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by apinstein 5y ago
I used the microblink one for a small toy project and it worked well in all browsers. https://demo.microblink.com/self-hosted-api/pdf417
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by apinstein 5y ago
Are you sure? > Results: Of the 223,128 citizens of Itajaí considered for the study, a total of 159,561 subjects were included in the analysis: 113,845 (71.3%) regular ivermectin users and 45,716 (23.3%) non-users. That reads to me like
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by apinstein 5y ago
They went to all the trouble to create a huge trial and didn’t make it double-blind, placebo controlled? That is so suspect. We know how to create good experiments, so I just have little trust in bad experiments, especially at this scale. I
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by apinstein 5y ago
A few thoughts. 1. For me, being physical is important. It isn’t for everyone, but if it is for you, don’t ignore it. It brings perspective, clarity, and renewed energy. I don’t enjoy the gym rat thing, though. For me, I’ve really loved ten
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by apinstein 5y ago
That is not normal for any dev team I’ve ever run. We have had people with your “approach” for sure, though. They were detected and fired within 1-4 weeks of when that behavior pattern started. I don’t know how any company could tolerate th
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by apinstein 5y ago
This isn’t an answer to your ML question, but it is an answer to your problem. I heard about a greenhouse company that has programmed their climate control to match “best growing conditions historical weather”. So, they ask local experts wh
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by apinstein 5y ago
Oh my bad I didn’t read the full article. Of course, insertion of a gene to do demethylation would be genetic modification.
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by apinstein 5y ago
The outcome of a mutation on the biology isn’t binary. Some mutations are so bad that they are fatal to the organism (don’t compile). Where a gene isn’t that important, the mutation will just confer a fitness change. this is mediated throug
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by apinstein 5y ago
Because it’s epigenetics! No novel gene sequences are introduced. Just a change in what natural genes are expressed and at what levels.
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by apinstein 5y ago
If you want to get a sense of what this "feels" like and you have 6DoF VR, try a VR 180 video. I've not experienced the Google Starline project, but I can tell you that when I saw some of the really well-produced VR180 videos
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by apinstein 6y ago
Facebook might disagree with your assessment... hand tracking research for VR has come a long way: https://research.fb.com/publications/constraining-dense-hand...
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by apinstein 6y ago
I had this problem with my AirPods Pro, too. Funny thing though... I have intermittent tinnitus in my left ear, and it took me a few weeks to realize it wasn’t my ears making the noise but rather a problem w the AirPods. I had been switchin
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by apinstein 6y ago
It is not true that entire loan is forgiven if the payroll percent is met. Only the actual money spent on forgivable expenses (payroll + rent + interest on some debt) is forgivable. If you read the forgiveness application this is clear. Ove
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by apinstein 6y ago
I figured corporate red tape would be the hardest problem and that the program would be over-subscribed. So I "signed up" at Chase and 2 local banks recommended by my accountant and let the best one win... Sure enough, the local b
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by apinstein 6y ago
Lifelong Serial Founder/PM here. The one biggest thing I see missing from most comments (which in general are quite good) is that the role of the PM and the decision framework depends very highly on the stage that your company is in. A
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by apinstein 7y ago
There is an important distinction between MFABT and these other examples. In all of the other examples, the consequences of breaking accrue to the person making the decision to break things. People make better decisions about the risks to t
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by apinstein 7y ago
I realized I didn’t answer your specific q. Whatever impact you see in your business, assume it will continue for at least 3-4 months. If that is unsustainable then the sooner you deal with it the better. Not sure how unemployment insurance
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by apinstein 7y ago
My view is that this isn’t an underlying financial crisis. However, of course the temporary disruptions will be of such magnitude that they will create one. Worst case IMHO is that it could be way worse than the Great Depression due to the
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by apinstein 7y ago
Mathematically this makes no sense. If we all had it already it wouldn’t have an R0 of 2-3. And, if you model the infection rate, even with it being highly exponential, it still takes many many months to spread everywhere because of a) the
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by apinstein 7y ago
I should add that at my last company we switched to a PEO mainly due to the advantages in health insurance prices and administration. JustWorks has been amazing. You might look at how they do the onboarding and maintenance of plans as a low
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by apinstein 7y ago
This is great! As a founder, I have long felt employee-sponsored health care is awful. A company should not be required to be intertwined in the medical concerns of their employees. It is a very weird conflict of interest. I am solidly behi
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by apinstein 7y ago
This is great! As a parent I try to screen for good apps but I definitely prefer a database. I’d love to share this with my kids but would prefer a profanity-free site to share...
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by apinstein 7y ago
When we were building out an office that only had a few windows I went looking for, and found one of these. Unfortunately it’s $60k instead of $2k. According to reviewers that saw it, it’s amazing. Apparently it uses some nanoscale material
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by apinstein 7y ago
+1 for metabase. I’ve deployed it at 2 companies. The latest version allows you to compose “questions” you create in the system which is really powerful for organizing layers of data reporting. Also, their API conforms 100% to Zapier’s poll
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by apinstein 7y ago
In our use of OKR, we was concerned about this as well. Having to use mental gymnastics to make things work is a bad sign. The way we thought about it was that OKR should not dictate 100% of effort. OKR is about prioritizing the changes tha
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by apinstein 8y ago
> Evolution is short-sighted in a way that is hard to overstate. It exclusively cares about the current environment This isn't quite accurate; while some evolutionary pressures are indeed exclusively short-term, not all are. For ins
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by apinstein 8y ago
This is the big idea I always pitched at hackathons (like startup weekend). I think it’s a great idea. 100% opt-in ads. My tagline was “a sufficiently relevant ad is indistinguishable from content.” It’s meant to be aspirational. The idea
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by apinstein 9y ago
I am finding myself more and more suspicious of buying from Amazon. I have had issues with fake reviews, disclarity over the actual vendor/source of an item, particularly due to their mixed logistics system. It’s scary how many 1-Star
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by apinstein 9y ago
I was hoping this thread would discuss remote whiteboarding. As a remote engineering team, I think inability to easily/quickly whiteboard collaboratively is our biggest productivity sapper. What are people using? We have started triali
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by apinstein 9y ago
I've been in similar situations myself a few times. Getting to "closure" with a project that didn't have anywhere close to the desired outcome can be a big let down. While it's appropriate and even helpful to have s

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