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by Lewton 7y ago
> The camera is bird's eye on the google presentation The car is aware where it is in the world, so a birds eye view is more representative of what the waymo car actually sees, it’s just one of the many ways the waymo car has better
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by Lewton 7y ago
It's not an article, it's a link to an overview of all the "off-facebook activity" data that facebook has gathered on your (the logged in) profile
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What would happen if you coincidentally had a dog toy on you? Maybe that’d be good for avoiding accidental mangling, but if it means it skips the barking and alerting step then maybe it’s not the best idea
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by Lewton 7y ago
Your reply sorta proves his point Americans are so obsessed with milk that the mere thought of not drinking it is seen as abnormal and weird That’s a pretty juvenile point of view, milk isn’t even particularly good for you
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AirPods are intended (and great) for talking
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> in my late 20s > I am certainly not as sharp as I used to be It's called turning 30 :-)
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by Lewton 7y ago
> Did you just call Hacker News apolitical? I don’t think he did, at least what he wrote makes no judgement either way
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by Lewton 7y ago
nope You can disagree with having cats as pets and still post pictures of cats standing up
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by Lewton 7y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/CatsStandingUp/
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by Lewton 7y ago
There must be a lot of macs or linux machines in the department responsible for the search because there's no way any developer is dogfooding that user hostile mess
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by Lewton 7y ago
> it hasn't been updated in 10+ years HN is regularly being updated and improved. The ability to vouch for dead comments wasn’t here 10 years ago. Undoing accidental downvotes wasn’t possible. Moderation was much less active back th
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by Lewton 7y ago
> Saying veganism is unhealthy is stating an opinion shared by many nutrition expert, But also an opinion disagreed with by many nutrition experts
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by Lewton 7y ago
People seem to forget that the initial problem that led to the term “fake news” being used was actual fake, completely made up out of thin air, news. “Pope endorses Donald trump” being the classic example Not lying with statistics
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by Lewton 7y ago
Another iOS 13 ui issue I ran into today I have a lot of tabs open on safari on my iPhone. Both because I continuously open in new tab and forget to close the old one and also as a low tech “read later” list. Today I went through cleaning u
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by Lewton 7y ago
One way that emotional healing could possibly have real positive effects on symptoms is if the symptoms are remnants from a real disease that have passed. As an analogy. When you’re stretching your muscles, you’re generally not actually elo
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by Lewton 7y ago
Are you so blinded by your pattern matching of what you think he’s saying that you can’t even read the second half of his post?? If there are significantly less women applying for software development jobs then statistically, assuming women
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by Lewton 7y ago
> Why can't you criticize your own model, though? Your assertion that hiring more women will lower standards is premised on a belief that men are inherently better Why couldn’t you criticize your own model of what you assumed the gu
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by Lewton 7y ago
> Their entire account is clearly dedicated to toeing the CCP party I checked and no it’s not The person is very clearly pro-China. But “their entire account” looks like a normal hacker news user except for their political leanings
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by Lewton 7y ago
It's 12 times and leaves quite a mess
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by Lewton 7y ago
In anything with a lower bound (passing to become a pilot) the distribution can be heavily skewed (ie cutting off the bottom 20% of a normal distribution) Which means that more than half would be below average!
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by Lewton 7y ago
Why go through all that trouble when you would get the exact same effect from banning people who swipe right on everyone
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by Lewton 7y ago
On tinder the issue isn’t that women only go for the top 20%, the issue is that the elo algorithm is so aggressive and the gender ratio is so skewed that women won’t even see your profile if it’s in the bottom 80%
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by Lewton 7y ago
Totally a valid strategy if you delete your profile and wait a week before recreating, even if you reuse the same profile I imagine you risk being shadowbanned if you do it too often, but it’s pretty natural to do it once every couple of mo
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by Lewton 7y ago
> of which the bias shouldn't be a concern so long as they're accurately presenting the data - you can't get much more accurate than screenshots, which out of the principle of charity it makes some sense to give credence t
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by Lewton 7y ago
Re 2. They changed it so swiping left on someone who liked you no longer decreases the like counter Also before that if you were out traveling the likes you got while on the road will not show up in your stack when you leave the area where
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by Lewton 7y ago
But your phone number would still be in facebooks database...
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by Lewton 7y ago
Not an inherent agile/scrum problem, we assume 6 hours availability per day during planning in my team
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I don't think that would give you the information you think it would. Gerrymandering includes packing opposition votes into one district. So whether a district is red or blue tells you nothing about whether it has been gerrymandered by
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by Lewton 7y ago
It's possible, but the "natural" explanation (capitalism driving costs down/race to the bottom) is just as plausible and much simpler
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by Lewton 7y ago
Why is your reaction “I zone out therefore audiobooks aren’t for me” instead of “I zone out, therefore it would be a great idea to practice my listening skills”? I’ve had huge issues with zoning out, wearing down the skip back button, skipp

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