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by Paul-ish 9y ago
The difficulty in this approach is that you have an extremely large number of classes. Each printer is its own class. Typically, as the number of classes goes up, accuracy goes done. That isn't to say it isn't possible, but it wou
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I graduated high school in 2009 and went to my flagship state school (UW), and had a similar experience in that getting decent grades and SAT scores was what counted. I think for the big schools like the Ivys, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, etc..
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
They punch above their weight, but it still helps to be big.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
How do we know this test is not just a proxy test for motivation? Why would anyone try to do well on the test?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
That would require there to be another driver, which in a less populous area at 4AM might not be the case. It seems like there would need to be steep penalties on both parties if they cancel near the arranged time. Eg: Driver cancels 2 hour
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
One issue is that building a browser take engineers, and that takes a lot of money. Mozilla makes its money from search partnerships; they make money every time someone uses default search. If less people are using Firefox, less people are
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I'm curious, why is quitting MacBooks good for privacy? I know a lot of people who say Apple may be bad for having a walled garden, but that they are great for privacy. That Apple's business model is selling hardware, not your sec
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
The article isn't concerned with estimates, but if you have large amounts of data, approximate numbers may be sufficient. I am a fan of HyperLogLog. It can be used as an online algorithm, so you don't have to keep all values memor
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Ah, excellent!
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
The last graph shows, of people who get stuck in vim what language they use the most. This means this could just be a graph of the most used programming languages. eg if there is a uniform 10% probability that anyone will get stuck in vim
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I'm a PhD student, and I am in an open office floor plan at the moment. Albeit smaller than I have seen at tech companies, offices in my program have 8-10 people in them.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I wonder if Open Bazaars model would work for Bittorrent? Maybe spam is an issue; it tends to be in open systems.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
> However, between Gmail and Google search, they already have all of my data. I think we need to change our attitude here, because I don't think this is right. I think it is a self fulfilling prophecy. There is a certainly middle gr
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
In California would prop 13 block such a tax? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1...
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
In NJ a state supreme court ruling created something called the Mount Laurel doctrine, which according to Wikipedia: requires that municipalities use their zoning powers in an affirmative manner to provide a realistic opportunity for the pr
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
It's not just about business strategy. Pretty much all censorship circumvention that I am aware of leverages "collateral blocking" to achieve their goal. A determined enough state can block anything they want if they are will
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
This is from 1989, about 27 years ago. Is there any academic research on this since then?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
But it isn't just a 10 year old feature no one uses. It seems if you write to the NUL file in any directory it still works the same as writing to /dev/null today. There might be scrips written yesterday that rely on that beha
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Not defending Uber in particular, but another feature of the taxi apps is instant feedback about the driver. My father took a traditional taxi back home from the airport (SeaTac). The driver was on his cell phone the entire time and driving
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Agreed, and it sounds like the federal government is doing its job and monitoring this stuff to minimize abuse. Its not clear how harassing wildlife living on the edge of survival is better than caring for animals, and taking pictures in re
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
I know this is a joke, but wouldn't Lidar detect the obstruction?
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
I don't think I am a typical user, but I use Dropbox because they put the same amount of polish into their client for all systems I use (Linux, Windows, Mac, and Android). I fear that other providers will neglect the client on platform
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Some researchers have looked at the effect of passive investors on corporate governance[1] : > Still, these funds retain the power of voice, the ability to exert shareholder influence on management and governance-related proposals. But c
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
ProPublica had a good write up on the airline consolidation that occurred during the Obama administration. https://www.propublica.org/article/airline-consolidation-dem...
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
I said this elsewhere, but I wonder if offering better economy seats would reduce peoples motivation to buy expensive first class tickets.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
> Personally, I just wish some airline would test "the market" for a premium level of services (few more inches of elbow room is "premium", apparently) that doesn't cost 5x the money for 10% more space. puts tin
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
There is some information asymmetry. I wonder if the status quo would continue if we put the inches of legroom next to the price, or people would start using it to make purchase decisions.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
If this is true, I wonder if this is inherent in the way markets work, or a result of the way we (government, society, whatever) have structured things.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Why aren't more businesses run as coops owned by either the workers or the customers?
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
> People can easily (and rationally) advocate for things that are in their own interest individually, but ultimately lead to them being worse off when everyone acts similarly. See the prisoner's dilemma. Union bargaining is collect

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