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781.
by ISL 5y ago
Yeah; I use it for the occasional repeating specialized query, but have never broadened my usage to anything more-general.
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by ISL 5y ago
:). Edit: she might connect more with video? https://vimeo.com/109486911 https://youtu.be/BpS-Y7ndNeQ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/03/hong-kong-prot...
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by ISL 5y ago
Sometimes the experimental drug has unexpected side-effects or is less effective than the placebo. Both sides of the trial are a gamble. It is a trial because literally nobody knows for sure what the outcome will be -- only an informed g
784.
by ISL 5y ago
Such a conversation would include an enumeration of our rights, like free speech and the ability/duty to elect responsible leadership. It might include sharing videos of peaceful and enduring protestors getting smacked down in Hong Ko
785.
by ISL 5y ago
When you are employed to attempt to ascertain and share the truth to society at large, and your immediate-employer attempts to block that critical societal function, it is okay to appeal to the sensibilities of your employer's boss --
786.
by ISL 5y ago
The world was aligned against Germany in the late 1930s. Alignment alone was not sufficient to deter a blitzkrieg.
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by ISL 5y ago
If supporting a people's right to democratic self-determination puts me on a list, sign me up. Wherever you are, I support your right to free and fair elections of your government. The fact that composing this post gave me pause underl
788.
by ISL 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that their internal dataset is far more rich/detailed than the public-facing "Zestimate". Traffic-data alone, segmenting the buyers clicking on each listing and their expressions of intent, would give the
789.
by ISL 5y ago
As I understand things, Zillow's approach wasn't a corner, but rather an attempt at arbitrage/value-creation. They were pretty sure they had an edge at price-estimation and had enough capital to be able to simultaneously off
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by ISL 5y ago
Is this the right trademark? https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4801:vj...
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by ISL 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
792.
by ISL 5y ago
Generally when papers like this come out, there are a couple of decades' history behind them. (Disclaimer: I'm an experimental physicist, but don't have domain knowledge in the subtleties of modern accelerator-cavity design,
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by ISL 5y ago
Is it strictly-true that anti-spam algorithms must be hidden to be effective? It would seem that initially, spammers would have the upper hand, but in the long run, coordinated and open effort against spammers has the potential to pay off.
794.
by ISL 5y ago
I'd be very interested to learn about some of them -- what are two or three that are top-of-mind for you?
795.
by ISL 5y ago
When one wallet has $5B in it, the ROI on attempting to crack it is rather exceptional.
796.
by ISL 5y ago
> Despite being warned not to over and over again, I have replaced multiple electrical outlets and light switches in my home without flipping the breakers The consequences at hand make working with even house-voltage electricity a "
797.
by ISL 5y ago
I'm pretty sure "vote the assholes out" is a strategy most of us can get behind. We might disagree about who they are, exactly, but voting for good governance is a widely-shared aspiration.
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by ISL 5y ago
Patagonia's approach perpetually teeters on balancing pragmatism, quality, and environmental values. If the company doesn't exist, it can't effect change. If a product doesn't perform a top-notch job, people won't b
799.
by ISL 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that by targeting recycled materials for many decades, Patagonia has been doing its best to separate itself from petrochemicals. I have a fleece that was given to me in the late 90s that was made from recycled plastic.
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by ISL 5y ago
"Analyst expectations" in this context means something perhaps different than how it might readily be interpreted. In this context, analysts attempt to estimate what sales will be. If analysts had estimated that Apple probably wou
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by ISL 5y ago
Government can move extremely quickly when there is universal agreement. For precisely that reason, periods of universal agreement rarely last long.
802.
by ISL 5y ago
Perhaps in a sense, but not in the sense that one can run it without an internet connection many years in the future.
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by ISL 5y ago
Yes, people have already measured the gravitational redshift in many other contexts. That should not take away from this impressive achievement. The team here measured the gravitational redshift by comparing the clock-rates inferred from a
804.
by ISL 5y ago
If people left Java for other language(s), wouldn't that leave Java with a decaying ecosystem?
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by ISL 5y ago
Publish it in a major research journal. PRL is a pretty good choice.
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by ISL 5y ago
My aunt needed a new liver. Her liver failed, so she died. Had a liver-transplant been available (she was on the list), she might still be alive. There is a very good chance that the surgeon who would have performed the transplant is still
807.
by ISL 5y ago
It probably is cheap, but one would have to sustain the network until the pandemic eases. Greyhound seems like the kind of iconic US company that would pique the interest of Berkshire Hathaway -- it is telling that BH didn't pick it
808.
by ISL 5y ago
Fascinating to learn that something labelled 'unsafe' stands a reasonable chance of making a superior mathematical/arithmetic choice (even if it doesn't match on exactly to the unoptimized FP result). If you're taki
809.
by ISL 5y ago
The most-likely explanation for the discrepancy between the methods is systematic uncertainty. I think it will be a rather spectacular surprise if the refined beam measurements continue to disagree with the bottle measurements a decade from
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by ISL 5y ago
I'm pretty agreed on the latter point -- I do expect that we'll see real regulatory pushback, especially in the US, if the dollar's status as a reserve-currency is ever in question.

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