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OnlineCourage
7y ago
Sounds like something Adam Nuemann would say.
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I think you mean Australias diameter is roughly equal to Moons radius. Which is wrong by 10%, Simple Australias radius = 0.4(Moon Radius). Remember maps have projections and Australia is uneven. Unless you are counting part of the ocean as
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Because rule based software is now a commodity, and therefore has lower margin. ML is more risky to achieve, may not work on a given dataset, and requires scarce specialized thinking, therefore is worth betting capital on. ML is the new sto
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7y ago
The Lean Startup was never written to help startups, it was written to bolster Eric Ries's enterprise consulting.
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7y ago
Elon Musk is a horrible person. People who don't see this are blinded by money.
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7y ago
So not being a billionaire is failure? Wow.
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7y ago
Failure is not a binary 1 or 0 thing. There are at least 256 levels. If your failure was down to 193 in the first decade of your career, you may be better off over three decades than soneone who was consistently at 240 in the first decade
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7y ago
"If everything did not go perfect at the start, you're hosed for good." Sounds like a real winning mentality.
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> live off grid and grow organic crops Great idea! I will start right after we have millions of people doing this and not starving.
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Probably not correct since the earth is pear shaped not spherical, and the size of mountains are quite small relative to the earth's curvature. However from the article erosion of mountains seems to be impacted by water, limiting heigh
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Those sciences not developed at Edinburgh are not developed by a true scottsman, either.
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WHO: two of the four drugs we thought would work did not work as well as expected. WIRED: EBOLA CURED https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/independent-monitoring...
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7y ago
I have actually started adopting other online vendors because Amazon's quality control and customer support is so atrocious. I think Amazon will end up digging its own grave by building this huge adoption for online buyong, training co
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7y ago
I like how your proposed alert notification is in capitalized letters and post hoc. "DUE TO RECENT LEGISLATION RESTRICTIONS ON CELL TOWER PERMITS IN WILDLIFE AREAS, AT&T HAS DETECTED THAT YOU ARE NO LONGER WITHIN OUR PLATINUM CELL
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7y ago
...and the founder of that company? None other than Tim Apple.
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7y ago
> surgeon scorecards while we're at it. Yelp reviews for cardiologists, I can see it now: "Well, I'm still alive, so that's a plus, but he told me very rudly to cut down on salt! One star!"
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7y ago
1) Let's let the number of street parking spots in a city be equal to 10. Currently your new duplex would keep that number 10, assuming 2 cars per household. Under your plan, that would reduce the number of street parking spots to 8,
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7y ago
Ah jeez, must have rained again
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You were pretty much guaranteed to die if injured and lying there in the Napoleonic wars. It was an act of mercy.
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We welcome you to Earth, the resource rich, protein dense blue paradise chaulk full of water and pleanty of uranium deposits!
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7y ago
Like the Skunk Ape of Miami area and the Hodag of Wisconsin.
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7y ago
> housands of sightings that continue to occur every year across the USA. Amazingly not a single one by people with phones to take pictures with. Huh.
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7y ago
I actually stumbled upon a dead bear in Wisconsin a month ago, invalidating your thesis. I have pictures.
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> Precedent is foundational to western law. No, precedent is foundational to common law, not western law as a whole. There are two main forms of western law.
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7y ago
Absolutely not. Some regions have different weather, flood and earthquake liklihood than others.
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7y ago
Those numbers hide important truths underneath. Cheap housing in China does not meet health and safety standards available in the US, so Chinese are "paying" more in the form of risk. Likewise with food - not sure I agree with yo
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7y ago
Please read the above comment thread so you don't end up taking things out of context. The original comment claimed there is no functioning government. Your new claim seems to be that even though the government is functioning, it is no
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7y ago
What is a "swath"? What is "just cartels?" Are cartels providing road and highway construction? Are cartels operating the national healthcare service? Do they do water permitting? Collect taxes? Regulate commerce? Loo
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Cartels do not only sell drugs, they are systems of diversified private security corporations and paramilitary groups which have emerged out of the previous iterations of violence and loss of governmental order which was a symptom of nation
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8y ago
Kickstarter could probably benefit from more slowness and processes. There have been loads of scams on that platform. Unionized workforces can either help or hinder a particular company's business model for a particular duration, you a
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