by GuiA 8y ago
> L'aéroglisseur a moi est plein d'anguilles This sounds extremely stilted and unnatural. If you really wanted to emphasize it was your hovercraft, you’d say “mon aéroglisseur à moi est plein d’anguilles” but even then it sou
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by GuiA 8y ago
Big Macs aren’t particularly unhealthy. Bread, lettuce, tomato, “cheese”, beef... the sauce is the worst offender but there isn’t much of it. Fries and sodas are much worse for you.
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by GuiA 8y ago
The title is terrible, and was probably changed by a clueless editor at BBC. If you read the actual article though, 2 paragraphs in: ”Inscribed on it were lyrics, and underneath them is what researchers believe is the earliest example of m
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Japanese people who would love to have a dog but can’t because they live in a tiny apartment/would have no time for it.
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This is fantastic work, and the final pictures are wonderful. Instant cameras immediately make everyone happy.
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Teenagers in the US often work, but typically have no rent to pay or other necessary expenses. Combined to growing up in a non poor family, some scrounging around second hand stores, getting broken stuff from friends/family members tha
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This is described in the document (sections of interest are "Emulator Choice" and "SpongeBob video sequence"). To make it very brief, what's happening is that Pokémon Yellow is acting as an interpreter for commands
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You'll notice that 2 items in your list are about having money. If you come from a well off background, then you care about getting your degree, but not about actually acquiring skills/knowledge. Once you graduate you'll get
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by GuiA 8y ago
I disagree, and do not believe the title is linkbaity/sensational at all, and find it problematic that the title was changed. It is an accurate description of the author’s position, which is that the claims made by IBM are fraudulent.

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