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There is no such thing as EQ(quora.com)
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Thereputic Plasma Exchange (ie. exchanging blood plasma with saline and albumin) seems a very promising treatment for aging. [1] [2] "These findings are exciting not only because they represent a scientific advance in understanding agi
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Here's an idea, although I'm not sure if it would work: The government allows Tesla to conduct a randomised control trial: When you get in a Tesla you enter your destination, then there's a 50% chance of having to drive the c
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>> It gets safer overtime. > There is no evidence of this happening yet. With aircraft any crash or near-crash is investigated and then the software and procedures for all similar aircraft are updated. Over the decades this has re
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Another thing that gets missed is this: With self-driving cars every single fatal accident will be investigated, and the result of that investigation will be used to improve the software on all cars in the network. In this way the rate at w
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by MarkMc 5y ago
> In the weeks following this move, the rate of infections among healthcare workers on red wards dropped spectacularly, quickly falling to the level experienced by staff on green wards where there were no Covid patients Why has taken so
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by MarkMc 5y ago
At least in England and Wales the pandemic seems to have led to a reduction in crime: > Total police recorded crime decreased by 4% in England and Wales to approximately 5.8 million offences in the 12 months ending June 2020; police repo
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Show HN: A way for a teacher to see all student answers in real-time
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Buzzfeed News have been writing serious, in-depth news articles for years now. Here's a great one from 2016 about how Facebook is the internet in Myanmar: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sheerafrenkel/f
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by MarkMc 5y ago
McLaren College | Mumbai, India | Online Teacher | Full-time | REMOTE "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" -- Steve Jobs to Pepsi CEO John Sculley, 1983
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by MarkMc 5y ago
This is why Trump's threat to withdraw from NATO was so short-sighted. In the 20th century NATO was basically America supporting Europe against Russia. But in the 21st century it will be Europe supporting the US against China.
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Impressive, but not quite good enough to avoid the 'uncanny valley' - the lips are not perfectly synced to the audio. Also it should allow a way stress certain words in the input script.
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by MarkMc 5y ago
> EVs are eventually going to cost way less to make than typical ICE (internal combustion engine) cars, and per unit that savings translates into a lot of fucking profit Not in a competitive market which is where Tesla may be in 10 or 15
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An app that swiftly sends CPR volunteers to heart attack sufferers(washingtonpost.com)
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by MarkMc 5y ago
To me the best explanation of the Monty Hall problem is to imagine there are 1000 doors. You pick a door and the host opens 998 other doors. Since you almost certainly did not choose the correct door, the host has almost certainly identify
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Craig Barton's excellent book [1] makes a compelling argument in favour of the 'explicit instruction' for teaching maths. Here's an excerpt: --------------- I was particularly proud of a guided discovery task I came up w
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Ask HN: Platform to stream and record dozens of video calls?
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McLaren College | Mumbai, India | Online Teacher | Full-time | REMOTE "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" -- Steve Jobs to Pepsi CEO John Sculley, 1983
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by MarkMc 5y ago
4 points and no comments on Hacker News. Clearly not many people are interested in this issue. To me it feels a bit like those 'we are not prepared for a global pandemic' warnings before 2020.
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Suppose I know of a number of people in India who have covid symptoms and difficulty breathing but cannot get treatment in any hospital due to overcrowding. As someone who lives in a Western country, what is the most effective way to help
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Wow this makes BCG look really bad and no doubt has cost them lots of business. They really should have offered more than $16k hush money!
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by MarkMc 5y ago
I'm a Google shareholder partly because I find their ads are so poorly targeted at me. For example, I'm currently looking to buy a car - my recent search history includes "buy z4" and "merc c class". Yet YouTub
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by MarkMc 5y ago
> Bitcoin isn’t a cash competitor, it’s a gold competitor - and it’s a pretty good one. I wonder whether people will switch to Bitcoin en-mass when Asteroid mining becomes viable.
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I'm sure that if McDonald's paid Taylor a bonus for 99.99% uptime then at least half of 'operator errors' would disappear.
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by MarkMc 6y ago
A few hours ? That is a fantastic return on investment! By the way, you should definitely add this to your CV. It's the sort of technical thing that really stands out from other candidates.
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They need the scale of Facebook to work?
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Suez Canal Authority makes $5.6 billion per year, so a week's loss of throughput would be in the order of $100 million.
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Warren Buffett has become very rich in part because he appreciates the value of goodwill to a business while others ignore it. Here's a summary of what he's written on the topic: To a business, goodwill is an asset just as real as
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Thanks for the honest reflection. It's interesting to consider how long YC might have continued to dismiss the remote option if Covid-19 had not appeared. Maybe another decade? It's also interesting to consider other areas where t
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The Bell Curve (2004)(newyorker.com)
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