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by Quanttek 9y ago
short question: what can you people recommend as eBook reader for one's computer? One that allows me to mark stuff and add comments? So far most readers I saw were low in usability or feature-set. Bonus if also available on mobile
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by Quanttek 9y ago
This is just one preliminary "teaser" paper by the group, not the scientific paper published later that got so much media attention. Here it is: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal
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by Quanttek 9y ago
Can someone put their results and explanation in laymen's terms please?
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Ask HN: Sideprojects/passive income businesses with little or no own coding?
62 points by Quanttek 9y ago|50 comments
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by Quanttek 9y ago
Is your "garbage meda blacklist" only a metaphor or do you actually have one. if that's the case, how do you maintain it and how do let it affect your browsing (e.g. do you block the site or simply have a document somewhere s
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by Quanttek 9y ago
Article seems pretty bad. It already starts of horrendously when they call the journal "ScienceDirect.com". That's just Elsevier's site. The journal is called "Personality and Individual Differences." Furthermo
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by Quanttek 9y ago
The author claims that monospace fonts are better for writing (while proportional fonts are better for reading). Is there any research to actually support this central claim?
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by Quanttek 9y ago
(1) There is a massive difference between a bad article and fake news, which is completely fabricated information (e.g. pizzagate). Also, learn to differentiate between good journalism (e.g. NYT, WaPo) and tabloids/other rags (e.g. Fox
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by Quanttek 9y ago
> This tells more about the journalists than Facebook. Facebook has always been the same. It's journalists who sold their soul so that they can make money. I'm not sure what your whole screed about journaists has to do with th
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by Quanttek 9y ago
You are sure it's that way around? Everybody I know is happy when DHL is used (particularly me as a "Packstation" is nearby) and fears for their newly-acquired property when Hermes is the carrier.
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by Quanttek 9y ago
Sounds like an wesome campaign. Congrats! Are there any sample videos available?
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by Quanttek 9y ago
While the "deep state" idea is only a conspiracy prupoted by right-wing pundits to explain how the Republicans fail to get anything done even though they control all branches of the government, I think there's some credibilit
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by Quanttek 9y ago
How does it compare to GNU.social?
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by Quanttek 9y ago
Agree to disagree. This isn't really an issue of a lack of absolute free speech but instead has much more to do with AI gone bad. With any reasonable definition of free speech (i.e. limited) it would've been wrong to remove foot
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by Quanttek 9y ago
I've linked to the original upload but took the 2nd half of the title from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vrCpWbmDw
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Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble – The New Tech Startup Bubble(youtube.com)
2 points by Quanttek 9y ago|1 comments
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If you read the study they show that not only is their social/cultural fit assessed more negatively but also their pure performance assessment.
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by Quanttek 9y ago
> Much of the discussion seems to place a blame squarely on employers, describing a cabal of shadowy prejudiced men in the board room ensuring someone gets 30% less or 30% more just because Nobody says that. It's the larger society,
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by Quanttek 9y ago
> If women were 25% cheaper than men while being as competent, wouldn't white/male capitalists trip over themselves to only hire women to increase their profits? THis is not how it works. at all. There's not some cabal tah
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by Quanttek 9y ago
I hate these kinds of statistics because all they say is "If we discount all the things creating the pay gap, basically no pay gap exists". Industries typically inhabited by women getting paid less? Predominantly male/female
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Tesla Autopilot Review: It classified ~30% of other cars, and 1% of bicyclists(medium.com)
9 points by Quanttek 9y ago|2 comments
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by Quanttek 9y ago
No, Journalists need to ensure the confidentiality of their source by all means. Simply releasing the info would consitute negligence. They have a duty to protect those who risk their life or freedom for the public good
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Dissecting Marissa Mayer's $900,000-a-Week Yahoo Paycheck(nytimes.com)
1 points by Quanttek 9y ago|0 comments
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The Human Fabric: Mapping social structure and power relations within Facebook(labs.rs)
2 points by Quanttek 9y ago|0 comments
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by Quanttek 9y ago
Many already mentioned (at least partially) the fundamental flaws in the economic theory he bases his text on, and also his bad examples (completely ignoring you could provide as many counterexamples of staet-funded innovation and private s
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by Quanttek 10y ago
In my hometown they (i.e. the small "Work" carrier) are carrying out mail for about a year now. Super small, silent, pretty good interior, though the "Work" only has a range of ~80km. That#s perfectly fine for urban area
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by Quanttek 10y ago
That looks extremely useful! On a side note: One thing that always annoyed me about Erlanger is it's lackluster documentation, specifically browsing the docs. Amy efforts to improve that?
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by Quanttek 10y ago
I get an error loading https://mobile.twitter.com in FIrefox (desktop): TypeError: Referrer URL https://lite.twitter.com/ cannot be cross-origin to the entry settings object ( https://mobile.twitter.co
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by Quanttek 10y ago
Short question: What do the 'i' and 'l's leftmost options do?
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by Quanttek 10y ago
This doesn't really fit as the discpline of Engineering was generally licensed and regulated where, in many countries, you could only call yourself an Engineer if you adheered to certain standards and got the respective diploma/li

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