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by bdcs 5y ago
Does anyone have any resources on how to do this in California or the USA in general? I've been meaning to dashcam my bike for a while, and considered making an raspi-based dash cam system for automatic video processing and automating
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by bdcs 5y ago
I'm not so confident RCTs of nutrition are unethical. The data are too damn valuable for society to ignore. Perhaps participants could be informed and willing to partake in the challenge trials, which although these participants might
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by bdcs 5y ago
Agreed that the foundations and payments need to be transparent. But if they are making, say on the order of a hundred grand a year in payments, wouldn't it behoove them to have a stable or increasing MOB market cap in the long run. IO
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by bdcs 5y ago
and by send I mean network confirmations + generating zkSNARKs on the client. IMO for a payment network to work, my mom needs to be able to use it and not be frustrated. Venmo barely clears that bar
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by bdcs 5y ago
> Monero or ZCash would have gotten the job done, These take minutes to send (very stressful!) preventing a nice venmo-like experience. They also pollute the planet
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by bdcs 5y ago
Mobilecoin (Foundation) is a technological, ethical, and legal tour de force. I recommend you read their FAQ, but, to me anyway, it is obvious why Signal/Moxie needed to create a new coin (tl;dr: It needed to be a private venmo-like ex
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by bdcs 6y ago
"Marlinspike notes, however, that neither he nor Signal own any MobileCoins." https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-payments-messa...
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by bdcs 6y ago
The Oblivious RAM implementation is incredible
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by bdcs 6y ago
IIRC my thermodynamics classes correctly, the heater would be optimally placed on the hot effluent out of the heat exchanger (HE) going into the house. This is because the COP is improved (similarly to heating the cold side) because the hot
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Ask HN: How to get started with Spaced Repetition Systems (e.g. Anki)
1 points by bdcs 6y ago|0 comments
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by bdcs 6y ago
nit: s/stabe/stable/
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by bdcs 7y ago
>If Waymo is successful, there are potentially massive impacts to the population of the US. Trucking is a major industry. Certainly, but we don't know if it will be positive or negative. Some studies[0] show increases in human truck
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by bdcs 7y ago
> - Apparently the soil of Scandinavia is well suited to crops that are high in Vitamin D IIUC it's the other way around. soil/climate allows for foods low in Vitamin D -> Vitamin D needed from other sources -> evolution
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by bdcs 8y ago
Cal Newport's Deep Work(0) is a fantastic treatise on exactly this topic, but extendable to many more. (0) https://hackernewsbooks.com/book/deep-work-rules-for-focused...
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by bdcs 8y ago
Wages and salaries (and, perhaps, prices) would not go down. Your argument and the parent of it, is falling for the lump of labor fallacy. By adding supply of labor, the demand for labor goes up as well. It is actually well-agreed on by eco
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by bdcs 8y ago
Indeed! In fact he was outright pro-Universal Healthcare, eg: "Where, as in the case of sickness and accident, neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor the efforts to overcome their consequences are as a rule weakened by the pro
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by bdcs 8y ago
>No major manufacturer, except Amazon, ships an AOSP variant without Google's Services. In Europe and the US. Worldwide, the majority do (cf. Xiaomi)
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by bdcs 8y ago
Hmm, I'm out of the loop. Is pg referring to et. al.? As in `and others` (et alia/alii/aliae)?
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by bdcs 8y ago
Check out protobuf annotations
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by bdcs 8y ago
A beautiful article of a beautiful man. So it goes. I will remain forever* transformed due to him. * Until I die, I suppose :)
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by bdcs 8y ago
There is no rule. Any attendee is free to barter! I will say in my experience (and second-hand experience with hundreds if not thousands of participants), that there is literally zero* bartering. And, furthermore, many (cf ~all) people woul
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by bdcs 8y ago
The length between any two vertices which share an edge is 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_distance_graph
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by bdcs 9y ago
>Sure, if companies were able to immigrate significantly more workers, then salaries at top companies might drop to a degree Is this not the lump of labor fallacy?
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by bdcs 9y ago
Fascinating argument, which fits me well (PhD ChemE who learned software and is now SWE at large tech firm). Allow me to take an alternative argument: Highly-driven students, especially those driven by money, became ChemEs to earn a lot of
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by bdcs 9y ago
It was nearly correct in my case: While getting a BS in ChemE at CU Boulder, I also earned a got a minor in chemistry and biochemistry (and inorganic chemistry, but I was only allowed two minors for whatever reason).
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by bdcs 9y ago
Aha! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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by bdcs 9y ago
Can anyone expound on "collapse of a cartel organized against the interests of workers"?
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Google [and Rigetti Computing (YC S14)] Debut Software to Open Up Quantum Computers(bloomberg.com)
1 points by bdcs 9y ago|0 comments
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TensorFlow Lattice ensures your machine learning models follow global trends(techcrunch.com)
3 points by bdcs 9y ago|0 comments
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by bdcs 9y ago
One Model To Learn Them All Deep learning yields great results across many fields, from speech recognition, image classification, to translation. But for each problem, getting a deep model to work well involves research into the architectur

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