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by beisner 10y ago
Netflix also tracks which region you're accessing data from, which means that if you live in Croatia and your billing info states that you're in Croatia but you're consistently switching back and forth between accessing US Ne
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by beisner 10y ago
Not to be pedantic, but while the computational complexity of the map.get() function is O(1), meaning that the number of computational steps executed is constant with the size, the runtime complexity is often O(f(N)), because cache fetches
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by beisner 10y ago
I've been tracking my sleep, my weight, my body composition, my exercise, and everything I've eaten since Jan 4 (new year, new me, as they say). I was planning on doing an analysis of my own data to see how things affect my body,
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by beisner 10y ago
I think we should just let the cancer be acquired by Google.
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by beisner 10y ago
"Officers of color" is more palatable.
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by beisner 10y ago
Fair enough, but Hanlon's razor applies to his comment as well!
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by beisner 10y ago
Instead, you needed to think about impedance, power draw, and amplification. With a digital transmission, you move rendering the audio from the source device to the speaker itself, which gives headphone manufacturers a lot more freedom when
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by beisner 10y ago
I might be inclined to agree with you if a majority of western governments hadn't already figured out how to do it well (or well enough).
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by beisner 10y ago
This kind of argument misses the forest for the trees. In any welfare system where we don't just say "screw 'em" to people who can't seem to support themselves enough to survive, there will be people who game the sy
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by beisner 10y ago
But you could probably put a couple of satellites in Molniya-esque orbits and have near-24/7 imaging coverage of a location
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by beisner 10y ago
Huh. What a feeling, finding out that you've been using a word totally incorrectly for your entire life! I guess I was going for something more along the lines of "punctuating" or "relevant".
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by beisner 10y ago
I think you'll start to see more and more of this style of including poignant (if somewhat exaggerated) gifs in informal posts. In most colleges in the US, this is the de-facto format for email communication from student to student. I&
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by beisner 10y ago
Because gRPC is typed, and basically allows you to generate wrappers for objects and service clients in most major languages that play nicely
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by beisner 10y ago
One of my professors was involved in the first real attempt at this back in 2000! http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dmich-sig00/
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by beisner 10y ago
I'm not sure that simply showing the absolute number of regulatory policies helps to show that the economy is more regulated than ever. For instance, how many of those regulations have to do with the explosion of computers and the Inte
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by beisner 10y ago
Not sure how tongue in cheek you're being, but for those for whom English isn't a first language, calling a large city like DC or NYC a 'town' is pretty common, and is a more colloquial way to describe a region rather th
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by beisner 10y ago
It hasn't been mentioned because compared to the last 70 years of high growth there are now fewer regulations on business and industry than ever before, in the US at least.
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by beisner 10y ago
Yeah, I suppose it would be interesting to look at the value multipliers throughout the supply chain to see if they are even or uneven. There is a difference between value of input goods and a value of output products, and workers capture s
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by beisner 10y ago
Lambas are actually supported in most popular languages: C++, Java, C#, Go, JavaScript, even C. Sometimes they're called function literals or anonymous functions, but basically they involve creating a function without a name that can b
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by beisner 10y ago
Either that, or they can take a slice of your own patellar tendon and just graft that on where your ACL used to be.
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by beisner 10y ago
Most people don't think that pot will improve their abilities. Most people that use it think that it's an enjoyable recreational experience with no lasting negative effects when consumed in moderation.
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by beisner 10y ago
Right on the money. In the US at least, there are a ton of laws and protections for consumers when it comes to disputing charges and credit card fraud in general. It is much harder to do this with debit.
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by beisner 10y ago
To be fair, Chrome for iOS won't ever have extensions because Apple requires all HTML rendering to be done with their web viewer (which can be embedded in other apps), meaning that Google simply can't control the rendering of the
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by beisner 11y ago
You are just an old fuddy duddy. If I was reading this as prose, maybe I'd agree that an author could have been more creative with word choice. But in this kind of post, the message is vastly more important than the medium, and the use
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by beisner 11y ago
But on the third hand, defining "hard work" relatively rather than absolutely is misleading. Sure, what you described might be the norm and not exceptional, but that should not mean that its value is lessened by relative compariso
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by beisner 11y ago
Although, I would argue that often those providing local goods and services don't have the time/resources/knowledge to create the platforms these remote corporations make, which often provide significant improvements in effic
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by beisner 11y ago
Although, if the whole thing ends up being a misguided boondoggle, it means that money wasn't invested in other, potentially viable companies.
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by beisner 11y ago
Anecdotally, I am currently an undergraduate in a top 10 CS department and I have several friends who have $160k+ job offers straight out of undergrad at quant firms.
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by beisner 11y ago
Perhaps at face value, and only at this exact moment in time. It would be interesting to see examine both the hidden and extrinsic costs of both sorts of vehicles. I believe that maintenance/performance of electric cars ends up being l
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by beisner 11y ago
I'm curious, why do you say it's "pointless, worthless" technology?

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