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by _rpd 9y ago
> Climate Change -> X -> Larsen C rift I think if you compare historical rates of iceberg calving to current rates of iceberg calving, you should be able to find some significant quantifiable difference. Although ultimately the imp
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by _rpd 9y ago
My understanding is that you can achieve higher density with a toroidal dyson swarm (e.g., http://burtleburtle.net/bob/scifi/dyson.html ) , although this has the drawback that planet position in the habitable zone
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by _rpd 9y ago
Presence is traditionally established by buildings, equipment, local employees, and other very physical and visible indications. Tax law is still trying to cope with international outsourcing, let alone mostly virtual operations like e-com
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by _rpd 9y ago
The patents have no value if the ultimate owners are unable to enforce them. Once the patent exists, it is a tradable asset like copyright.
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by _rpd 9y ago
Here's the LBNL study behind the article claims for comparison ... https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1104789/
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by _rpd 9y ago
This level of impairment conflicts with data from military studies, for example ... > CO2 at 40,000 ppm for 2 weeks did not affect performance on multiple tests of cognitive function in physically fit young airmen https://www
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by _rpd 9y ago
It sounds tautological, but ads are designed for the type of people that click ads. This is a far larger portion of the population than you might think. For example, consider that the first 3 links on a search page receive over 50% of all
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by _rpd 9y ago
And even if you believe that the stock price should be $500, it pays to sell on something that is widely perceived by others as a sell signal and then buy back in when the stock price is lower. Very little long term information is provided
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by _rpd 9y ago
This is so awesome. I hope he posted the design to thingiverse so people can print their own spoonanis and enjoy waste-minimized yogurt consumption.
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by _rpd 9y ago
I don't think it detracts from the creative achievement. The designer still has to know how to use the tool properly and make good choices for the patterns and colors. But yeah, the headline is silly. It's the equivalent of &quot
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by _rpd 9y ago
The "algorithm" is called HP Mosaic and is included free in HP SmartStream Designer for HP printers. It was first used in a Coke marketing campaign in 2014 ... http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/extraordi
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by _rpd 9y ago
It's possible that advertising buys won't overlap completely, but as the targeting gets more specific, the targeted slice gets smaller and smaller ... to the point where it is questionable that the slice can have an electoral impa
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by _rpd 9y ago
The complaint appears to be that it is difficult to engage in traditional "assertion-rebuttal" debate via facebook advertising. My understanding is that all campaigns are free to target any demographic, so a "best foot forwa
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by _rpd 9y ago
For context, this is part of sweeping cuts to NYT editorial staff: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/05/...
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by _rpd 9y ago
> (Delivered at The Philosophers’ Lunch, 25 September 1985)
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by _rpd 9y ago
> Why would a hotel want to pay 15% commission to Expedia or Priceline? Well, they don't want to per se, but since you are in the hotel business then you know that a hotel room, like an airline seat, is effectively a perishable good
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by _rpd 9y ago
That's interesting, although I almost never give my email address to a merchant before committing to a purchase, it just invites an inbox full of spam.
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by _rpd 9y ago
I have to say that this completely contradicts my experience. The room price listed on the hotel's official website is always close to the highest price on the internet. Discounting via other sites is so common that I now plan on it.
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by _rpd 9y ago
> what the solution is to stop people to breed exponentially In developing nations, large families are used as a kind of social security. Developed nations with good social security have population growth rates below replacement (modulo
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by _rpd 9y ago
> “Today almost all the prices that you see online are actually designed for you. Dynamic pricing is the art of squeezing every dollar out of your pocket.” Is "almost all" actually true? I know that dynamic pricing capability
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by _rpd 9y ago
A rather extreme version of future discounting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_discounting
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by _rpd 9y ago
> our current technology (neural networks, genetic algorithms, etc.) is fundamentally different from how the human brain works. I don't see that. Software neural networks explicitly mimic the neural networks of the human brain. No
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by _rpd 9y ago
I think this strongly depends on your local taxi industry. I would never trust a "booked" taxi to turn up on time or at all. There is a reason that Uber became so popular.
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by _rpd 9y ago
It works with uBlock Origin with "Anti-Adblock Killer | Reek" checked under "3rd-party filters"
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by _rpd 9y ago
Here's the XENON1T "first results" paper ... https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06655 > We report the first dark matter search results from XENON1T, a 2000-kg-target-mass dual-phase (liquid-gas) xenon time pr
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by _rpd 9y ago
> a lot of her money was made in the widely publicized inside trading case She avoided about $45,000 of losses by selling ImClone stock early. Martha Stewart's net worth is over $600 million. The fact that it was such an inconseque
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by _rpd 9y ago
What do you think will stop artificial intelligence from becoming a closer and closer approximation of human intelligence?
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by _rpd 9y ago
> This desire to reduce human interaction is driven by the desires of the average consumer. Yes, every example Byrne gives is opt-in. Want to increase human interaction? Simply don't use these new services.
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by _rpd 9y ago
> the online market is under 10% and people like to shop in person No, they really don't ... Consumers Are Now Doing Most of Their Shopping Online, June 8, 2016. http://fortune.com/2016/06/08/online-sh
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by _rpd 9y ago
> as we invest in training, stores and wages ... as we raise our costs to service the dwindling market of "people without a computer and stable home address." It is astonishing that Walmart HQ still thinks that the internet is

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