MattHeard

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by MattHeard 11y ago
The author says "tons of goods shipped per mile" and "tons per kilometer" when the charts are clearly measuring ton-miles and ton-kilometers. A disregard for being accurate with units makes me suspicious of any conclusio
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by MattHeard 11y ago
"… Google’s “Sync” feature for the Chrome browser is enabled by default…" "… since some schools require students to use Chromebooks, many parents are unable to prevent Google’s data collection." Doesn't "enable
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by MattHeard 11y ago
Wouldn't the weakest male and weakest female founders be underperforming more due to individual factors than bias? Maybe a mean of the lower quartile would remove some the the noise.
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by MattHeard 11y ago
If the files are encrypted with different keys based on the URL, the files wouldn't be byte-identical.
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by MattHeard 11y ago
The TED talk that Chris Urmson gave shows an example of the Google cars detecting a police officer giving signals.[1] [1] https://youtu.be/tiwVMrTLUWg?t=10m
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by MattHeard 11y ago
Would you say that barring insider trading is a way to encourage broader, shallower groups of investors so that the noise (as in signal-to-noise) caused by individual traders is smoothed out better? If there were 1K inside traders who were
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by MattHeard 11y ago
No, it was not.
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by MattHeard 11y ago
I spent a week consulting for a small education software start-up and was horrified when I saw that their password reset process was the following: 1. An anonymous person sends a message via Google Chat to the support Gmail address. 2. A st
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by MattHeard 11y ago
Your assumption is that if the US reduced their emissions as quickly as possible, it would likely not affect the emissions policies of other countries, but a lot of countries are refusing to cut emissions faster _because the US isn't d
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by MattHeard 11y ago
> Current predictions of the future of electric cars are as wrong as any predictions about the future of mobile phones made in 2005. I find it odd that Mr. Ralston says this while predicting the future of electric cars. Surely he meant &
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by MattHeard 11y ago
Aren't they convenient because they're only a few yards from your car? If you no longer need to drive to the gas station to get fuel, it's a lot less convenient, isn't it?
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by MattHeard 11y ago
A strawman might hurt someone if it gets knocked over easily, but we don't see the government stepping in to stop people building them up all the time!
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by MattHeard 11y ago
> The petrol tank apparently often leaks after an accident so the flammable liquid pours out and becomes ignited! I read recently in the New Yorker that accidents causing a fire are rare: approximately 1 in 100. [1] [1] http:/&#x2F
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by MattHeard 12y ago
Many consider breaking promises to be wrong and contracts to be promises, and so consider breaching contracts to be immoral. Many others also consider the long-term negative consequences of breaching contracts to be worse than short-term po
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by MattHeard 12y ago
In telecom there is a lot of local-time based billing.
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by MattHeard 12y ago
My back-of-the-napkin calculation tells me that watering an acre of alfalfa uses the same amount of water as having a nine-month shower with an inefficient flow. If a Pigovean tax of 1c/gallon was applied to California, an 8-minute sho
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by MattHeard 12y ago
Sexual harassment investigations interrupting business?! We don't have time for that! /s
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by MattHeard 12y ago
I haven't written a single-page application, but when I published one of my websites last year, I wanted to make sure that as much of the functionality as possible was available for users with Javascript disabled or unavailable. My tar
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by MattHeard 12y ago
You're correct. Single bits representing boolean values are often called "flags".
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by MattHeard 12y ago
Or if you plug the software into major financial trading hubs... oh...
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by MattHeard 12y ago
In New Zealand, if I recall correctly, jaywalking rules only apply if you are within 100 metres of a crosswalk. Walking an extra 200 metres to cross the road might seem a bit excessive, but you won't get in trouble for crossing the roa
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by MattHeard 12y ago
Admitting that market failures exist doesn't imply that government regulation will necessarily improve things.
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by MattHeard 12y ago
Couldn't Facebook detect these posts from their keywords and insert a box above or below the post reminding the reader of Facebook's actual copyright terms? Such as: "We wanted to take a moment to remind you: when you post th
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by MattHeard 12y ago
Has there been any research into remotely building launch sites?
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by MattHeard 12y ago
> I was successful as a CEO not because of my own brilliance, but because I built a team of people far smarter than me who were willing to buffer my shortcomings. This attitude defines a good CEO.
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by MattHeard 12y ago
I see that Monument Valley is the "beautiful app" that both Google and Apple are showing off for their devices. [1] http://www.google.com/nexus/new/images/nexus6/N6-moreeveryth... [2] http:&#x
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by MattHeard 12y ago
Hi, developer here. Dendrite is a collection of gamebook adventures (like Choose Your Own Adventure) which are written, extended, and rewritten again by the readers. If you like the story you're reading but it isn't finished yet,
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Show HN: Dendrite – collaboratively read and write your own adventures(dendritestories.co.nz)
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by MattHeard 12y ago
Some terms forms require you to scroll to the bottom, but they don't need to. Clicking "I agree" is good enough for you to be bound by the agreement.
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by MattHeard 12y ago
> Although with that community, I seriously have to wonder why reddit would want it to be a default, or why the moderators agreed. I assumed that reddit admins made /r/twoxchromosomes a default because it was a good subreddit a

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