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by aketchum 7y ago
would it matter if they were a doctor? In your other comments you said that you ignored the advice of multiple doctors and took advice from a Facebook group instead.
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by aketchum 7y ago
VIVA Finance | Junior Full Stack Engineer | Midtown Atlanta | Full-Time | viva-finance.com VIVA Finance is expanding access to affordable credit by offering personal loans that are underwritten based on employment data instead of credit sco
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by aketchum 7y ago
Anki Cozmo is cute and has a pretty solid set of features
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by aketchum 7y ago
For anyone that finds this question in the future, the solution that it looks like we are going with is called an FBO account. synapsefi.com offers exactly what we are looking for but a lot of companies offer an FBO product.
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by aketchum 7y ago
We are getting paid with direct deposit from peoples paychecks. This means that multiple customers paying the same amount from the same employer would have the exact same incoming bank account (the employers bank account) and there would b
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Ask HN: Create business bank account with API?
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by aketchum 7y ago
Is this a Brave New World reference?
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by aketchum 7y ago
I love MMT in theory but it is terrifying to consider actually making policy decisions with MMT as the justification. The downside risk of MMT being wrong and the resulting runaway hyper inflation would destroy the dominant economic standi
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by aketchum 7y ago
> My form of eating organic doesn't vibe with theirs I've never heard this before but I love this quote. In my opinion, hunting responsibly brings one a great appreciation for conservation efforts and increases connection to na
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by aketchum 7y ago
On the one hand, if this really is a result of hackers logging in with a re-used password that was found in another companies breach then I don't know what Amazon is really suppose to do. On the other hand, telling the family that and
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by aketchum 7y ago
The majority of classes for Georgia Tech's computer science Masters degree are available online for free on Udacity. I highly recommend the ML and RL courses, as well as the CV course.
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It is definitely amazing and a huge step forward for RL. However, the paper says that it started off with a policy that beats 84% of players based on imitation learning, so it didn't learn this strategy all on its own from scratch. A
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by aketchum 7y ago
My understanding is that the exploiter agents are not based on the meta. My take is that the exploiter agents have a different goal than the main agent. While the main agent is trying to develop a strategy to win against as many opponents
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by aketchum 7y ago
This story is insane and infuriating. The police had no need to destroy the house. They could have "sieged" the house and waited for him to come out when he ran out of food. This could be expedited by cutting the water to the ho
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by aketchum 7y ago
what materials do are you thinking about when saying climbers leave things? If you do it correctly you leave with all the gear you came with
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by aketchum 7y ago
This a bad argument for several reasons. 1) Most predictions already have the population leveling off around 9-11 billion people. 2) the economy is designed for an ever expanding population. There are be very serious negative economic rep
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by aketchum 7y ago
the RHEL vm's that I get at my job (enterprise IT) have python2 installed by default and no python3. It is much simpler to write scripts in python 2 (albeit written in a way to support forward compatibility with 3) because python2 is
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by aketchum 7y ago
We run a feature branch -> release branch strategy, then right before the final push of the code into prod we merge the release branch with the master branch to ensure there is no merge conflict. The merge to master does not trigger any
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by aketchum 7y ago
Anecdotally, I hear many friends say they are harmless. Surprisingly a nurse friend of mine vapes Juuls and isn't worried about the health impacts. I think plenty of people actually take it that since they are not cigarettes and are
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by aketchum 7y ago
This is a pretty unnecessarily inflammatory comment unless you consider every country in the world as an "occupying country on occupied land". What country didn't gain their land through conquest and occupation?
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by aketchum 7y ago
My cynical opinion is that companies have little incentive to fix their documentation because if the documentation is poor the client is more likely to pay for a consultant from the company for support, or for a higher support tier.
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by aketchum 7y ago
I went deep down the rabbit hole for almost a month trying to figure out how to farm escamoles[1] in an industrial ant farm. They sell for $40-100 per kg and are apparently delicious (still haven't had the chance to try them myself).
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by aketchum 7y ago
This depends on the game being hunted, and really only applies for certain big game hunting like deer. Fowl hunting is a social event, walking along with some friends and at a dog, same with rabbit hunting. I think in hunter-gatherer times
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by aketchum 7y ago
Europa Universalis 4. Its basically Risk if risk took every steriod in the entire world.
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by aketchum 8y ago
They have. Look at zelle. I think it's better than venmo because it is a part of the banks Mobile app and instantaneous transfer is the default, while venmo charges for it
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by aketchum 8y ago
The person that writes your list of descriptions of the candidates is now in control of who gets elected. Also, people vote for politicians based on how the politician makes the voter feel about themselves. Many many many people vote agains
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by aketchum 8y ago
lowest fee fund you can find. Vanguard is one that comes to mind
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To me, a 10x programmer is thought of in relation to their peers
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by aketchum 8y ago
What is the benefit of using this tool over the free MOSS tool from Stanford? Does it support checking plagiarism within a class? If I have 200 undergraduates in my CS course can I upload all of their submissions and have them all checked