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by asar 7y ago
Interesting read, but kinda sad that the runner in question was not interviewed for this piece. I think the points made are kinda vague and lack good examples to make a stronger case for this thesis.
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by asar 8y ago
I get the general idea that the S-Bahn ring is not actually a ring and the map should also reflect that. But the transit map is not intended to do this. It's not about highly accurate distances between stations (these are off in the of
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by asar 8y ago
Thanks for clarifying that, never really got that that deep into Go.
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by asar 8y ago
I agree that this makes Lee Sedol's one win against AlphaGo even more impressive. But deepmind also felt ready to host this event and it chose European pros to compete with not Asian pros, who arguably have better micro and innovate a
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by asar 8y ago
The live exhibition match definitely made Alphastar look like a machine making the decisions, not a super smart being. The micro was obviously impressive but that should also be the easiest part to master. I share the sentiment that DeepMin
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by asar 8y ago
Completely agree with how ridiculously complex AWS is already, with new services and products added every month. To me digital ocean sort of is AWS light, also really hope it stays like this.
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France is working hard to avoid becoming a digital colony of the US or China(wired.co.uk)
4 points by asar 8y ago|1 comments
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by asar 8y ago
Sorry for the late response, but yes definitely done for our marketing insights. Our whole team is very data driven and Slack gives us a perfect opportunity to be transparent.
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by asar 8y ago
I've added a couple of small cloud functions for daily statistics that are pushed to our company slack in dedicated reporting channels. Pagespeed reports for our websites, keyword rankings, crawls from Google Bot etc. Definitely reduce
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by asar 9y ago
Dogecoin started as a currency to tip users in forums and other message boards, like Bitcoin. Right now though it actually offers a lot: - lower transaction fee's than most other coins, faster processing - high volume, so it's che
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by asar 9y ago
I agree that it's far fetched and an extreme example, but still interesting to think it through. As it does shed some light on the different actors and their potential motivations.
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by asar 9y ago
Receiving tax payments is essential to countries in our current global monetary system. USD are spent by citizens but also by the government itself, both depend on system stability. Now assume that one day a large enough number of people&#x
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by asar 9y ago
This seems to be the paper referenced http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343517... >Not true. Massive gold reserves are still held by all central banks, so I'd say it is true. Gold
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by asar 9y ago
If you look at Bitcoin as a store of value like gold, the energy consumption is actually not that high. From a wired post But in his paper, Vranken counters that in the 100MW to 500MW range, bitcoin mining requires between 0.8KWh to 4.4KWh
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by asar 9y ago
Whenever I read longer articles on macro economic theories it feels like torture. Overly complicated explanations, the urge to model every event and attach a probability to it. A while back this was on the hn frontpage https://ae
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by asar 9y ago
looks amazing! mind giving some insight about the stack you used to build this?
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Price volatility in crypto currencies – beta analysis for altcoins(medium.com)
2 points by asar 9y ago|0 comments
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by asar 9y ago
Very helpful and great explanations. To me Airbnb's JS styleguide was also very helpful, which showcases best practices and lots of examples. https://github.com/airbnb/javascript