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541.
by bawana 9y ago
time for colleges and universities to issue IPOs. I want to buy shares in Harvard or Stanford. Certainly the presidents of the schools will be baited with the prospect of EVEN MORE money as their shares hit the stock exchange. Options could
542.
by bawana 9y ago
Can we do the same things for ourselves? In other words, is there a website that can scrape my identity off of Google/Amazon/Facebook/Twitter. I dont want them using me as their data/content to make a profit. Or perhaps
543.
by bawana 9y ago
This raises an interesting concept. If you cannot reproduce an experiment because of lack of resources, can you believe it? Or is this the equivalent of 'photoshopping your results'? A similar problem exists in cosmology. Can you
544.
by bawana 9y ago
So why is this 13 yr old article in hacker news? Or rather how? Is there a bot among us?
545.
by bawana 9y ago
I wonder if this would make a better penile prosthesis for erectile dysfunction...
546.
by bawana 9y ago
Cannot be stopped. Whatever human mind imagines can be made. Only defense is counter drones. Everyone will buy one with next cell phone.
547.
by bawana 9y ago
is there a 'toy' example where one could compare a 'regular' NN as compared to a 'capsule' NN? Code??
548.
by bawana 9y ago
indeed it tips perpendicular to the direction of applied force. and this is what happens in reality. try spinning a bicycle wheel holding its axle on both ends. now try to twist the axle and it curiously wants to move the wheel in a perpend
549.
by bawana 9y ago
string held taught by centripetal force is rigid. effect is the same.
550.
by bawana 9y ago
that a spinning gyroscope does not topple has not much to do with Mach, Einstein, the universe or any such big idea. I can explain it much more simply. Consider a gyroscope spinning fast. so if all of a sudden you try a push its top northwa
551.
by bawana 9y ago
a spinning disk 'averages' its mass distribution. Consider a gyroscope spinning fast. so if all of a sudden you try a push its top northward then that instantaneous force pushes down on the north edge of the disk and up on the sou
552.
by bawana 9y ago
There is no such thing as trust anymore at our level of information and 'evil' density. Yes 'evil density' meaning the amount of unemployed outsiders working from a different mission statement than their target. Trust is
553.
by bawana 9y ago
so how much does this contribute to global warming? no, seriously, how much does temp actually rise and can an equilibrium temp be predicted? Roughly how much of the energy can be accommodated by phase change of the oceans into gas? Once th
554.
by bawana 9y ago
It's actually inaccurate. People search BEFORE they go. In fact, I can tell you the busiest tourism month in Greece is August. I've been there dozens of times and June is actually a pleasant (tho cool-ish) time to visit - no crowd
555.
by bawana 9y ago
why are we becoming borg?
556.
by bawana 9y ago
like forests? I cannot forget the statement in 'Avatar' describing the 'tree of life'. How is it that memories have not been encoded in massively networked aspen forests? Or may they're there and we just havent look
557.
by bawana 9y ago
Gun safety should be taught in school. Just like driver's ed. Why do we give no attention to these weapons which are real, commonly available and impossible to eliminate from our world? Showing teenagers 3 months of ballistic videos of
558.
by bawana 9y ago
is the need for prison simply the side effect of a population density that is too high? But that is a different topic. The issue is the cost of incarceration and how a once noble idea (eliminating bad behavior instead of eliminating the own
559.
by bawana 10y ago
what kind of power supply would you use w 1080Ti in the box?
560.
by bawana 10y ago
next step: edit an image using a full score for a song thus creating a movie.
561.
by bawana 10y ago
can we translate this data into performance measures for our politicians? After all, we are paying freshmen congressmen >150K annually with an additional stipend of several million to run their office. EVERY YEAR. How does what they do m
562.
by bawana 10y ago
Hmmm. The marketing machine needs more fodder to cull the rich for money. Isnt Harvard's endowment big enough that they are capitalizing on her? What better use of young talent than to prostitute it? Let her be. Look at her web site. T
563.
by bawana 10y ago
Although most of the comments here have to do with legality, I am more concerned with the technical aspect. The prosecutors say they know that he has porn because the hash values they obtained are identical to the hash values of porn images
564.
by bawana 10y ago
Humans are creatures that evolved at an interface - the boundary between the earth and the atmosphere, the boundary between the known and the unknown. We have evolved to solve problems in the face of the unknown. American ingenuity embodies
565.
by bawana 10y ago
if health care prices were mandated to be public (like calorie counts on food) then we would all be better off
566.
by bawana 10y ago
'You have a nice behind' scores a lot differently than 'you have a nice ass'. Hmmmm.
567.
by bawana 10y ago
hospitals are BIG business. They will never let their inefficiencies be addressed by an external force. They do not even share their price lists. Can you imagine going going into best buy and not knowing what anything costs? But having to g
568.
by bawana 10y ago
I call b#)(sh!t http://creastats.crea.ca/natl/index.html Wishful thinking. Wealthy asians are still buying up everything.
569.
by bawana 10y ago
looks like Trump university might get a second wind.
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by bawana 10y ago
alternate facts strike again. in the old days we called this 'government propaganda'. Let people have 'free speech' but publish the party line in the news.

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