MarkMc

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by MarkMc 9y ago
Why does the government need to place restrictions on where people build? If I build a house without flood insurance and it gets washed away, it's my loss - why does the government care? Perhaps there are costs associated with emergenc
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> make a write-only backup of your encryption keys every day and only keep the backups for a week (or a month, or whatever the legal requirement is). A month would be better than a week, but it still allows a situation where the wrong us
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I really hope this approach is acceptable to the EU authorities.
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by MarkMc 9y ago
This makes me very nervous about data loss. If I accidentally wipe the hot database then I've effectively deleted all my backups. It also makes corporate ramsomware attacks much easier.
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Maybe I'm missing it, but shouldn't the article have a link somewhere to teachable.com?
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Also because people like typing "weather tomorrow", pressing Enter, then immediately seeing what the weather will be like tomorrow.
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The problem is that the person who judges the probability at 1-in-500 doesn't have any skin in the game. The judgement of the US meteorological office affects where people can build houses and how much they pay for government insurance
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Pratt says, "Historically human beings have shown zero tolerance for injury or death caused by flaws in a machine" Now imagine an autonomous car that had an accident rate one fifth the rate of human drivers. Would society really d
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I think it's the opposite. Humans constantly make the same mistake like being drunk, tired, using a phone. With autonomous cars every single collision will be investigated - where the software is at fault a new improved version will be
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> We track the the water from the filling source to the delivery using GPS, giving users confidence they received clean water I wonder how easy it would be for water suppliers to cheat such a system. Perhaps the supplier will send the GP
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Disney should make Netflix richer because they have no reason to believe they can do the following things better than Netflix: streaming gigabytes of data over the internet to millions of users, collecting payment and handling customer sup
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Why don't Disney and Netflix come to an agreement where Netflix offers a Disney-only channel? Each company can then concentrate on their core competencies: Disney can focus on creating content, and Netflix can focus on displaying it t
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Yes the Bay Area is probably not ideal, yet still much better than Jakarta or New Delhi. But even an area that was unsuitable for self-driving cars half the time would see huge demand for self driving cars: half the time the car would drive
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> Does anyone who understands finance have any insight on why this pattern seems so predictable? I would look to psychology in addition to economics. There are several well-known psychological factors that suggest there will always be a
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Is it necessarily a burden to have debt if it is coupled with infrastructure assets? Don't you need to quantify the debt relative to the assets in order to say whether it's a burden or benefit?
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The article you linked to indicates that places with good weather and good roads could see the technology in 3 years. For all places in all conditions it may take 30 years: "this technology is almost certainly going to come out increme
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Why is paying off debt so important when long-term interest rates are so low? For example, the yield on 30-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities is currently 0.92%. If the government sold these bonds to invest in long-term infrastruc
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I wonder how much native look and feel really matters. Swing copped a lot of flack for not having native controls but I think this problem was miniscule compared to poor performance, bloated download and complex API. Web apps don't use
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by MarkMc 9y ago
If Bing had to pay Microsoft to be the default search engine on Windows then it's profit might be $0
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Would Netflix be spending $7B on content if they were the Spotify of movies?
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> demand far outstrips supply, so they can be extremely picky about who they accept and only accept individuals who are destined to succeed The same criticism has been applied to top-tier universities such as Harvard: https://
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The difference is that with Khan Academy, Coursera etc. you need self discipline. With Lambda you have a coach who expects you to be at your computer at 9am every weekday, and who has a strong financial incentive to ensure you learn. Plus i
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I think India would be much more difficult because the Indian salaries are lower and it's more difficult to take someone to court if they owe you money. (And possibly more people who underreport their income)
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What determines whether an applicant is accepted into the course?
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> It's an equity instrument, and we think it's much better and more forgiving than loans as a result of that. I wonder whether this type of financing is more acceptable to Muslim students. Do most Muslims in the US avoid tradit
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I have the polar opposite view. I love OOP because it provides a way to elegantly solve so many problems. To take a concrete example, consider the undo-redo mechanism in a text editor. It seems natural to create a list of objects with each
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Let me add one more mistake: Pichai was quoted as saying that the vast majority of emails he has received from Googlers have been in support of Damore's firing. How can he be so clueless to think this is a representative sample? After
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> Google themselves have found through their own research that the best managers are defined by their people skills, not their technical skills. So why aren't the management layers of tech companies composed of mostly women? That&#x
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I think the problem is that 'sexist' and 'stereotyping' are loaded terms which imply bad behaviour. Imagine I'm creating a basketball team and I reason that height is an advantage for players and men tend to be tall
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Interesting that you seem to have gained traction even though your competition has been around for 10 years or more. Good luck!

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