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by beisner 6y ago
In theory a smaller economy might be able to run this sort of scheme by hand. Just depends on the crypto scheme used.
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by beisner 6y ago
This is a bit misleading, not all fat is created equal. Saturated fat in particular has been clearly shown to correlate with heart disease, and there’s a ton of saturated fat in butter, cream, red meat, cheese, etc. So much so that if you’r
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by beisner 6y ago
It's a simple as the perception that Apple is a hardware company and Google/Facebook are information services company. It's much easier to draw a connection between Google/Facebook operating legally in China (and having
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by beisner 6y ago
Not minor, making eye contact when communicating is a super deep instinct. Even animals make eye contact. It totally takes you out of the moment when it isn’t there.
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by beisner 6y ago
When >42% of Americans are obese, obesity cannot be viewed simply as a matter of personal responsibility. It is decidedly and firmly a public health and public policy issue, and as such arguments about fairness in vaccine distribution do
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by beisner 6y ago
Unbiased, or even slightly biased, is impossible. The torrent of factual information is of such a magnitude that it is impossible to present “all the facts”. And presenting any subset of those facts, even a random sampling, induces a bias i
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by beisner 6y ago
I can’t find the exact link right now that breaks this down, but basically the ONLY profitable new construction to build is luxury buildings, which by definition are at the top end of the market (and even with a premium, because they’re new
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by beisner 6y ago
Sure, but we do have prior probabilities based on other vaccination campaigns and studies. We also have some understanding of the causal mechanism of this vaccine, so there is other evidence. It’s just not a direct randomized control. Peopl
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by beisner 6y ago
While there probably is an element of that, hard evidence that might paint the Chinese government negatively in general is much more difficult to obtain because of information and communications controls.
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by beisner 6y ago
But then you can’t figure out what your client is willing to pay and charge them that amount! /s
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by beisner 6y ago
Bluetooth is a garbage standard riddled with decades of legacy support. Apple achieves the "just works" functionality with a proprietary chip and a proprietary protocol. Bluetooth still can't support simultaneous high-quality
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by beisner 6y ago
They’ll have a major share in Aurora after the fact. They just are focusing on their core competencies, I assume. To compete in the self driving space, you need to have 1) a crap ton of money and 2) the patience to wait 10 years before you
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by beisner 6y ago
Just because that is how the world works, doesn’t mean it has to be a that way (or should be that way).
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by beisner 6y ago
The reality is that the research organizations at big tech companies have always been a very different kind of labor relationship than typical rank-and-file business units. Many of the senior or otherwise high-profile researchers at FAANG c
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by beisner 6y ago
Any service they have Enterprise contracts for they are extremely unlikely to shut down.
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by beisner 6y ago
There are two classes of Google products: ones that are small user applications, and ones that are core infrastructure internally and externally. As far as I know, only the former have a reputation for being EOLed. DNS is the latter. Google
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by beisner 6y ago
Surface transmission is almost certainly an extremely unlikely vector for COVID-19. I tried doing some research the other day, and could find no information supporting the notion that surface transmission is likely. It’s also telling that t
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by beisner 6y ago
There would probably be less petty theft if we prosecuted wage theft more aggressively.
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by beisner 6y ago
I don’t know enough about other countries’ wage theft situation to comment. I would assume countries with larger union representation would experience less wage theft of this kind, but I don’t really know. I do know that other countries don
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by beisner 6y ago
It’s really telling about what American society values that wage theft perpetrated by the owning class is rarely prosecuted and is considered a civil matter, while non-violent offenses including petty theft and drug possession perpetrated b
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by beisner 6y ago
I have this too, and refer to it as carcolepsy.
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by beisner 6y ago
I assume the conspiratorial viewpoint would be, "the people in charge of making the rules aren't following them, so the rules must not be important and are just a power-grab blah blah blah".
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by beisner 6y ago
They could make a mask mandate a requirement for receiving any amount of federal spending in their state. Something similar happened with the drinking age being raised to 21. Although I wouldn’t put it past some state governments to cut off
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by beisner 6y ago
Because it’s 2020 and there’s still no Linux distribution that doesn’t have some terrible pain point (whether it’s driver support, UI roughness, randomly not being able to boot to GRUB, etc). Also, as far as I can tell there isn’t really a
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by beisner 6y ago
The idea is that you create questions that are ungoogleable. Most of my upper-level CS courses had take-homes that were open-book, open-internet, and the professor basically said “good luck finding the answer to this problem online; you wil
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by beisner 6y ago
One demographic this policy seems to unintentionally trample is international students. There’s a pretty well-trod path of F1 Visa -> OPT -> (OPT STEM Extension) -> H1B -> (green card, if you’re from the right country). It’s a t
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by beisner 6y ago
The Chinese Yuan is on its way to supplanting the US Dollar as a reserve currency in some regions, particularly Africa. https://qz.com/africa/1291372/chinas-yuan-gets-support-from-...
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by beisner 6y ago
Idk, I would be happy to pay several hundred dollars each for a couple of the games I’ve played over the last few years. I sank like, 100+ hours each into The Witcher 3 and Breath of the Wild, and I paid maybe $25 and $60 for them respectiv
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by beisner 6y ago
Looks interesting, there are definitely a lot of pain points when using the Jupiter notebooks for more complex explanation. One thing I would love to see you in a Jupiter notebook, which some of the various deep learning experimentation sta
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by beisner 6y ago
Same could be said for police.

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