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by adevine 10y ago
As some one who is strongly for estate taxes, I propose we call them "aristocracy-prevention taxes." Accumulation of wealth solely based on inheritance is a shitty way to run a society.
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by adevine 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies#United_States
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by adevine 10y ago
Thanks for posting that. That was a painful read, not just about Elizabeth Holmes, but for the almost-religious hyperbole heaped on all those people. I know it's "T Magazine", and not NYT "proper", but the New York
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by adevine 10y ago
Because VCs want their money back before they're dead.
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by adevine 10y ago
True, but with switching costs so low, if your friend told you "I love Uber, but service X costs $1 less and it's the same drivers", most people would switch in a heartbeat.
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by adevine 10y ago
Yeah, Google has really been expanding the real estate given to paid ads vs natural search results. My guess is they've seen a big shift from natural results to paid results. At some point, though, people will start to believe the valu
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by adevine 10y ago
But the majority of that online advertising income comes from ads on their own search results pages, not from adsense ads.
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by adevine 10y ago
Basically, it looks like one reporter starting pulling at the thread, and the whole sweater fell apart. I wouldn't really say they went after Theranos aggressively until they realized there was a much bigger story.
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by adevine 10y ago
The point, though, is that things like proteins ARE bound up in individual cells, so there are a whole host of tests that will vary based on number of constituent cells. Hemoglobin is one of the examples in the paper. When you say "I d
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by adevine 11y ago
I still think it's pretty amazing that scientists are able to detect something like a 14cm annual change on something as big as the Earth, and even more, to come up with a plausible explanation for this tiny change.
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by adevine 11y ago
Using gradle, especially with how it integrates with Android Studio, is a much better solution. Google really got it right with gradle IMO, in that building from the IDE builds EXACTLY the same as if it were built from the command line with
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by adevine 11y ago
> I wanted Optimizely to say it was 100% significant That's not how statistical significance works...
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by adevine 11y ago
> You can use that type of money to do a shit ton of things, and virtually guarantee that your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren etc. live very, very comfortable lives. I think that is naive. I've met quite a few people w
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by adevine 11y ago
It was always known that the 5c, which is the device the FBI accessed, was less secure because it does not contain a Secure Enclave like later iPhones.
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by adevine 11y ago
Oh, come on. "Tay" is getting flooded with "shock value" tweets in the hope she replicates them, which she apparently is. To pretend that this somehow measures anything about humanity (besides that there are trolls on th
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by adevine 11y ago
There are, sadly, lots of reports of farmers and their family members dying in manure pits due to a buildup of CO2 and methane. Someone goes in first and passes out, and then anyone else who tries to go in to save him suffers the same fate
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by adevine 11y ago
But it's really not that different than the unified address bars that all browsers support now.
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by adevine 11y ago
I thought there was a fascinating response to a Reddit question a couple years ago by a transgendered woman that asked "How did people react to you after you transitioned?" She said that, as a man, people were much more likely to
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by adevine 11y ago
While I agree that marginal probability is important, I think it is a fallacy to assume all of those other costs don't have some variable component as well. There will always be shopper worker churn that will grow as the business grows
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by adevine 11y ago
I think this sentiment is exactly what gives tech workers a bad name: > All the folks working in a service industry that exists only to service tech workers are going to have a very, very hard time. "Only to service tech workers&quo
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by adevine 11y ago
But biological storage also doesn't have the random access characteristics and read/write speeds of this storage.
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by adevine 11y ago
And that approximately 5% difference can be solely attributed to the fact that men are more likely to negotiate for their salaries than women. I don't remember the study off the top of my head but there was a YouTube video that was inv
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by adevine 11y ago
Google Ventures (early stage) and Google Capital (late stage) are focused solely on profit, rather than strategic alignment with Google. Google's Corporate Development group is what does investments for alignment and potential acquisit
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by adevine 11y ago
And, more likely, if a small company does come up with a great AI, they're going to get bought be Google, not compete. Reason being you are still going to need the sheer hardware capacity (a LOT of it) to process so much data. I rememb
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by adevine 11y ago
If a small company could design a credible alternative to Google, I'm sure it would have been done - the incentives are too great. Entrenched businesses are RARELY displaced from their top position. Instead, what usually happens is the
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by adevine 11y ago
That's accounted for in the study. They looked at salary info from Glassdoor for each profession by city
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by adevine 11y ago
Getting 6-9 drops of blood from a finger tip is not easy - you have to ask "Is it really a benefit over a venous draw if it's much more difficult?" At some point I think it makes it easier to instead just focus on super-fine
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by adevine 11y ago
Ugh, that sounds absolutely horrible. I'd rather take a venous draw.
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by adevine 11y ago
I take the opposite conclusion. If god forbid things do go south and you become homeless, it's much worse having to figure out what to do with a lot of stuff, than if you have minimal stuff to begin with. There was recently a story in
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by adevine 11y ago
This is a ridiculous non sequitur. Doesn't matter who the company is, the fact that Apple is trying to fight a court order that is on shaky legal ground, and would set a terrible precent, is what the EFF is supporting.

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