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by adevine 10y ago
I'm kind of saddened and dismayed by the number of comments that need to be downvoted into oblivion in this thread. I really appreciate that Hacker News is a place where I can learn something from other points of view, and where even
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by adevine 10y ago
Come on, this is a complete false equivalency. In Tim Hunt's case, Tim Hunt actually said the things that were the cause of other people's ire. Perhaps you can argue that NYT's opinion pages were one sided, but at least the
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by adevine 10y ago
This attitude is kind of infuriating. The fact that there are problems with the mainstream media does not mean that the current explosion of complete and utter bullshit, what has been referred to as "the post-fact era", is somehow
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by adevine 10y ago
Yeah, honestly, I think I got anxious for the engineers just watching it. If any of that unfurling just hits one minor snag, it's 8.7 billion up in smoke. Does anyone with more information about the telescope know how they are able to
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by adevine 10y ago
It still has a ton of cash, and the share structure is such that (as I understand it) Holmes still has voting majority. It can survive in "zombie mode" for a long time depending on how long the lawsuits take.
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by adevine 10y ago
Yeah, I would think the abrasives used in the cutter are not exactly food safe.
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by adevine 10y ago
It will work eventually. The demographic trends are undeniable. It will take longer because rural areas have, proportionally, a much greater political influence than urban areas, but the white non-Hispanic percentage of the population is go
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by adevine 10y ago
That wouldn't work today, though. People have a much higher expectation of what a piece of hardware can do and looks like.
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by adevine 10y ago
Yes, top VCs did pass. There was a good article about how Google Ventures was initially interested but passed when they didn't see any evidence of functioning product.
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by adevine 10y ago
I would hope people on this board would understand statistics. Silver gave Trump about a 1/3 chance of winning, and he said the outcomes could run from a Clinton blowout to a narrow Trump victory, which is what happened. If people were
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by adevine 10y ago
I still don't understand your comment. People who are thinking about emigrating because of Trump are thinking about Canada, New Zealand, Australia, etc., not a third world country.
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by adevine 10y ago
Agreed, but I find it funny/dangerous how bond markets can get into risky positions and then demand to be bailed out because they basically argue that bonds shouldn't be risky. Fannie/Freddie bonds before the housing crash we
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by adevine 10y ago
Iceland currently generates more electrical power per capita than any other country; they only have about 325k residents. All that cheap geothermal power is being used for energy intensive industry, like aluminum production. While one boreh
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by adevine 10y ago
Month long stays should be permitted. The original law (that was passed a couple years ago) prohibited short term rentals for fewer than 30 days, but 30 days+ should be permitted.
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by adevine 10y ago
I think adventured was responding to your statement "the simple fact is you can't build a unicorn business by taking market share from other businesses" when he said it was blatantly false, NOT that it's not also possibl
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by adevine 10y ago
While I agree with the gist of what you've said, MacBook Pros are the one area that definitely DO feel stale to me. I think this article says it pretty well: http://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2016&#x2
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by adevine 10y ago
IIRC there was another recent article in Hacker News that looked back on prominent families in Florence going back centuries. They still found that families who were prominent back during the Renaissance are still on top today.
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by adevine 10y ago
But the point is that, if where you ended up was completely unrelated to where you started, you would expect 20% of the middle fifth to end up at the bottom, 20% the 2nd lowest fifth, 20% the middle, 20% the 2nd highest, and 20% the highest
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by adevine 10y ago
It's one thing to editorialize a title (though that's still wrong), but in this case the article says the exact opposite of the title. And, if the idea is that paying workers more is better for business, the fact that the lower
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by adevine 10y ago
I am not familiar with how deep learning algorithms would benefit from these instructions in a way different from how they can just use vector instructions optimized for graphics processing. So my question is, how are these "Vector ins
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by adevine 10y ago
I'd challenge that interpretation. Lots of Hillary's disproportionate support came from people much less likely to use Twitter (e.g. older black voters), while Sanders' strength with younger voters would be much more likely t
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by adevine 10y ago
> Having Theranos on your resume now is going to be a huge resume stain, and probably prevent you from getting any kind of decent job. From my own history I've seen this to be false. I was previously at a place that had a lot of ex-
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by adevine 10y ago
When you select a different language from the search box, though, you see those same sentences translated into the other languages. Wouldn't be possible to get full alphabet coverage in all translation/alphabet combinations.
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by adevine 10y ago
Thank god this is not possible. Every employee that joined a failed company would have the potential for litigation. Also, I think the fundamental premise that working for a failed or even fraudulent company would taint your resume is false
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by adevine 10y ago
I think your comment is the key one. I actually don't see a problem at all with what they've reported IF they also separately excluded views under 3 seconds from their total count of views (i.e. the denominator). If they included
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by adevine 10y ago
How else are they supposed to verify your password when you attempt to log in?
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by adevine 10y ago
> Also - a lot of the most 'equal' societies are very poor, so having 'equality' should not be a social objective in and of itself This is false. Most countries with low Gini coefficients are places like Japan and Sca
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by adevine 10y ago
The site and the related book go into great detail as to why a casual relationship from inequality to these social ills is the most reasonable hypothesis.
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by adevine 10y ago
I disagree. I was just reading an article by Jeremy Grantham that cited data showing how inequality is correlated with basically every measure of health and social problems. See https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/resources&#x2
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by adevine 10y ago
Your math is way off. 2 million annually works out to about 40k a week, so not sure where your 1600 a day comes from.

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