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by Thrymr 6y ago
I'm sad about it too, but Apple is a phone company that happens to still have a few computers.
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by Thrymr 6y ago
iPhones are >5x the revenue of Mac sales, and probably much more than that for profit: "For the fiscal year 2019, the company's iPhone business accounted for approximately 54.7% of total sales; the company's Services segme
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by Thrymr 7y ago
And even more in the primary source, open access journal article: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.2 (linked from the National Geographic article but not the Scientific American one that I could find).
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by Thrymr 7y ago
Sure, as long as you don't have to be compatible with anything else, you can assume whatever encoding you want. That doesn't change the point that general programs can't make that assumption.
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by Thrymr 7y ago
What this article misses is that simple models of complex systems in science are most useful for understanding the dynamics of phenomena, not for making accurate quantitative predictions. This is not a model of a mass accelerating in a vacu
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by Thrymr 7y ago
"It's not built for synchronous communication the way emails and documentation tools are." That seems exactly backwards - email works well asynchronously, Slack demands immediate attention. I can check email a few times per d
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by Thrymr 7y ago
I would be curious to know whether their insurance covers pandemics. That's even excluded from most travel insurance.
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by Thrymr 7y ago
That would require a hostile takeover, which is no simple thing. News Corp has a market cap of >$8.6 billion. It almost never happens that anyone can buy a controlling interest (of a sizeable corporation) on the open market without an ex
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The space industry’s B.S. problem(spacenews.com)
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by Thrymr 7y ago
Many publishers explicitly allow you to post your own articles on your personal/professional website. Some only allow "preprint" form and not the published version.
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by Thrymr 7y ago
4. Politicians taking campaign contributions from 1. and 2.
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by Thrymr 7y ago
But that's not at all how "supervised learning" works. You would do something like have a thousand sanded pieces of wood and columns of attributes of the sanding parameters that were used, and have a human label the wood piec
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by Thrymr 7y ago
A "Life on Mars" paper was actually published in Science in 1996 too: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/273/5277/864
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by Thrymr 7y ago
How do you store and carry your weapon safely? How do you transport it? Who has access to it and the ammunition? It is a simple tool that kills tens of thousands of people a year, the least we can do is treat it with at least the level of r
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by Thrymr 7y ago
Good question, here are their public filings: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08430008/filing-h... Most recently for 2018: 11.4 million GBP loss on 273k GBP of income.
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by Thrymr 7y ago
30 years ago you could just sniff the passwords on the local subnet because everyone was using telnet and ftp in the clear.
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by Thrymr 7y ago
The ship will never hit c .
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by Thrymr 7y ago
A risky move to save the investors in the company. If SolarCity had gone bankrupt, Tesla could have scooped it up for a bargain price. Elon Musk also happened to be the largest investor and chairman of the board of that company. Bad for T
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by Thrymr 7y ago
Sure, except that in standard (metropolitan) French, "soixante-dix" is already used for 70.
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by Thrymr 7y ago
In this context I take "tech" to mean software, as in arbitrarily scalable with an exponential growth curve. (Not that that can last forever in software, either, but it is growth potential that drives valuations.)
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by Thrymr 7y ago
The linked article is rather thin. There is more detail on Wikipedia [0], including links to more thorough Telegraph stories from 2004 [1] and 2014 [2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_Daily_Telegraph_crosswor..
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by Thrymr 7y ago
Three nights ago was near the peak of the Perseids meteor shower, too.
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by Thrymr 7y ago
It's a nice touch that that image of the flat Earth seems to have been generated from satellite imagery of the continents.
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by Thrymr 7y ago
It looks a bit like the CNN article was written after watching John Oliver's show (which aired August 11, the date on this piece).
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by Thrymr 7y ago
> Don't worry, given the option between a citizenship in either I'd bet 99% of people would choose to live in the US instead of France. To challenge your made-up statistic, I'd bet that isn't even true of Americans if
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by Thrymr 7y ago
Also https://xkcd.com/1319/ "'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto-' meaning 'self-', and 'mating', meaning 'screwing'."
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by Thrymr 7y ago
Raise taxes? They need to stop giving free money to residents first, that is the direct cause of this budget crisis.
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by Thrymr 7y ago
Previous discussion of that event on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8966817
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by Thrymr 7y ago
It did happen [0], and there was previously discussion on HN [1]. They were later ordered to pay a penalty of $13.5 million, 3x their gains [2]. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-01-23/capita
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by Thrymr 7y ago
Even when street names are in view, they are often illegible: tiny font, overprinted on multiple lines & styling, etc.

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