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by adevine 10y ago
As an introvert, I'm skeptical of the conclusions of this article. Sales will always include a huge amount of customer interaction, and someone who gains energy from these interactions will always have an advantage over someone who f
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by adevine 10y ago
Depends on what your point is. Both ARC and GC are approaches to limit the complexity and difficulty of memory management. As such, I think it's very reasonable to compare them, because they're different approaches to the same und
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by adevine 10y ago
There is a lot of misunderstanding about what is going on. The current Yahoo basically exists of 3 main parts: 1. The Yahoo website and properties that most folks think of when they think "Yahoo". 2. The 15% share of Alibaba 3. Th
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by adevine 10y ago
I wonder if this would be true in the case of self-driving car algorithms, though (which I know nothing about). It always seemed like the hard part about self-driving cars was the 0.1% edge cases where something out of the ordinary could re
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by adevine 10y ago
It makes sense because virtually all machine-learning algorithms work better, and can learn faster, if you have more data. Think of it this way: if Tesla wants to test a particular algorithm for a particular driving situation, they can &quo
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by adevine 10y ago
It makes me wonder, though, if Google is currently at a disadvantage because their fleet of self driving cars is teeny compared to what Tesla has and will soon have. That is, Tesla has tens of thousands of cars with Auto Pilot sensors on th
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by adevine 10y ago
But I think your explanation sort of highlights why promises of "safe nuclear design", at least in my opinion, have a tendency to be overstated by nuclear proponents, and then result in a complete backlash against nuclear when thi
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by adevine 10y ago
> Most of the people I would consider friends are people I haven't met in real life. You are likely in a small minority. This is the difference between a social network meant for the general populace and one specific for tech folk.
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by adevine 10y ago
Pretty sure he's not. There are "personal use" exemptions that seem like they would apply. Not sure though, but if in the past ~20 years, if there is not a case of someone breaking the law by using a gopro or other camera for
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by adevine 10y ago
Come on, that's just silly and it's a deliberate strawman. The options are not just between a $500 camera and a brand new car. The whole point is that the type of person who eschews the myriad of much cheaper camera options is a
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by adevine 10y ago
I'm sure they're just intending for this to be an initial product, but I agree, I don't understand their business plan at all. The people willing to pay 3x over a "good enough" backup camera are also the people who&
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by adevine 10y ago
I don't understand your point about statins. The Bloomberg article you linked said statins were very effective in preventing heart attacks, just not necessarily due to their cholesterol-lowering effect. If that's the case, stati
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by adevine 10y ago
Buffet has said this about hedge funds for a long time now. Their fee structure incentivizes volatility, not long term performance, which is a bit ironic because the reason for the name "hedge" fund is that they should have the ab
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by adevine 10y ago
> If you fight for freedom of speech only in the case of opinions that you like, then it's not freedom of speech. The fact that the Holocaust happened is not an opinion.
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by adevine 10y ago
I don't think I've ever typed in a search query before using the word "holocaust", but my results are largely the the same as the author's - Stormfront is #1, "The Holocaust Hoax" is a little further down
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by adevine 10y ago
Uber and Lyft left Austin at the beginning of the year over fingerprinting rules. Since then, there has been an explosion of smaller ride sharing companies: Fare, Fasten, GetMe, and, most interestingly, RideAustin, which is a local non prof
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by adevine 10y ago
See my answer below to another commenter. I'm not even criticizing Amazon. I'm criticizing tone-deaf people on this board who think that it's the same thing when a rich software engineer chooses to live sparsely as when a poo
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by adevine 10y ago
> You can be "empathetic" by pushing for higher minimum wages... But that's my point - I'm specifically not advocating any particular policy solution. I'm just advocating that we, who were lucky enough to be bo
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by adevine 10y ago
I'm kind of amazed by the basest level of empathy that seems to be missing among many in our industry. I'm not even arguing what the right solution is - that is certainly debatable. But given how good we have it as software engine
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by adevine 10y ago
Yeah, why don't they just get a job paying twice as much where they don't have to sleep in a tent? Silly peasants. And how is a Google software engineering making six figures, sleeping in a van in 68 degree California, any differe
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by adevine 10y ago
When the article says "commute" it's mainly referring to people who commute daily (or often) for work.
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by adevine 10y ago
Yeah, I don't understand the point or value of these groupings either. San Antonio and Austin are really completely separate economic entities with little economic overlap. There are a few Austin commuters who live a bit more south tha
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by adevine 10y ago
Huh? IMO, the parent's comment is a perfect example of something deserving of downvotes: "Why are you arguing something that has absolutely nothing to do with the article, or really even global warming in general, and displays a c
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by adevine 10y ago
Splenda is a totally different chemical compound, though, with a chlorine atom. The article makes it sound like it's still sugar but with a different physical arrangement of molecules.
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by adevine 10y ago
Especially because the fact that increased carbon dioxide traps heat radiating from Earth is just that: a proven physical fact. There is absolutely 0 disagreement on that from anyone who isn't a complete fraud. There is some debate abo
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by adevine 10y ago
The answer to this question is quite simple, and the two choice sentences from the article: "And their time frame is what, five years? How do you reconcile those two things: It’s a 100-year problem and a five-year investment cycle.&quo
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by adevine 10y ago
My point still stands. (1) All of those support jobs are still tiny compared to the employment of other industries. (2) Many of those support jobs can be either automated away, or barely pay minimum wage. (3) Most of the support jobs that D
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by adevine 10y ago
> Think of how big sports are. But that's just it. Sports (and entertainment, your other example) are tiny , because only the top .001% are valued. Everyone else is basically slaving away for free in the hopes that they make it to
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by adevine 10y ago
Hi, just first want to say I think this is a great product so far. Being able to switch between the Kanban view and the list view is key for me and some folks on my team. Regarding the calendar, I'm having the same problem - 4 of my ta
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by adevine 10y ago
Thank you. You've changed my opinion of this episode, and I agree that NYT did a great disservice by how this was reported. The realclearpolitics summary I think gives a much clearer and fairer overview of what really happened. I hope,

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