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by akozak 9y ago
I'm no financial advisor, but I'd fire the person who recommended I buy gold as a long term investment.
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by akozak 9y ago
No, despite most preconceptions about corporations and gov'ts you don't lobby your way out of criminal charges. The best defense to avoid this is don't do stupid things or break the law . This is actually really important fo
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by akozak 10y ago
This is very clever! But it requires trusting that what the API spits back is actually reflective of how your words are perceived. In theory you could test whether an "optimized" CV actually leads to better results. But in practic
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by akozak 10y ago
That the vast majority of people have a different relationship to technology than you is a critical insight for engineers transitioning into (consumer facing) product development.
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by akozak 10y ago
I think it's cultural, not a matter of translation. Readers in the west will have less access to stereotypes and tropes that all authors rely on, to some extent.
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by akozak 10y ago
In-Q-Tel is a VC firm that makes loads of tech investments ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#Investments ) and I'm not aware of evidence that they play an active role in the company.
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by akozak 10y ago
Spooky because of the metaphors used to describe quantum mechanical phenomena, or because it has implications or applications that you're wary of?
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by akozak 11y ago
Arguments usually work best when you support them with ample evidence.
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by akozak 11y ago
I'm very curious how good of an investment it was for MJ, or how Paul and Yoko decided it was a bad investment at the time.
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by akozak 11y ago
"the people who would have benefit from these policies [...] are long dead and gone. The people who oppressed them are also dead." In a way, public policy can still reward your ancestors and punish their oppressors, despite thei
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by akozak 12y ago
Ah but in that case I find it hard to believe a robot wouldn't take piloting skills into account. For example when wind energy developers study wildlife impact they tend to include avian "avoidance behavior" in modeling risk
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by akozak 12y ago
C3PO's estimation would have been a lot more useful if he'd calculated their odds. Also his calculation suggests there's a strong open data regime in the empire, which is a nice thought.
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by akozak 12y ago
Hobby planes have been around for a long time. Wouldn't this have happened by now if it were such a risk?
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by akozak 12y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you think that's a problem?
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by akozak 12y ago
The company profiled is currently involved in salvaging the Concordia (source: http://theparbucklingproject.com/aziende.php ).
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Deep Sea Cowboys(epicmagazine.com)
2 points by akozak 12y ago|1 comments
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by akozak 12y ago
Interesting. Is that an absolute position, or would you be more willing if the benefits (longevity, better health) were more apparent?
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by akozak 12y ago
Re: your idea at the end: You might find the first section of Charles Stross' Accelerando a fun read.
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by akozak 12y ago
The blog post invited feedback.
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by akozak 13y ago
Some ebay sellers do (or at least did) open up storefronts. I think one challenge for that idea would have been- why add another intermediary?
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by akozak 13y ago
If I recall correctly, you still technically need "line of sight" to the drone.
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by akozak 13y ago
Original article here: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132563/infinite_space_...
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by akozak 13y ago
It's an interesting trend to run a blog that drives attention to your startup. The posts are becoming less and less relevant to the company too.
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by akozak 13y ago
I don't fully understand why NASDAQ ends up taking a position on stocks ("It just so happened that Nasdaq was shorting shares of Facebook at that time."). If it's a mere exchange, should it just be matching buy and sell orders? When does it
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by akozak 14y ago
Do you have a reading list you could share?
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by akozak 14y ago
Out of curiosity, how would you think about security when running a service like this? Anything could be in those repos, no?
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by akozak 14y ago
"researchers could predict personal information based on non-obvious cues. Not everyone successfully predicted to be gay, for example, had Liked “Gay Marriage.” Supporting gay marriage is an obvious cue of someone being gay?
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by akozak 14y ago
You accused an accomplished political appointee of having a severe mental illness, suggesting it explains his legal analysis. I don't think the burden of proof is on me to refute that.
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by akozak 14y ago
Maybe because Hollywood is your only frame of reference to conceptualize a complex legal situation?
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by akozak 14y ago
This kind of comment contributes nothing.

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